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Excerpt from Notes of a Trip From Chicago to Victoria, Vancouver's Island, and Return: 1884 We get rooms at the Centropolis Hotel, and drive round the city. The residence portion is constantly improving, and is very fine. Some of the locations present commanding views of a pleasant land. Fine residences are numerous, evidencing widely diffused wealth and good taste and aspirations after comfort. From an elevated point, in the outskirts of the city, we get extensive views in all directions. We have the Missouri in sight above and below the city; the ats, the Kaw, Wyandotte; the at, wooded lowlands across the Missouri; Kansas City, on the hills; and the rolling, hilly country stretching back from the city to Westport and beyond, - scenes which leave an ineffaceable impression. On former visits, I availed myself of this advantageous point of view, and I return to it always with pleasure. Kansas City was once, and that, too, within the memory of young people, Westport Landing, and nothing more. Now Westport is a not very important suburb of Kansas City. In the irony of fate the same result has befallen many other ambitious places in this country. Thus, Monterey, in California, now a fishing place and a bathing and pleasure resort, and nothing more, was once expected to become what San Francisco has become. New Buffalo, Indiana, and Michi gan City, Indiana, both on Lake Michigan, each expected to be the great city in the West, which Chicago has become. Time disap points many expectations. The heat was intense to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page,