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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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e waters with much good result. Yates Spring, at one time the most popular, is now almost entirely neg-lected. A few pretty summer residences, and one or two quiet hotels, arefound here. Three miles from the springs the Chittenango River fallsa hundred feet over a limestone cliff; and, two miles east, CanaserragoCreek falls a hundred and forty feet. The Green Lakes are a series of pools in the limestone formationon Limestone Creek, near Manlius Station. The largest of the group. Lake Sodom, is only one-qiiarter mile across,and one hundred and fifty feet deep, with perfectly clear, limpid water.These lake waters hold in solution large quantities of the sulphate oflime, and are strongly tinctured with sulphuretted hydrogen gas. Visitors should not consent to leave Syracuse, not havuig seen GreenLakes. POPULAR KESOKTS, AND HOW TO RKACH TUEM. 199 Prof. Silliinaii says, The bottom is a grass-green slate ; the sides arewhite shell marl; and the brim, black vegetable mould; the waters per- o
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fectly limpid. The whole appears to the eye like a rich porcelain bowlfilled with limpid nectar. But the waters are disagreeable to the taste, and the principal lake hasreceived the name of Sodom. 200 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. S37Tacuse, one hundred and forty-eight miles west of Albany, is abusy city of fifty-four thousand inhabitants. It is the seat of TheSyracuse University, under the direction of the Methodist denomination,and of several public and private institutions of learning and charity. Itis located on Onondaga Lake, in the western part of OnondagaCounty. This lake is six miles long, one mile wide, and three hundredand sixty-one feet above tide-water. On its banks are the most exten-sive salt-manufactories in the country; in fact, the entire vicinity isamong the most fruitful and valuable in the State. Near Liverpool on the east bank was, formerly the chief fortress of theOnondaga Indians, an important tribe of the Six Nations ; and in thislocality were fought

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