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Title: Popular resorts, and how to reach them
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Bachelder, John B(adger) (from old catalog)
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: Boston, J. B. Bachelder
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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This is a romantic spot, where lovers and thosesocially inclined do love to congregate. The forests about the TwinMountain are very charming, and the shrubs and ferns fresh andvaried. But the chief and practical excellence of this locality is in theentire absence of hay-fever, that disagreeable disease indigenous to solarge a jiortion of the country. The following extract from The NewYork Ledger is from the pen of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whohas long been afflicted with this distressing malady, and who now spendshis summer and autumn months at this health-giving place: Mean-while another year warrants me in saying that a resort hither is almostcertain relief ; not one per cent of patients failing to obtain essential ifnot entire relief. We can go out into the sun, stand in mud morningand evening, and in spite of dust, rain, or chill, we are well. From the Twin Mountain House, the route continues to the FabyanHouse, the terminus of the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad; froia
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POPUI.AK ItESOUTS. AND HOW Tf» liKACII THEM. 61 which point stasjes convey tourists six miles, to the Mount WashingtonRailway, by which they are taken to the siunniit the same evening. Carriages will also be found in waiting, to take passengers from everytrain to the Crawford House five miles distant, AVhite Mountain Notch,and other points of attraction in that neighborhood, described underthe head of Pleasure lloute No. 5. The stage-ride from the (Crawford and Fabyan Houses to the MountWashington Railway Station is one of the n\ost exciting features ofmountain travel. The fallsof the Am-inonoosucare passedby the wayside, andare wellworth avisit. Herethe rockshave beenworn bythe actionof the wa-ter into athousandfantasticforms.Theroad leadsthrough aprimevalforest: luxuriant viutS laden with fruit and berries si)ring from the virgin soil,often tempting the visitor from the carriage. We occasionally catch aglimpse of the grand old mountain, as it i-aises its granite head abovethe cloud

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