Excerpt from A New Picture of Philadelphia, or the Stranger's Guide to the City and Adjoining Districts: In Which Are Described the Public Buildings; Literary, Scientific, Commercial and Benevolent Institutions; Places of Amusement; Places of Worship; Principal Cemeteries, and Every Other Object Worthy of Attention; With a Plan of the City and Its Environs
These continual changes render it necessary to publish a new work or at least new editions of existing works at frequent intervals. An editor, to make his picture faithful, and to de lineate whatever is new among the prominent changes which perpetually occur, must employ his best faculties and keep them in constant exercise.
Our design, in the outset, was to revise and amend one of the existing works: but on a careful examination of the subject, it was found more difficult and laborious to erase, to alter and to abridge, than to produce an entirely new work: all attempts of that sort have therefore been abandoned; and with some trifling excep tions, our present work will be found to be new, in almost every sense of the term. So far as the mere arrangement of the facts and the va rions descriptions, are concerned, nothing new has been attempted, nor is any change in these respects necessary. Accurate information is the primary object of the work; and to the accomplishment of this object have we chiefly directed our attention, in the firm belief, that in matters of this description, 3. Simple statement of facts is all that is required, to enable the reader to understand and appreciate the true condition and peculiar advantages of our highly favoured city.
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