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CHAPTER II. 



EASTEHN KAIfSAS. 



The Eailways running westward from St. Louis.— Kansas City and Leaven- 

 worth rival cities. — The wonderful energy of their Inhabitants.— Railway 

 Qgj Connections. — How American Cities are formed. — The Social System as 



t seen in Kansas. — Continue our journey to the end of the Kansas Pacific 



lef- Eailway. — How Towns spring up along the Line. — Sahna the Terminal 



Depot. — Camp Life at Salina. — Our Visitors and their Adieus. 



Qgl Distance travelled 471 miles. 



Two railways cross the State of Missouri, to connect St. Louis 

 with Kansas City, a distance of ahout 282 miles. The one is 

 nj the Pacific Eailroad of Missouri, running on the south bank of 

 the Missouii Eiver ; the other is the ^North Missouri Eailroad, 

 traversing the valley on the northern side. The scenery on 

 the more southern of these roads— viz., that over which I 

 travelled — is very beautiful. At one time we would skirt 

 the broad and majestic river ; at another dive into the 

 forests — ^for all this country is still thickly covered with hard 

 timber ; and then shoot over one of the innumerable brooks 

 and riyulets which crossed our way, so that a constant 

 succession of leafy vistas delighted us as we passed. Farther 

 ■ "West, much of the country was gracefully undulating ; and 

 although we passed no large towns, villages were very 

 numerous ; while the well-made fences and good-sized farm- 

 houses, which could be seen across many a "hundred-acre 

 clearing," spoke well for the richness of the land, and the 

 prosperity of the husbandman. 



At the entrance of Kansas, exactly on the eastern boundary 

 line of the State, two large towns, the fruit of commerce, have 



