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Title: Summer homes among the mountains on the Central New England railway ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Central New England railway company. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Pittsfield, Mass., Sun printing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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appreciated. And so the first question asked by the intelligentseeker after rest and vigor is, Where shall I get the best air? Asone ascends the Berkshire or Litchfield hills the exhilarating invig-oration is plainly felt. Dr. J. P. Campbell, late surgeon in theCunard Royal Mail service, now of Bridgeport, Conn., writing to aninvalid friend, says: Surely you could not have selected a morerecuperative field than Litchfield county—Lakeville, too—the centerof the hematite ore region; with oxygen in abundant purity andiron under every footstep, those seeking health and recreation rapid-ly regain the former with strength and spirits added. I remembertelling the proprietor of the hotel in Norfolk that I considered theview obtainable from the big stone slab in front of his hotel door,together with the amount of pure ozone one could imbibe in a fewminutes, dirt cheap at five dollars, to an invalid lover of Natureor almost anyone else direct from the cooped-up cities of brick andmortar. 24
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/ J The elevation of these mountains insures a purity and delight-ful dryness of the air which at once gives tone to the systemand accelerates the breathing. This climate is inimical to pul-monary diseases, and a sojourn in these everlasting hills, with alittle exercise, is worth whole tons of physicians prescriptions. Another important factor in the selection of this region as aplace of summer sojourn is the exceptional purity of the drinkingwater. These mountains are the source of springs of clear, coolwater; in fact, many of the beautiful lakes in this region are fedentirely by inexhaustible springs. A large number of the mostpopular resorts receive their water supply from these mountainlakes, the water being carried in pipes to the town, so that the wateris never a source of disease. Here, as for several seasons past, the summer colonies gatherfrom the four corners of the United States. For no region offerssuch varied inducements for the summer visitor as the southernBerkshire hil

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