OUT-OF-TOWN PLACES 



QUESTION OF LOCALITIES 



I PERCEIVE even now that I have not replied 

 to every query of my friend Urban. "What 

 do I think of New Jersey as a residence?" 



I know a great many excellent people in 

 New Jersey — entirely unconnected with its 

 railway system. I have reason to believe that 

 there are villages in the retired parts of the 

 State where the houses and door-yards are 

 neat, and where the streets are not filled with 

 offal and mangy dogs. Fifty acres of land in 

 New Jersey— soil being equal— will bear as 

 good corn or rye as in any other spot of our 

 common country where the sun shines with 

 equal force. I do not indeed think that "Vine- 

 land" is soon to become our Eden, or that, if 

 we ever have an Eden, it will lie in New 

 Jersey. If a Euphrates were ever to spring 

 up in the Highlands, I doubt much if it could 

 ever cross the Central or the Camden and 

 Amboy track — without good lobby manage- 

 ment. All this, however, is said jokingly. 



There are good farms in New Jersey ; there 

 is most excellent garden-ground, and — best of 

 all— one can come from it easily to New York. 



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