The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

448 TUE UNITED STATES.or posters. The boom raaj' ofteu coUapso ; but at times the city really rises in themidst of the wilderuess with all its industrial and civilising appliances. Thus itwas that Omaha and Kansas City on the Missouri, and Cheyenne, Denver, Pueblo,and Colorado Springs on the prairies skirting the Rocky Mountains, came almostsuddenly into existence. Roanoke on the Virginian plateau, and Birmingham inAlabama are also newly created places, and at present Middlesborough in KentuckyFig. 208.— Density of the Population at the Beoinnino of the Centuby.Scale 1 : 24,000,000.luhiibitants per square mile.nUnder 2 2 to 10. 10 to 25. 25 to 60. 60 and upwards.Each square represents a population of 5,000 inhabitants._^^__^^^^^__^_^_. 620 Miles.and Kensington in Pennsylvania are rising from the ground. At the end ofAugust, 1891, Kensington was scarcely two months old, yet five large factorieshad already been erected on the banks of the Alleghany, and twenty-eight trainsstopped daily'at the new station built in a for "learing.The United States have, properly speaking, no capital, for Washington, seat ofCongress and official residence of the President, lacks the supremacy in politics, thearts and letters which, even more than superiority in population, constitutes a true