. On the Lehigh Valley. The great double track scenic highway, New York and Philadelphia to Buffalo and Niagara Falls . lies, beer, furniture, stoves,flour of many grades, photographic supplies,patent medicines, and coffins. It is also animportant educational center. 38 BATAVIA — Population, 9,180; miles from NewYork ; elevation above sea level, 910 ft. This town is an important industrial center. BUFFALO — Population, 352,387; miles fromNew York ; elevation above sea level, ft. Connection is here made with the MichiganCentral Railroad, Lake Shore &-= AlichiganSouthern Railwa
. On the Lehigh Valley. The great double track scenic highway, New York and Philadelphia to Buffalo and Niagara Falls . lies, beer, furniture, stoves,flour of many grades, photographic supplies,patent medicines, and coffins. It is also animportant educational center. 38 BATAVIA — Population, 9,180; miles from NewYork ; elevation above sea level, 910 ft. This town is an important industrial center. BUFFALO — Population, 352,387; miles fromNew York ; elevation above sea level, ft. Connection is here made with the MichiganCentral Railroad, Lake Shore &-= AlichiganSouthern Railway, New York, Chicago iS-= Railroad, Wabash Railroad, and Buffaloand Allegheny Valley Division PemisyhnxniaRailroad. Buffalo is the sixth commercialcity of the world. Buffalo chiefly lies on aslope which gently rises from lake and river,save that there is a steep bluff for a shortdistance along the Niagara. A birds-eyeview from one of ,.the high build- ■ings will afforda good under-standing of thecitys geogra-phy. To thesouth andsouthwest areBuffalo Riverand Lake Erie;to the west isNiagaras broad. Seneca Lake stream, backed by the quiet Canadian the corporation lines, but beyond thedensely built business center, to the north,northwest and northeast, sweeps what fromthe altitude and distance seem a forest ofrichest verdure, pierced by many spires andstamped with the lacelike tracery of white roadways — Buf-falos asphaltpavements, ofwhich there areover two hundredmiles, the delightalike of those whoride in carriagesor on bicycles;the pride of allwhose homes facestreets with thissightly surface, soreadily preserved ^.i-nM. to cleanliness. Tothe east and south-east the view isclouded by thepall of blacksmoke from rail-road shops, grainelevators and fac-tories. To thesouth is the har-bor, crowded with
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