Excerpt from Phelps' Hundred Cities and Large Towns of America: With Railroad Distances Throughout the United States, Maps of Thirteen Cities, and Other Embellishments The following work is offered to the public in the confident hope that it will be found both interesting and useful; whether as a guide-book for the Traveller, a Directory for the Business-man, or a Manual of Facts and Charts for those who seek information con cerning the large and increasing cities of our extensive Republic, scattered along the Atlantic slope, through its central valleys, and on the Pacific shore. The plan of this work is unique the design entirely practical; nothing of the kind has before been published. The reading matter gives a large amount of historical and de scriptive information, which will be profitable for study and con venisht for reference. The tables of Railroad Distances have been prepared with great care, and present a mass of valuable statistics, and highly service able to the traveller. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.