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Title: Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travel. A full and reliable guide ... to ... the United States and the British provinces. With careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists
Year: 1857 (1850s)
Authors: T. Addison Richards
Subjects: United States--Guidebooks Canada--Guidebooks
Publisher: D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Thoreau Society Collections at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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ord, the capital of New Hamp-shire, is upon the banks of the Merri-mac, 18 miles above Manchester, by theConcord Railroad. * The State Capitol,the Lunatic Asylum, the State Prison,are public edifu es of interest. A Meth-odist General Biblical Institute wasfounded here in 1847. We mightsuggest to the tourist a brief halt atConcord, were he not now so near yetmore attractive scenes. Concord is 71miles from Boston, via Lawrence; 47miles from Portsmouth, N. H., by Con-cord and Portsmouth Railroad; 25 milesfrom Bradford, by the Concord andClaremont Railroad; 35 miles fromNashua, by Concord Railroad ; 93miles from Wells River, by Boston,Concord, and Montreal Railroad; and30 miles from Fitchburg, by the Fitch-burg Railroad (Fitchburg and Bos-ton). From Concord, our route follows theBoston, Concord, and Montreal Rail-road, 83 miles to Weirs, on Lake Win-nipiseogee, where we take the steamerLady of the Lake, 10 miles to CentreHarbor. Our White Mountain route,No. 5, continues on this road, past
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JSTEW HAMPSHIRE. 91 Whito Mountain Eoutes—Winnipiseogee—Centre Harbor. Weirs, to Wells River, and Littleton,N. H. Lake Winnipiseogee. The littlevoyage on this beautiful lake, is amongthe most agreeable passages in our pres-ent journey to the White Mountains,and well deserves a pilgrimage to itselfalone. Winnipiseogee is an enchantingreach of pure, translucent waters, veryirregular in form; some 23 miles long,and from one to ten miles wide. It iscrowded with exquisite island groups,indented with surprising bays; and boldmountain peaks cast their shadowsevery where into its still, deep floods. Red Mountain, about 1,600 feet high,a remarkably beautiful eminence, issituated on the N\W. of the above lake.The ascent to the summit, althoughsteep and arduous, can be effected, fora portion of the distance, either in acarriage or on horseback. From theS.E. there is a fine panoramic view ofthe !ake and the adjacent country.On the south ascends Mount Major, aridge of a bolder aspect and lofti

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