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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia, Coates
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d, in oneway, is a reproduction of the l-arisian Avenue; of theChamps P^lysees and its gardens, but with more at-tiactioiis in the surroundings of its bordering rowsof palaces. Here live the men who vie with those ofChicago in controlling the commerce of the lakes andthe affairs of the Northwest. Plenty of room and anabundanci^ of income are necessary to provide eachman, in the heart of the city, with two to ten acresof lawns and gardens around his house, but it is donehere with eminent success. About four miles out isthe beautiful AVade Park, ojipositc which are thehandsome buildings of the Western lleserve Uni-versity, having, with its adjunct institutions, a thou-sand students. Beyond this, the avenue ends at theattractive l^ake View Cemetery, where, on thehighest part of the elevated plateau, with a grandoutlook over Lake Erie, is the grave of the assassi-nated President Garfield. His imposing memorialrises to a heio-ht of one hundred and sixt\-five feet. Euclid Hvenue, Cleveland,
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CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO. 421 CLEVELAND TO CHICAGO. Thirty-five miles southwest of Cleveland, andsome distance inland from Lake Erie, is Obcrlin,where, in a fertile and prosperous district, is theleading educational foundation of Northern Ohio—Obcrlin College—named in memory of the notedFrench philanthropist, and established in 1833 bythe descendants of the Puritan colonists, to carry outtheir idea of thorougli equality in education. It ad-mits students without distinction of sex or color, andhas about thirteen hundred, almost equally dividedbetween the sexes, occupying a cluster of commo-dious buildings. To the westward is the beautifulravine of Black River, which gets out to the lake byfalling over a rocky ledge in two streams, and on thepeninsula formed by its forks is the town of Elyria.Maria Ely was the wife of the founder of the set-tlement, who named it after her in this peculiar re-versible way. This romantic stream bounds theFire Lands of the Western Reserve, a tract ofnearly

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