Excerpt from Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Kalamazoo Michigan Without any invidious Comparisons, 1tmay perhaps be safely affirmed, that Kalamazoo is the most picturesque of all the pleasant villages of Michigan. It has the air of a New Eu gland town, exceptthat thee animation of its bustling population would soon convince a stranger that he was far away from the quiet of his earlier home. Possessing an extensive trade with the country north, west, and south. For the last year or two, it has shipped more wheat than any other place on the Railroad. 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.