Under the Gridiron a Summer in the United States And the Far West Including a
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Occasionally stopping at some wayside villages, we speed on through the night, and come on deck in the early morning to find an entire change of scene : trees and country have disappeared, and we are lying along- side the wharf, extensive manufactories and boat building yards hard by, while on the Kentucky bank of the river are large towns opposite. We have arrived at Cincinnati, nicknamed Porko- polis, from its enormous trade in pork and bacon, for which it is the principal mart in the States ...a rough and ready kind of place after what we have seen. Its commerce is extensive, and its railroad connections 49 in all directions render it a great trade centre. It also boasts one of the largest inland populations. The great suspension bridge over the river attracts our attention, and the public buildings are numerous, but need no special comment; like all thriving American cities, it boasts its three or four parks and handsome cemetery. There is not much here to induce a long stay, and we leave in the early morning by a parlour car of the Ohio and Mississippi railway, fitted with easy chairs, for a journey of three hundred and forty miles to St.
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