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Title: Here and there in New England and Canada
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Sweetser, Moses Foster, 1848-1897
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Publisher: Boston, Passenger Dept., Boston (and) Maine Railroad
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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agog, to Owls Head, and again to the interminable sierras of theGreen Mountains and the Adirondacks. The shores and hills abound in birches and maples, tree-like arbor-vitse,graceful larches, yews, aspens, beeches, and mountain-ashes. Harebells,violets, forget-me-nots, orchids, and a great variety of ferns, are found onthese shores, whose flora is set forth by Charles E. Ridler, with the usualbotanical Latinity, in Appalachia for December, 1SS4 (Vol. IV.). TheFlower Garden, famous for its rich and rare plants, is high up on MountAnnanance, beyond the Pulpit Rock. A lonely country-road runs up the eastern shore, close to the lake, andpasses out by Westmore Mountain to Charleston, near the lovely SeymourLake, and Island Pond, on the Grand Trunk Railway. The Devils Den,the Silver Cascade, the Point of Rocks, and other interesting localities maybe visited along this lakeside drive, above which the crumbling cliffs ofMount Annanance soar high into the blue firmament. Or, if a marine excur-
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sion is preferred, there are plenty of small boats about the hotel, and also aminiature steamboat, whereby you may rush down this plain of limpid crystalto the farms clustered about the outlet, and the crossing of the turnpike toBarton Landing and Irasburgh. But our few words about Willoughby Lake utterly fail to show forth thefantastic beauty of the scene, which recalls the Delaware Water-Gap, on thePennsylvania border. That, however, is a fashionable resort, on a great rail-way route, while Willoughby, leagues from the nearest hamlet, and with itswestern shore as unvisited as the heart of Greenland, is a place for lovers ofpure Nature and the peace that she brings. The lake is reached fromWest Burke, on the Passumpsic Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad,by a pleasant stage-ride of six miles. 58

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