Excerpt from Scribner's Monthly, Vol. 13: An Illustrated Magazine for the People; Nov., 1876 to April, 1877 The last census of the United States gave Hartford a population of considerably less than inhabitants, ranking it as the thirty-fourth city in size in the country. Midway between two enumerations, as is the present date, it is possible only to guess as to the increase, and to surmise what now is its position numerically in the roll of cities. 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.