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Excerpt from First Album of the City of Davenport, Iowa: With a Review of the Origin, Past and Present Development, and a Descriptive Sketch of the Rock Island Arsenal Three and one-half miles in length the city ex tends along the mighty stream, and ascends gradually upon and over the bluffs, 180 to 200 feet high, and trimmed with a fresh wreath of green oaks, from which stately school houses, church-spires to a height of 120 feet, electric-light towers of 125 feet in height, and numerous magnificent and cozy villas like blossoms eradiate. Situate upon 40 30' northern latitude, and 13 30' west from the City of Washington, D. C., it is, by river, 332 miles from St. Louis and 397 miles from St. 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.