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Rh, with such a rush and stir, trains coming and going in all directions, crowded with passengers from every nation, and laden with freight from its own and central states for shipment to foreign countries, vessels being continuously loaded and unloaded at its numerous docks and wharves, and busily plying back and forth on that immense inland sea, both for the local and the Oriental trans-Pacific trade, with lumber, coal, fruit and fish at its command, backed by its enterprising citizens, one must exclaim that nature has thus evidently marked out the city of exalted destinies.