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but after having seen it, there seems no reason why 

 one should not speed on to reach the Niagara falls and 

 Canada before the summer might get too hot. 



I here left the great through -line, which crosses the 

 United States from tlie Atlantic to the Pacific, a 

 distance of 3,000 miles, which was commenced early 

 in 1863, and completed on the 10th of May, 

 1869. 



As far as Detroit we passed through the northern 

 portion of Indiana, the garden of the American States, 

 and Ohio, full of interest to archaeologists on account 

 of the numerous mounds or tumuli discovered near 

 Newark, from which agricultural and other implements 

 of a siliceous material, or horn-stone, have lately been 

 excavated ; also piles of chippings, marking the spot 

 where these tools had been fabricated. Some few 

 articles were made of porphyry brought from a distance ; 

 others, knives, chisels, and personal ornaments of the 

 native copper of Lake Superior. The people who 

 inhabited these regions in olden times, so superior to 

 the Indians in civilization, are now generally conceded 

 to have been the ancestors of the ancient Peruvians 

 and Mexicans. 



At Detroit we crossed the straits between lakes 

 Huron and Erie in a steamer, and thence by rail to the 

 famous Falls through very pretty country ; on passing 



