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show clearly their Yankee origin, and that in coming to the West 
they had not forgotten thrift and enterprise. 
Wabousa is forty miles above Topeka, also on the Kansas river, 
while Mill Creek flows into it at this point. This location, which 
has many admirers, both for its surroundings of hill and plain, 
and richness of soil, was selected as a town site in the fall of 
1854, by the fourth party, which came from New England. (The 
New Haven Company have since located there.) 
Manhattan, at the junction of the Big Blue and Kansas, is 
seventy-five miles west of Lawrence, and eighteen from Fort Biley. 
It was also decided upon as a good location for a town by a 
portion of the fourth New England party. 
Their numbers were strengthened in the spring of 1855 by the 
company from Providence, and afterwards by a company from 
Cincinnati, called the Manhattan Company. It has a very fine loca¬ 
tion upon the high prairie, with a bold prominence of singular beauty 
near by, upon whose sides dwarf cedars grow. Finely rolling 
prairies extend back of the town about four miles, where high 
bluffs surround all like a strong fortress. Being near the fort, 
and in the midst of a rich farming country, the productiveness 
of the soil for years must repay in large measure all labor be¬ 
stowed upon it. A friend, who located not many miles from Man¬ 
hattan in the spring, and cultivated a few acres, in the fall found 
himself the possessor of one thousand dollars more than when he 
came. He sold at the fort whatever he raised, at large prices. 
As all supplies for the fort at present are brought from Missouri, 
near one hundred and fifty miles, it must furnish a market for the 
fruits of the earth, could they be raised near by. 
Council city, about forty miles south-west of Lawrence, and a 
few miles from the Sante Fe road, under the auspices of the New 
York Settlement Co., is situated upon the head waters of the 
Osage. A pleasant population are gathered there upon the half- 
mile claims. A*lady of intelligence, residing there a few months, 
told me she had become very much attached to the people, and on 
no account would return to her old home, near New York city. 
Mills are being erected, and when they are in operation, as at the 
other settlements, nothing but quiet is needed for it and them to 
