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happy homes — the home not so much of collossal fortunes as some 

 neighboring cities under another flag, but where genuine comfort is 

 more uniformly distributed and less abject poverty prevails. There 

 are those living who have seen corn and potatoes growing where 

 now stands our stately court-house, and an orchard on the site of 

 our superb city hall. 



Hamilton is now a city of clean streets, good schools and com- 

 fortable and elegant churches ; of swelling factories, whose busy 

 wheels give out the hum of healthy industry — a city in whose beau- 

 tiful setting and surroundings nature has been lavish. Her head 

 pillowed on the breast of the mountain, her bosom on the plain, and 

 her feet touching the waters of the bay, who would not love her, 

 Hamilton the ambitious, the delightful ? 



