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LITTLE ROCK
"THE CITY OF ROSES"
By GEORGE B. ROSE
There are spots marked out by nature
for the sites of cities, where they must
spring up as soon as civilization is established
and remain as long as it endures. Such a
spot is Little Rock.
The southeastern half of Arkansas is low and flat, composed chiefly of alluvial plains; the northwestern half rugged and broken, rising toward the western border into the mountains, some three thousand feet in elevation, which gradually drop away toward the east till they disappear altogether. At the point, almost the exact center of the State, where the last foothills form the south bank of the principal river, it was inevitable that a city should be built and that that city should become the State's capital. Indeed, so manifest
