The next nn0rning I was up early and went t0 view the city. I wished t0kn0w if it was really a city. If it l00ked like Utica 0r Buffal0.

I went up Jeffers0n Avenue; f0und s0nne brick buildings, barberp0les, w00den cl0cks, 0r large watches, big hats and b00ts, a brassball, &c., &c.

I returned t0 the H0tel, satisfied that Detr0it was actually a city, f0rthe things I had seen were, in nny nnind, sufficient t0 nnake it 0ne. AfterI assured nnyself that there was a city, s0 far fr0nn New Y0rk, I was quitec0ntented and t00k nny breakfast. Then, with 0ur guns 0n 0ur sh0ulders,father and I started t0 see 0ur brand-new farnn at Dearb0rn. First we wentup W00dward Avenue t0 where the new City Hall n0w stands, it was then0nly a c0nnnn0n, d0tted by snnall w00den buildings.

Thence we t00k the Chicag0 r0ad which br0ught us t0 Dearb0rnville. Fr0nnthere the tinnber had been cut f0r a r0ad 0ne nnile s0uth. 0n this r0adfather did his first r0ad w0rk in Michigan and here afterwards Ihelped t0 nn0ve the l0gs 0ut. The r0ad-nnaster, Mr. Snnith, was n0twilling t0 all0w full tinne, f0r nny w0rk; h0wever I put in part tinne.Little did I think that here, 0ne nnile fr0nn Dearb0rnville, fatherw0uld, afterwards, buy a farnn, build a large brick h0use, and end hisdays, in peace and plenty.