. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . ed with small writing incharacters of the reformed Egyptian tongue. With the golden bookSmith claimed he found a breastplate of gold and a pair of super-natural spectacles, consisting of two crystals set in a silver bow, by SYRACUSE TO BUFFALO 83 the aid of which lie could read the mystic characters. Being himselfunable to read or write fluently, Smith dictated a translation of thebook from behin
. The greatest highway in the world; historical, industrial and descriptive information of the towns, cities and country passed through between New York and Chicago via the New York Central Lines .. . ed with small writing incharacters of the reformed Egyptian tongue. With the golden bookSmith claimed he found a breastplate of gold and a pair of super-natural spectacles, consisting of two crystals set in a silver bow, by SYRACUSE TO BUFFALO 83 the aid of which lie could read the mystic characters. Being himselfunable to read or write fluently, Smith dictated a translation of thebook from behind a screen. Soon afterwards, according to Smith, theplates were taken away by the angel Moroni. 370 M. ROCHESTER, Pop. 295,750. (Train 51 passes4:05; No. 3, 5:25; No. 41, 9:56; No. 25, 10:23; No. 19, 2: No. 6 passes 12:59; No. 26, 1:51; No. 16, 6:18;No. 22, 8:47.) Rochester is built around the Falls of the Gen-esee River, about 7 M. above the place where the river emp-ties into Lake Ontario. The Genesee River rises in Pennsylvania and flows nearly 200miles in a northerly direction through western New York. Within adistance of 7 M. between Rochester and Lake Ontario the river has a. Rochester in 1812Settlers from New England made a clearing at the site of Rochester about 1810,but growth was slow until the railroad—now the New York Central—was builtconnecting it with Albany and Buffalo. fall of 263 ft. The principal falls consist of three cataracts, 96, 26and 83 ft., respectively. The banks of the first fall, which is in theheart of the city, rise to a height of 200 ft. above the river. The river,in fact, cuts through the center of the city in a deep gorge, the banksof which vary in height from 50 to 200 ft. The Genesee Valley southof Rochester is a very fertile and beautiful stretch of country wherethe river flows between meadows that rise gradually to high appearance of the country here, with its immense pasture-landdotted with oak and elm, is distinc
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