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Excerpt from The Stranger's Illustrated: Pocket Guide to Philadelphia, Embracing a Description of the Principal Objects of Interest in and Around the City, With Directions How to Reach Them; Including the Grounds and Buildings of the Centennial Exhibition Persons unacquainted with the city should, at the outset, become familiar with the system of numbering the houses. On the streets running west from the Delaware River, the houses are divided into squares or blocks, by cross-streets, named consecutively, Front, Second, Third, Fourth, etc., and the commencement of each square or block commences also a new hundred in the numbering. For instance, at Second Street the numbering commences with 200, at Third Street with 300, at Fourth Street with 400, etc. The streets running north and south are also divided into squares in the same manner, Market Street being the dividing line between north and south. 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.