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_Journey from Detroit to Chicago-Thrashing Machine-Face of the Country in Michigan-Prairie Hen-White Pigeon Prairie-Travelling Party-La Porte-Cooking Breakfast-Jaded Horses-Thunder Storm-Hovel on the Shore of Lake Michigan-Face of the Country-Notices of Nature-Chicago-Indian Treaty-Horse-racing-Intoxication-Fair-Occurrences at Chicago._
On the 13th September, I left Detroit, early in the morning, in a stage for Niles, which was drawn by four horses, and well filled with passengers. We breakfasted at the distance of twelve miles, the hotel being a solitary house, the name of which has escaped my memory.