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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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s., is upon the Con-necticut River, 26 miles north of Hart-ford, 98 miles from Boston, and 138from New York. The U. S. Arsenal, located here, is the largest in the Union.It is charmingly perched upon ArsenalHill, looking down upon the beautifultown, the river, and the fruitful val-leys. This noble panorama is seen withstill better effect from the cupola whichcrowns one of the arsenal buildings.This establishment employs nearly 300hands, and 175,000 stands of arms arekept constantly on hand. This is afamous gathering point of railroads.The Connecticut Valley routes starthence, and furnish one of the pleasant-est ways from New York to theWhite Mountains, through Northamp-ton, Brattleboro, Bellows Falls, to WellsRiver and Littleton, N. H. (See Val-ley of the Connecticut and WhileMountain routes, No. 10.) The West-ern railway from Albany to Bostonpasses through Springfield also, andcontinues our present route to Worces-ter. Population in 1850 about20,000.Worcester is a flourishing city of
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MASSACHUSETTS. 65 Norwich Koute—The City of Boston. the home of King Philip, is admirablyseen across the bay. Steamboats con-nect Newport with Providence by thisroute, via Narragansett Bay. The Norwich Route, (No. 4.)—Thisline is also by steamboat from NewYork, via Long Island Sound to themouth of the Thames River, which itascends to Allyns Point, and passen-gers there take cars and follow thecourse of the Thames through Connec-ticut, directly north to Worcester;thence with other lines to Boston. BOSTON AND VICINITY. Boston is one of the most interest-ing of the great American cities, notonly from its position as second in com-mercial rank to New York alone, butfrom its thrilling traditionary and histori-cal associations, from the earliest days ofdiscovery and colonization on the west-ern continent; and through all thetrials and triumphs of the childhood,youth, and manhood of the Republic—from its dauntless public enterprise, andfrom its high social culture and morals;from its g

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