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great towns, projected day before yesterday, so to speak, and built
next morning. A score of them number from fifteen hundred to five
thousand people. Then we have Mu:>catine, ten thousand : \Vinona,
ten thousand; Moline, ten thousand ; Rock Island, twelve thousand •
La Orosse, twelve thousand; Burlington, twenty-five thousand ;
Dubuque, twenty-five
thousand; Davenport,
thirty thousand ; St.
Paul, fifty-eight thou-
sand } Minneapolis, sixty
thousand and upward.

The foreign tourist
has never heard of these;

AN OTDEPESDEXT RACE,

there is no note of them in his books.
They have sprung up in the night, while
he slept. So new is this region, that lf
who am comparatively young, am yet older than it is. When I was
born, St. Paul had a population of three persons, Minneapolis had just
a third as many. The then population of Minneapolis died two years
ago; and when he died he had seen himself undergo an increase, in
forty years, of fifty-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-June
persons. He had a frog's fertility.