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The Delaware, broader than the East River, flows between the two cities.
everything else rests; New York, Brooklyn, experimentation—down to New Orleans and up the Mississippi River
expedition (my brother Jeff with me) through all the Middle States and down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers
permitted, Whitman was wont to cross the Delaware in the ferry-boats, repeating his favorite East River
place at the very end of the wharf of the Boston Terra-Cotta Company on Federal Street, bordering the river-like
, "I shall desire you of more acquaintance, good Master Cobweb," —on this or the other side of the river
Delaware River—Days and Nights.....Scenes on Ferry and River—Last Winter's Nights, . . .
DELAWARE RIVER—DAYS AND NIGHTS. April 5, 1879.
HUDSON RIVER SIGHTS.
SWALLOWS ON THE RIVER. Sept. 3 .
UNFULFILL'D WANTS—THE ARKANSAS RIVER.