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a community such as ours: though one of the inns 

 might fairly object that this statement comes short 

 of doing it justice. There are, further, a minute 

 Public Library, housed in a quaint little hutch of 

 adobe, which, half a century ago, was the Stage 

 Station, and a tasteful Rest-house raised as a me- 

 morial to the old Scottish doctor, named above, who 

 may fairly be termed the patriarch, well nigh the 

 founder, of our village. 



