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Title: Routes and rates for summer tours
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (New York, Press of the American bank note co.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ers toand from the eastern summer resorts than any other line. The route passes the principal touristresorts in the East, including Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse, the Thou-sand Islands, River St. Lawrenpe, Adirondack Mountains, Green Mountains and all resorts in theWhite Mountains, passing through the famous White Mountain Notch by daylight to Portland,Old Orchard Beach, Bar Harbor, St. Andrews, N. B., Provincetown, Plymouth, Falmouth,Chatham, Nantucket, Cottage City (Marthas Vineyard), Newport, Block Island, NarragansettPier, Watch Hill, and other New England sea-shore resorts. It is fifty miles the shortest line from Niagara Falls to the White Mountains, and passengerswill find it to their interest and comfort to patronize this route. ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. TO TOURISTS JffiD PIiE/ISai(E SEEI(ERS To All Points in Northern New York, River St. Lawrence, Canada and New England, theRome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad Presents Unequaled Advantages.
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A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ROUTE. .^ ^LL through trains of the Rome,2\ Watertown & Ogdensburg Rail-road, both east-bound and west-bound, allow ample time for passengersto view the beauties of Niagara Falls, thewestern terminus of this line. The Fallsof Niagara are the grandest specimenof Natures handiwork on this continent.At all seasons and under all circum-stances, under all the varying eifectsof sunlight, or moonlight, or the dazzlingglare of electric illumination, the scene isalways sublime. The whirling floods, ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. 19 the ceaseless monotone of the thunderous roar, the vast clouds of spray and mist that catch in theirdepths the dancing sunbeams and transform them into hues of a thousand rainbows, seem strivingto outvie each other in their tribute of homage to the mighty Thunderer of the Waters. The name Niagara is of Indian origin and signifies Thunderer of the Waters. The whole region in the vicinity of the River and Falls isfull of histor

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