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Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the most wild andromantic places in the country ; Binghams Falls, o miles;Moss Glen Falls, Si miles ; Gfold Brook, 3 miles; WestHill, 2 miles; Morrisville Falls, 8 miles; Johnson Fails,12 miles ; Nebraska, 6 miles. During the summer the stages from Stowe to Water-bury connect with all the principal trains. Burlington and Saint Albans are the two places of impor-tance on the line of the Vermont Central between MountMansfield and Montreal. The former of these places ismore fully described under the heading of Lake Cham-plain. TO WHITE MOUNTAINS AND LAKE MEMPHREMAGOG. Returning to White Eiver Junction, let us continue ourjourney up the Connecticut Valley proper, and to thegrand old White Hills. First in interest we pass Hanover, which is the home ofDartmouth College. Oxford is next in interest, owing toits popularity as a summer resort. It is one of the mostdelightful places in New-Hampshire. Bradford is the second most important town on the routefrom White River Junction to Newport, Vt.
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The Flume, White Mountains. LAKES, KIYERS, AND MOimTAINS. 57 In tlie nortli-west part of the town, in Wriglits Moun-tain, is a cave with several apartments, called De\drs Den.It is thought to have once been the abode of humanbeings. In this town, in 1812, was manufactured, by James Wil-son, the first artificial globe made in the United States. Newbury is one of the oldest towns on the upper Con-necticut, and few places present greater attractions for aquiet summer residence. Here are the celebrated New-bury Sulphur Springs, long known to invalids in New-England. They are in the valley, east of the depot, wherea bath-house has been fitted up. An analysis of the waterhas been made, and it is highly recommended by ablephysicians. Directly in the rear of Newbury is Mount Pulaski, anelevation easy of access, and from it can be seen a wideextent of country. The tourist should ascend its smnmitand look upon the scenery spread before*him. To theright is the valley of Haverhill, T^nth its long

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