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Identifier: tarryathometrav00hale (find matches)
Title: Tarry at home travels
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel New York (State) -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.)
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s. You and I need not botherourselves about the length of time. What menknow is that these waters which filled the LakeOntario of that time, the ancestors of the waveswhich now go down the St. Lawrence so peace-fully, were barred by the piles of icebergs intheir way, and that they swept across to find thesea by way of the Hudson River. Men knowtheir track by the boulders, and gravel-sheets,and bits of sand which they have left behindthem. AMien it was last proposed to enlarge the greatErie Canal, there were people who thought thatthis old tideway of the very dawn of things mightbe cleared from its rubbish and made to do ourgreat business of daily bread. If you want to NEW YORK 329 follow out this little bit of prehistoric annals,cross from Utica or Syracuse to Lake Ontario andfind some of those intelligent gentlemen therewho will give a happy month to you to show thecourse by which that unnamed river found itsway to Manhattan and the sea. Or, if you have not the month to give to this,
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go down the bay between Staten Island andLong Island with some intelligent pilot, and hewill tell you where is the deep gorge which thoseold icebergs chiselled out as they worked their wayto the Atlantic. Do not pretend to make your first or your fiftiethvisit to Niagara without possessing and studyingthe directions to travellers prepared in 1903 bythe Commission for the Preservation of Niagara. 330 TAREY AT HOME TRAVELS In this very interesting report you will learn muchthat the average sightseer misses; you will learnthings which nobody knew thirty years ago.One or more days may be spent to great advan-tage in following the Niagara by trolley, cross-ing it at its mouth at Kingston, and returningon the other side. Stop over at the station,where a very clever fellow (Yankee clever) willtake you down into the gorge where Tom Moorethought how nice it would be By the side of yon sumach whose red berry dipsIn the foam of this streamlet, how sweet to recline,And to know that 1 sighed upon

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