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Excerpt from From a Forest to a City: Personal Reminiscences of Syracuse, N. Y More than half a century ago I reached that period in life common to most young men when it seems best to leave the parental home and start out on the broad earth in search of the place that destiny has decided we should make home for ourselves. I had never prepared myself for any particular pursuit. My school advantages had been, perhaps, a little better than many of my early associates. There seemed no calling nor locality that beckoned to me as offering place and opportunity. I bade farewell to the home of my childhood in one of the north eastern counties of this state. I seemed like a piece of drift wood carried along by the tide of circumstances to what destination I knew not. I soon found myself moving slowly westward on a canal boat, then the most common mode of travel through the state. Dark forests and swamps were almost continuous with occasional clearings of a few acres with cheap structures filled with boatmen's supplies. After traveling for hours through an unusually gloomy cedar swamp we came to a place called Lodi. There was a small flouring mill built of stone on the south side of the canal, our boat stopped here in search of freight. 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.