Buffalo was a
military post in 1812. St. Paul was an Indian trading station prior to
1838. The building of Fort Washington was followed by settlers and
Cincinnati was begun. Henry Hudson touched at Manhattan island in 1609,
and the Dutch following, New York was the result. Brigham Young,
journeying westward, came to the Great Salt Lake, where, as he told his
followers, he was instructed by divine revelation to plant the City of
the Saints. It proved more permanent than might have been expected, as
zion-cities usually are quite ephemeral affairs.
Boston, the beneficial, swept by fires, smallpox, witchcraft, quakerism,
snowstorms, earthquakes, and proslavery riots, still lives to meditate
upon her own superiority and to instruct mankind. Much attention has
been given of late in Boston and suburban towns to artistic effect in
street architecture. Until recently New York has given but little
thought to pleasing effects. Broadway was not broad, and Fifth Avenue
was not striking. Of late, however, the city has become imperial, houses
parks and driveways being among the finest in the world. New Orleans has
survived at least a dozen great yellow-fever crises since 1812,
population meanwhile increasing twentyfold.
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