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has been settled within the memory of men now living; and we can, therefore learn its history by talking with our neighbors. Such persons may say that we do not require historical records to tell us all that we desire to know of the city and its inhabitants.
            I grant that this way be true of some of this generation, but certainly not of all. Even now the inquisitive mind wishes to know a thousand things connected with the origin and expansion of this great city, and the labors of its enterprizing inhabitants of which