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that earn their prosperity from the productiveness of the surrounding
 soil.
The first in the course is Rochester, where the beautiful
Genesee Falls furnishes tremendous power for numerous manufacturing
 plants of divers description, of which flour is the
staple. It is a handsome, well-constructed city of 162,435 people.
The route from Rochester to Syracuse lies through the
picturesque Onondaga Valley. Suggestions of progress in transportation
 facilities are aroused by contrasting the Erie Canal,
which parallels the railroad, with the speed and equipment of
the railroads of to-day.
Syracuse, with a population of 108,374, is largely engaged
in the manufacture of salt. Its other industries are varied.
After leaving Syracuse the beautiful and romantic Mohawk
Valley lends a continuing interest to the route. The railroad
follows the banks of the Mohawk River as it glides through
fertile valleys to find its junction with the Hudson. Indian
and classic appellations are strangely mixed in the names of the
towns, as Canastota, Oneida, Rome, and Utica attest, but
whether named for the aboriginal American or the descendants
of Romulus, they are prosperous and pleasing. Herkimer and
Amsterdam smack of early Dutch, and whatever may be the
origination of Schenectady, it is a busy, modern city—the home
of the General Electric Company and their great works.

TurouvcH THE EMPIRE STATE.

Albany, the Capital of the State of New York, is situated
near the head of navigation of the Hudson River. It is one of
the handsomest State Capitals in the United States, as well
as a commercial and manufacturing centre of note. The residential
 portion of the city and the suburbs are notable, and
some fine examples of old Dutch and Colonial architecture
still remain. Five miles above is Troy, a city of 60,000 busy
people, engaged in various manufacturing enterprises, the chief
products of the factories being shirts and shirt collars.
From Albany the route to Boston stretches to the east.
Forty miles from Albany the train passes the western confines