h of the Rocky
Mountains, especially in Colorado, Utah, and Old and New Mexico, have
also settled here.

"Unlike many of the towns and cities of the West, Colorado Springs is
not cosmopolitan; it has scarcely any French, German, or Irish
element. The people are from the older states of the Union, and from
Canada, England, and Scotland; hence an entirely English-speaking
community. The people as a whole are probably better educated and
possess more wealth than those of an eastern town of the same size.
It is more New-England-like in the general make-up of its social,
religious, and educational characteristics than any town west of the
Mississippi. The poorer people are a respectable class who have
received some social and educational advantages; none but
enterprising or well-to-do people would ever cross the plains to
establish a new home in the West."

On the same point, education, and the accessibility of Colorado
Springs, Dr. Solly writes:--

"There is an excellent college, good schools, and private teachers
for those who have children to be educated, while for adults,
attendance on one or more of the courses of lectures at the College
offers the means of passing an hour or so a day in profitable and
interesting study. Churches of all denominations are well supported.
Two free reading-rooms and a library are open to visitors, and an
attractive club welcomes strangers with a good introduction at
moderate fees.

Colorado Springs is upon the main line of the Denver and Rio Grande
Railway, which follows the course of the eastern slope of the
Rocky Mountains, sending branches westward through the mountains
in all directions and eastward connecting with nearly all the
trans-continental routes, being seventy-five miles south of Denver,
where it joins the Union Pacific, and Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and forty miles north of Pueblo, where it connects with the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe. It is less than four days' journey to either the
Atlantic or Pacific coasts, while Europe can be reached in fourteen
days. For invalids it is wiser, however, to prolong these periods by
frequent stoppages. Access is easy from this point to other desirable
places of about the same elevation, so that the invalid can keep up
the benefit that altitude affords and enjoy the pleasure and
advantage of a change."

Of the climate at Colorado Springs, Mrs. Dunbar writes:--

"It is not the purpose of this article to encroach upon the
su