Excerpt from The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants Pitch upon the very middle Of the plat, where the town or line Of houses is to be laid or run, facing the harbor in the great river, for the situation of my house; the distance Of each house from the creek or harbor should be in my judgment-a measured quarter Of a mile; at least two hundred paces, because Of budding hereafter streets downwards to the harbor. 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.