Lanterna Rally

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Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-12

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780656219995

Excerpt from Horner's Buffalo and Niagara Falls Guide: And Encyclopedia of Useful Knowledge Bufi'alo, the Queen City of the Lakes, is a modern city in.the most comprehensive sense. Her growth has kept pace with that liberal and progressive spirit which is the first cause 01 our national prosperity, and has done so much towards the advancement of that glorious civili zation which builds up the desolate places and makes great cities rise where for ages the tangled forest grewa And well does the Queen City merit her proud distinction, for she is indeed queen, by virtue of her position and influence, over the commerce of the five great lakes. Located at the mouth of Lake Erie, her vast grain elevators and store houses are repositories for the products of the West, which ultimately find their way to the Eastern markets by the great water route, in which the Erie Canal is a connecting link between the Hudson River and the inland seas. The Queen City is also one Of the most important coal marts in the country, having direct railroad connections with the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Her manufacturinginterests are large and steadily increasing, and her iron foundries, mills, and machine shops furnish employment to large numbers of industrious and skillful work men. She has Often been called the Birmin ham Of America, and that she will justify the title, and be able to claim her undisputed right to it, there is no good reason to doubt. 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.