ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 
lands, was a circumstance of interest. From the At- 
lantic coast, across the Alleghany Mountains, until we 
reached Chicago, the eye was chiefly employed in ob- 
serving the improvement in agricultural and rural 
residences, the growth of villages, and the founding 
of prosperous towns and cities. From Chicago to the 
crossing of the Missouri River, at Council Bluffs, the 
broad prairies, the numerous water-courses, the busy 
mills, the growing towns, the opening farms and new 
settlements, commanded our utmost attention. Up the 
Platte River from Omaha, across the Rocky and the 
Wahsatch Mountains, through the Weber Canon, 
traversing the valleys of Utah and the Humboldt, 
through many tunnels, across numerous bridges, and 
under miles of snow-sheds, and over the Sierra Nevada 
range, before entering the valley of the Sacramento 
— throughout all this journey the works of man, 
though considerable, seemed insignificant, when com- 
pared with the broad expanse of unoccupied country 
spread out on all sides to a seemingly boundless ex- 
tent. From the city of Sacramento to San Francisco 
new settlements were constantly in view, and much of 
the land was under cultivation. 
In California, a community but a quarter of a cen- 
tury old, we met resident brethren of high culture and 
marked professional ability, and we found medical 
institutions, which though young, yet, through the 
talent and energy brought to their support, might 
well bear comparison with those of similar character 
in the older States of the Union. There, too, we met 
confreres from twenty-four States and Territories lying 
east of the Rocky Mountains, and all were welcomed 
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