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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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< V 2 THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE. 521 its journey to New-York City. The transfer of forty bushels takes less than half aminute, and costs less than half a cent. Americans pass these elevators with but slightattention; every one is supposed to understand their workings, and no one sees anything remarkable in them unless it be their ugliness. But visitors from foreign countriespause before them with curiosity ; our uncouth planked elephants on the river-banks ex-cite their interest, and for written descriptions of them we must go to European booksof travel. Mr. Anthony Trollope, the author of the delightful series of English novels, Barchester Towers and its companion volumes, devotes several pages in his book on
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Mouth of Cuyahoga River, Cleveland. America to the Buffalo elevators. He says: An elevator is as ugly a monster as hasbeen yet produced. In uncouthness of form it outdoes those obsolete old brutes whoused to roam about the semi-aqueous world and live a most uncomfortable life withtheir great hungering stomachs and huge, unsatisfied maws. Rivers of corn and wheatrun through these monsters night and day. And all this wheat which passes throughBuffalo comes loose, in bulk; nothing is known of sacks or bags. To any spectator inBuffalo this becomes immediately a matter of course; but this should be explained, aswe, in England, are not accustomed to see wheat travelling in this open, unguarded,and plebeian manner. Wheat with us is aristocratic, and travels always in its privatecarriage. 66 522 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Buffalo is attractive by force of its situation at the eastern end of Lake Erie. Itdoes not lie on a side-bank, as Cleveland lies; it does not stand back on a bay, as To-ledo and

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