ar the intake from the Niagara River and
the hydraulic canal were deepened, and three hydro-electric units--the
largest in the world today--were installed, with the result that an
extension of 100,000 hp. was developed, making the total of the station
250,000 hp.

510 M. DUNKIRK, Pop. 19,366. (Train 3 passes 8:23p; No. 41, 1:00a; No.
25, 12:45a; No. 19, 4:57a. Eastbound: No. 6 passes 10:24p; No. 26,
11:26p; No. 16, 3:10a; No. 22, 6:08a.)

Dunkirk, settled about 1805, has a fine harbour and extensive lake
trade, and lies, moreover, in fertile agricultural and grape-growing
country. The property of the town, assessed at $10,000,000 is chiefly in
factories producing locomotives, radiators and other steel and iron
products, wagons, silk gloves, and concrete blocks. There are several
pleasant parks, of which Gratiot and Washington are the largest. Brocton
(519 M.) and Westfield (526 M.) are junctions for travellers bound for
Chautauqua (about 20 M. south of Brocton on Chautauqua Lake), the
principal seat of the Chautauqua educational movement.

The Chautauqua movement, instituted more than 46 years ago in the
west, has here its largest station. Each summer 15,000 or 20,000
people from all over the country assemble here to take courses in
a great variety of subjects, from Italian Primitivism to Camp
Cookery. Chautauqua makes its chief appeal, perhaps, to the
middle-aged and elderly who in their youth were working too hard
to have had any opportunities for study.

Just beyond Ripley (534 M.) we cross the state line into Pennsylvania.

557 M. ERIE, Pop. 93,372. (Train 3 passes 9:30p; No. 41, 2:06a; No. 25,
1:36a; No. 19, 5:59a. Eastbound No. 6 passes 9:25p; No. 26, 10:30p; No.
16, 2:03a; No. 22, 5:08a.)

Erie stands on the site of the old French fort Presque Isle, built in
1753 and surrounded by a village of a few hundred inhabitants. Although
Washington protested on behalf of the Governor of Va. against the French
occupation of this territory, it remained in French hands until 1758
when an epidemic of small-pox broke out, making the fort untenable. Two
years later the British seized it, and three years after the Indians,
rising against their white rulers in the Conspiracy of Pontiac, took
possession. In 1765 the British recaptured the fort and kept it until
1785, when it passed into the possession of the U.S. Gen. Anthony Wayne,
who was given the task of occupying the lake posts delivered