He is clearly his Book,—and I went off impressed with the sense of a new city on my map, viz., Brooklyn, just as if it had suddenly risen through the boiling sea.

-Moncure Daniel Conway

          Moncure Daniel Conway, from Autobiography, Memories and Experiences, 2 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 1:215-216, in Myerson 193.