Excerpt from In Summer Days: In Niagara Falls, Mackinac Island, the St. Lawrence, the White Mountains, the Hudson, the Adirondacks and the Sea, Via the Michigan Central

Marshall (178 miles) is a prettv little city of famous for its flour, for the valley of the Kalamazoo is a noted wheat region. Albion (190 miles) is pleasantly located at the confluence of the two branches of the Kalamazoo in one of the richest farming sections of the State, ships flour of a high reputation and is the site of an excellent Methodist Episcopal College. We leave the river at parma (199 miles) and in a few minutes stop at jackson (210 miles), a busy manufacturing city of over people, on the Grand River, at the intersection of six railroads. One division of the Michigan Central runs down the valley of this river ninety-four miles to Grand Rapids, the second city of the State, while another runs northward, through Lansing, the State capital, to Saginaw, Bay City and Mackinaw, on the strait of the same name, and a third forms the Air Line to Niles, running through the thriving towns of Homer, Union City, Three Rivers and Cassopolis. Through cars from Detroit run over the former and from Chicago over the latter. The city is regularly laid out and substantially built. It lies near the edge of the coal deposits of the State and the mines can be seen from the cars. The spacious stone buildings of the State Penitentiary are located here and the Michigan Central Passenger Station was the finest in the State until the construction of the company's fine building in Detroit.

Ann arbor (248 miles) is built on both sides of the Huron River, has a population of and is noted as the site of the University of Michigan. This is one of the leading institutions of learning in the west, and with no distinction of sex, very low fees and a high standard of scholarship, attracts students from all parts of the country. It has eighty-three professors and students in all its departments. The grounds are extensive and thickly planted with trees. University Hall is 347 feet long and 140 feet deep and is ocen pied by the departments of literature, science and art. There are numerous other buildings, including a new fire-proof library, large and valuable museums and, on a hill a mile distant, a fine Observatory.

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