actual settlers to
the mouth of the Cuyahoga River. The history of the next thirteen or
fourteen years, down to the War of 1812, fills the mass of the book,
details being here given that really have historical value. The last
forty pages are devoted to the history of the two or three following
decades. Nothing is told us about the actual development of a great
city,--the haps and mishaps, the successes and failures, in short, the
growth, of the community.

This same Colonel Whittlesey, in a volume entitled Fugitive Essays,
published a sketch of the history of Cleveland covering the same ground
more concisely, and also giving a few extra details about the history
between 1812 and 1840.

These constituted the sum total of works solely devoted to Cleveland
which were accessible to a writer in the East. The Ohio Historical
Collections, by Henry Howe, a series of sketches of the counties,
cities, and towns of the State, added a little to the meagre stock of
information. For further knowledge, the public must be thankful that the
argus-eyed tourist has not left the place unnoticed, and that the
mathematically-inclined gazetteer has told us from time to time the
number of Cleveland's churches, banks, and city councilmen, and other
equally important facts!

Take another lake city--Buffalo. The growth of this city has been rapid.
Its sudden rise to the dignity of a metropolis was largely due to that
most interesting of the many important internal improvements of the
first half of the century,--the Erie Canal. With the development of
Buffalo was identified the rise of lake navigation and the grain
elevator. Its population has been increased by the addition of a large
foreign element, which has had its due influence on manners, morals, and
public life. It appears from the report of the board of health for 1879,
that, in 1878, of the children born in Buffalo, nineteen hundred and
seventy-five were of German descent; of all other descents, two thousand
and fifty-six,--a difference of only eighty-one. The city has indeed
been thoroughly Germanized, if we may coin the word.

Here are things of which we would know more. Yet what do we find about
them? Save in meagre or verbose pamphlets, nothing. To be sure, there
was a book written which claimed to be about Buffalo, but a microscopic
examination would fail to find in it anything worth knowing about the
history of this community. The author of that book, William Ketchum, had
the