For one or two squares they are good, the third square is passable, the fourth is full of stumps, and when you reach the fifth and sixth, there is little street to be found.

I never saw a better illustration of the road that commenced with a double row of shade trees, and steadily diminished in character until it became a squirrel-track and ran up a tree.

There is very little agriculture in the vicinity, the soil and climate being unfavorable.

The chief supply of vegetables comes from the settlements on the south bank of the river up to Lake Keezee, and along the shores of the lake.

All the ordinary garden vegetables are raised, and in some localities they attain goodly size.
Every morning there was a lively scene at the river's edge in front of the town.