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of all kinds, wapiti, antelope, and bears being 

 found in the neighbourhood. Grand Island 

 and Loup-Fork are also good places for 

 shooting. 



I mention these places from the amount of 

 game we actually saw near them, and not from 

 hearsay. At Omaha the line crosses the 

 Missouri river by a magnificent bridge, to 

 Council Bluffs, from whence to Chicago the 

 scenery is very uninteresting. 



Our short stay at the latter place prevented 

 us from taking more than a run through the 

 streets of this wonderful city. Chicago, after 

 having been twice burnt down, contains 300,000 

 inhabitants, and yet is but forty years old. 

 The breadth of the streets and the magnificence 

 of the houses is surprising, and scarcely any 

 traces of the late fire are to be seen. Bancroft Library 



On that part of the route between Omaha 

 and Chicago known as the Burlington route, a 

 dining-room car is attached to the train, this 

 is a very great convenience, and does away 

 with the necessity of stopping for meals. As 



