roots through
the spring and summer. The grass on the sides of these small
irrigating ditches is green all summer and sprinkled with bright
blossoms, and, with the grateful shade of the cottonwoods, makes
pleasant walks through the city, which is full of beautiful homes.

"The houses are built of wood, stone, and brick, put together in all
styles, varieties, and combinations of architecture, there are hardly
two houses alike in the city, and with combinations of colours as
various. Everywhere are well kept gardens and beautiful lawns, for
the people like pleasant and large yards as well as wide streets and
walks. Each householder takes pride in keeping up his place, even the
plainest, and it is a rare thing to find a shabby house and yard.
More than half of the dwellings are cottages, but there are many
large and handsome houses, notably in the north part of the city,
which has been built up rapidly within the last two years. There are
several elegant stone residences costing from twenty to forty
thousands dollars.

"The public buildings are remarkably fine for so young and small a
city. The new hotel, The Antlers, the El Paso Club building, the High
School building and Colorado College are built of a fine, beautifully
pink-tinted stone taken from the Manitou quarries. The City Hall and
business blocks are substantial structures, and the Opera House a
fine brick building, is a gem inside, perfect in its arrangements,
and fitted and furnished with exquisite taste."

The above description is accurate enough, but it is not right to our
ideas to speak of Colorado Springs as a "city." It is only a
decent-sized, picturesque town. But the Americans name even five or
six houses cities, e.g. the City of Lancaster, in the Antelope
Valley, which consisted of an hotel, a rail station, and two or three
shops! The Antlers Hotel, alluded to, seemed to me, while I was
there, to be a very perfect one.

Doctor Solly, on his part, thus describes this charming town and
health resort.

"Colorado Springs is situated upon a plateau 6023 feet above
sea-level, latitude 39 deg., longitude 105 deg. It is about five miles
from the foothills in which the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains
terminates and from which the great plains stretch 800 miles east to
the Missouri river, south to the Gulf of Mexico, and north to the
Black Hills.

"Colorado Springs cannot strictly be called a mountain health-resort,
for it is actually situated upon