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name of a pleasant and beautiful city. But to a foreigner when you say you are from Buffalo, he looks at you as though he thought that the inhabitants of the place where you reside were Buffaloes, and you unavoidably feel that you would be glad to give some reason why this singular name has been attached to your place of residence. But who among us can tell? I am sure I can not – I do not mean to say that it is difficult to as certain how the City cause by this name, for it is manifest that it took the name from the creek.