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Title: Summer excursion routes and rates. Delaware, Lackawanna and western railroad company. 1893 ..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and western railroad company. (from old catalog) Johnson, William Henry, (from old catalog) comp
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Publisher: (New York, Printed by Livingston Middleditch co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s. From all parts of the coun-try enthusiastic fishermen come to lure fromthe depths the fish which everywhere abound.The following endorsement from Seth Green,the late veteran fisherman and United StatesFish Commissioner, speaks for itself: I think Lake Keuka unsurpassed by anywaters in America as a fishing resort. Thepurity of the water, the large amount of fishfood contained in the Lake, tend to put thefish in the finest condition for the table, andrender them very strong and gamey when onthe hook and line. During one of mysojourns in August, I took by hook and line19 salmon trout weighing 113 pounds, andone day in October 33 black bass weighing106 pounds. The Lake is 22 miles long, divided aboutmidway by a long bold promontory extendingsouthward into its waters and terminatingin Bluff Point, one of the notable land-marks of this section, from whose lofty sum-mits seven counties can be seen. LakeKeuka is 780 feet above sea level, and itsshores and loftv hills remind the traveler of
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Lake Kextka, 124 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN K. K. the banks of the River Rhine where thewooded hills are covered for miles with vine-yards. The precipitous sides of the Lakefor miles are covered with farm houses,woodland glens and vineyards, while itswaters edge is dotted with hotels and cot-tages, affording a panorama of unceasingbeauty and interest to the tourist when viewedfrom the deck of the passing steamer. The Hotels of Lake Keuka are GroveSprings,. Ogoyago, Keuka, Gib-sons, Idlewild, and The Ark, whileat the head of the Lake is the FairchildHouse. All the hotels have-spacious coolrooms, broad verandas, and handsome sur-roundings of groves and grassy lawns, andconnected with each, besides the dancingpavilions, bath houses, etc., are many cot-tages which are rented to families and par-ties. Keuka University and Assembly Groundsare located four miles from Penn Yan, thenorthern terminus of the Lake. Here duringthe summer months the great assembly isheld, and during the rem

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