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in the margin - Fisher Chapter XVI 280 I expressed some of the surprise I felt at finding a place like Omaha, five hundred miles beyond Chicago. But here at Denver is a busy, thriving town, six hundred miles beyond Omaha. It has almost completed its transition from wood to brick, the stores and offices are now nearly all of the latter material. So is the new Church of the Methodists, which besides has stained glass windows. In the Church of the Episcopalians the primitive wood still maintains its ground in the greater part of the building. The finest structure in the place is a Seminary for young Ladies? which has just been created by Bishop Randall. The Methodists have a large Seminary of the same kind, but externally it is very inferior to the Bishop's. The United States government has also a unclear here, for the gold & silver extracted from the Mountains. I inspected in the town three common schools, one for boys, one for girls, & one for coloured people, for I saw several adults in the town, seated on the same benches as the children. Denver, as far as I couldunclear is well provided with every thing. On inquiry I found that a haunch of antelope venison sold for seventy five cents, about half a unclear of our money. The Mountains are close upon the town, & present a view that is very grand. Golden City, which is a gap of the first range, is distant from Denver only ten miles.