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population is about 8,000, of which a good share is 

 employed in the foundries, machine shops and mills 

 that make up its business activity. The younger ele- 

 ment is provided for in good schools, and that luxury of 

 modern communities — the public library — is zealously 

 supported. On a line with it, as a free and instructive 

 institution, the Natural History Association, founded 

 in 1863, holds an honored place, and unlike most so- 

 cieties of a similar character has succeeded in making 

 its researches of interest. In fact for its size the city 

 has made great progress in literary and educational 

 directions. 



Jewell House ^ 



Michigan City, Indiana, 



August Twenty-seventh. 



After my lecture of the previous evening at La 

 " Porte, I took the first train to this city — emphatically 

 the City of Sand. Time and winds have raised great 

 hills of sand on every side, and from their crests one 

 can look off for miles over the lake, getting perhaps a 

 deeper impression of its vastness than from a less 

 monotonous lookout. 



These sand dunes are supposed by some to be caused 

 by a peculiar meteorological phenomena of currents 

 and counter-currents acting vertically instead of hor- 

 izontally. Whatever the cause, they have made 

 Indiana's only port of entry a place of such striking pe- 

 culiarity, that, once seen, I doubt if it would ever be 

 forgotten. 



In the forenoon I went out on the lake in a small 



