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Excerpt from Loring
Manifold are the tastes and dispositions of those who will turn these leaves. Some there are who will skim the pages merely for relaxa _tion or amusement, and who will look for some thing pungent and Spicy. Others will search for statistics - the figures supposed to represent the population past and present; the number of pub lic buildings, their dimensions and their cost; and will even read with pleasure the table of dis tances. Still others, of an inquisitive disposi tion, will be anxious to know the early history of Portland, that they may trace for themselves the progress of the city, the gradual changes in men and manners, the influence of situation, and the growth of innovation and improvement.
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