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2,800 students, St. Ignatius College (Roman Catholic), and the Case
School of Applied Science.

With its 12 M. of shore line on Lake Erie, a fine park system (1,500
acres), and wide residential streets, well shaded by maples and elms,
Cleveland possesses many aspects of unusual beauty. The city is situated
on bluffs rising from 74 to 200 ft. above the water and commands
pleasant views of Lake Erie, while the surface of the plateau upon which
the town is built is deeply cut by the Cuyahoga River, which here
pursues a meandering course through a valley half a mile wide. Other
streams, notably Dean Brook on the east border, add to the picturesque
character of the municipal setting. A chain of parks* connected by
driveways follows the valley of the Dean Brook, at the mouth of which,
on the lake front, is the beautiful Gordon Park, formerly the private
estate of William J. Gordon, but given by him to the city in 1893; from
this extends up the Dean Valley the large Rockefeller Park, given to the
city in 1896 by John D. Rockefeller and others. It adjoins Wade Park,
where are a zoological garden and a lake.

[Illustration: The First Automobile (1798)

"By means of wheels," says the Third Edition of the Encyclopaedia
Britannica (1798), from which this illustration was taken, "some
people have contrived carriages to go without horses. One of these
[the vehicle to the left] is moved by the footman behind it; and
the forewheels, which act as a rudder, are guided by the person
who sits in the carriage. Between the hind-wheels is placed a box,
in which is concealed the machinery that moves the carriage. A
machine of this kind will afford a salutary recreation in a garden
or park, or on any plain ground; but in a rough or deep road must
be attended with more pain than pleasure.... Another contrivance
for being carried without draught, is by means of a sailing
chariot or boat fixed on four wheels, as A/B [the figure to the
right], which is driven before the wind by the sails C/D and
guided by the rudder E. Its velocity with a strong wind is said to
be so great that it would carry eight or ten persons from
Scheveling to Putten, which is 42 English miles distant, in two
hours." The figure in the centre represents a modified sailing
vehicle designed to sail against the wind as well as with it.]

Of the several cemeteries in Cleveland, Lake View (300 acres),