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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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ch, if not grand, are certainly ofmost attractive and winning character,yet heightened by the rural beauty ofthe numerous quiet little towns, andcharming summer villas. The places in the immediate vicinityof New York, we have already men-tioned among the suburban resorts ofthat city, and we might almost have in-cluded the whole island in that classifi-cation, so easily is every part reachedeither by the steamboats, or by therailway which traverses the length ofthe island, from Brooklyn 95 miles toGreenport. The lower shore of the island, whichis a net-work of shallow, land-lockedwaters, extending 70 miles, is the re-sort of innumerable flocks of aquaticfowl, and thither go the New Yorksportsmen or gunners for pastime, andglory for themselves, and for delightsfor the tables of their city friends. Inno other part of the Union is there agreater variety and abundance of wildbirds than on this coast, and no whereelse are they more systematically sought.To answer the wants of the sportsmen,
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NEW JERSEY. 173 Long Island—Home of Bryant—Battle of Long Island. excellent accommodations have beenevery where provided in the way ofcomfortable hotels and boat equipage. Oedarmere, the home of the PoetBryant, is near the pretty village ofRoslyn, at the head of Hempstead Bay,about two hours journey from NewYork by steamboat to Glen Cove, andthence by stage ; or by the Long IslandRailway 20 miles to Hempstead Branch,and by connecting stages. Cedarmereis a spot of great, though quiet pictur-esque beauty, overlooking HempsteadBay, and the Connecticut shore acrossthe Sound. Many of the charming,terraced, spring-water lakes of whichwe have spoken already, as among thepleasant and unique features of theLong Island landscape, are found with-in the domain of Cedarmere, in the vil-lage of Roslyn, and, indeed, throughall the vicinage for miles around. With-in a pleasant stroll of Mr. Bryants res-idence is Hampstead Hill, the highestland on Long Island. This fine emi-nence overlooks the Sou

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