[Illustration: CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.--Philadelphia, the third city of the United States and the metropolis of Pennsylvania, often called the City of Brotherly Love, was founded in 1682 by William Penn. This picture represents Chestnut Street, the principal retail business street and the avenue on which the leading banking institutions are located. The building on the right is Independence Hall, in which was declared the independence of the United States. The liberty bell is still preserved and found at the entrance of the building. The structure in the background is a banking house.] [Illustration: MARKET STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.--Perhaps no street in the world furnishes an avenue for so much business as does Market Street. The street from this point, which terminates at the Delaware River, making a total of fourteen squares, is full of wholesale houses. There are times during the day when it is packed with teams and pedestrians, presenting an interesting sight for a stranger. The building on the right-hand side is considered the largest store of its kind in the world. The cars on Market Street are run by cable, a system introduced a few years ago.] [Illustration: FORT SAN MARCO, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA, U. S. A.--St. Augustine, having the distinction of being the oldest city in the United States, was founded by Europeans and has recently become a popular winter watering-place. It is thirty-six miles from Jacksonville, and stands on a sandy peninsula. Along the sea-front, for nearly a mile, extends a granite-coped sea-wall; and, at its northern end, stands the Fort of San Marco, a well-preserved specimen of Spanish military architecture, built in 1756. The fort has a moat and outworks, and its walls are twenty-one feet high. It is in the form of a trapezium, and covers four acres.] [Illustration: PONCE DE LEON, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA.] [Illustration: THE CAPITOL, WASHINGTON, D. C.] [Illustration: WHITE HOUSE, WASHINGTON, D. C.--The official residence of the President of the United States, is beautifully situated at the western extremity of Pennsylvania Avenue, about a mile and a half west of the Capitol. It is constructed of Freestone, painted white. Its dimensions are 170 feet front and 86 feet deep. The garden-front is very beautiful and admirably kept, the lawn sloping down to the Potomac River. In the square in front of the Mansion, stands the celebrated equestrian statue of General Jackson. Very close to the White House are located the State Treasury, and Navy and War departments.]