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place, since I had seen comparatively little of it up to 

 this time. Possibly no city or town along my route 

 labors under greater disadvantages from a geographical 

 or commercial point of view than this "city of sand/' 

 situated as it is at the extreme southern end of Lake 

 Michigan, with the water splashing against it on one 

 side and the wind and sand storms beating against it 

 on the other. 



However, it has overcome these obstacles to a cer- 

 tain degree and is hardly lacking in enterprise, as the 

 mass meeting of the preceding day testified. Here, 

 perhaps, more than at any other of the towns and 

 cities lying around Lake Michigan, one is impressed 

 with the resistless force of this splendid inland sea, 

 and so unique an impression did the place make upon 

 me that my detention did not become irksome, al- 

 though all the fascinations of the Great West lay be- 

 yond. 



®n£ i^uul^reb anl) Stunito- xigljtl) ?!)ap. 



Hobart House, 

 HoBART, Indiana, 



September Sixteenth. 



Did not get on the road until nearly eleven o'clock. 

 The rest and treatment which Paul had received at 

 Michigan City put him in excellent spirits for a rapid 

 journey and he stepped off nimbly when I gave him 

 the reins in front of the Jewell House. I was greatly 

 encouraged by the condition of my horse and now that 

 the word was once more "onward," all the fascination 

 of the ride came back. 



A-lthough the scenes I passed through were very 



