It was a city of over 500,000, with the ambition, the daring, the activity of a metropolis of a million. Its streets and houses were already scattered over an area of seventy-five square miles.

• 这个人口五十多万的城市,具有一个成为百万人口大都市的野心,气魄和事业。街道和房屋分布在七十五平方英里的大面积上。