Excerpt from Philadelphia and Her Merchants, as Constituted Fifty Seventy Years Ago: Illustrated by Diagrams of the River Front, and Portraits of Some of Its Prominent Occupants, Together With Sketches of Character, and Incidents and Anecdotes of the Day But mercantile kfc is set forth, and data, in dots and lines, is given, and whence the authority for that? T 0 memory I appeal, and from it reveal the secrets from the recesses of sunken time.' 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.