Phelps' Strangers and Citizens' Guide to New York City With Maps and Engravings Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Phelps' Strangers and Citizens' Guide to New York City: With Maps and Engravings Brass watches (represented as gold) are often offered in the streets to strangers, by men who must be off in the boat, or and must part with their good timepiece at half its value. If the trick suc osede, the purchaser will soon ascertain that all is not gold that glitters. 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.