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Excerpt from Life in America One Hundred Years Ago Henry Carroll The Octagon House View of New York Bay from the Battery, 1822 .From a Booking-list Boston Exchange Coffee-house Waterloo Inn. The First Stage from Baltimore to Washington The Capitol in 1814 The White House in 1814. South Front. Afternoon Dress Walking-dress Promenade Dress Evening Dress Wall Street, Corner of Bjioad Street, Showing Custom-house, First Presbyterian and Trinity Churches City Hotel, Broadway, New York, 1812 . A View of Charleston View of City Hall, Park Theater, and Chatham Street, 1822 Joel Barlow Noah Webster The City Prison, or Bridewell, West Side City Hall The Debtors Prison, Subsequently the Hall of Records Edward Livingston, Author of the Criminal Code for Louisiana Mrs. James Madison James Madison Frontispiece Faci ng p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.