{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3155", "width": "2055", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "FALL RIVER LINE\\nBETWEEN BOSTON AND NEW YORK.\\nThe Passenger Steamers in service on this route are the finest of their\\nclass in the world. The Superb new Iron Steamer\\ni^\\nPILGR\\nthe latest acquisition of the line, is unsurpassed. She has TWO HULLS.\\none inside the other, 103 WATER-TIGHT COMPARTMENTS,\\nand is practically Non-Sinkable.\\nSTEEL BOILERS, STEAM STEERING GEAR,\\nELECTRIC BELLS IN STATEROOMS,\\nand is illuminated throughout by the\\nEDISON TArn A Arrfci?.am7 .i rT TT .T.T^.r.nin^ wq LIGHT.\\nu\\nhas been thoi,\\nments mac\\nbeei\\nSPLE\\nLIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.\\nE,\\nM\\nid many improve-\\n900. She has\\ncondition.\\nMUSIC\\n\u00c2\u00a3lCCOL\u00c2\u00abA^t*AA r\\nevening with a\\nlUed every\\nPassengers arrive on Steamer two to three hours earlier than via long rail\\nroutes connecting with other Sound Lines, and avoid changing from cars to\\nboat at an unseasonable hour at night.\\nSPECIAL EXJPItESS, connecting with Steamers at Fall River,\\nLEAVES BOSTON,\\nfrom Old Colony Station, corner South and Knkpxand Streets, Tf^eek\\nDays, G P.M., Sundays (Summer), 7 jP.ilf running through to\\nsteamer at Fall River in 75 MINUTES Steamers are due in New York at\\n7 A.M. BuooKLYN and Jersey City Passengers are transferred by Annex\\nBoat on arrival of Steamers from the East.\\nTickets, Staterooms, and Berths can be secured in Boston at the office\\nof the Line, 3 OLD STATE HOUSE, Corner Washington and State\\nStreets, and at Old Colony Station.\\nL. H. PALMER, Agent, 3 Old State House, Boston.\\nGEO. L. CONNOR, J. R. KENDRICK,\\nGeneral Passenger Agent, General Manager,\\ni New York. Boston.\\nPROMENADE CONCERT\\nin the Grand Saloon. This line has the Shortest Rail Line (49 miles) and\\nthe Longest Water Route, affording its patrons a full night s rest.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "ADVEliTlSEMEHrS.\\nTHE GREAT PLEASURE ROUTE TO\\nMOUNT DESERT,\\nPENOBSCOT RIVER AND BAY,\\nAKD THK\\nSUMMER RESORTS OF\\nPicturesque Maine.\\nTourists car the grand and romantic beauties of the coast of\\nMaine b} a passage on either of the Palace Steamers of the\\nBOSTON AND BANGOR STEAMSHIP CO.\\nThe Grand and Magnificent Steamer PENOBSCOT, Capt. Wm\\nR. Roix.\\nTlie Large and Elegant Steamer CAMBMIDGE, Capt. Otis\\nIngraham.\\nThe Commodious and Fast Steamer KATAHIHN, Capt. Frank\\nC. Homer.\\nThe Spacious and Rapid Steamer MOUNT DESERT, Capt.\\nMark Ingraham. Fastest steamer in New England.\\nThe Reliable and Swift Steamer ROCKLAND, Capt. W. R.\\nSawtelle.\\nSteamers leave Foster s Wharf, Boston, at 5 o clock daih (Sunday s\\nexcepted), from May 31 to October 17, for Rockland, South-West\\nHarbor and Bar Harbor (Mount Desert), Camden, Belfast and Bangor,\\nand all Pleasure Resorts on the Penobscot River and Ba}^, arriving\\nat Bar Harbor at 11 A. M., and Bangor at 12 m.\\nAbout 100 State Rooms on each Steamer Electric Bell in each\\nroom; capacious Dining Halls; courteous and polite uniformed officials;\\ncareful and experienced navigators.\\nDuring the season of Summer Travel, July 5th to September 1st,\\na Band of Music and Full Orchestra accompanies ever} Steamer\\nto and from Boston and to and from Bar Harbor, furnishing choice pro-\\ngrammes of delightful music.\\nTickets over this route can be purchased at any ticket office. Baggage\\nchecked through.\\nWILLIAM H. HILL, Jr., General Manager.\\nCALVIN AUSTIN, Agent, Boston.\\nJAMES LITTLEFIELD, Gen l Supt.", "height": "3120", "width": "1975", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "AD VERTISEMENTS.\\nTHE\\nMAGAZINE OF AMERiGAN HISTORY.\\nILLUSTRATED.\\nEdited by MRS. MARTHA J. LAMB,\\nAuthor of The History of the City of New York.\\nThis excellent Magazine, published monthly, begins its 12th volume with the\\nJuly number of the present year. It treats of all manner of important events\\nconnected with our national history, furnishing information of priceless value,\\non an almost endless variety of important subjects. It is ably edited, and its\\ninfluence for good cannot be estimated.\\nIt is conducted in a bright and readable style, contains original and carefully\\nprepared historical articles from the best living writers, is superbly illustrated\\nwith rare portraits and other historic pictures, and has become one of the most\\nfirmly established, valuable, and popular Magazines in the whole country.\\nReaders of all ages, creeds, and politics find it entertaining and instructive.\\nSpecialists, scholars, the general reader, and young people alike testify emphat-\\nically to its overshadowing importance among the leading periodicals of the day.\\nWHAT THE PRESS SAY OF IT.\\nThis splendid publication covers In its issues from month to month and year\\nto year the entire field of the history of this continent from its remotest periods\\nto the events of to-day. It is welcomed throughout the whole land for the reason\\nthat it is national in its character. New-Or/eajis Daily City Item.\\nIt is ably edited, is always interesting, furnishing information which even the\\nmost learned may accept with gratitude, and is printed with such care and taste\\nas to be a pleasure to handle and look at. Montreal Gazette.\\nIt should be in every household and library; it is a most entertaining\\nperiodical for every intelligent reader, besides being a mine of mental wealth and\\nculture Washington Chronicle.\\nIt delights the refined scholar, and, at the same time, by its decidedly\\npopular cast, pleases a large majority of readers of average intelligence. In no\\nother journal do so many important documents relating to our history make their\\nfirst appearance in print. Christian Intelligencer.\\nThe best publication of the kind. Mrs. Lamb, while doing ample justice to\\nNew York, is true to the whole country. Every State has its own interesting\\nhistory, and she is glad to collect and print materials reflecting honor on the\\nyoungest as well as the oldest member of the Union. New-York Jojimal of\\nCommerce.\\nThere is nothing superior of its kind, or that in any worthy measure fills\\nits place. Prittceton Press.\\nSold by newsdealers everywhere. Terms, ^5 a year, or 50 cents a number.\\nPublished at 30 Lafayette Place, New York City.", "height": "3105", "width": "1868", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nfold-out is being digitized, and will be inserte\\nfuture date.\\nM i", "height": "3034", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Hr\\nS\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nd-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3035", "width": "1868", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "EW ENGLAND:\\nHANDBOOK FOE TRAVELLEES.\\nA GUIDE TO\\nTHE CHIEF CITIES AND POPULAR RESORTS OF NEW ENGLAND,\\nAND TO ITS SCENERY AND HISTORIC ATTRACTIONS\\nWITH THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN BORDERS,\\nFROM NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nWith Six Maps and Eleven Plans.\\nEIGHTH EDITION, REVISED AND AUGMENTED.\\n1884jj\\nBOSTON:\\nJAMES li. OSGOOD CO.\\n1884.\\nV-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "Copyright, 1873, 1876, and 1884,\\nBY JAMES E. OSGOOD CO.\\nUniversity Press: John Wilson Son,\\nCambridge.\\nJ", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "v3\\nJ PREFACE.\\nThe chief object of the Handbook for New England is to\\nsupply the place of a guide in a land wliere professional guides\\ncannot be found, and to assist the traveller in gaining the greatest\\npossible amount of pleasure and information while passing\\nthrough the most ancient and interesting district of Anglo-\\nSaxon America. New England has hitherto l)een but casually\\ntreated in books which cover wider sections of country special\\nlocalities within its borders have been described with more or\\nless fidelity in local guide-books but the present volume is the\\nfirst which has been devoted to its treatment according to the\\nmost approved principles of the European works of similar\\npurpose and character. The Handbook is designed to enable\\ntravellers to visit all or any of the notable places in New\\nEngland, with economy of money, time, and temper, by giving\\nlists of the hotels with their prices, descriptions of the various\\nroutes by land and water, and maps and plans of the principal\\ncities. The letter-press contains epitomes of the histories of the\\nold coast and border towns, statements of the principal scenic\\nattractions, descriptions of the art and architecture of the cities,\\nbiographical sketches in connection with the birthplaces of\\neminent men, and statistics of the chief industries of the included\\nStates. The half-forgotten but worthy and heroic records of the\\neaily colonial era and the French and Indian wars have received\\nspecial attention in connection with the localities rendered classic\\nin those remote days, while numerous Indian legends will be\\nfound in various places. The operations of the Wars of the\\nRevolution and of 1812 (so far as they affected this section of\\nthe Republic) have been carefully studied and localized, and the\\nrise of the cjreat modern manufacturin cities has been traced", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "iv PREFACE.\\nand recorded. The famous summer-reports among the moun-\\ntains and by the sea with which New England abounds, and\\nwhich are thronged by visitors from all parts of the country,\\nhave been described at length in these pages.\\nThe plan and structure of the book, its system of treatment\\nand forms of abbreviation, have been derived from the European\\nHandbooks of Karl Baedeker. The typography, binding, and\\nsystem of city plans also resemble those of Baedeker, and hence\\nthe grand desiderata of compactness and portability, which\\nhave made his works tne most popular in Europe, have also been\\nattained in the present volume. Nearly all the facts concerning\\nthe routes, hotels, and scenic attractions have been framed or\\nverified from the Editor s personal experience, after fifteen\\nmonths of almost incessant travelling for this express purpose.\\nBut infallibility is impossible in a work of this nature, especially\\namid the rapid changes which are ever going on in America, and\\nhence the Editor would be grateful for any bond fide correc-\\ntions or suggestions with which either travellers or residents may\\nfavor him. He would also thankfully acknowledge his indebted-\\nness to the gentlemen who have revised the book in advance of\\npublication.\\nThe maps and plans of cities have been prepared with the\\ngreatest care, and will doubtless prove of material service to all\\nwho may trust to their directions. They are based on the system\\nof lettered and numbered squares, Avith figures corresponding to\\nsimilar figures attached to lists of the chief public buildings,\\nhotels, churches, and notable ol)jects. The most trustworthy\\ntime-tables are found ih ABC Pathfinder Railway Guide,\\nwith map, published monthly at Boston (price 25 c). The hotels\\nindicated by asterisks are those which are believed by the Editor\\nto be the most comfortable and elegant.\\nM. F. SWEETSER.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nPAGB\\nI. Language 1\\nII. Money and Travelling Expenses 1\\nIII. Railways and Steamboats. The Check System 1\\nIV. Excursions on Foot 2\\nV. Hotels 3\\nVI. Round-Trip Excursions 4\\nVII. Climate and Dress 4\\nVIII. Miscellaneous Notes 4\\nXOUTH\\n1. Boston\\n2. Environs of Boston\\nNEW ENGLAND.\\n1.\\n2.\\n3.\\n4.\\n5.\\n6.\\n7.\\n8.\\n9.\\n10.\\nThe Route to Nahant\\nBostou Harbor.\\nNahant\\nThe Route to Hull, Hinghain, c.\\nHull\\nHingham. Charlestown\\nChelsea. Revere Beach\\nLexington and Concord\\nCainl)ridge. Harvard University\\nMount Auburn\\nBrookline\\n11. Roxbury\\n3. Boston to New York by Newport\\n1. Newport\\n2. The Approach to New York\\n4. Boston to S. Duxbury\\n5. Boston to Plymouth\\n6. Boston to Cape Cod\\n1. FairhaA en Branch\\n2. Marshpee\\n7. Boston to Martha s Vineyard and Nantl^cket\\n1. Gayhead\\n8. Boston to New York by Providence\\n1. Providence\\n2. Providence to Newport. Narragansett Bay\\n3. Providence to Warren and Bristol\\n5\\n20\\n20\\n21\\n22\\n23\\n24\\n27\\n28\\n29\\n33\\n35\\n36\\n36\\n40\\n47\\n48\\n51\\n54\\n5t\\n56\\n58\\n60\\n62\\n63\\n65\\n66", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "vi CONTENTS.\\nROUTE PAGE\\n4. Narragansett Pier 68\\n5. Watch Hill Point 70\\n6. Stonington to New York. Block Island 71\\n7. New Haven 77\\n9. Boston to New Bedford 90\\n1. New Bedford to Martha s Vineyard. The Elizabeth Islands 92\\n10. Providence to Worcester 93\\n11. Providence to Hartford and Waterbury 94\\n12. New London to Vermont 96\\n1. S. Vernon to Keene 102\\n13. Norwich to Nashua 104\\n14. Saybrook to Hartford 106\\n15. New Haven to Northampton 108\\n16. Bridgeport to Winsted Ill\\n17. Bridgeport to the Berkshire Hills 114\\n18. S. NoRWALK TO Danbury 115\\n19. Boston to New York (by Norwich) 117\\n1. Boston to Woonsocket 120\\n20. Hartford to Salisbury and Millerton 120\\n21. Boston to New York (by Springfield) 124\\n1. S. Framingham to Lowell and to Mansfield 125\\n2. S. Framingham to Fitchburg 126\\n3. Worcester 127\\n4. Springfield 131\\n5. Hartford 134\\n22. Boston to Alb.\\\\ny, Saratoga, and the West 141\\n23. The Berkshire Hills 142\\n1. Pittsfield and its Environs 144\\n2. Stockbridge 149\\n3. N. Adams 154\\n24. New York to Quebec. The Connecticut Valley towns 157\\n1. Mount Holyoke 160\\n2. Lake Memphremagog 171\\n25. Boston to the Hoosac Tunnel 175\\n26. Boston to Burlington (and Montreal) 179\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21. Fitchburg to Peterboro 179\\n27. Rutland to Bennington 184\\n28. Rutland to Albany 187\\n1. Rutland and Washington Line 187\\n29. Boston to Lowell, Concord, and Montreal .188\\n1. Lowell 189\\n2. Nashua to Wilton 192\\n3. Concord to Claremont 196\\n4. St. Albans to Richford 206\\n5. St. Albans to Rouse s Point 207\\n30. Boston to the Franconia Mountains 209\\n31. Boston to the White Mountains 213\\n1. Rochester to Portland 213", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS. vii\\nlaOUTS PACE\\n32. Lake Winhepesaukee and the Sandwich Mountains 215\\n1. Centre Harbor to Conway 219\\n2. Chocorua and Ossipee 220\\n83. The White Mountains and North Conway 221\\n1. North Conway 223\\n2. North Conway to the Glen House and Gorham 225\\n3. Gorham 227\\n4. Gorham to the Notch 229\\n5. North Conway to the Notch 230\\n6. The Crawford House to the Profile House 233\\n7. Mount Washington 234\\n34. The Franconia Mountains and the Pemigewasset Valley 238\\n1. The Profile House to Plymouth 241\\n2. Waterville and Camptou 242\\n35. The Percy Peaks, Dixville Notch, and Lake Umbagog 243\\n1. Colebrook to Umbagog and Raugeley 244\\n2. Connecticut Lake 245\\n36. Boston to Cape Ann 245\\n37. Boston to Portland and St. John 248\\n1. Peabody, Lowell, and Lawrence Branches 255\\n2. Marblehead Branch 255\\n3. Essex Branch 257\\n4. Aniesbury Branch 261\\n5. The Isles of Shoals 265\\n6. Portsmouth to Concord 267\\n7. Portland and its Environs 270\\n8. Casco Bay 274\\n38. Boston to Portland 275\\n1. Wakefield to Newburjrport 276\\n2. Lawrence to Lowell or Manchester 279\\n3. Dover to Lake Winnepesaukee 282\\n39. Portland to the White Mountains 284\\n1. Lake Sebago 284\\n40. Portland to Quebec and Montreal 287\\n1. Mechanic Falls to Canton 287\\n2. Bethel to Lake Umbagog 289\\n41. Portland to Farmington and the Western Maine Forest 291\\n1. Farminglon to the Rangeley Lakes 292\\n42. Portl,\\\\nd to the Upper Kennebec 293\\n43. Boston or Portland to Moosehead Lake 295\\n44. Portland to Rockland 297\\n1. Wiscasset to Boothbay 299\\n2. Damariscotta to Bristol and Pemaquid 299\\n45. Portland to Mount Desert 302\\n1. Castine 302\\n2. Bar Harbor 304\\n3. Southwest Harbor 306\\n4. Mount Desert to Machiasport 807", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Vlll\\nCONTENTS.\\nROUTE PAGE\\n4G. Portland to Lewiston and Bangor 307\\n47. Portland to Augusta and Banuor 309\\n48. Boston to Bangor. The Penobscot River 316\\n49. Bangor to St. John 318\\n1. Fredericton, N. B 319\\n2. St. John River 320\\n50. The New Brunswick Border, Eastport to Madawaska 321\\nTHE WESTERN AND NORTHERN BORDERS OF NEW ENGLAND.\\nThe Hudson River\\n61. New York City\\n1. Central Park\\n2. Brooklyn\\n52. New York to Albany\\n1. The Highlands\\n2. The Catskill Mountains\\n3. Albany\\n53. Albany to Montreal\\n1. Saratoga\\n2. Fort Edward to Wliitehall or Caldwell\\n3. Lake George\\n4. Lake Chaniplain\\n54. Montreal and its Environs\\n1. Lachine Rapids\\n2. Victoria Bridge\\n55. Montreal to Quebec. The St. Lawrence River\\n66. Quebec\\n1. St\u00c2\u00ab. Anne and Chateau Richer\\n2. The Saguenay River\\n325\\n336\\n339\\n340\\n343\\n347\\n348\\n350\\n350\\n355\\n357\\n361\\n368\\n372\\n373\\n373\\n875\\n384\\n385\\nMAPS.\\n1. General Map of New England in pocket.\\n2. Map of tlie Environs of Boston in pocket.\\n3. Map of Nahant.\\n4. Map of Lake Winnepesaukee.\\n5. Map of the White and Franconia Mountains.\\n6. Map of the Hudson River.\\nPLANS OF CITIES, c.\\nBoston, Hartford, Montreal, New Haven, New York, Newport, Portland,\\nProvidence, Quebec, Central Park, Mount Auburn Cemetery.\\nABBREVIATIONS.\\nM. mile hr. =hour min. minute ft. foot or feet r.\\nN. north S. south E. east W. west.\\nright 1. left\\nASTERISKS\\ndenote objects deserving of special attention.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "NEW ENGLAND.\\nNobis eternum reliquerunt monnmentum,\\nNovanglorum mojuia.\\nNova Anglia a Latin poem by Morrell, 1G25.\\nNew England is the northeastern portion of the United States, and\\ncomprises the States of Maine, New Hanipsliire, Vermont, Massacliusetts,\\nConnecticut, and Rhode Island. It is bounded on the S. by the AtLantic\\nOcean and Long Island Sound, on the W. by the State of New York, on the\\nN. by the Province of Quebec, and on the E by the province of New Bruns-\\nwick and the Atlantic Ocean. It lies between the latitudes 41\u00c2\u00b0 and 48\u00c2\u00b0\\nN, and the longitudes 67\u00c2\u00b0 and 74\u00c2\u00b0 W. from Greenwich, and has an area\\nof 65,000 square M., with a population of 4,010,529 (census of 1880).\\nThe principal religious sect is tlie Congregational, which has 190,473\\nmembers; the Episcopal Church has 38,098; and the Methodists have\\n70,000. The Catholics and the Baptists (114,000) are also strong in\\nnumbers, while Unitarianism has here its chief power. A high standard\\nof education prevails among the people, and is supported by an extensive\\nschool-system and several renowned colleges. The New-Englanders have\\nalways been distinguished for a marked individuality of thought, by\\nreason of which tlie most advanced and radical schools of philosophy,\\npolitics, and religion have arisen or have been developed here, Th\\nnature of the climate and of the soil has rendered agriculture less\\nprofitable than at the West, and the strength of the section has been\\nfound in the establishment and maintenance of vast manufacturing indus-\\ntries. The coast extends in a direct line for over 700 M., with many\\nspacious hai bors and the maritime cities are celebrated for their skilful\\nseamen and for their large fleets of merchant-ships. This district was\\ngranted by James I. to tlie Plymouth Company (in 1606) under the name\\nof North Virginia; but Capt. John Smith, having surveyed and mapped\\nthe coast iu 1614, gave it the name of New England.\\nMaine\\nis bounded on the S. by the Atlantic, on the W. by N. H., on the N. by\\nCanada, and on the E. by New Brunswick. It is the most northeastern of\\nthe United States, and the largest of the States of New England. It has\\nan area of 31,766 square M. with a population of 648,936, and a valuation\\nof 235,978,216. It is divided into 16 counties, and has 15 small cities,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "X MAINE.\\nthe chief of which is Portland, wliile the capital is Augusta, at the head\\nof ship-navigation on the Kennebec River. The coast of hundred-har-\\nbored Maine is remarkably picturesque, with deep fiords rimning up\\nbetween bold peninsulas, and with archipelagos of beautiful islands resting\\nin quiet and extensive bays. The direct line of the coast from Kittery\\nPoint to Quoddy Head is 278 M., but the deep curves of the bays and\\nestuaries give an actual shore-line of nearly 2,500 M. Mt. Desert (60,000\\nacres) is the largest of the many islands which front the ocean, and Mon-\\nhegan is the most distant from the mainland. The great rivers Penob-\\nscot, Kennebec, and St. Croix empty into the sea on this coast, and\\nfurnish wide and convenient harbors. Nearly of the area of Maine is\\nstill covered with primeval forests, and the lumber-trade is the chief\\nindustry of the State. The trees are felled and hauled to the water-\\ncourses during the winter, and in the spring they are imited in vast rafts\\nand floated down to the river cities. In the S. and E, of the great forest\\nis a broken range of mountains, the loftiest of which is Mt. Katahdin\\n(5,385 ft. high). One tenth of Maine is covered with water. Maine has\\n4,500 factories, 53,000 operatives, and an annual product of $80,000,000 in\\nmanufactured goods. The State has 65,000 farms.\\nThe Maine coast was first visited by Gosnold in 1602, and in 1607 the\\nshort-lived Sagadahoc colony settled at the mouth of the Kennebec\\nRiver. The French colonies at the St. Croix River and Mt. Desert were\\nbut ephemeral, and several other attempts proved equally unsuccessful,\\npartly owing to the hostility between the claimants of the territory (the\\nFrench and English), and the distrust of the Indians for both of them.\\nThe island of Monhegan was settled in 1622, and Saco was founded in\\n1623. When the Plymouth Company broke up, in 1635, Sir Ferdinando\\nGorges received by royal charter the province of Maine (then iirst so\\ncalled). In 1642 his son founded the city of Gorgeana (York), but in\\n1651 Mass. absorbed Maine, being sustained by the exigencies of the\\ntimes and by the Puritan Parliament of England. After some resistance\\non the part of the Maine proprietors, Mass bought out their interest, and\\nthenceforward ruled the northern province for nearly 170 years with a\\nfirm and beneficial sway. From 1675 until 1760 a disastrous succession\\nof Indian wars ensued, in which every twentieth settler was killed or\\ncaptured and many towns were destroyed. The bombardment of Port-\\nland (1775) and the naval battle at Castine (1779) were the chief events\\nduring the Revolution, but the coast was badly harried during the War\\nof 1812. In 1820 Maine was admitted into the Union as the twenty-\\nthird State.\\nNew Hampshire\\nis bounded on the S. by Mass., on the W. by Vt., on the N. by the\\nprovince of Quebec, and on the E. by ]\\\\Iaine and the Atlantic. It has an", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "NEW HAMrSHIRE VERilONT. xi\\n.area of 9,280 square M., with a population of 346,991, and a valuation of\\n1(U,756,181. It is divided into 10 counties, witli 234 towns and 6 cities,\\nand the capital is Concord, on the I\\\\Ierrimac River. There is an ocean-\\nfront of 18 M., which is bordered by level plains stretching inland, while\\njust off the coast are the remarkable Isles of Shoals, formerly famed for\\ntheir fislieries and now a favorite summer-resort. Beyond the sea-shore\\nplains the country assumes a more rugged and broken appearance, with\\nnumerous isolated summits and hill-ranges which culnunate in the W aite\\nMts., covering over 40 square M. of a picturesque district which is called\\nthe Switzerland of America. The lakes of N. H. cover 110,000 acres,\\nand the most beautiful of their number is Winnepesaukee, which has 69\\nsquare M. of extent, and contains 300 islands. The soil of the State is\\nnot fertile, but it has much mineral wealth and the climate, thoiigh\\nsevere, is very healthful. There are extensive primeval forests in the N.\\n(Coos County), in whose recesses wolves and bears still are found and the\\nremote lakes and streams afford fine fishing. The Connecticut, Saco, and\\nMerrimac Rivers have their sources in N. H., and on the water-power\\nafforded l)y tlie latter large manufacturing cities are located. The State has\\nmore than 3,200 factories, with 48,000 oi)eratives, using $44,000,000 worth\\nof material, and turning out 74,000,000 worth of goods. The manufactures\\nof cotton and woollen goods, iron and leather, are the chief mechanical\\nindustries, and centre at the cities of Manchester and Nashua. The press\\nof the State consists of 10 daily papers, GQ weeklies, and 7 monthlies.\\nThe N. H. coast was first visited by the Europeans in 1614, and settle-\\nments were founded at Dover and Portsmouth about 1623, The district\\nwas for many years under the government of Mass., and was afterwards\\nceded to N. Y., wlnle the incessant inroads of the Indians devastated the\\nfrontiers for nearly 80 years. The chief incidents of these wars were the\\ndestruction of Dover (1689), and the battle of Pequawket. In 1741 N. H.\\nbecame a royal province, and in 1776 it led the secession from the British\\nEmpire, giving freely of its men and money to the cause of independence.\\nVermont\\nis bounded on the S. by Mass., on the W. by N. Y. and Lake Champlain,\\non the N. by Canada, and on the E. by N. H. It has an area of 9,056 M.,\\nwith a population of 332,286, and a valuation of 86,806,775. It is\\ndivided into 14 counties, and has but 3 small cities, the great majority of\\nthe people being engaged in farming. The centre of the State is trav-\\nersed from N. to S. by the Green Mts., whose smooth and rounded sum-\\nmits form a marked contrast -with the sharp peaks of the White Mts.\\nThe chief of the Green Mts. are Mt. Mansfield (4,359 ft.), Camel s Hump\\n(4,188 ft.), Killington and Pico Peaks, and Ut. Ascutney. The E. slope\\nis watered by several streams which flow into the Connecticut River,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "xii MASSACHUSETTS.\\nwhile tlie W. slope sinks into the broad and fertile plains which border\\nLake Champlain and are traversed by Otter Creek and the Wiiiooski,\\nLamoille, and Missisqnoi Rivers. The Lakes Memphreniagog, Willoughby,\\nBunniore, Bomaseen, and St. Catharine are pleasant summer -resorts, and\\nthe great Lake Champlain affords an avenue for an extensive international\\ncommerce, whose chief centre is the port of Burlington. The evergreen\\nforests on the mountains alternate with broad pasture-plains, and the\\ndeciduous groves on the lowlands are interspersed with tillage-fields of rich,\\nloamy soil, so that Vt. has become the most agricultural of the Northern\\nStates, and exceeds all others (j)roportionally to her iiopulation) in the\\nproduction of wool, live stock, majDle sugar, butter and cheese, hay, hops,\\nand potatoes. There are made here annually 13,000 tons of butter, 750\\ntons of cheese, and 4,500 tons of maple-sugar. Extensive quarries of fine\\nstatuary and variegated marble and serpentine have been opened in the S.\\ncounties, and vast quantities of slate have been exported from the same\\nregion. There are 36,000 farms, valued at $110,000,000.\\nThe first European Avho saw Vt. was Jacques Cartier, Avho, in 1535,\\nlooked upon its high ridges from Mount Royal (Montreal). Its coast was\\nexplored by Chami)laiu and others in 1609, and prosperous French settle-\\nments were made (in Addison) later in the 17th century. In 1724 Mass.\\nbuilt Fort Dummer (near the present town of Brattleboro); but the num-\\nbers and ferocity of the Indians prevented colonization until after the\\nconquest of Canada (1760). The territory was then partly occupied under\\ngrants from N. H., until it was ceded to N. Y. and thereafter ensued a\\ncontroversy in which the settlers successfully resisted the authorities of\\nN. Y, imtil the outbreak of the Revolution, when they proclaimed Ver-\\nmont Verts fronts, or Green TMts. an independent State. Congress twice\\nrefused to acknowledge the new State, although its soldiers the Green\\nMountain Boys captured Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and annihilated\\nthe flower of Burgoyne s German auxilia^ps at the battle of Bemiington.\\nIn 1791, after paying New York .$30,000 in liquidation of all claims, Vt.\\nwas admitted into the Union (the 14th State), and snice that time has\\nprospered and steadily increased in wealth and i)opulation.\\nMassachusetts\\nis bounded on the S. by Conn, and R. I., on the W. by N. Y., on the N.\\nby Vt. and N. H., and on the E. by the Atlantic. It has an area of 7,800\\nsquare M., with 1,783,085 inhabitants, and a valuation of 1,584,756,802.\\nThe soil is not fertile, but considerable crops are gained by careful\\ncultivation and tlie best land is found in the valleys of the Connecticut\\nand Housatonlc Rivers. There is but little level land in the State, and in\\nthe W. counties the Taronic and Hoosac Ranges of mountains afford great\\ndiversity of sceuerj The Connecticut River flows through a gardeu-like", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "MASSACHUSETTS. Xlll\\nvalley-, with several prosperous towns and the Merrimac (in the N. E.)\\naffords a vast water-power to Lowell and Lawrence, and passes nito the\\nsea at Newburvport. The climate is severe in the hill-countries, and is\\nvery variable on the coast, the mean temperature being between 44\u00c2\u00b0\\nand 51\u00c2\u00b0. There are 38,500 farms, whose annual products amount to over\\n$24,000,000, and the State has 2,250,000 apple-trees. Profitable beds of\\niron ore and glass sand have been developed, and the exportation of mar-\\nble (from Berkshire County) and granite (from Quincy and Cape Ann)\\nhas become a lucrative business. The State has been celebrated for the\\nnumber and excellence of its ships, and for the skill and enterprise of its\\nseamen. Granite, ice, and fish are among the chief articles of export;\\nthe latter being brought in by the large fisliing-Heets of Cape Cod and\\nGloucester. Massachusetts has 14,352 manufactories, paying annually\\n128,000.000 to 352,000 operatives, nsing 387,000,000 worth of materials,\\nand making $631,000,000 Avorth of goods (boots, shoes, and leather,\\n$144,000,000; cottons, 75,000,000; woollens and worsteds, ,$58,000,000;\\npaper, $15,000,000). In 1880, the net State, county, city, and town debts\\nreached over 90,000,000.\\nThe prevailing religious sect is the Congregational, the Baptist, IMeth-\\nodist, and Unitarian churches being also strong, while the Roman Catholics\\nare rapidly attaining great power and influence. The educational insti-\\ntutions of the State are admirably arranged and have a high reputation,\\ntheir ethciency being assured by the maintenance of four normal schools,\\nfive colleges, and Harvard University. The militia is kept in a state of\\nhigh efficiency and discipline, and composes two brigades, with infantry,\\ncavalry, and artillery, which go into camp every year for several days, at\\nthe State camp-L round nnd fort, at Framingham.\\nThe coast of Mass. was first visited by the Norwegian mariners Leif and\\nThorwahl, about the year 1000. After several attempts at colonization,\\nwhich were frustrated by the poAverful native tribes, the Norsemen aban-\\ndoned the country (which, from its fruitfulness, they had named Vinland).\\nIn 1497 John and Sebastian Cabot cruised along the coast, and were fol-\\nlowed by Cortereal, Verrazzani, and Gomez. In 1602 Gosnold explored\\nthe S. E. islands, and planted an ephemeral colony on Cuttyhnnk, near\\nNew Bedford. Pring, Cham plain, and Weymouth soon after passed along\\nthe coast, while Capt. John Smith, following them in 1614, made a map\\nof the coast and islands. Dec. 21, 1620, the ship Ma j flower arrived\\nat Plymouth with 102 Pilgrims, who had been driven from England by\\nreligious persecution, and who founded here the first permanent colony in\\nMass. Salem was settled in 1628, and Boston in 1630, by Puritan exiles,\\nand the Atlantic coast and the Connecticut valley were soon dotted with\\nvillages of bold and hardy immigrants.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "xiv CONNECTICUT.\\nThe Peqnot War (1637) find King Philip s War (1G75-6) caused a fear-\\nful loss of life and property, and several of the valley toAvns were utterly\\ndestroyed before the colonial forces could crush the insurgent tribes. In\\n1689 the province revolted against the royal authorities, and the country-\\npeople took Boston and its fortifications and guard-frigate, and imprisoned\\nthe governor (Sir Edmund Andros). In 1692 Plymouth was united to\\nMassachusetts, and thereafter, until the conquest of Canada in 1760, the\\nprovince was foremost in the wars with the French colonies in the N.\\nMany of her towns were destroyed by Indian raids, and the W. frontier\\nwas nearly depopulated but the general prosperity was unchecked, and\\nwhen the British Parliament commenced its unjust opi)ressious, the prov-\\nince had 250,000 inhabitants, many of whom were trained veterans of the\\nCanadian Wars. In face of the royal ai my which liad been moved into\\nBoston, the men of Massachusetts opened correspondences which brought\\nabout a colonial union for mutual defence, and enrolled themselves as\\nminute-men, ready to march against the Bi-itish troops at a minute s\\nnotice. The battles of Concord and Lexington were followed by a general\\nappeal to arms and the siege of Boston, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and\\nthe American occupation of the city came in rapid siiccession. After\\nthese events the scene of war was transferred to New York and the South,\\nwhere tlie Massachusetts regiments won high honor, especially in tlie\\nvictorious campaign against Burgoyne s invading army. In 17S0 the State\\nConstitution was framed, and in 1786 a serious revolt occurred in the W.\\ncounties, caused by the pressure of enormous taxes. This rising (which\\nwas hea/ied by Daniel Shays) was put down after a few skirmislies. In\\nthe War of 1812 the State theoretically confined her exertions to the de-\\nfence of her own coast, though thousands of her seamen entered the\\nnational navy. Extensive manufacturing interests now rose rapidly into\\nview, and a network of railroads was stretched across the State. During\\ntlie War for the Union (1861-5) Massachusetts put forth her utmost\\nstrength, and gave 158,380 men to the armies of the Republic, besides\\nincurring a war-debt of over 50,000,000.\\nConnecticut\\nis bounded on the S. by Long Island Sound, on the W, by New York, on\\nthe N. by Mass., and on the E, by R. I, It has an area of 4,730 square\\nM., with 622,700 inhabitants, and a valuation of $327,177,385. There are\\n8 counties, 100 towns, and 7 cities. The soil is usually rugged aiul com-\\nparatively uiiprciductive, although the river-valleys ati urd some rich lands,\\nand considerable crops arc raised by laborious cultivation. The tobacco-\\ncrop is in the vicinity of 15,000,000 pounds a year; the butter product\\nis 8,200.000 pounds; and the hay -crop is 557,860 tons. The manufac-\\ntures of the JState are more general, multifarious, and productive than", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CONNECTICUT. XV\\nthose of any other people of similar means, clocks and carriages, fire-\\narms, tin and brittania ware, sewing-machines, iron and rubber goods\\nbeing the chief articles of production. There are Q6 savings-banks, with\\ndeposits amonnting to 55,297,705, and many wealthy and powerful\\ninsurance companies. New Haven has a lucrative West India trade,\\nwhile New London has a considerable number of vessels engaged in sealing\\nand whaling. Connecticut has 4,500 manufactories, paying annually\\n$43,500,000 to 112,000 operatives; and from $102,000,000 worth of\\nmaterial, making $186,000,000 of goods.\\nThe chief religious sect is the Congregational, and the Episcopal Church\\nhas more strength here than in any other State (proportionally to the\\npopulation). There are three colleges, Yale (Cong.), Trinity (Epis. and\\nWesleyan (Metli.), with 4 schools of theology. The educational interests\\nof the State are well and efficiently carried on, under the support of the\\ngreat funds derived from the sale of the Western Reserve lands. The\\ncharitable and correctional institutions of the State are remarkable for\\ntheir influence and efficiency. The ingenuity, enterprise, and individuality\\nof the men of Conn, have given them an advanced place in the mercantile\\nand political activities of the Republic; and probably no country of\\nsimilar extent has sent abroad so vast a horde of emigrants in proportion\\nto its population.\\nThe coast and rivers of Conn, were first explored by Adrian Block\\nand other Dutch mariners (1614-33); the district was in the English\\nPlymouth Patent of 1620, and was chartered in 1631. About that time\\nthe river Indians Avere subjugated by the Pequots, and Seguin, their chief,\\nsent to New York, Plymouth, and Boston for help. In 1633 a small\\nDutch colony landed at Hartford and in the same year a Plymouth vessel\\npassed up to Windsor, where a settlement was planted. These were\\nmerely trading-posts, but Wethersfield was occupied in 1634, and in 1636\\nthree nomadic churches were led by their pastors through the wilderness\\nfrom Boston to the Conn. River, wliere they settled at Hartford, Windsor,\\nand Wethersfield. Saybrook was founded and fortified in 1635, and in\\n1637 the first legislature declared war against the Pequot Indians, who\\nwere defeated and speedily crushed by the colonial train-bands, aided by\\nthe friendly tribes. In April, 1638, New Haven was settled, and soon\\nafter the other coast-towns were founded. In 1639 a remarkable consti-\\ntution (which acknowledged no higher human power than the people of\\nConn.) Avas adopted, and in 1662 a royal charter was obtained. After the\\nunion of the independent colonies of Conn. (Hartford) and New Haven, in\\n1665, the two towns were made semi-capitals of the province (and State),\\nand so remained until 1873, Mdien Hartford was made the sole capital.\\nThe State stood honorably among the foremost during the Revolution,\\nalthough the towns along the coast were pillaged and destroyed by raid*\\nfrom the Hessian and Tory garrison at New York.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "xvi EHODE ISLAND.\\nHhode Island\\nis \u00e2\u0096\u00a0bounded on the S. by the Atlantic, on tlie W. by Conn., and on the N.\\nand E. by Mass. It is the smallest State in the Union, and has an area\\nof 1,046 sqnare M., with 270,531 inhabitants, and a valuation of 252,530,-\\n673. There are 5 counties, with 32 towns, and 2 cities. The soil is un-\\nproductive, and but little fanning is done save on the fertile plains of the\\nIsland of Aquidneck. The State is nearly ciit in two by Narragansett\\nBay, which runs inland for 30 M. (with a width of 3 -12 M.), and contains\\nseveral islands, the chief of which is Aquidneck (or Rhode Island) on\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0whose S. end is the famous summer-resort, Newport. 11 M. S. E. of\\nPoint Jr.dith is Block Island, which pertains to this State. Tlie climate\\nis mild and equable, from its vicinity to the sea and exposure to the S.\\nand the greater part of the State is a region of low hills or sea-shore plains.\\nThe principal mechanical industries are at Providence, Pawtucket, Woon-\\nsocket, and Westerly; and in the year 1880 the State reported 2,205 man-\\nufacturing establishments, with an aggregate capital of 70.000,000, us-\\ning annually $58,000,000 worth of raw material, and producing over\\n104,000,000 worth of goods. The 33 savings-banks of the State hold in\\ndeposit $36,289,703. The charitable and correctional institutions are\\nmostly about Providence, where is also the seat of Brown University, a\\nflourishing school luider the care of the Baptist Church, which is the\\nprevailing sect in the State.\\nRhode Island was probably colonized by the Norsemen in the 10th and\\n11th centuries, but was afterwards abandoned for centuries, until the\\ncoming of Verrazzani in 1524. He remained at Aquidneck (which was then\\nthickly populated by Indians) for two weeks. In 1636 Roger Williams,\\nhaving been banished from Mass,, came down the Seekonk River with 5\\ncompanions, and founded a settlement which he named Providence, in\\nacknowledgment of God s merciful providence to him in his distress.\\nIn 1638 Wm. Coddington and another party of exiles founded Newport\\nin 1642 a third banished company settled at Warwick and in 1643 and\\n1663 these colonies united under a royal charier. The powerful Narra-\\ngansett Indians dwelt in Rhode Island, and when King Philip s War\\nbroke out they ravaged all the outlying settlements and killed many of\\nthe colonists. The New England colonies, ignoring the existence of heret-\\nical Rhode Island, and rejecting its advice, marched an army across to\\nthe Narragansett coimtry, and, after a terrific assault, stormed the Indian\\nstronghold and crushed the tribe. The little province gave freely of her\\nmen and money in the French wars, and sent some of the best troops to\\nthe American siege of Boston. In Dec, 1776, Newport was taken by the\\nBritish, who held it for 3 years, but were prevented by the New England\\nmilitia from passing farther into the country. In 1861 the men of Rhode\\nIsland were among the first to reach the imperilled national capital.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nI. Languag-e.\\nThe people of New England claim that tliey speak the English lan-\\nguage more correctly tlian it is spoken elsewhere in the world. Be this\\nas it niay, it is certain that this one language is universally used through-\\nout the six States, and the traveller is delivered from the trouble caused\\nin Great Britain by its four languages and numerous dialects, or in France\\nby its three languages and provincial patois. Tlie European tongues are\\ntaught in the higli-schools all over the country, but the instruction is\\npurely theoretical, and the number who can talk French, German, or Ital-\\nian is very small. Tourists, who wish to travel among the remoter dis-\\ntricts of Nev/ England, sliould be well acquainted with the language,\\nwhicli is the English of Elizabeth, with a few local idioms.\\nII. Money and Travelling Expenses.\\nThe notes of the U. S. Treasury and the national banks are the usual\\nforms of money in circulation, although gold coin is sometimes seen.\\nThe silver coins, valued at 10, 25, and 50 cents, are common and so are\\nthe nickel and mixed coins, of 1, 2, 3, and 5 cents. The expense of trav-\\nelling in the Eastern States has been very materially reduced during the\\nlast six years, in keeping with the general contraction of values and the\\nfalling of war-prices.\\nIt is more expensive to travel in New Erigland than in any part of\\nWestern Euro^^e. The usual charge per day at the best hotels is $4 to\\n4. 50, with considerable reductions when a prolonged stay is mad( at one\\nplace. Tourists who travel slowly through the country and stop at the\\nless pretentious hotels (which are usually comfortable, and always safe)\\nmay easily limit their expenses to 25 or 30 per week. Those who fre-\\nquent hotels of the highest class, and indulge much in carriage-riding,\\nwill find 45 to 50 per week none too much. At most of the sea-beaches\\nboard can be secured at .S 10 or $15 per week while in the quieter and\\nless fashionable villages about the mountains, substantial fare may be\\nfound in broad old farm-houses, for $6 to $10 per week.\\nIII. Railways and Steamboats.\\nKailway travelling in America is much more comfortable, yet more ex-\\npensive and dangerous, than in the Old World. There is but one class of", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "2 INTRODUCTION.\\ntickets, the average fares being about three cts. a mile. On each train is\\na smoking-car, easily accessible from the other cars, and fitted with tables\\nfor card-playing. It is prudent to decline playing with strangers, as\\ngamblers sometimes practice their arts here, in spite of the watchfulness\\nof the officers of the train. To nearly every through train on the grand\\nroutes is attached one or more Pullman cars, which are richly carpeted\\nand curtained, and profusely furnished with sofas, easy-chairs, tables,\\nmin ors, and fronted with broad plate glass windows. These cars being\\nwell balanced and running on twelve wheels, glide over the rails with\\ngreat ease. By niglit they are ingeniously clianged into sleeping-rooms,\\nwith comfortable beds. The extra fares on the palace cars are collected\\nby men attached to them the price of a night s lodging (in which time\\none can go from Boston to New York) is $1.50. The fares by steamboat are\\nsomewhat lower than by rail, and (in case of a night passage) include a\\nsleeijing-berth in the lower saloon, but generally do not include meals.\\nA state-room in the upper cabin costs extra, but insures better air and\\ngreater comfort and privacy. State-rooms (in the summer season) should\\nbe secured in advance at the company s office in New York, Boston, or\\nPortland. Great lines of stages still run among the mountains and in the\\nremote rural districts. Persons travelling by this way, in pleasant weather,\\nshould try to get a seat on the outside.\\nThe Check System. The traveller, having bought a ticket for his des-\\ntination, shows his heavy baggage (trunks, c.) to the baggage-master,\\nwho attaches a small numbered brass plate to each piece with a leather\\nthong, and gives to the traA eller a check for each piece of baggage, simi-\\nlar in form and number to that appended to such piece. The railroad\\nnow becomes responsible (within certain limits of weight and value) for\\nthe baggage, which is to be given up only on the presentation of the du-\\nplicate check which is in the traveller s possession. Trunks may be tluis\\ndespatched from Boston to Montreal, Boston to Chicago, c., without\\ntrouble, and if their owner is delayed on the route, they are stored safely\\nat their destined station until he calls. On presentation of the check at\\nthe baggage-room of the station to which the baggage has been sent, it is\\ngiven up to the owner, or his hotel porter. The large hotels have coaches\\nat the railroad stations, on the arrival of through trains, and their porters\\nwill take the duplicate checks, get the trunks and carry tliem to the hotel.\\nIV. Excursions on Foot.\\nIt is remarkable that pedestrianism has never been popular in this\\ncoiuitry. Tlie ease and perfect freedom of this mode of travelling, its\\nhighly beneficial physical effects, the leisure thus afforded in wliich to\\nstudy the beautiful scenery in otherwise remote and inaccessible dis-\\ntricts, all mark this as one of the most profitable and pleasant modes of", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION. 3\\nSlimmer recreation. To walk two liundred miles in ix fortnight is an easy\\nthing, and it is infinitelj more refreshing for a man of sedentary habits\\nthan the same length of time spent in lying on the sands of some beach,\\nor idling in a farm-lionse among the hills. For a tour of two or three\\nweeks, a couple of flannel shirts, a pair of worsted stockings, slippers,\\nand the articles of the toilet, carried in a poucli slang over the shoulder,\\nAvill generally be found a sufiicient equipment, to which a light overcoat\\nand a stout umbrella may be added. Strong and well-tried boots are\\nessential to comfort. Heavy and complicated knapsacks should bo\\navoided a light oucli, or game-bag, is far less irksome, and its position\\nmaybe sliifted at pleasure. Baedeker. One or two books might be\\nadded to this list, and a reserve of clothing may be sent on in a light valise,\\nat a trilling cost, to the town whicli is the pedestrian s objective point.\\nIt would l)e well for inexperienced walkers to begin at eight to ten\\nmiles a day, and gradually increase to sixteen to eigliteen miles, or six\\nhours walking. During tlie lieats of summer the travelling should be\\ndone at early morning and late afternoon, thus spending the hottest part\\nof the day in coolness and rest. The best time for a pedestrian tour is\\nbetv/een late September and late October, when the sky is clear and the\\nair bracing, the season of tlie reaping of harvests, the ripening of fruits,\\nand the splendor of the reddening forests.\\nAmong the most interesting districts in New England for the pedes-\\ntrian, the following may be mentioned: The picturesque valleys, lakes,\\nand mountains of Berkshire County, Mass. the valley of the Connecticut\\nfrom Springfield to Greenfield the ocean-surrounded arm of sand, Cape\\nCod, with its quaint and salty old villages (Tlioreau s Cape Cod is tlie\\nbest guide there) the lake region of New Hampshire the White and\\nFranconia Mountains (frequently explored by walking parties from the\\ncolleges during tlie summer vacation); and in Maine, the romantic Island\\nof Mount Desert. The east bank of the Hudson River, from New York\\nto Albany, affords a Avalk of rare interest, and the west shore of Lake\\nGeorge presents a short walk through peerless scenery. But the most in-\\nteresting ramble is from Quebec through the Cote de Montmorenci to\\nCape Tormenfce, there crossing the St. Lawrence, and passing down tlie\\nsouth shore tlirough the quaint old Norman Catholic villages of Mont-\\nmagny, L IsIet, and Kamouraska. This route can be traversed only by\\nan experienced traveller who is well posted in French. There are but\\nvery few hotels in this ancient and primitive district.\\nV. Hotels.\\nThe hotels of the United States, will certainly bear comparison with\\nthose of any other country. The European plan has been adopted in\\nmaiiv of tliein (as Parker s and Young s, and others at Boston; wliile in\\nmany others it is used in couilnnation with the American plan, $4 to", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "4 INTRODUCTION.\\n4. 50 per day at the more fashionable houses, 2. 50 to 1 4 per day at the\\ncomfortable hotels of the smaller cities, and $1.50 to $2.50 per day in\\nthe smaller houses in the rural districts, are the charges wliich cover all\\nordinary requirements. No costly array of sundries and extras is at-\\ntached to the bill, and the practice of feeing the servants has never\\nobtained to any extent, nor has it been foimd necessaiy.\\nVI. Round-Trip Excursions.\\nDuring the summer and early fall the railroads prepare series of ex-\\ncursion tickets at greatly reduced rates. Information and lists of tliese\\nroutes may be obtained from the central offices in Boston. The office\\nof the Grand Trunk Railway is at 280 Washington St.\\nThns. Cook fe So!i, th( well-known tourist and oxeurFion acrpnts, with officps at\\n261 Broadway. New York, 197 WashiniKton St., Boston, and in other fhief cities,\\nissue tickets for circular tours, covering the m;iin lines of travel through New Eng-\\nland and the Maritime Provinces, as well as otiior parts of America. Th( se tickets\\nare, in some cases, issuer! at reduced rates, and are convenient in many wavs. The\\ntourist can hy means of them know tlie cost of any proposed tour i eforeli;nid, ami\\navoid re-purchasing tickets for each stngeof the journey. Programmes of the routes\\ncovered by these circular tickets cau be had on application to theui.\\nVII. Climate and Dress.\\nThe climate of New England is subject to the most sudden and severe\\nchanges, from heat to cold or from cold to heat. The summers are\\nusually much hotter and the winters much colder than in England, and\\nduring the latter season great falls of snow are frequent. Tlie summer\\nsun is often fatal in its power, and long exposure to its vertical rays sliould\\nbe avoided. At the same time warm clothing should be kept at hand,\\nand woollen, or at least heavy cotton, underclothing should be worn, in\\norder to guard against the sudden changes which are so frequent.\\nVIII. Miscellaneous Notes.\\nPassports are of no use in the United States in time of peace.\\nThe examination of luggage at the Canadian frontier and at the ocean-\\nports is usually very lenient, and conducted in a courteous manner.\\nTraffic is made easy from the fact that fixed charges exist in the shops,\\nand the tiresome processes of chaffing and beating down are umiecessary.\\nThere are no professional guides in New England, but the people are\\nprompt and willing to answer all civilly put questions. Gentlemen from\\nabroad will remember that there is here, especially in the comitry, no class\\nof self-recognized peasantry, and that a haughty question or order will\\noften provoke a reply couched in all the native rudenes.s of the Saxon\\ntongue.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "NEW-ENGLAND HANDBOOK.\\n1. Boston.\\nHotels. The Hotel Brunswick (B;irnes Dunklee) is one of the chief hotels\\nSouth Cluirch, and the Boston Art Club. It is a magnificent structure, built at a\\ncost of over 1,000,000, and has the best and richest of appoiutuieuts. li ites, 5\\na day.\\nThe Hotel Vendome is a large marble building on Commonwealth Av. and\\nDartmouth St. (.$5 a day). The hotels in the heart of the city are conveniently\\nsituated ff r tourists. The *Tremout House (corner of Tremont and Beacon Sts\\nand tlie Revere House (on Bowdoiu Square) are large and commodious hotels, near\\nthe State House. Their rates are from 3.5U to .1? 4 a day. The .American House is\\na brownstone building on Hanover St with 400 rooms 3 50 to $4 a day) Thj\\nParker Houi^e, a stately marble building on School St opposite King s Cliapel\\nand the City Hall, is kept on the European plan, and is a famous resort of the young\\nmen of New England and New York. Young s Hotel (on Court Ave.) is on the Euro-\\npean plau, and is patronized Vjy city merchants. It has recently been greatly en-\\nlarged and enriched. The Adams House (European plan) is a lofty new marble\\nbuilding, on Washington St., between West and Boylston Sts. The United States,\\nnear the .\\\\lbany and Old Colony stations, has 5 0 rooms, and is a comfortable old\\nhotel. The Coolidg House is on Bowdoin Square. The Crawford House is at the\\ncorner of Court and Brattle Sts. Ilooms at Parker s, Young s, the Adams, and the\\nCrawford are from 1 to S 2 a day upward, with meals a la carte.\\nThe Qnincy Huuse is on Brattle Sq. (3 JO guests 3 a day) the Creighton House,\\n245 Tn-mont St., near Eliot St.( $2. .50 a day). The International is a large hotel on\\nt!ie European plan, on Washington St near Boylston St tiie Sherman is on Court\\nSquare, b ick of the City H ill (rooms, -If 1 The New Marlboro is at 72(j Washing-\\nton St. The New-1 higland House (corner of Blickstone and Clinton Sts,), the\\nHampton (Hiymirket Sq. and the Winthrop (Dowdoin St.) are still less expensive.\\nAt the South End. The Commonwealth is a stately niai-ble building on\\nWashington St., extending from Worcester St to Springfield St. Its rates are 3? 4\\na day, or S 16 to 25 a week. The Clarendon (521 and 523 Tremont St.) is well situ-\\nated, and charges $3.50 to ^4 a day. The Metropolitan (Washington St. near\\nDover) charges #2.50 a day. There are several smaller hotels in this district.\\nRestaurants. *The Parker House (with a spa(-ions dining-room for ladies),\\nfamous for its excellent dinners. (Charles Dickens called Parker s the best hotel in\\nAmerica.) Young s, near the Old State House, much patronized for society and\\nfestal dinners. The Ail.ims House has a capital dining-hall (meals d la carte).\\nWoodbury s (^afe (Tremont St., near Boylston St.) is much frequented. Brooks s,\\n467 Wasliingtoii St., and (!opeland s, 128 Tremont St., are much visited by ladies\\nas are also Weber s and Dooiing s (I emple Place) and Fera s (162 Tremont St.).\\nThe elegant dining-halls of Young s Hotel and tlie .\\\\dams House are mucli fre-\\nquented by ladies. *Ober s Restaurant Parisien (4 Winter Place) has the French\\ncuisuif so also have Mieusset Freres, in Van Rensselaer Place. Italian cnisuni\\nat the Carrolton (Garden St.), and IJernardo s (North St The best steak and chop\\nhouses are the Coolidgi; (Bowdoin Sq.)and Park House (Montgomery Place). Ladies\\nvi.-*it Marston s and the Crawford (on Hrattle St.). Smith s (9 E.x.change Place),\\nFrost and Dearborn s (8 and 10 Pearl St.), and Gilman s (50 Sunmier St. are patron-\\nized by nuu chants.\\nonfi ctioiu ri/ and ices may be obtained at Dooiing s, Fera s, Copeland s. Weber s,\\netc.; also at Acsvood s, 4S7 Washington St.; Whitman s, and Bailey s, 26 and 45\\nWest St.\\nLaf/cr bier is sold at many German saloons throughout the city.\\nBilliard Halls. Tho Wliite Bear is on Washington St., next to the Boyl-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "6 Route 1. BOSTON.\\nBton Market; the Hub (12 tables) is at 115 Sudburj St. and the Revere (8 tablci?) is\\nuc irlj opposite tlie Kovere House. Arteuius U anl s quaint stitenunt is well kiinwii,\\ntliat Harvard ollejre is located in tlie billiard-room of the I arker lloui-e. i iie\\nlartro lifitels all have billiard-rooms.\\ni ntl\u00c2\u00bbs. L urkish, Russiau, electric, sulphur, and large plunge-baths (reserved\\nfor I, idles torouoous, Sjiturdoys excepted). Visitors will find the most complete and\\nluxurious arrangements. Hotel Bo^lstou, 192 Tremout St., under the direction of\\nJ l)e Reer, M. D Turkish baths at 17 Beacon St. (ladies on Monday and Thursday\\nforeiinons).\\nKeadiiig-Kooms (open evenings also). In the Public Library are the prin-\\ncipal European periodicals and American newspapers and magazines. The Young\\nMoiTs Christian Union (20Roylston St) and the Young Men s iUiristian Asso :iatiou\\n(corner of Boylstou and Berkeley Sts.) have large and well-svipplied reading-r^fioms,\\nfree to all visitors. An introduction from a member is necessary to secure admission\\nto the Athen. Kum reading-rooms. The chief hotels devote rooms to numei-ous files\\nof the newspapers of t!ie day.\\nTheatrt S. The Bt)ston Theatre (on Washington St., near West St.) is the\\nlarg(!St in New England, a;id is famous in the annals of the stage. Orchestra an l\\nparquet-circlt seats, 1..50 balcony, i^ 1 dre.ss-circle, 75 cts. family circle, 50 cts.\\nThe Globe Theatre (on .V asliiiigton f t.. near Boylston) has a brilliant auditorium,\\nand is vi.sited by operatic troupes and star-performers. Orchi^stra and b;ilcouy seats,\\n$!l.50; bali ony-circle, -SI: tamily-circle, 50 cts. The Bo.~tou Mu.- eum (Tremunt\\nSt., near School St.) is conducted by au admirable stock company. Orchestra-.-!cats,\\nbalcony, 75 cts. parquet circle, 50 cts. The Park and the Bijou are elegant\\nnew tlieatres, on Washington St., near the Boston and Globe Theatres. The Howard\\nAtheniKum (llow.ird St near Court St.) is devoted to varieties and negro minstrels.\\nClassic Music is given in Music H;ill (Winter St.) by the Handel and Haydn\\nSociety, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and other famous societies. Lecfun-s,\\ncnitcc 7 ts, etc., are frequently giren at Tremont Temple, Music Hall, Horticultural\\nHall, hickering Hall, and Hawthorne lloonis. Art echiblfions, in the Studio\\nBuilding (Tremont St.), the Boston Art Club rooms (Dartmouth St.), and the sales-\\ngalleries of Williams Everett (5t*8 Washington St.), and other dealers. Bast-lMiH\\ninatclu s are played on the grounds of the Boston Club, tui Milford Place, which are\\nreached by the Tremont St. horse-cars; also on Dartmouth St., near Copley Scj.\\nCaTria 4:e.\u00c2\u00ab. 50 cts. each passenger for a course within the cit\\\\ proper .ii! 1 from\\npoints S. of Dover St. or W. of Berkeley St. to points N. of State, I ourt, and Cam-\\nbridge Sts. (GO cts. for each ailditional p-sssenger). From midnight until f5 .M.\\ndouble the above rates. A tariif of the legal fares is in each carriage. Herdics are\\nfound everywhere, and chiirge 25 cts. a course, or 75 cts. an hour.\\nHorse-Cars (fire usually 6 cts.) traverse the city in all directions. Tremont St.,\\nbetween Temple Place and the Tremont Ilou.se, Bowdoin Sq., and Scollay Sq. (corner\\nCourt and Tremont Sts. are the princip.il centres of hor-se-car traffic. Cars leave\\nthe Tremont House every few minutes for the Northern Depots, Chel.\u00c2\u00abea Ferry, Mt.\\nPleasant (in Dorchester), Warren St. (Roxbury), Grove Hall, Dorchester, Norfolk\\nHouse (lloxl)nryl, Egleston Square, Forest Hill, F^enox St., .bunaica Plain, Bronk-\\nline. Beacon St!, and E. Boston. Also from Temple Place to Dudley St. (Koxhury),\\nand Grove Hall ria Shawmnt Ave. From Scollay Sq., cars run to South Boston,\\nCity Point, Biy View, Charlestown Neck, Hunker Hill, IMalden, Winter Hill, Med-\\nfonJ, Union Square (Somerville), Chel-sea, Revere Beach anmmcr) Lynn, Swamp-\\nscoH. From foot of Summer St., cars to Dorchester and Milton. From Bowdoin\\nSq., cars on routes to the western suburbs, Cambridgeport, Riverside Press, Brighton,\\nNewton Comer, Harvard Sq. (University), Mount Auburu, Watertown, Arlington,\\nSomerville (r/Vt Craigie s Bridge). Cars also pass from Tremont and Washington\\nSts. to Atlantic Ave. and the piers of the harbor and coast steamboats. Omnibuses\\nrun on the main streets.\\nSleaiuships leave Boston as follows For Portland, daily, from India Wharf;\\nfor Kistport and St. .lolin, tri-weekly, from Connnercial Wlnirf for Bangor, fri-\\nweeklv, from Lincoln s Wharf: for Halifax, semi weekly, from Nickerson s Wharf;\\nfor New York, tri-weekly. fri m C eutral Vharf (freight line); for Philadelphia, semi-\\nwceklv,from Long Wharf; for Norfolk and Baltunore, semi-weekly, from Central\\nWharf; for Savannah, weekly, from Nickerson s Wharf; for Liverpool (Cunard\\nLine), everv SatunlTV. fvoni the umird Wharf, Fast Boston. Also steamboats for\\nthe Kennebee,(il(.U(r^ter, Provineetown PI3 uionlii, Ni iant, Revere Beach, and the\\nlandiinr^ in Boston Harbor. Sailing packets connect Boston with nearly every poi\\nof New England.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 7\\nCliurclies. There are in the city 27 Baptist churches, 29 Congregatioualist,\\n80 Uuitariau, 23 Episcopal, 32 Methodist, 7 Pivsbyterian, 30 [ioiuan Catholic, 11\\nUniverfiahst, and 33 other religious societies. I iieie is a German Lutheran church,\\ncorner of Shawmut Ave. and Walthani St.\\njSewi-ipapers. 9 daily papers are published in the city also 4 seuii-week-\\nlies 68 weekiies 4 bi-weeklies 93 uionculies (mostly magaziues) and 10\\nquarterlies.\\nBoston (Shawmut, or Sweet Waters tlie Puritan City, was first settled\\nby a. recluse Anglican clergyman, Willam Blaekstone, about the year 1C23. The\\nadventurous colonists who landed at Salem, in 1030, soon moved a large party to\\nCharlestown but, finding no water there, they crossed to the peninsula of Shawmut,\\nunder the leadexship of Isaac Johnson, landing on the present site of Boston,\\nSeptember 7(0. S.), 1630. The name Boston wa.j given to the place by order of\\ntlie Court, in honor of that English city from which came Johnson and John\\nCotton, two of the early church fathers of the new settlement.*\\nIn 1G3-1 Blaekstone, declaring I came from England because I did not like\\nthe lord bishops, but I cant join with you, because I would not be under the\\nlords brethren, sold the peninsula to the colonists for \u00c2\u00a330, and went into the\\nwilderness. Governor AVinthrop had i)revionsly constituted Boston tlie capital\\nof tlie colony, and a strong tide of immigration set in. In 1(J31 the bar.i ie\\nBlessing of the Bay was launched in 1632 the first church was built and in\\n1636-38 Harvard College was founded. In 1663 Josselyu writes Tlie buildings\\nare handsome, joining one to the other as in London, with many large streets,\\nmost of them paved with pebble-stones. In tlie high street towards the Com-\\nmon there are faire houses, some of stone, c., a great change since 163ii, when\\none declared it to be a hideous wilderness, possessed by barbarous Indians,\\nvery cold, sickly, rocky, barren, untit tor culture, and liia to keep tlie ])eople\\nmiserable. In the Pequot War of lu37, and King Philip s War (167o -76), Boston\\nbore a large share, and hundi eds of prisoners were guarded there. Piiiladeliiliia\\nwas a forest, and New York was an insignificant village, long after its ri\\\\ al (Bos-\\nton) had become a great commercial town.\\nThe town gave men and money freely in defence of the frontiers against the\\nFranco-Indian attacks, and fleet after fleet left its harbor to do battle on tlie\\neastern coasts. In 1704 the first American newspaper (the Boston News-Let-\\nter appeared here in 1710 a massive wall of brick and stone foundation, with\\ncannon on its parajiets, .and witii two strong gates, was built across the isthmus,\\nor neck, on the south, near the jiresent Dover St. Tiiis, with the walls on\\non the v/ater- front, 2,200 feet long, 15 feet high, and 20 feet llii(;k, and the foils on\\nCastle Island auil Fort Hill, e I !L _ tually guarded against attacks liy the Dutch or\\nFrench. In 1711, 5,000 of Marlborough s veterans, and a large Provincial force,\\nencamped at Ea.-it Boston, and thence sailed m\\\\ Admiral Walker s disastrous ex-\\npedition against Quebec. In 1739 sailed tlie fleet de.stiued to attack Cuba, and\\nof 500 men sent froni the Massachusetts colony but 50 ever returned. Meantime\\nFrance had erected a powerful fortress at Louisbourg, far in the north, and t.KiO\\nsoldiers, in 13 vessels, mounting 204 guns, sailed from Boston in 1 745. They\\nwere joined at Canseau by 10 royal I rigates the I\\\\Iassachusetts, 24, captured\\nthe French frigate Vigilant, 64 and after firing 9,600 cannon-shot into Louis-\\nbourg it surrendered, with 2,000 men and 76 heavy guns. Restored to France by\\nLondon treaty-makers, the work had to be done over again, and in 1758 Amherst\\nand Boscawen gathered a royal and ju ovincial army and fleet at Boston, attacked\\nLouisbourg v.-ith 7,000 men and 57 sail, lost 400 men, and took the fortress, with\\n5,60i) soldiers, 39 heavy guns, 6 line-of-battle ships, and several frigates. In\\n1745 the Duke d Anville, with 16 shiiis of the line, 95 frigates, and a large army,\\nAvas sent to letake Louisliourg and demolish Boston. A frightful storm shattered\\nthis armada, but he landed a strong force at Halifax, which annihilated a Massachu-\\nsetts army in a battle at Grand Pre, and filled Boston with mourners. The feel-\\ning of discontent which had been gi-owing since the forfeiture of the coloni;J\\ncharters in lo ^S, and whu h had been increased iiy arbitrary ads of royal gov-\\nernors and of the London cabinet, arose ra]iidly in 1762 -()5, on the ])assage\\nof the Writs of Assistance and the Stamp Act. In 1768 two royal regi-\\nBoston, in Lincolnshire, Ensr.. was founded in C50 by St. Botolph (boat-help), a pious\\nSaxon and the patron-saint of English sailors.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "8 Route 1. BOSTON.\\nments from Halifax moved into the town, and riots and outrages began to be\\nfreqncnt. Reinforcements Avere sent again and again to the garrison, and Lieu-\\ntenant-Gen era 1 Gage, tlie commander of the British forces, was appointed (1774)\\nGovenior of Massachusetts. Then eiisued the gathering of the patriot armies at\\nCambridge, the bloclvade of the city, and consequent dis-tress among its peojde,\\nand the bombardments from the American hues. Wlien Lord Howe was forced\\nto evacuate the city, March 17, 1776, 3,000 loyalists chose to go with him, and on\\nthe same day the Americans took possession of battered and hungry and depopu-\\nlated Boston.\\nSince the close of the Revolution the city has been engaged in great internal\\nimprovements, the construction of a network of railroads to all jiarts of New\\nEngland, and the preservation and extension of its commerce. Great manufac-\\nturing interests centred here, and the city boundaries were again and again en-\\nlarged. In June, 1S72, the Universal Peace Jubilee was held here (as projec ed\\nand managed by P. S. Gilniore) in an immense wooden building on the Back Bay.\\nThis editice (called the Coliseum) was 550 feet long, 350 feet wide, and 115 feet\\nhigh, thus having an area greater than that of the Milan and Cologne Cathe-\\ndrals united, or of St. Paul s (London) and St. Sophia (Constantino])le) united.\\nThe Roman Coliseum held 87,000 spectators, but the Bn.stou Cdli.seum cuuld\\naccommodate only 40,000 to 50,000. Great galleries ran around the hall, parlors c.\\nwere jdentiful, and a forest of flags and national symbols was drajjed within and\\nfloated outside. Strong forces of iiolice, firemen, and artillerists were constantly\\non duty at the Coliseum. Some of the music was emphasized by the booming of\\ncannon near the building and the ringing of the city bells, while a large company\\nof uniformed firemen accompanied the oft-repeated Anvil Chorus with ringing\\nblows on anvils. Strauss, the Austrian comjioser of waltzes, and violinist, iles-\\ndames Peschka-Leutner, Ruder.-^dorlF, and Goddard were there also the bands of\\nthe English Grenadier Guards, the French Garde R^publicaine, and the Prussian\\nKaiser Franz Grenadier Regiment. These were aided by a grand orchestra of 2,000\\nmusicians, and a chorus of 1G5 well-drilled societies, comprising 20,000 voices.\\nThe Jubilee lasted for 3 weeks (withcuit accident or mischance), and was varied\\nby a great Presidential Ball. Early in the next year the Coliseum was taken\\ndown.\\nThe rapid extension of commerce, and the concentration of great manufacturing\\nagencies in the city, produced a corresponding flow of wealth and growth of\\nstately architecture. Tlie streets between the Common and the Harbor, between\\nSummer and State Sts., were lined with lofty and ornate commercial houses,\\nunsurpassed elsewhere in the world, and crowded with valnable goods. There\\nwere tiers of streets lined with massive granite structures, which seemed as un-\\ninflannuable as ravines in the solid rock. About 7 o clock on the wann, nidoidit\\nevening of November 9, 1872, a fire broke out in a building on the corner of Kings-\\nton and Snnniier Sts. It speedily crept up from the lower story and turned\\nthe Mansard roof into a sea of flame. The fire started thence in three direc-\\ntions, and, fanned by the gale which it had formed, it swept up and down\\nSummer St., and through the lateral avenues into Franklin St. and Wmthrop\\nSq. The firemen, although heroically active, were driven before it, until early\\nSunday morning, when several buildings were blown up. About this time\\nthe fire was checked in its southward x^rogTess, and the whole Fire Depart-\\nment (reinforced from many towns within 100 miles) faced the destroyer on\\nthe north. From 2 to 3 o clock Sunday moniing the firemen fought the flames on\\nWashington St., and after incredible eflbrts kept it on the lower side of the\\nstreet, and saved the Old South Church, which was scorched and strewn Avith\\nsparks. During the day the forie at hand was directed on two jioints, the new\\nU. S. Post Office on Devonshi/e Street, and the Merchant s Exchange, and in\\nthe narrow streets between Bmad and Kilby Sts. Repulsed from the fir^it two\\npoints, and alter a time checked in its advance toward Kilby St., the fire sank\\nrapidly under the cataracts of water which were being poured upon it from the\\nsteam-engines massed along State St. By mid-afternoon the danger was over,\\nand many of the out-of-town engines were sent home. In less than 24 hours the\\nrichest quarter of I3oston, covering about 50 acres, had been swept away, and\\nnothing remained of those massive piles of granite and brick save a few ragged\\nand tottering fragments of wall. The loss Avas not far from 870,000,000. To\\nkeep out the swarms of thieves, and to prcAcnt the citizens and the scores of\\nthousands of visitors from imperilling tliemselves, three regiments of State troops", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 9\\nere called out, who formed a line of guards around the bunit district, which was\\n^jius picketed and held under martial law for many days. I.ess than thirty lives\\nwere lost during the tire. The rapid and resistless spread of the conflagration\\n(which would have been imi)ossible in a Euroiiean city) has been attributed to\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0he narrow streets, the thin i)artitiou walls, and the universal use of lofty Man-\\nard roofs built of light timber and planking, and too high from the street to be\\ncached by tlie water from the engines. Tlie best treasure of Boston camiot be\\nurnt up. Her grand capital of culture and character, science and skill, humanity\\n,nd religion, is beyond the reach of flame. Sweep away every store and house,\\nevery school and church, and let the people, with their history and habits, re-\\nmain, and they still have one of the richest and strongest cities on earth.\\nBoston, the capital of the State of Massachusetts, and the metropolis\\nof New England, is one of the most ancient and famous of tlie American\\ncities. Its colonial and Revolutionary epochs were filled with incidents\\nof rare heroism and surpassing interest, while the later and more peace-\\nful years have been rich in the triumphs of commerce and industry. Al-\\nthough it has lost its former commercial supremacy, it still ranks as the\\nsecond American city in this i-egard, and is carrying through vast railroad\\nprojects in order to keep its position. It is built on a deep inlet at the\\nhead of Massachusetts Bay, and favorably situated either for foreign ti af-\\nfic or for its vast trade with tlie manufacturing towns of New England.\\nSo the city has grown rapidly, its population of 30,0 I9 in the year 1800,\\nand 70,713 in 1830, having increased by 1884 to 400,000, Avith a valuation\\nof 672,500,000. The cramped limits of the peninsula being too narrow,\\nlarge tracts of land have been added by filling up tlie tide-water flats and\\ncoves, and by the annexation and settlement of neighboring towns. Iq\\nspite of its frequent fires and rapid changes, Boston has more of a Euro-\\npean appearance than any other American city, and it lias also a calm,\\ncoLl, and reserved aristocracy of old families. The intellectual and musi-\\ncal culture of its citizens is renowned, and the most radical and advanced\\ncliools of politics, philosophy, and religion find their liome here. As for\\nthe numerous charitable houses of the city, they liave generally won the\\nhighest praise, even tlie censorious Dickens saying I sincerely believe\\nthat the public in.stitutions and charities of this capital of Massacliusetts\\nare as nearly perfect as the most considerate wisdom, humanity, and\\nbenevolence can make them. The district lying between State, Court,\\nand Cambridge Sis. and the waters of Charles River and the Harbor,\\nwas, in the olden time, tlie most important part of the city, althougli it i.s\\nnow given to the purposes of trade and the dwellings of the lower classes.\\nCommercial St. forming 3 sides of a square, boimds a great part of it,\\nand opens on a continuous line of wharves. Tlie great Northern depots\\nif the Lowell Railroad (for Vermont and Montreal), the Eastern Rail-\\nlad, the Fitchburg, and the Boston and Maine Railroad, are situated near\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2h other, on and near Causeway St.\\nCopp s Hill, in the northeast part, was the site of a British fort, which\\ntook an active part in tlie Bunker Hill battle, in 1775, and burned", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "10 Rnulel. BOSTON.\\nCliarlestown witli a shower of hot shot. The ancient burying-ground\\nfirst used in 1660 occupies the brow of the hill, and has been sacredly\\npreserved. Here are buried three fathers of the Puritan Church, Drs,\\nIncrease, Cotton, and Samuel Mather, The cemetery is open to the\\npublic.\\nNear Copp s Hill, on Salem St., is Christ Churcli (Episcopal), the\\noldest church edifice in the city (consecrated in U23). A fine chime of\\nbells is in the tower, and its music is almost coeval with the church.\\nNear the West Boston Bridge is the large granite building of the Massa-\\nchusetts General Hospital (PL 4), a noble charitable institution v/ith\\nlich endowments.\\n*Faneuil Hall, The Cradle of American Liberty, was built\\nand given to the city in 1742, by Peter Faneuil, a Huguenot merchant.\\nIt was burnt in 1761, and rel)uilt in time to serve the British 14th\\nRegiment for barracks (1768). During the later popular excitements\\nmany stirring orations were made here, imtil, during the siege of 1775 76,\\nthe royal otticers turned it into a theatre. The Hall, 76 feet square\\nand 28 feet high, has no seats, and will accommodate a great audience.\\nIn time of great military or political emergencies, the men of Boston\\nflock to Faneuil Hall by thousands. Here are copies of some good por-\\ntraits Peter Faneuil, Sargent; George Washington, \u00c2\u00bbS;!iiari! Commo-\\ndore Preble, General Warren, John Q. Adams, Webster replying to\\nHayne, Heahj Edward Everett, Abraham Lincoln, John A. Andrew,\\nSamuel Adams, Copley (liis masterpiece) and others. Fronting Fan-\\neuil Hall is the (586 ft.) long granite building of the Quincy Market,\\nwhere all kinds of meat, fish, fruit, and vegetables are exposed in\\ntempting profusion. Not far from the Market is the *U. S. Custom\\nHouse, perhaps the most massive and imposing building in Bos-\\nton. It was built 1837 49, at a cost of nearly 1,100,000, and its walls,\\nroof, and dome are of granite. The building is in the form of a Greek\\ncross, and is surrounded by 32 immense columns, 5 ft. thick and o2\\nft. high. The great granite warehouses (State St. Block, c.) in the\\nvicinity are worthy of attention also the ever-busy wharves near Stiite\\nSt. The old Post Ofhce, or Merchants Excliange, v/ith 6 lor.g\\ngi anite columns in front, is famous as the point where the flames advancing\\non State Street were checked, in the Great Fire of 1872, by a platoon of\\nhusky, dingy, and quivering steam fire-engines drawn up before it. The\\nWall Street of Boston, the haunt of its bankers and brokers, is the part\\nof State St. between the old Post Office and the Old State House.\\nThis ancient edifice was built in 1748, and long used by the legislature of\\nthe colony. On March 5, 1770, a collision occurred between the towns-\\npeople and the British main-guard stationed here, and a volley -was fired,\\nkilling four and wounding many of the crowd. This affair v/as called the", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 11\\nBoston Massacre, and the soldiers were tried before the Colonial Court\\non the charge of murder, and exonerated. Opposite the Old State liouse\\nis a magnificent marble building in Venetian Gothic architecture, witli a\\n149 ft. front on Court St. and 55 ft. on Washington St., which cost about\\n$750,000, and is used for bank, railroad, and insurance offices. Just\\nabove, on Court S(i., is the heavy front of the Suffolk County Court\\nHouse, back of wliich, and fronting on School St., is the City Hall, built\\nin 1862-65. $160,000 were appropriated to build it, and it cost really\\nmore than $500,000. It is of white Concord granite, in the Italian\\nRenaissance architecture, with 138 ft. front and 95 ft. height, the Louvre\\ndome which is the headquarters of the fire-alarm being 109 ft. high. The\\nCouncil Chambers are very fine, as is the whole interior arrangement.\\nIn front of the City Hall is a bronze statue of Bcnjanmi Franklin, 8\\nft. liigh, on a base of verde antique and granite, with liistoric l)ronze me-\\ndallions on the sides. The artist was R. S. Greenough, and tlie means\\nof its erection 20,000) \\\\vere raised by the j)eople.\\nBenjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 170(5. He was apprenticed to his\\nbrother, a printer, but ran away to Piiil:i(lelpliia in 1723. Tliere lie rose steadily\\nuntil in 17u4 he was sent to England as colonial agent, when, in 17(36, lie spoke\\nbefore the liouse of Commons, and .he Stamp Aet was re])ealed. Elected to\\nCongress, he was on the couiinittcc on the Declaration (;f Independence, and\\nsigned that document. From 177iito 1733 he was .Minister to France, with which\\nhe procured tlie treaty of alliance of 177S which saved the Re[iublic. His later\\nworks were of diplomacy and i)Uilanttiropy, and he fonnded the Aliolitlon So-\\nciety. He lnven;:ed the harmonica, and the Franklin stove and in 1752 found\\nthe Identity of lightning and the electric lluid by means of a kite. His scientific\\nlabors won him high honor in Europe.\\nOpposite the City Hall is the Parker House, and to the right is King s\\nChapel. Here also is the statue of Maj or Quincy.\\nOn Washington St. (corner of Milk St.) stands the Old South Church,\\nthe shiine of Boston. It was built in 1729, on the site of a cedar-\\nAvood church wliicli had been built in 1669. The exciting meetings of\\nthe people in the late colonial days were held here, and thence marched\\nthe disguised men to the attack on the tea ships (Dec. 13th, 1773). In\\n1775 the pews were removed, and a riding-school for the Britisli cavalry\\nwas here formed, tlie interior being well packed with gravel, and a liquor\\nsaloon being placed in one of the galleries. The church was restored in\\n1732, and contained (imtil 1873) two galleries, many s([uare pues on ye\\nlower tlore, and a pulpit overarched by a soundi ig-board. Externally it\\nwas plain, with a high spire, and a clock. More eyes are upturned to\\nits clock daily than to any other timekeeper in New England. Franklin\\nAvas baptized here (in the older church) Whitefield has preached here\\nfor one hundred and sixty years the election sermons (before the legi.sla-\\ntirre, council, and governoi have been delivered here it was saved, by\\ndeathless heroism, from the Great Fire and in June, 1876, the society\\nwhich owned, this venerable building took the exti aordinary step of", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "12 Route 1. BOSTON.\\nselling it at auction. The building is now oA\\\\Tied by a patriotic associa-\\ntion, an l contains a rare museum of curiosities.\\nThe U. S. Post-Office extends from Milk St, to Water St., and has a\\nfront of 200 ft. on Devonshire St. It is built of Cape-Ann granite, in\\nIMr. Mullet s Renaissance architecture, with an immense Mansard roof\\nand corner pavilions. Its great size, and the fineness of the materials,\\nrender this an imposing building. Tlie front on Millc St. was so much\\ncracked and injured in the Great Fire (against which the structure was\\nwell defended), that much of it had to be rebuilt. On the second floor is\\ntlie U. S. Treasury, occupying a richly adorned hall (open from 10 to 2),\\n50 ft. high, with 8 large cliandeliers. The adjacent safe usually contains\\n14-20,000,000 in coin and treasury-notes. In the corridor are sets of\\ncoast-survey and postal-route maps. The extension of this building to\\nPost-Oflice Scpiare is\\n220 ft. long and 102 ft. high, Avith side towers 132 ft. high, and a central\\ntower 190 ft. high, overarching the lofty main entrance and adorned with\\nstatuary. This extension will necessarily harmonize with the oMer i)art\\nof the building, though in richer and more picturescpie architect; ire.\\nSince the Great Fire of 1872 over ,S 100,000,000 have been spent in re-\\nbuilding the burnt district, resulting in an architectural display which is\\nprobably unsurpassed in America. Large structures of harmonious de-\\nsign and admirable taste have been erected, with beautiful combinations\\nof various colored stones, and costly practical appliances for business and\\nsecurity.\\nThe Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York has a superb\\nbuilding on Post-Ollice S^piare, which lias been built of Tuckahoe mar-\\nble, at a cost of 900,000. It has G3^ ft. of frontage on the square, and\\n127 ft. on Pearl St. and is provided with massive vaults, three elevators,\\nbrick-arched floors, and iron sashes and shutters. It is absolutely fire-\\n})roof. The architecture is in modern French detail and the chief orna-\\nment of the bnihling is a graceful and richly carved wliite-marble tower\\n130 ft. high, containing an alarm bell and adorned with a brass railing.\\nThe New-England Mutual Life Insurance Company has a stately\\nbuilding, adjoining the l)efo re-mentioned, with a frontage of 50 ft. on\\nPost-Oflice Square, and 181 ft. on Congress St. It is of Concord granite,\\n7 stories high, with brick-arched floors and elevators. The basement\\ncontains the impregnalde vaults of the Boston Safe-Deposit Company\\nthe first floor is occupied by three banks the second floor by the New-\\nEngland Mutmxl Life Ins. Co. and the remainder by miscellaneous oflTi-\\nces. The architecture is Renaissance, and the Mansard roof contains two\\nstories. A group of colossal allegorical statues crowns the main facade.\\nThi\u00c2\u00abi great edifice (with its land) cost n.-arly .$1,000,000.\\nThe Equitable Life Assuranca Society has an immense building at", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 12 a.\\nthe comer of Federal and Milk Sts., opposite the Post-Office. on the site\\nof Robert Treat Paine s house. It is of Qnincy and Hallowell granite,\\non ponderous brick walls, witli impervious concrete tloors, brick parti-\\ntions, and an iron roof. Ingeniously guarded safe-deposit vaults occupy\\nthe basements, banks and offices the main building, and its far-viewing up-\\nper stories, and the U. S. Signal Service the top. There are 7 stories\\nabove the basements, with three elevators, and marble stairways and cor-\\nridors. Tins company has risks amounting to 180,000,000. Passes are\\ngiven to the roof, whence is obtained a superb view of the harbor and en-\\nvirons.\\nThe Rialto Building (corner of Devonshire and Milk Sts.), the Sim-\\nmons Building (Congress and Water Sts.), and many other commercial\\npalaces in this quarter will attract admiration. Devonshire St. runs from\\nthe Post-Oflice by several imposing structures to Winthrop Square, on\\nwhich fronts the highly ornate Cathedral Bu ild mfj, which was burned out\\nin December, 1879, with a vast number of books.\\nOn the site of this edifice stood the ancient Cathedral of the Holy Cross, the\\nscene of the hibors of Bishop Chcverus (afterwards Cardinal and Archliislioi) of\\nBordeaux) and liislio] i Fenwick. It was agreatbnilding in Ionic architecture, de-\\nsigned by Ikillinch. The first Pnritan chui cli in Boston was built in 1632, at tlie\\ncorner of State and Devonshire Sts. and on tlie corner of Federal and Franl liu\\nSts. was tlie chundi which was established by the Presbyterians, and in whicli\\nBelknap, Chaiuiing, and Gannett preached.\\nThe visitor should also notice the superb Gothic building of white and\\nblack marble, extending along Fraid^lin St. from Devonshire St. to Arch\\nSt., and pertaining to the Sears Estate. The Franklin and Brewer Build-\\nings, and others in this vicinity, are worthy of close inspection. The\\nwholesale book and paper trade has settled near Franklin St., up to\\nWashington St., and in the adjacent Hawley St. Pearl St. and parts of\\nCongress and High Sts. are fanjous all over the Union as the great centre\\nof the boot and shoe trade. The wholesale dry-goods and millinery\\nestablishments are mostly on or near Summer St. The large shipping-\\nhouses are on and near the new and commodious water-front highway of\\nAtlantic Avenue.\\nWashington St. is the main thoroughfare of Boston. It conmiences\\nat Haymarket Square, and reaches Cornhill by a recent and costly exten-\\nsion. On and near its line, between State and Fi anklin Sts., are the\\nchief newspaper-offices and railroad agencies, Avith many large retail\\nstores. At the corner of Milk St. is the venerable Old South Church,\\noppo.site the Transcript Building and the Post Building (on whose site\\nBenjamin Franklin was born). At the corner of School St. is the Old\\nCorner Bookstore, in an edifice which dates from 1712 and the hand-\\nsome Washington Building is next seen, ending on Franklin St. Winter\\nSt. diverges to the r., and is the headfpuxrters of the retail trade in diy-\\ngoods and millinery, and the i avorite shopping-place of the ladies. Be-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "12 b. Route t BOSTON.\\nyond West St. are tlie chief tlieatres, with several large new\\ncommercial buildings of attractive architecture. Beyond Boylston\\nSt. Washington St. passes on into the South End, growing wider\\nand straighter as it emerges from the older part of the city. The di-\\nverging streets are lined with residences, and dotted with churches and\\nschools.\\nThe uew St. James Church (Roman Catholic) is on Harrison Ave.,\\nand is in Romanes(i[ne architecture. The interior is in the purest form\\nof a classical hasilica, the clerestory (reserved for the clergy) being up-\\nheld by 16 tall columns of Aberdeen granite. Tliere are 3 altars of white\\nmarble and the chancel-windows are of rich stained glass. Tlie frescos\\nrepresent scenes fro^n the life of St. James, The church is 175 i t. long and\\n75 ft. wide. The new Church of the Ei\u00c2\u00bbly Trinity is on Shawmut Ave.,\\nand is of stone, in Gothic architecture, with a lolty and graceful spire.\\nThe Hollis-St. Church (Unitarian) is an antiquated structiire occupy-\\ning the place of a still older church (built in 1732). Among the clergy-\\nmen of this society were Byles, West, llolley, Pierpont, and Starr King.\\nTiie church building was abandoned in 1883.\\nFrom Boylston Marlcet Boylston St. runs out past the Common.\\nAt the corner of Tremont St., and facing the Common, is the Masonic\\nTsmple, built 1864-67. The first Masonic Lodge in America met\\nin Boston in 1733, since when the order has steadily growm, save during\\nthe days of the Anti-Masonic party. The Temple is a lofty edifice of\\ngranite, built in such forms of mediaeval architecture as to suggest the\\nmost effective poetical and historical associations connectetl Avith the Ma-\\nsonic institution. The interior contains Corinthian, Egyptian, and Gothic\\nHalls, besides banqueting-rooms, c. Opposite the Temple is the large\\nand elegant Hotel Boylston (suites of rooms for permanent dwellers), in\\nthe Italian-Gothic style. The lofty brownstone building of the Hotel\\nPelhom is on the opposite corner, next door to which is the Boston Pub-\\nlic Library, in a so-called fire-proof building of brick and sandstone.\\nTliis Liljrary contains 450,000 volumes, and 300,000 pamphlets, and is the\\nlargest in America, except the Library of Congress. The Lower Hall is\\n(h^voted to popular books and a reading-room, while the noble Bates Hall,\\nal)Ove, is reserved for more substantial works. All these rooms are open\\nto the public, and any one can take books and read there, though only resi-\\ndents of the city can take books from the building. The walls of the rooms\\nare covered with pictures, which form part of the collection of engravings\\nformerly owned by Cardinal Tosti. The pui.Ii.^liing house of James li.\\nO-^ijood Co occupies tlie fine granite buiUling next to the Pelham, at\\n211 Tremont St., with tlie authors reading-room, the heliotype art-gabery,\\nand the offices of tlie Heliotype Printing Co. and T/ze Amtvican ArchiU-ct.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route!. 13\\nThe TT. S. Court House, comer Tremont St. and Temple PL, was\\nbuilt and long used as a Masonic Temple. It has a churchly look, and\\nthe main walls are built of triangu.lar blocks of granite. Next to the\\nCourt House is St. Paul s Episcopal Church, of gray granite, with 6\\ncolumns of Potomac sandstone upholding a classic pediment. Near this,\\nat the corner of Park St. (formerly called Brimstone Corner), is Park\\nStreet Church, an old Puritan meeting-house, the citadel and strong-\\nhold of Ortliodoxy. Adjoining the Church is the Old Granary Bm-y-\\ning-Gromid, wliere are buried Governor Bellingham (died 1(372) arxd\\n8 other colonial and state governors, 2 signers of the Declaration of\\nIndependence, 6 famous divines, Peter Faneuil, who gave the Hall to\\nBoston, P\u00c2\u00abA]1 Pi,evere, the Revolutionary hero, Chief Justice Samuel Sew-\\nall, John Hancock (see Quincy), and Samuel Adams.\\nSamuel Adams, born at Boston in 1722, was one of the leaders of the people in\\nthe agitations of 1764 75, and was proscribed by the royal government. In 1769\\nhe advocated the independence of America, and during the Revolution directed\\nthe measures of Congress in the Noi thern war. Thougli poor, Samuel Adams\\npossessed a lofty and incorraptil)le spirit, was pure in morals, and grave and austere\\nin manner, tliougli warin in his feelings. As a speaker, he was pure, concise,\\nlogical, and impressive and the energy of his diction was not inferior to the\\nstrength of his mind. The State bag placed his statue in the Capitol at Wash-\\nington. A granite pyi-auiid is over the remains of Franldin s parents.\\nOpposite the Church, beyond the Phillips Building and Episcopal head-\\nquarters on Hamilton Place, is seen tlie plain Avail of Music Hail. The\\nentrances are from 15 Winter St. and from the foot of Hamilton Place.\\nThis is one of the most elegant and well-arranged halls in America, and has\\nrare acoustic properties. In this hall stood the largest organ in the Ncav\\nWorld, containing 5,474 pipes and 84 complete registers, and encased\\nin an elegant frame, with a colossal statue of Beethoven in the fore-\\nground. The organ was built by Herr Walcker, of Liidwigsburg,\\n1857-63, at a cost of $00,000. It was taken down in 1884, and care-\\nfully stored away. Farther along Tremont St., on the right, is the\\nelegant white granite building of the Horticultural Hall, with a manv-\\ncolumned front, Doric in the first story, Ionic in the second, and Corin-.\\nthian in the third. The rich cornice is surmounted by a colossal Ceres, a\\ncopy from the ancient statue in the Vatican while on jners, at the cor-\\nners of the second story, are statues of Flora and Pomona. Fairs, floral\\nshows, and lectures are held in the spacious hails above. Alongside the\\nHall is the Studio Building, the home of many local artists.\\nTremont Temple comes next, with a plain Palladian front, and a great\\nhall, which is used on Sunday by a Baptist church, and during the week\\ni or lectures, readings, etc. On the same side of the street is King s\\nChapel, built in 1754, by the Episcopalians, on the site of the first church\\nof that sect in Boston (built 16S9). King s Chapel was deserted by its", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "14 Route 1. BOSTON.\\npeople -wheu Gage and the Loyalists left the town, and was occupied by\\nthe Old South Society. At a later day, influenced by their rector, Rev.\\nJames Freeman, the few remaining churchmen revised their liturgy, strik-\\ning out all Trinitarianism, and formed themselves into the first Unitarian\\nchurch in Boston. Next to this Church is the burying-groimd used by\\nthe Puritans from 1630 onward. Isaac Johnson, Tlie Father of Bos.\\nton, was buried here ere the first year of the settlement Avas ended.\\nAbout him his people were buried for many years. In one tomb is Gov-\\nernor JohnWinthrop, and his two sons, who were governors of Connecticut.\\nJohn Winthrop, a pious lawyer of vSufFolk, led a colony to Salem in 1630. He\\nmoved his people to Boston and built uii that plaoe, where he ruled as Governor\\nof Massachusetts, 1630 34, 1637 40, 1642 44, 1646 49. He was an amiable gen-\\ntleman, a firm ruler, and a believer in moderate aristocratic princiiiles, stating in\\nhis letter to the people of Conueeticut, tliat the best part of a community is\\nalways the least, and of that part the wiser are still less.\\nOther noted Puritans are buried here, and in the church are monuments\\nto the families of Ai^thorp, Shirley, and Vassall.\\nBeyond the cemetery is a granite building, partlj occupied by the\\nMassachusetts Historical Society, which has a lil)rary of 30,000 books,\\nand 800 volumes of MSS. IMany ancient portraits (Increase Mather,\\nSebastian Cabot, c.) adorn the walls, while relics of Washington and\\nthe Puritan governors, and of King Philip, the chair of Winslow, the\\nswords of Cliurch and of Governor Carver, are carefully preserved here.\\nThe New England Historic-Genealogical Society (18 Somerset St.) has a\\nfine library, and a small collection of curiosities,\\nTlie Congregational-Clnb rooms and Pilgrim Hall are at tlie corner of\\nBeacon and Somerset Sts. The Congregational Library is here, in the\\nfire-proof Hitclicock Hall, and has 30,000 volumes and 130,000 pam-\\npldets, with numerous portraits of ancient divines. The American Board\\nof Commissioners for Foreign I\\\\Iissions also has its offices and museum in\\nthe Congregational Houses The New-Church Union has a library and\\nreading-room at No. ]fi9 Tremont St.; and the Episcopal Church Asso-\\nciation is at 5 Hamilton Place. The Methodist hcadijuarters. is at 38\\nBromfield St.; the American Unitarian Association at 7 Tremont Place;\\nthe Baptist societies at Tremont Temple; and the Anuu-ican and Foreign\\nChristian Union at 40 Winter St. The General Tlicoh.gical Library (12\\nWest St.) and the old Boston Library are much u. ^cd, and the reading-\\nrooms of the Young Men s Christian Association (Bi.-rl clev and Boylston\\nSts.) and the Young Men s Christian I nion (Xo. 20 Boylston St.) are\\npleasant, and freely open. The British, Irish, Scotch, Germans, and\\nItalians have benevolent societies. In Boston there are 30 lodges, 8\\nchapters, and (5 coninianderies of INLisons, 18 lodges and 5 encani))ments\\nof Olid Fellows, 22 divisions of Sons of Temperance, 13 Temp es of\\nHonor, 7 lodges of Good Temi)lars, 13 posts of the Grand Army of the", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 15\\nRepublic, 15 lodges of the Iviiiglits of Pythias, and i lodges of the Haru-\\ngari (Germans).\\nOn Tremont, near School St., is the Boston Museum (entrance fee,\\n30 cts.) where, in a lofty hall, a great niTmber of rare things are\\nshown, embracing curiosities from all parts of the world, casts, wax -fig-\\nures, scores of portraits of eminent Americans (by West, Copley, Stuart,\\netc.), and Sully s great picture of Washington crossing the Delaware.\\nBoston Common. When the peninsula of Sliawinut (now Boston) was\\nbought from Black jtone for 30, in the year 1634, this tract was reserved by the\\ncolonists for a training-ground (parade) and pastui e. Every attempt since made\\nto occupy portions of it has been repulsed, except in the early days, when the\\nground between Park, Beacon, and Tremont Sts. was taken. Special care was\\ntaken, in 1S22, v/hen the city was formed, to withhold froui the nuniiciiml gov-\\nernment the power of alienating any part of the Common. Between 1G5G and\\n1660 several persons were executed here on the charge of witchcraft, and for one\\nhundred and fifty years after executions took place on the Connnon. During the\\nsummer of 167G many scores of Indians caught red-handed were put to death\\nhere, among whom was the insurgent chief i\\\\iatoonus. Thirty were executed in\\none day, and their heads wei e fastened on stalcesand left in public places. About\\nthis time (lo75) the traveller Josseljm speaks of it as a small but pleasant Com-\\nmon, where the Gallants, a little before sunset, walk with their Marmalet-\\nMadams, till tiie bell at 9 o clock rings tliem home. In 1728 occurred a fatal\\nduel, luider the Old Elm, whereupon a law was jiassed, that persons killed in\\nduels sliould be denied Christian burial, and should be buried transfixed witli a\\nstake. If the duel was not fatal, botli parties should stand on tlie gallows one\\nhour with a rope about their necks, and then be imprisoned for one year. So the\\nso-called code of honor i)assed from the social system of Massachusetts. In 1749\\nGeorge Whitefield preached to 2 ^,000 persons in one body on the Common.\\nDuring the American siege of Boston a British fort was built on the hill near\\nthe Ehn Tree, which drew some of Washington s heavy shot. Races, parades,\\nand military executions were meauAvhile held here. The garrison of the town in\\n1S12 encamped here, and so late as 1*^30 it was a cow-pnsture enclosed by a two-\\nr liled fence. In 1836 the present iron-fence {1\\\\ M. long) Avas built, and cattle\\nwere excluded. In the days of tlie Rebellion tiie assembling troops paraded here,\\nand in the Great Fire of 1872 vast mounds of saved goods were piled along the\\nmalls and on the lawns.\\nBoston Common contains about 48 acres, and is rich in laAvns and\\nnoble trees. No carriages are allowed to enter, and the walks are filled\\nwith people on pleasant summer evenings and Sundays. Under the\\nstately elms of the Beacon and Tremont St. Malls are favorite j)rome-\\nnades. Near Park St. is the Brewer fountain, made in Paris, and em-\\nbellished with bronze statues of Neptune and Amphitrite, Acis and Gal-\\natea. Copies of this fountain have been made for the cities of Lyons,\\nBordeaux, and Alexandria (Egypt). The Frog Pond has a large foun-\\ntain, supi)lied from Cochituate Lake, and near it stood the Old Klrriy\\na venerable tree which antedated the foundation of the city, and was\\ncarefully preserved until Feb. 15, 1876, when it was blown down.\\nOn Flagstaff Hill, near the place of the Old Elm, the Soldiers Monu-\\nment has been built, over 90 ft. high, with historical reliefs, etc. and\\nat tlie four corners heroic statues of Peace, History, the Army, and\\nthe Navy, Above stand allegorical figures, the Nortli, South, East,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "16 Route 1. BOSTON.\\nand West, and above all a colossal America, resting on a liemisplicre,\\nguarded by four eagles, with the flag in her left hand, and wreaths and a\\nsheathed swoi d in her right.\\nThe west part of the Common is smooth and bare, and is\\nreserved for a parade-groiuid and a ball-groimd for the boys.\\nThe Public Gardens lie west of the Common, and contain 22 acres.\\nIn 1794, 6 ropewalks were built here, on tide-water flats, and most of\\nthe improvements have been made diiring the past 15 years. In its\\ncentre is a beautiful artificial serpentine pond of 4 acres, crossed by a fine\\nbridge. Near Beacon St, is a bronze statue of Everett, by Storj^ mod-\\nelled in Rome and cast in Mmiich. The monument to the discovery of\\nanesthetics (1868) is a rich and beautiful composition, Venus rising\\nfrom the Sea is a lovely work, from above which, when the waters play,\\na fine spray falls about the figure, which is sometimes called the Maid\\nof the Mist, But the finest work of the kind in New England is the\\ncolossal equestrian Statue of Washington, by Ball, Avhich fronts on\\nCommonwealth Ave, The statue is 22 ft, high, on a pedestal 16 ft,\\nhigh. The bronze work was done at Chicoj)ee, in this State,\\nCommonwealth Ave. which is to be 1^ miles long and is 240 ft,\\nwide, with a park in the middle runs W, from the Public Gardens, and\\nis lined with fine mansions, A statue of Alexander Hamilton is in the\\npark. Nearly all the land north of Tremont and west of Arlington St.\\nhas been reclaimed from the water, and is now the finest part of the city.\\nThe new streets are alphalietically named, yet they avoid the weak sound\\nof the upper New York and Washington city streets, having sonorous old\\nEnglish titles, Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth, Exeter, Fair-\\nfield, Gloucester, c. At the comer of Marlborough and Berkeley Streets\\nis the* rich and elegant building (with English glass, a German organ,\\nand an exquisite little cloister) of tlie First Church in Boston (Unita-\\nrian), Tliis society dates from 1630. Near by, on the corner of Berke-\\nley and Newbury Sts,, is the miniature cathedral of the Central Congre-\\ngational Society, It is of Roxbury stone, in cruciform shape, has a stone\\nspire 240 ft, high, and is rich in lofty, pointed windows, jiinnacles, flying\\nbuttresses, c. It cost 325,000, In this vicinity is the Emanuel Church\\n(Episcopal) on Newbury St., and the fine brownstone Arlington St.\\nChurch (Uniiariaii) with its melodious cliinie of bells.\\nThe *Museuni of Natural History lias a handsome building of brick\\nand brownstone, at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley Sts, The in-\\nteresting collections of this society are open free to the public from 9\\nuntil 5, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.\\nIn the entraiiee-hall are fossil foot-iirints from tlie Connecticut Valley, and\\nseveral iiiniicnse crystals of beryl, from New Hamiishire. On the r. are rooms\\ncontaini!)!^ hrilliant (\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ollectioiis of minerals and ores, favorably arranged for study\\nand iuspection. To the 1. of the entrance is the library of natural history, which", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 16 a.\\nis adorned with several portraits. The great hall of the imiseiim is reached by\\nascending Ironi the entrauce-liall, ami is iniiiosing in its proportions. It contains\\ncasts of the niegallierium and tlie fossil armadillo, many cabinets of shells and\\nfossils, and the most extensive collection of mounted skeletons in America, rang-\\ning from those of tlie elepliant, dromedary, elk, and whale, down to specimens of\\nthe smallest animals, wonderfully delicate in their formation. Rooms opening\\nout of the great hall contain fossils of every kind, shells, skeletons, and large\\nstuffed animals. The galleries of these rooms are devoted to sponges, polyps,\\nacaleplis, and echinoderms (S. E. room) and to botanical collections, mosses,\\nfungi, cones, and nuts (N. rooms).\\nThe first tier of galleries in the main hall is devoted to butterflies and insects,\\nshells and Crustacea, birds, rejitiles, mollusks, and other large and interesting\\ncabinets. Tlie secoml tier o; galleries, with the rooms diverging tlierefrom, is\\noccupied by a niagnilicent collection of mounted birds, including thousands of\\nspecimens, in almost every variety of sjiecies and color, size and form. In con-\\nnection with this brilliant display are numerous cabinets of birds nests and\\neggs.\\nOn the same square as the Museum of Natural History is the classic\\nbuilding of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This is a\\npopular and riclily endowed school of collegiate rank, whose object is to\\nteach tlie application of science to the useful arts, for which purpose it is\\nprovided with extensive cabinets and api)aratus. It has 38 pi ofessors\\nand officers, and 350 students. In this vicinity are the Hotels Kenipton and\\nlierkeley, the Y. M C A. building, and the stately Hotel Brunswick.\\nAt the corner of Huntington Ave. and Clarendon St. is the new\\nTrinity Churcll (Episcopal; Phillips Brooks, rector), an immense struc-\\nture of Koxbiiry stone which has cost over 800,000. It is in the\\nform of a Latin cross, wath a semicircular apse, narrow aisles, and a\\nretro-clioir. Four massive piers sustain a central tow^er 57 ft. square,\\nwhich, at the height of 150 ft., changes to an octagon pierced with 12\\nwindows and containing the bells. The top is 210 ft. above the floor.\\nThe adjacent chapel is joined to the church by an open cloister. Nearly\\nopposite Trinity, on Boylston St., is the brownstone building of the\\nSecond Churcli (Unitarian Robert Laird Collier, pastor), with a beau-\\ntiful interior. The Chauncy-Hall School adjoins this structure.\\nThe new Old South Church is at the corner of Boylston and Dart-\\nmouth Sts., and is a siiperb edifice of Roxbury and Ohio stone, which\\nhas cost 475,000, It is in the form of a Latin cross, Dil X 193 ft. iu\\narea, and the architecture is the North-Italian Gotluc. The great tower\\nis an imposing structure, 218 ft. high, with rich conilnnations of colored\\nstones, and graceful windows. An arcade runs thence to the S. transept.\\nAlong the front is a belt of gray sandstone, delicately carved to repre-\\nsent vines and fruits, among wliich animals and birds are seen. Tlie ves-\\ntibule is paved with red, white, and green marbles, and is separated from\\nthe nave by a carved screen of Caen stone, supported on columns of Lis-\\nbon marble, and crowned by gables and finials. At the intersection of\\nthe arms of the cross the roof opens up into a lantern, 20 ft. square, and\\nforming on the outside a pointed dome of copper, partially gilded. The", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "IQ b. Route 1. BOSTON,\\neffect of tlie interior, finished in cherry, frescoed, and carved, is brilliant\\nrather tlian solemn. The chancel-window cost $2,500, and represents\\ntlie announcement of Christ s birth to the shepherds. The S. transept\\nwindow shows tlie five parables that in the N. transept the five mira-\\ncles and the windows of the nave show forth the prophets and apostles.\\nThe organ has 55 stops, and 3,240 pipes.\\nThe Museum of Fine Arts is on Copley Square, on Dartmouth St. and\\nHuntington Ave., and is to consist of a great pile of brick buildings\\naround two open courts (each 60 X 86 ft. The exterior is to be adorned\\nwith roundels in English terra-cotta, containing portrait heads of emi-\\nnent artists. The portico and front are now completed, and are singular\\npieces of architecture, the latter being adorned with a great terra-cotta\\nbas-relief representing Art receiving the offerings of all nations. A com-\\npanion relief showing the Union of Art and Industry has been placed\\non this front. An art school and library of high grade has been estab-\\nlished in this building, under eminent patronage. There are two days\\neacli Aveek when admission is free; on other days 25 c is charged. The\\nbasement contains offices and study-rooms. The first floor is given to\\nsculpture, and has three halls, devoted respectively to Assyrian and Ar-\\nchaic Greek art, Middle Greek sculptures, ainl the works of the Romans\\nand Byzantines. lu the corridor are mosaics, heails, grafiti, and other\\nornaments. The second floor is devoted mainly to paintings, which are\\ncontained in the large hall on the N. This collection includes the INIillet\\nand Hunt pictures, and many of the best works belonging to private gal-\\nleries in and near Boston, loaned temporarily by their owners. The\\nGray Collection of engravings is in a room opening from the gallery, be-\\nyond which is a chamber which is fitted up with antique English wood-\\ncarvings. At the end of the gallery is a hall reserved for the display of\\narticles of vertu, armor, ceramic ware, etc.\\nThe original works (numbers often changed) are, Sortie from Gibraltar, Tn(m-\\nhull {his uuiaterinei e) Arch of Oct-Avius, Blerstadt; Belshazzar s Feast, Allst an\\nTiic American Titian Mount Washington, Gaii Isaac of York, ARston\\nIndian Captive, Wdr Angels ai)pearing to iSlieplierds, Cole; Priam and dead\\nIlertor, TrumhuU; portraits of ^Washington and his Wife, Stuurt Benjamin\\nWest, Alldon; Daniel Webster. Chief Justice Marshall, Harding William Tudor,\\nSully the Rajah Rammohun Roy, R. Fcale William Wirt, /Hma/i Count of\\nWurternberg mourning over his Dead Son, Ary SchaeJTer Storm at Sea, Hue;\\nGarden of Love, Wuttcau two fruit-pieces, Peter Bvel Landscape, RujisdoM\\nDante and Beatrice, Schmff er The Flaying of Marsyas, and the Golden Age,\\nLtica Giordano. There are a great number of copies (in oil) of famous European\\npictures, and in one room 50 of the chromo-lithographs of the Arundel Society\\n(London), being copies of famous religious paintings in the noontide of art. In\\nthese rooms are casts of the antique worlds, the Quoit-Players, Piping Faun, Si-\\nlenus and Bacchus, Boy with a tliorn in his foot, the Venus de Milo. and the\\nDyin Gladiator, with busts of Julius Ciesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Clau-\\ndius, ^Nero,Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, Nerva, Trajan. Ha-\\nth-iai i the Antonines, c. A beautiful marble copy of the Venus de Medici is in\\none riioni, also (hi marl )le)Greelv Girl, by Wolf; Maid of Carthage, Gree/u)\u00c2\u00ab(//i\\nWill o the Wisp, Hornet Hosmcr Venus Victrix, Greenovijh.\\nOne room is occupied by a large collection of Egyptian antiquities, embracing", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Roulel. IG c.\\nhundreds of figures of the gods Osiris, Amun, Horus, Isis, c., in bronze, marble,\\nwood, porcelain, and terra-eotta also a large number oi scarabsei, amulets, vases,\\nand curious jewels. There are also seven human mummies, with a great uumber\\nof fui ereal trappings, and nuuumies of monkeys, lainbs, ibises, cats, hawks, mice,\\ncrocodiles, tortoises, snakes, c. There are 1,100 pieces in this collection (cata-\\nlogue, at the door, 25 cts.).\\nIn the next room are several hundred lamps, amphorae, cups, statuettes, heads,\\nweapons, c., from Idalium, on the Island of Cyprus, of great interest to tlie\\nstudent of early Phoenician and Greek history. The Appleton collection is on the\\nsame floor, containing many Grteco-Italian fictile painted vases from Etruscan\\nand Camiianian tombs. Some elaborate old cabinets contain fine Venetian glass-\\nware, and a large number of rich majolica plates are exhibiteii. A large piece of\\nGobelins tapestrj (France crowned by Victory and attended by Minerva) occupies\\none end of the room at the other end is a group of plaster casts from famous Italian\\nbas-reliefs, near which is a Madonna and Child, l)y Luca della Rohhia, and tlie\\nVirgin adoring the infant Jesus, by Andrea della Rohbia. Two large pictures by\\nBoucher, two by Alhtoii, a large collection of ancient coins (a gold Alexander), and\\nthe rich oaken panels, carved and gilded, from the Chateau Montmorency, are\\nworthy of note. The positions of the pictures and curiosities are so often changed\\nthat a more careful list would be of no permanent use.\\nThe handsome First Baptist Church stands at the corner of Com-\\nmonwealth Ave. and Clarendon St., and is in the foiin of a Greek cross,\\nwith three rose-windows ligliting tlie interior, which is 78 ft. liigli, and is\\nsurmounted by a basilica roof of stained ash. The tower is 176 ft. liigh,\\nand is surrounded hy a frieze containing colossal figures in high relief,\\nrepresenting the four Christian eras. Baptism, Communion, Mai-riage,\\nand Death, one on each side of the tower. At the corners of the\\nfrieze are colossal statues representing the Angels of the Judgment, with\\ngolden trumpets. The work was done by Italian artists, after designs\\nby Bartholdi.\\nNear this point, iu the Commonwealth-Ave. park, is a colossal bronze\\nstfltue of Gen. John Glover, the commander of the Marblehead marine\\nregiment in the Continental army. The superb marble building of the\\nHotel V p.ndome is farther out on the avenue.\\nThe Young- Men s Christian Union Building is at No. 20 Boylston\\nSt., opposite the Masonic Temple, and has a handsome Gothic front of\\nOhio sandstone, with a tall clock -tower. It contains a library, reading-\\nrooms, reception-room, parlors and class-rooms, a coffee-room, gymnasium,\\nand a hall which seats 700 persons. The library consists of over 5,000\\nvolumes and there are also collections of curiosities, which include 550\\ncoins, 153 shells, 355 specimens of woods, 700 minerals, 3,500 insects,\\nand 475 birds of Massachusetts, nests, Indian relics, etc. Near the new\\nOld South Church is the building of the Boston Art Club, in which exhi-\\nbitions of pictures are frequently given. Boylston St. runs out to the W.\\nthrough an opulent quarter, passing the Public Garden and Copley Square,\\nand giving access to the newly-built streets of the patrician West End,\\nand the Harvard Medical School.\\nThe Providence Kailroad-Station is on Columbus Ave., near the\\nCommon, and has no equal in America in beauty and convenience. The", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "16 d. Route 1. BOSTON.\\narcliitecture is Gotliic, with a lofty clock-tower aud a deep arcade on the\\nfront. The great hall is paved with marble, and adorned with a niagnili-\\ncent timber-roof. The waiting-rooms, cafe, offices, etc., open from this\\nhall, which is 180 ft. long, 44 ft. broad, and 80 ft. high. At its end is\\nthe immense train-house, which is 588 ft. long and 130 ft. wide, with its\\nroof supported on iron trusses.\\nColumbus Avenue runs nearly S. W. from the Common to Chester\\nPark, and is a broad and straight street, with a wooden pavement, bor-\\ndered by handsome residences. It is a favorite thoroughfare for the\\npassage of military processions and otiier civic displays.\\nThe First Presbyterian Church is at the corner of Columbus Ave. and\\nBerkeley St. Uppobite is the great Peoples Church (Methudist), sealing\\nover 3,000 persons. Farther up the avenue is Dr. Miner s Uuiveraiist\\nChurch, a large and costly structure with splendid stained-glass windows.\\nThe Union Congregational Church is still farther up, and is a picturesL ue\\nand rambling building of Koxbury stone, with a stone spire and an open\\ntimber-roof. One square from the avenue to the 1.. on Canton St., is the\\nWarren-Avenue Baptist Church, near which is the singular edifice occu-\\npied by James Freeman Clarke s church.\\nBeacon Hill is N. of Boston Common, and is densely covered with\\nbrick houses, built along quiet and comparatively narrow streets. It de-\\nrives its name from the fact that in the ancient colonial days permanent\\narrangements were made for beacon-fires to be kindled here to alarm the\\ncountry in case of danger or attack. Boston University s chief hall is on\\nSomerset St.; the church formerly occupied by Dr. Kirk is on Ashburtou\\nPlace the ritualistic Church of St. John (conducted by the Cowley Fathers)\\nand the Swedenborgian Church are on Bowdoiu St., and the Faith Training\\nCollege is on Beacon-Hill Place. The quaint old West Church (Unitarian)\\nis at the corner of Cambridge and Lynde Sts., and its pastors have been\\nMayhew, Howard, Lowell, and Bartol. The City Jail is a massive cruci-\\nform building on Cambridge St., near the Charles River.\\nThe Charles River is crossed, at the foot of Cambridge St., by the long\\nWest-Boston Bridge, whence broad views are afforded over the water on\\neither side. The house of the Charles-River Boat Club is near Brimmer\\nSt. It is contemplated to line the water-front of the city, on this side, witli\\nbroad esplanades, gardens, and promenades, connected with parks and\\nforests in other parts of the municipality The costly and handsome new\\nChurch of the Advent (Ritualistic), on Brimmer St., is famous for its\\nimposing choral services.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 17\\nTlie State House (PI. 13) is on the summit of Beacon Hill, fronting\\nthe Common. Its corner-stone was drawn to the place July 4, 1795,\\nby fifteen white horses, amid great ceremonies. The most prominent ob-\\njects on the exterior are the fiue Corinthian colonnade and the high round\\ndome. Wiien the Legislature (or General Court) is in session, national\\nflags are displayed from the building. The Doric Hall, at the entrance,\\nis a neat, marble-paved room, supported l)y columns, and surrounded by\\nhigh niches, fronted with plate-glass, in which are gathered the banners\\nof the Massachusetts regiments borne in the War for the Union. On the\\nright are busts of Charles Sumner and Samuel Adams, and on the left a\\nbust of Abraham Lincoln and a statue of Gov. John A. Andrew, by Ball.\\nIn a marble-paved and banner-hung rotunda, opening on the Doric Hall,\\nis Chautrey s Statue of Wasliington, in front of which are copies of the\\nmonuments of the old Washington family, at Brington, in Northampton-\\nshire. The House of Representatives (up stairs to the left from the Doric\\nHall) is a plain and somewhat crowded hall, with a codfish hanging from\\nthe roof, as emblematic of a prolific source of the wealth of the State,\\nThe Senate Chamber is on tlie other side, and is adorned by some old por-\\ntraits and troi)hies. The extensive State Library is in the west wing.\\nFrom the dome of the State House (open when the Legislature is not in\\nsession) is obtained a fine view, Boston Harbor, with its islands, and\\npeninsulas, and the distant blue ocean, fill the east in the north are\\nCharlestown, its Navy Yard and Monument, with Lynn, Chelsea, Maiden,\\nand Medford to the west, Charles River and Bach Bay, Cambridge, Brigh-\\nton, Brookline, and Newton and in the south, Roxbury and Dorchester,\\nwith the blue hills of Milton far away. On the terraces in front of the\\nbuilding are bronze statues of Daniel Webster and Horace Mann, the\\ngreat educationist. The house opposite (coi uer Park and Beacon Sts.)\\nwas for 40 years the home of George Ticknoi author of the History\\nof Spanish Literature, in 3 volumes (translated into German and Span-\\nish), who bequeathed 4,000-5,000 Spanish books to the Public Library.\\nThe Union Club (600 members), a patriotic organization formed in 1863,\\noccupies the next house below (on Park St.). On Beacon St., near the\\nState House, is the Boston Athenaeum, a neat brownstone building,\\nin the Palladian style. On the lower floor is the library of the American\\nAcademy of Arts and Sciences, and a large reading-room adorned with\\nstatuary. In the vestibule are casts of Houdon s Washington and of\\nSophocles, also a marble statue The First Inspiration of Columbus\\nby Montaverde, and a bronze group the Boy and the Eagle by Oreen-\\nough. On the r, is the entrance to the reading-room, in which the news-\\njiapers and magazines are kept. On the second floor is the library,\\nwhich now contains 140,000 volumes, and is the favorite resort of the\\ncultured higher classes of Boston. Only members of the Athenaiuni and\\nB", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "18 Route 1. BOSTON.\\n(temporarily) i^ersons introduced by them are allowed to use tlie library\\nand reading-room. Tlie Athenteum was organized in 1807, and occu-\\npied its present building in 1847. It has real estate and books worth\\n400,000, and over 250,000 in funds. The pictures pertaining to the\\nsociety have been transferred to the Museum of Fine Arts.\\nThe offices of Boston University are at No. 12 Somerset St. This in-\\nstitution was founded in 1869, with munificent endowments, and has\\nalready attained a high rank, having graduated 126 students in 1875. It\\nconsists of a group of colleges and schools, with 627 students (144 of\\nwhom are young women). Tlie College of the Liberal Arts is at 20 Bea-\\ncon St., and lias 17 instructors and 82 students. The College of Music\\n(at Music Hall) has 15 instructors and 21 students; and the College of\\nAgriculture is affiliated with the Mass. Agiicultural College.\\nThe professional schools inchide the School of Theology (Methodist), with 14\\ninstructors and 101 students, its headquarters being at 36 BroniHcld St. The\\nSchool of Law is at the same place, and has 16 instructors and 14:1 students.\\nThe School of Medicine is on E. Concord St., and has 28 instructors and 172 stu-\\ndents. Tlie Scliool of Oratory is at 18 Beacon St., and has 12 instructors and SO\\nstudents. The School of All Sciences (11 students) is a scliola scholannn, or\\ndepartment for elective post-graduate study, and is affiliated with the universi-\\nties at Athens and Rome.\\nThe Somerset Club occupies a richly furnished and luxurious house\\nat Beacon St., adorned with many works of art. It is the favorite re-\\nsort of the young men of fashion and wealth, and includes in its mem-\\nbership Charles Francis Adams, Robert C. Winthrop,\\nJ. Q. Adams, H. B. Sargent, and many\\nother notables. Tlie Union Club is also famous for its brains and cul-\\nture, and is the resort of middle-aged gentlemen, among whom the Har-\\nvard element is strong. The house is on Park St., and is very com-\\nfortable and quiet, being also adorned with a few rare paintings. Here\\nEdward Everett, Gov. Andrew, and Charles Sumner passed much of their\\ntime. Among the members are Jiulge E. R. Hoar, R. H. Dana, Jr., E.\\nP. Whipple, Gov, Rice, Prof. Ware, Chief Justice Gray,\\nHenry L. Pierce, Gen. Gordon, and other eminent men.\\nNear the Athenceum is Pemberion Square, the site of an old Indian ne-\\ncropolis, where 300 skulls Avere dug up in Cotton Mather s time. Gov-\\nernor Endicott and Sir Henry Vane lived near this spot, and in later days\\nit was an aristocratic centre. The tall oiri brick houses are now used for\\nthe offices of lawyers and business-agencies of various kinds. Louisburg\\nSquare is a stately and silent place on the farther slope of Beacon Hill,\\nembellished with statues of Aristides and Columbus.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 19\\nSouth Boston is separated from the city by an arm of the liarhor\\nwhich reaches to Roxbury, It contains about 900 acres of hand, with\\n54,000 inhabitants, and is quickly reached by tlie horse-cars from Boston\\nBroadway is the principal street, and is a pleasantly shaded thoroughfare,\\nwith several churches.\\nThe Perkins Institution for the Blind was founded in 1831, by Dr. S.\\nG. Howe. It was favored by liberal popular contributions, and now oc-\\ncupies large buildings on Mt. Washington, S. Boston. Charles Dickens\\nvisited and highly praised this institution, as also the charitable and cor-\\nrective establishments in a secluded position near Independence Square,\\nS. Boston (Insane Hospital and House of Correction).\\nSuch are the institutions at South Boston. In all of them the unfortunate or\\ndegenerate citizens of tlie State are carefully instructed in their duties both to\\nGod and man are surrounded by all reasonable means of comfort or happiness\\nthat their condition will admit of and are ruled by the strong Heart, and not by\\nthe strong (though immeasurably weaker) Hand. Dickens.\\nThe extensive Carney Hospital (managed by Sisters of Charity) is near by on\\nthe hill, and above it is a reservoir and small park near the site of the old ibrt.\\nOn the liright, moonlit night of Mcirch 3, 1776, General Thomas and 2,000 Ameri-\\ncans advanced quietly to this point (Dorchester Heights), and, when morning\\ndawned, two strong forts were conqjleted within point-blank range of Boston.\\nJjord Percy and 2,400 royal trooi:)s were ordered to attack them, and AVashington\\nhimself, with 4,000 men, awaited the onset. But a storm, propitious to the\\nreal interests of the British army, prevented Percy from crossing the harbor. A\\nfew days later the city was heavily bombarded, and a new fort having been built\\nstill neWer, the royal forces were forced to evacuate Boston. March IS, sailing\\naway in 150 transports, and carrying with them 3,000 New-Englanders who re-\\nmained loyal to King George. From this little park a fine view is obtained of\\nBoston and its harbor, and of Dorchester and the southern suburbs.\\nThe South End.\\nThe district south of Boylston and Essex Sts. is mainly occupied by\\ndwelling-houses, and Washington St., with its retail stores and hotels,\\nruns through its centre. The greater part of this district has been re-\\nclaimed from the water. Near the line of Dover St. a wall garnished\\nwith cannon formerly crossed the Neck and defended the to^wai. Union\\nPark and Worcester and Chester Squares are embellished with trees and\\nfountains and surrounded with fine residences. Columbus Ave., on the\\nnorth, is a broad thoroughfare, forming an\\nadmirable drive-way. On Tremont St. is the imposing white granite\\nedifice of Odd Fellows Hall (built 1871-73), and beyond it some fine\\nchurches, the best of which is the quaint and rand)ling Methodist Cliurch.\\nOn Harrison Ave., near Concord St., is the City Hospital, with\\na fine building (surmounted by a dome) in the centre, joined to the\\nspacious wings by curving colonnades. Near the Hospital is the Roman\\nCatholic Home for Orphans, and the Jesuit Church of the Immaculate\\nConception (with a fine interior, and famed for its music), connected with\\nwhich is Boston College. The church and college cost over 350,000,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "Ida. Route 1. BOSTON.\\nand are powerful centres of Catholic influence. The interior of the\\nchurch is finished in white, witli brilliant paintings in the chancel.\\nNear the point where Washington St. runs between the pleasant little\\nparks of Franklin and Blackstone Squares is the great New-England\\nConservatory of Music. Brookline St. runs N. W. to the Shawmut\\nCongregational Church, which has a tall and plain campanile and a\\nrichly adorned interior. On W. Newton St. is the large structure occu-\\npied by the Girls High and Normal School, near the beautiful Corin-\\nthian colonnade of the Church of the Unity. The streets in this quarter\\nare almost entirely occupied by dwelling-houses, and are dotted here and\\nthere with churches.\\nThe Cathedral of the Holy Cross (Roman Catholic) is at the corner\\nof Washington and Maiden Sts., and covers more than an acre of ground,\\nits greatest length being 3G4 ft., with a breadth of 170 ft. It is in the\\nsimplest form of early English Gothic architecture, with very slight\\nadornment and was built between 18G7 and 1S75. The great towers are\\nto be siirniounted by spires, respectively 300 and 200 ft. high. The nave\\nis 95 ft. high, to its vaulted oaken roof; and is separated from tlie aisles\\nby two rows of clustered metallic pillars, bronzed and polished, between\\nwhich are Gothic arches. The entrance ivowx the marble-paved vestibule\\nis under arches made from the bricks of the old Ursuliue Convent at\\nSomerville, which was destroyed V)y a mob in 1834. Near the octagonal\\napse are several chapels, the costly high-altar, the archiei)iscopal throne,\\nthe chantry, and the beautiful Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. The\\nstained-glass windows in the chancel represent the Crucifixion, Nativity,\\nand Ascension. The transept-windows are each 40 X 20 ft. in area, that\\non the r. representing the Finding of the True Cross, the otlier the Exal-\\ntation of the Cross by the Emperor Ileraclius after its recovery from the\\nPersians. The clerestory windows are also stained. The superb organ is\\nbuilt around the great rose-window, and is the fifth in size in the world,\\nhaving 5,292 pipes, and nearly 100 stops. Under the building are chap-\\nels and class-rooms, and the crypt for the burial of bishops. The artis-\\ntic adornment and enrichment of the Catliedral is to be the work of the\\ncoming centuries.\\nThe external length of this huilding is greater than that of the cathedrals at\\nVienna, Munich, Ratisbon, Orvieto. Messina, Moni-eale, Pisa, Venice, Freiliourg,\\nTreves, or ,St. Denis. It is liiglier than the cathedrals of Vievnia, Munich, yi)ires,\\nParis, Strasl)ourg, FreiV)ourg, Rheinis, Chartres, Autwei p, or St. Ouen at Rouen.\\nThe New-York and Montreal cathedrals are its only rivals\\niu America.\\nWashington St. soon reaches the Ilif/hkaid District (the ancient Rox-\\nbury), and enters a region of undulating hills, where its divergent streets\\nare overarched with trees. Harrison Ave., Shawmut Ave., and Tremont\\nSt. run nearly parallel with Washington St. from the vicinity of the", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "BOSTON. Route 1. 19 5.\\nCommon to the Highlands, and each of them is the route of a horse-car\\nline.\\nChester Park crosses Washington St. at right angles, and is lined with\\nhandsome residences. Near its centre is a pleasant square, with abun-\\ndant trees and a musical fountain. West Chester Park is being extended\\nacross the new-made land to Beacon St. The Hotel Alexandra is at the\\nintersection of the Park and Washington St.\\nAmong the eminent natives of Boston are the divines Increase Mather and\\nCotton Mather, John Cotton, Mather Byles. Thomas Prince, the annalist Jeremy\\nBelknap, liistorian of New Hami sliire William Bentley, John Pierce, Leonard\\nWithington, N. L. Frothiimham, F. W. P. Greenwood, Jolm A. Vinton, S. G. Bul-\\nfinch, W. H. Channing, bTsIio]) J. B. Fitzi atriek, E. O. Haven, John Weiss, C.\\nD. Bradlee, and Phillips Brooks. Among the Boston-born authors are Isaiah\\nThomas, Thomas Pemherton, B. Austin, Wm. Tudor, W. H. Sumner, Jas. Sav-\\nage, J. T. Austin, L. M. Sargent, Eliza L. Follen, A. H. Everett, George Tick-\\nnor, Caroline Gihnan, W. B. Fowle, T. W. Harris, C. H. Snow, J. G. Pallrey,\\nEdmund Quiney, W. B. Trask, F. A. Uurivage, J. J. Jarves, R. S. Willis, W. F.\\nChanning, Samuel Eliot, M. M. Ballou, E. E. Hale, Franfis Parkman, A. J. H.\\nDugaune, E. S. Rand, Jr. The native poets are Joseph Green, Royal Tyler,\\nCharles Sprague, Rufus Dawes, W. J. Snelling, Albert Pike, Frances S. (Osgood,\\nH. T. Tuckerman, T. W. Parsons, G. E. Rice, Susan W^ MTisjirait. The native\\nstatesmen are Joseph Dudley, Jonathan Bekher, Tlios. Hutc-hiuson, Samuel\\nAdams, James Bowdoin, Josiah Quiney, Robert Treat Paine, J. Mason, Samuel\\nSewall, Charles Francis Adams, Charles Sunnier. The orators are Thos. Dawes,\\nSamuel Dexter. Harrison Gray Otis, Edward Everett, Robert C. Wintlirop, W^-n-\\ndell Phillips, Mary A. Liverm ore. The philosophers are Benjamin Fianklin and\\nRalph Waldo Emerson. The scientists are B. A. Gould, G. B. Bond, F. H.\\nStorer, and W^inslow Lewis. Tlie pliiIanthroi ists are Dr. S. G. Howe, John Low\\nell, Jr., S. J. May, and T. H. Perkins. The artists are J. S. Copley, G. P. A.\\nHealey, Geo. L. Bro\\\\\\\\m, W. E. Norton, W. W. Fksher, Horatio Greenongh, and\\nMartiiiMillinore. The actors ai e AV. F. Johnson, G. H. Hills, Charlotte Cushman\\nand E. L. Davenport. The military and naval officers born at Boston are Gen.\\nHenry Knox, Admiral Sir T. A. Coffin, Sir R. H. Sheafle, Admiral C. H. Davis,\\nGen. Chas. Devens, Jr., Gen. C. R. Lowell, Gen. T. G. Stevenson, and ]uauy\\nothers of eminence.\\nThe main halls of the Old State House have recently been restored and\\ndedicated as a Museum (open, free, 9-5 daily), containing many colonial\\npictures and other relics of great interest.\\nOn outer Newbury St. the beautiful new church for the Hollis-St Uni-\\ntarian society, and the costly and elegant First Spiritual Temple (Spiritu-\\nalist) are being built.\\nAmong the new statues erected in Boston are the Charles Sumner, on\\nthe Public Garden Mayor Quiney, in front of the City Hall; Gov. John\\nWinthrop, on Scollay Square; Sam. Adams, near the corner of Washing-\\nton and Brattle Sts.; and the Emancipation Group, Park Sq. Statues of\\nWilliam Lloyd Garrison, Theodore Parker, Harriet Martineau, Col. Robert\\nG. Shaw, and others are in preparation.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "20 Routed. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\n2. Environs of Boston.\\nAs you approach Boston the roughest region is yet a region of homes\\nMan may sometimes deform, but he ofteuest improves Nature it is mere cant to\\nassert the contrary. And I know no better illustration of the fact than the eiivirous\\nof Boston The approach to Boston is almost the only pictui-esque city-view\\nwe have on the Atlantic coast. The broad reaches of water, the cheerful suburbs on\\neither hand, the long, gently rising bi-ick liill in front, crowned with the yellow\\ndome of the .State House, when seen in the tempered evening light, under a cloudless\\nsky, form an imposing and truly attractive picture. New York, from the bay, sug-\\ngests conunercial activity only Piiiln lelphia, from the Delaware, is the tamest of\\ncities but Boston, from any side, owing to her elevation, has a stately charm which\\nher prouder sisters do not possess. Batard Taylor.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2In her southern suburbs, however, in Roxbury and the hills beyond, and\\nprincely Brookhne, and Brighton, Boston may challenge comparison with almost\\nany city in the world. This undulating region, dotted with crystal ponds, superbly\\nwooded, and covered for miles with country-seats in every conceivable style of archi-\\ntecture, from the once-prevalent Grecian temple to the now fiishiouable mansard-\\nroof, is a portfolio crammed with delicious pictures. The velvet turf, golden-greeu\\nin sunshiue, the trim buckthorn hedges, the trellised roses, the commingling of\\npine, elm, maple, larch, chestnut, and fir in the groves, the unexpected dells and\\nwater-glimpses, the gleam of towers and mellow-tinted house-fronts for and near,\\nthe old avenues, ribbed with Gothic boughs, are among their features, and you can\\nscarcely say that anything is wanting.\\nIt is not only in the Harvard precincts that the oldness of New England is to\\nbe remarked. Although her people are everywhere in the vanguard of all pro-\\ngress, their country has a look of gable-ends and steeple-hats, while their laws\\nseem fresh from the liands of Alfred. In all England there is no city which has\\nsuburbs so gray and venerable as the elm-shaded towns around Boston, Dorches-\\nter, Chelsea, Nahant, and Salem the people speak the English of Elizabeth, and\\njoke about us he speaks good English for an Englishman. \u00c2\u00abir Chakles\\nDiLKE.\\nBoston Harbor.\\nThe Houte to Nahant. Soon after leaving India Wliarf, with East\\nBoston on the left, Governor s Island is passed. Tliis island\\nwas granted to Governor Winthrop in 1632, and was long called Gover-\\nnor s Garden, and here, according to Josselyn, in 1638, were the only\\napple and pear trees in New England. A powerful fortress of the United\\nStates, called Fort Winthrop, now occupies the island. Soon after pass-\\nin-^ the Fort the view includes the narrow strait between Point Shirley\\non the 1. and Deer Island on the r. The point was named in honor\\nof William Shirley, Governor of Massachusetts 1741 to 1756, sometime\\ncommander of the British armies in America, and Governor of the Ba-\\nhama Islands. It now forms the S. end of the town of Winthrop, and\\nis occui)ied by Taft s Hotel, widely renowned for its excellent fish and\\ngame dinners. Opposite Point Shirley is Deer Island (1^ M. from\\nBoston), so-called because of the deare, who often swim thilher from\\nthe maine when they are chased by the wolves (17th century). During\\nthe war of King Philip (1675-76) this place presented a pitiful sight,\\nfor hundreds of Indian prisoners were landed and guarded here, and\\nscores of them died of hunger and from exposure to the winter frosts. At\\npresent the island is occuiued by the immense buildings (in the form of a", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Routed. 21\\nLatin Cross) of the Boston Almshouse, and of the House of Industry and\\nthe House of Reformation.\\nIn May, 1776, the Boston privateers Franklin and Lady Wash-\\nington grounded on Point Shirley, and were attacked by thirteen British\\nman-of-war boats. The action lasted for several hours, until the tide\\nrose, when the privateers escaped. In the war of 1812 the frigate Con-\\nstitiitioji was once blockaded in Boston Harbor, and got away by creep-\\ning through Shirley Gut by night. Beyond Point Shirley the lofty bluffs\\nof Winthrop are passed on the 1., succeeded bj-^ Chelsea Beach with its\\nhotels, and the City and Harbor of Lynn, in full view of which the wharf\\nat Nahant is gained.\\nNahant.\\nEastern Railroad to Ljiin,\\nand tlience by omnibus 6 times daily.\\nHotels. The immense hotel at East Point, built 1824, and long the pride of\\nthe coast, was burned in 1861 there remain but small hotels, Whitney s Vil-\\nlage Hotel, Hotel Nahant, Hood Cottage, charging $10- 15 a week.\\nNahant is a peninsula composed of ocean-swept rocks, with pleasant\\nbeaches interspersed, and vUlas scattered over its heights, where many of\\nthe cultured and literary people of Boston and Camln-i.lge spend their\\nsummers. It is 12 M. from Boston by water and 4 M. from Lynn by\\nland. Crossing the long and narrow sandy isthmus called Lynn Beacli,\\nwitli the roar of surf continuous on the ocean-front, the rocky ridge\\nof Little Nahant is passed, and Nahant Beach extends to the peninsula\\nproper. Mr. Tudor, who for years supplied Massachusetts ice to the\\nfour quarters of the world, and hence is called the Ice-King, has fitted\\nup a pleasant resort for visitors on the north side of Nahant. About 20\\nacres of picturesque grounds along the sea, adorned with fountains and\\nshell-work, and commanding a fine view of Lynn and Swampscott, com-\\npose this Garden of Maolis (Siloam). Entrance fee, 25 cts. A good\\nfish or clam dinner may be had in the Maolis pavilions. Among the\\njagged and savage-browed cliffs of Nahant are numberless curious forma-\\ntions of tlie rock, named as follows John s Peril, a deep chasm in the\\ncliifs, on the north, and near Nahant Beach the Spouting Horn, where\\nthe surf dashes through a long, rocky tunnel into a cavern, and there is\\nspouted forth with great force Castle Rock, a massive and regular pile\\nof rock, faintly resembling some ancient castle-keep Caldron Cliff and\\nRoaring Cavern are grandly resonant in time of storms; Natural Bridge,\\nan arch of rock spanning a narrow, tide-swept fissure Pulpit Rock and\\nSappho s Rock. The three last-named are on East Point, the site of the\\nvast hotel, of which a relic remains, in the shape of a pretty little classic\\nbuilding on the outermost promontory, which looks like an ancient Greek\\nshrine on \u00c2\u00abome cliff of the ^Egean, and wliich really was a billiard-\\nsaloon.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "22 Route 2. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\nOn the S. sliore is Swallows Cave, a cavern 72 ft. deep, increasing\\nfrom 10 ft. wide and 5 ft. high to 14 ft. wide and 20 ft. high. Near the\\ntall rock arch called Irene s Grotto is the steamboat landing, N. E.\\nof the peninsula, and well out in NaJiant Bay, Egg Rock rises sharply\\nfrom the sea to the height of 86 ft., and is crowned by a lighthouse.\\nMany old traditions cluster around Nahaut, whose name is said to mean\\nLovers Walk.\\nThe temperature of Nahant, being moderated by sea breezes, so as to be cooler\\niu summer and milder in winter than tlie mainland, is regarded as being highly\\nL omlucive to liealth. It is delightful in summer to ramble roimd this romantic\\nXieninsula, and to examine at leisure its interesting curiosities to hear the waves\\nrippling the colored pebbles of the beaches, and see them gliding over the pro-\\njecting Ied j;t s in fanciful cascades to behold the plovers and sandpipers running\\nalnng the beaches, the seal slumbering upon tlie outer rocks, the wliite guUs\\nsoarmg overhead, the porpoises pursuing their rude gambols along the shore, and\\nthe curlew, the loon, the black duck, and tlie coot, tlie brant, with his dapjiled\\nneck, and the oldwife, with her strange, wild, vocal melody, swimming gracefully\\nin the coves and rising and sinking Avith the swell of the tide. The moonlight even-\\nings here are exceedingly lovely and the phosphoric radiance of the billows, on\\nfavorable nights (making the watei s h)ok like a sea of fire) exhibits a scene of\\nwonderful beauty. Lewis.\\nThe Route to Hull, Hingham, etc. So many are the routes by water\\nto the South Shore that the islands in that part of the harbor will be\\nspoken of without regard to any special course.\\nS. Boston is first passed on the right, and then Fort Winthrop, near\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which, due E. of S. Boston, is Castle Island. Fortifications were built\\nhere iu 1634, to make many shots at such ships as shall offer to enter\\nthe harbor without their good leave and liking it is of very good use\\nto awe any insolent persons, that, putting confidence in their ships and\\nsails, shall offer any injury to the people, or contemn their government\\nand they have certain signals of alarms (cannon and lights on Beacon Hill)\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which suddenly spread throiigh the whole country. At the coronation\\nof King William, the battery was called Castle William, and was much\\nstrengthened by the British, until at the evacuation of Boston tlicy de-\\nstroyed it. It was repaired by the Americans in time to tire a 13-gun\\nsalute for the surrender of Burgoyne (1777). In 1798, President John\\nAdaius being present, it was named Fort Independence, and ceded to the\\nUnited States. The present fort is now used as an ordnance-depot.\\nIn 240 years the little mud fort, passing through the gradations of a\\nwooden palisade and a brick castle, has developed into a granite fort-\\nress of great power and destructive force. S. E. of Castle Island is Spec-\\ntacle Island, where are carried the dead horses from Bos on, and farther\\nS. is Thompson s Island, which bears the Farm School, a noble\\ninstitution, where neglected street arabs and poor orphans\\nare cared for. Well-fed and clothed, they are employed in farming in the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wanner months, and schooling in the winter, and at tlie age of twenty-\\noilfe receive a suit T)f clothes and one hundred dollars. Eastward of", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Route 2. 23\\nThompson s is Long Island (where the steamer stops), the site of a large\\nhotel once very popular. On the high bluffs of this island is an iron\\nlighthouse which can be seen from 15 M. off at sea. A powerful bat-\\ntery is being built by the General Government at the head of Long Island.\\nE, of the battery is the reef of Nix s Mate, with a massive pyramid of\\nstone and iron 32 ft. high, warning seamen of a dangerous shoal. In 1636\\nNixes ilande covered 12 acres, and it long served as a place to execute\\npirates and murderers. The legend reports that Captain Nix was killed\\nby his mate, and that the latter was executed on this spot, declaring his\\ninnocence, and prophesying that the island would wash away in proof of\\nit. The fact that but one acre of shoal, and a low, narrow ledge of rocks\\nremain, is thought to help the legend very much.\\nS. E. of Long Island, and 7 M. from Boston, is Rainsford s Island,\\nwhere a hospital was located in 1738. Here is the city alms-house. Gal-\\nloup s Island, to tlie N., is one of the Quarantine Stations. Still farther\\nE., on George s Island, stands Fort Warren, a powerful fortress of the\\nfirst class, called the key of Boston Harbor. It was built between 1833\\nand 1850, of hammered Quincy granite, with pov, erful water-batteries. Dur-\\ning the Rebellion many Confederate chiefs were imprisoned in its case-\\nmates, the most noted of whom were Mason and Slidell, taken from the\\nBritisli mail-steamer Trent, Nov. 8, 1861, by Capt. Wilkes, of the\\nU. S. frigate San Jacinto. The British government made a peremptory\\ndemand, and President Lincoln finally surrendered these rebel commis-\\nsioners, who went to Europe in January, 1862. E. of Fort War-\\nren, on a small islet at the entrance of the harbor, stands the massive\\nstone shaft of Boston Light. This structure occupies the site of the\\nlighthouse established in 1715, and is furnished with a powerfid revolving\\nlight nearly 100 ft. above the sea. To the N. is a cluster of rocky\\nislets; and to tlic W. is the Bug Light, where iron pillars uphold a small\\nhouse, over which is a lixed red light.\\nHull llotd Ptmherton Oregon House St. Cloud),\\nthe teiTninus of the beach railway which diverges from the Old Colony\\nli K. beyond Hingham, is a small village under the lee of a high hill,\\ncrowned by a marine observatory much visited during the summer. Tl.e\\ntown of Hull occupies the great natural breakwater which runs N. and W.\\nfrom the South Shore, and guards the iiarbor. Its population is pmall, and\\nits alertness in political campaigns, joined with its practical insignificance\\ntherein, do not fail to draw forth much good-humored jesting from the Bos-\\ntonians. The railroad and highway run seaward by Point Allcrton (from\\nIsaac Allcrton, an adventurous Pilgrim, who cruised the coast of IMaine in\\nt!ie barque White Angel for several years, early in the 17th century).\\nThe road now leads out on Nantasket Beach, a line of hard and snrf-bcatcn\\nwhite sand, 4 M. long. The bathing here is capital, and driving is eas} and", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "24 Route 2. HINGHAM.\\npleasant at low tide. Near the S. end of the beach are the Rockland\\nand Atlantic Houses, first-class hotels accommodating several hundred\\nguests each ($4.50 a day), and many smaller hotels and restaurants.\\nThe steamboats run from Boston to this locality several times daily, in\\nsummer, and also to Hingham and to the modern summer resort of Downer\\nLanding Rose Standish House), in the harbor. The picnic-grounds of\\nMelville Gardens are at Downer, and several neat little cottages are seen\\nupon the bluff above. A fine harbor-side road leads hence to Hingham.\\nThe Jerusalem Road runs S. from the Hingham-Nantasket road to\\nCohasset, following the curves of the ocean-shore, and generally on high\\nhills and cliffs. The scenery along this route is grand, and many wealthy\\nBostonians have built villas there, with wide lawns running down to the\\nsurf. The Black-Rock House and Pleasant- Beach House are good hotels\\non tills road.\\nHingham is a curious old village, near Nantasket, and S. of the har-\\nbor, which was settled in 1635, and was often ravaged during the In-\\ndian wars. Its first pastor came from Hingham, in England, and gave\\nits name to the struggling colony. Situated amid fine coast-scenery, but\\n12 M. (by water) from Boston, this Marine Old Hadley drew many\\nvisitors, and its large hotel, the Old Colony House (burned in Octo-\\nber, 1872) was Avell patronized. A quaint edifice on the main st. near\\nthe Railroad Station, built nearly square, v;ith the roof sloping steeply\\nup on 4 sides to a balustraded platform, surmounted by a narrow-pointed\\nbelfry, is the oldest church in Yankeedom. It was built in 1681,\\nfor the Congregational Society of Hingham, wlio still use it.\\nBehind the chiirch is the old graveyard, covering a finely terraced hill, and\\ncontaining linudreds of ancient stones. In the southern part is a plain and grace-\\nful obelisk of granite, on which are inscribed the names of 70 soldiers of Hing-\\nham who died in the war for the Union. On tlie highest hill, on a mound\\nsurrounded by a circuhir earthwork, is a tall obelislc of granite To tlic early\\nsettlers of Hingham. Elsewhere rests, und -r a noltle statue, John Albion An-\\ndrew, the great war-governor of Massachusetts, who, during the battle-years\\nISGi -65, did more than any other man to raise, equip, and forward to the lield\\nthe immense levies of troops from this State. He was distinguislied for fervid\\neloquence, great executive ability, and tender provision for the disat)lpd saldiei s.\\nHe died in 1S( 7. Near the entrance to the cemetery is the tomb of Ben.iamin\\nLincohi, a m;i.j(n--general in the Continental Army, second in cnuimand of the\\nArmy of the North which cai)tured Burgoyne, commander of t!ic Army of tlie\\nISoutli, 1778-80, repulsed from Savannah and Stono Ferry. After enduring a\\nsiege of 6 weeks at Charleston (spring of 17S0), he was forced to surrender to\\nSir Henry Clinton. Having been excdianged, he commanded the centre at York-\\ntown, and was Secretary of War, 1781 Si. He died at Hingham, his birtlqdace\\n(1733), in 1810.\\nThe Charlestown District includes the ancient city of Charlestown,\\nwhich was annexed to Boston in 1873. It has about 31,000 inhabit-\\nants, 2 banks, 2 savings-banks, 3 papers, 13 ehurclies, and large sugar-\\nrefineries, tanneries, distillerie.s, bakeries, etc. Two bridges cioss the\\nCharles River to Boston one leads to E. Cambridge and another crosses\\nthe broad Mystic River to Chelsea. In the S. part is City Square,", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "ENVIi;ONS OF BOSTON. Route 2. 25\\nwhere extensive domed !juildin,\u00c2\u00a3;:s on the left were formerly occupied as the\\nWaverly Hotel. Near by is the old City Hall, in which is a fine library\\nand rearling-room. Main St., to the right, leads to the United States\\nNavy Yard, covering over 100 acres, and separated from the city by a\\nheavy stone-wall, 16 ft. high. A sea-wall extends along the water-front,\\nbroken only by a fevv^ wluirves and a great dry-dock, built of hammered\\ngranite, 341 ft. long and 80 ft. wide, and costing nearly $700,000.\\nVarious construction-depots, magazines of naval stores, barracks, and.\\nwork-shops are in the yard; also 4 large ship-houses, and a granite-\\nbuilt rope-walk, M. long. In one of the ship-houses is the old line-of-\\nbattle-ship Virginia (designed for 120 guns), which has been on the\\nstocks for nearly half a century.\\nCharlestown has a handsome soldiers monument, on a tall pedestal, a\\nfigure of America cro^vning representatives of the x\\\\rmy and Navy, who\\nstand below hei\\\\ On the path near Bunker Hill Monument is a fine\\nstatue of Gen. Joseph Warren, who was killed on the Hill.\\nOn Prison Point are the great granite buildings formerly occupied by\\nthe Massachusetts State Prison, and now, since the removal of that insti-\\ntution to Concord, used for various manufacturing purposes by private\\ncorporations. The four northern railroads enter Boston near tins point,\\ncrossing the Charles River, and wellnigh hiding the stream under their\\nlong and multitudinous bridges.\\nNot far from the prison is an ancient cemetery, where a simple and mas-\\nsive granite shaft has been erected by Harvai-d. alumni^ to the memory of\\nJohn Harvard, the early benefactor of the University.\\nThe principal attraction of Charlestown is Bunker Hill Monument,\\na lofty obelisk on the site of the battle of Breed s Hill (1775). It is built\\nof 90 courses of Quincy granite, is 221 ft. in height, and 30 ft. square\\nat the base. A spiral flight of 295 ste^^s, ranged around a hollow cone,\\nleads to a chamber 11 ft. in diameter, with windows on each side.\\nAbove is the apex-stone, weighing 1\\\\ tons. (A small fee, 20 cts., is charged\\nfor admission. Books about the monument, c. sold in the porter s lodge).\\nThe *view from the top is glorious. From the S. E. window the\\nNavjf Yaixl is seen, with all its manifold activities, its ship-houses,\\ndry-dock, rope-walk, and frigates. Beyond this is the confluence of the\\nCharles and Mystic Rivers, and East Boston above which is Fort War-\\nren at George s Island at the mouth of the harbor. Forts Winthrop\\nand Independence, and the archipelago of variously utilized islands which\\ndot the harbor, all are visible from this point. From the S. W.\\nwindow is seen the city of Boston, with Copp s Hill nearest on the 1.\\nand the spires and domes of its church and state buildings rising on all\\nsides. The great network of the northern railroads and highways crosses\\nCharles River below, while, beyond the city, the southern and western\\n2", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "2G Route 2. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\nroads emerge. Farther still, on the r., is S. Boston, aiid over it,\\nQnincy, Dorchester, ami the bine hills of Milton. Over Boston are Rox-\\nbury and Brookline, and directly below are the houses of Charlestown.\\nFrom the N. W. window, the State Prison, Cambridge, and Brighton,\\nthe McLean Asylum, the Harvard Observatory, the city of Somerville,\\nArlington, and Medford. It is said that, in very clear weather, with a\\nstrong glass, may be seen Mt. Wachusett (over Cambridge), and succes-\\nsively to _ the r., Mt. Monadnock, Kearsarge, and the White Mts. in\\nNew Hampsliire. From tlie N. E., Everett, and Revere with its beach,\\nthe city of Chelsea, with the U. S. Marine Hospital, and, over it, the\\ncity of Lynn. Naliant rmis into the sea to tlie r.\\nThe comer-stone of this stately monument was laid in 1825 by General La\\nFayette, on the fiftieth anniversary of tlie battle. It was completed in 1842, and\\ndedicated on the sixty-eighth anniversary of the battle, in the presence of Presi-\\ndent Tyler and his cabinet, and with an oration by Daniel Webster. In the upper\\ncliamber are two cannon, named Hancock and Adams, each inscribed,\\nThis is one of four cannons whicli constituted the whole train of tield-artillery\\npossessed by the British colonies of North America at the commencement of the\\nwar, on the 19th of April, 1775. This cannon and its fellow, belonging to a num-\\nber of citizens of Boston, were used in many engagements during the v/ar. The\\nother two, the prox^erty of the Government of Massachusetts, were taken by the\\nenemy.\\nBattle of Bunker Hill.\\nIn their rapsed regimentals\\nStood the old Continentals,\\nYieldms not.\\nWhen the grenadiers were hinging,\\nAnd lilte hail tell the plunging\\nCannon-shot\\nWlicre the tiles\\nOf the isles\\nFrom the smoky night-encampment hore the banner of the rampant unicorn.\\nAnd gruminer, grummer, grummer, rolled the roll of the drummer through the morn.\\nAfter an impressive prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, on a\\nstarry night of Jane, 1775, Colonel Prescott led a thousand men to Bunker Hili.\\nHis force was composed of troops from Essex, Middlesex, and Connecticut, Avith\\nGridley s artillery. His orders were to fortify the hill, but a council of officers of\\nthe detachment changed the plan, and they occupied Breed s Hill, as much nearer\\nBoston and more surely conuuandiug the roads to the north. The work Avas\\ncomme4iced at mididght, umler the supervision of General Gridley, an old veteran\\nof the Louisbourg and Canadian wars, and by dawn th\u00c2\u00aby had t^ompleteil a redoubt\\n132 ft. square and 6 ft. high. The frigates in Charles River first saw it, and\\nopened a tremendous fire, which awoke all Boston. The liatteries on Copp s Hill\\nthen opened lire, and at noon 2,000 picked nu U from the Biitish garrison crossed\\nthe river. The New England flag (blue, with iSt. George s Cross on the pine-tree\\nemblem) was hoisted over the redoubt, and the 1st and 2d New Ham] shii-e rein-\\nforced the weary provincials. At 2 o clock 2,000 more soldiers crossed from Bos-\\nton, and soon after, after a fiu-ious cannonade from Copp s Hill and the fleet, the\\nBritish column advanced. Gen. Putnam ordered the Americans to hold their\\nfire until they could see the whites of the assailants eyes and 1500 silent and\\ndetermined men waited till that a])pointed time, and then fired. Whole platoons\\nof the British regulars were laid upon the earth, like grass by the mower s scythe.\\nOther deadly volleys followed, and the enemy, disconcerted, broke, and fled\\ntoward the water. While they rallied, the C ipp s Hill guns ^^h()wered hot shot\\nand carcasses on Charlestown. 200 houses soon were buruiiig, and under cover of\\ndense masses of smoke the royal foi ces advanced again. The volley at short\\nrange, the t;arnage, and the flight of the Bi itish, was repeated. The American\\nammunition was now exhausted, the presence of floating batteries raking Charles-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Routed. 27\\ntown Neck prevented either reinforcements or fresh supplies from reaching them\\nand the British, lieavily reinforced, and maddened by their losses, advanced a\\nthird time. The outworks, swept by tlie sliot from the fleet, were abandoned, and\\nvi^hen tlie grenadiers rose upon the parapet of the redoubt, they M ere received\\nby a shower of stones, and confronted by men witli clubbed muskets. Soon Put-\\nnam ordered a retreat, which was covered admirably by the troops of New Hamp-\\nsliire and Connecticut. But tlie reserves on Bunker Hill, the roai -guai d, aud the\\nshattered garrison from Breed s Hill, were unequal to fiu ther etfort, and there\\nensued a general dehandade across tlie cannon-sweiJt Charlestown Neclv. The day\\nwas ended and although Howe soon moved the bulk of his army on these hills,\\nwhich he strongly fortified, no furtlier combats were seen here. In tiie battle of\\nthe 17th of June, the Americans lost 115 killed, 303 wounded, and 30 prisoners\\nthe British lost 22(j killed, 828 wounded (Gage s report). 400 luuises were burnt\\nin Chai lestown, and 5 cannon were taken on Bunker flill. During the retreat\\nrom the redoulit, Putnam swore frightfully at his men, and after the war, sin-\\ncerely confessing it to the ciiurcli oi wliich he was a member, he added, It was\\nalmost enough to make an angel swear, to see the cowards refuse to secure a vic-\\ntory so nearly won. Among the last to leave the hill was Warren, and ere he\\nhad gone far he was killed by a shot in tlie head. Joseph Warren, born Roxbury,\\n1740, was the head of the medical profession in Boston, and a wise and patriotic\\nleader of the people. He was the President of the Provincial Congress, a major-\\ngeneral of the army, and Grand Master of the Masonic Order in America. He\\nfell with a numerous band of kindred sinrits the gray-haired veteran, the strip-\\nling in the flower of youth who had stood side by side on that di eadful day,\\nand fell together, like the beauty of Israel in their high places. Everett.\\nClielsea (Winnisimmet), (Citi/ Jlotel), a city of 24,000 inhabitants, is\\nconnected with Boston by a steam ferry (1| M.), and with Charlesto^vn\\nby a long bridge over the Mystic River. The Naval Hospital and the U.\\nS. Marine Hospital, the latter a large and stately building, are here. Near\\nthe Railroad Station is a Soldiers Monument, a shaft of granite with a\\nstatue of a soLlier standing at ease upon its summit. Woodlawn Ceme-\\ntery is about 2 M. from the city, ami is approached by a graceful ave-\\nnue, leading through a lofty Gothic gateway. The Rock Tower, to the\\nright, is a rude pile of boulders, 78 ft. in diameter and 30 ft. high,\\nfrom which a pretty view is obtained. Netherwood and Woodside Aves.\\nform beautiful vistas, with the quiet grace of American cemeteries on\\nevery hand. Netherwood Pond, the views from Chai:)el and Elm Hills,\\nand the curious Ginko trees, are worthy of attention.\\nChelsea has 13 cliurches, 2 newspapers, a costly high-school building, a\\nbank, and some manufactures. It was settled in 1630, and incorporated\\ni)i 1738, and was so unprogressive for many decades that the saying As\\ntlcad as Chelsea became proverbial. Many persons doing business in\\nBoston live here, favored by clieap rents in this quiet and pleasant city,\\nRyvere Beach is 2 3 M. distant, and is reached by horse-cars (see page\\n409).\\nThe Mass. Soldiers Homo (for veterans of the Civil War) is on Chelsea Highlnnds\\n(the ancient Powder-IIorn Hill), over the suburb of Careyville. The hill is 300 ft.\\niufxh, and commands a superb view, including Boston Harbor, the Ocean, the Fdue\\nHills, ten cities and many villages, and the mountains on the N. W. It is near a\\nstation of the Eastern R. II anil but a short drive from Kevere Beach.\\nThe Chelsea pottery and tiles arc famous for their artistic beauty also, the tile\\nstoves and Magee furnaces.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "28 Routed. ENVir.OXS OF BOSTON.\\nLexington and Concord. (See page 405.)\\nThe Massachi sctf.-: Floiisr, at Lpxini^tnn, \\\\\\\\as built for llie headiiuarters of tlie\\nState on tlie Philadelphia-Centennial fjrnnnds, and afterwards removed to this\\nvillage. It is a qnaint-appearins structure, in colonial architecture, and now\\nserves for a hotel and summer-resort.\\nLexington {Monument House), a quiet and pretty village 12 to 15\\nM. N. W. of Boston, is built on one long street, terminating on the\\nwest in a broad green, on which is a plain monument, more solid than\\ngraceful, in memory of 8 men killed here during the battle.\\nConcord {M iddlesex Hotel), near the tranquil Concord River, and\\nthe j miction of the Assabet and Sudbury Rivers (so-called), is a hand-\\nsome village of about 4,0Q0 inhabitants, and about 20 M. from Boston.\\nIn 1635 Peter Bulkley, of St. John s College, Cambridge, and 21 years\\nrector of Odell, v/as silenced by Archbishop Laud, and fled to America.\\nIn 1636 he purchased of the Indians a tract of laud at Musketaquid, and\\nfounded the town and church of Concord, so-named from the peaceful\\nmanner of its acquisition. Bulkley Avi^ote some Latin poems and Puritan\\ntheological theses, and was as remarkable for benevolence and kind deal-\\ning as for strict virtue.\\nBut it is during the present century that the lives of three of the foremost\\nliterary men of America have made Concord famous. Henry D. Thoreau (H.\\nU., 1827), an eccentric yet profound scholar and naturalist, in 1845 built\\nhimself a hut on the shores of the sequestered Walden Pond (1 M. S. E. of\\nthe village), where he led a recluse life, raising a few vegetables, and occasion-\\nally surveying or carpentering to get money for his slight exjienses. He never\\nvoted, never entered a church, never jiaid a tax. Profoundly skilled in classic\\nand Oriental literature, and an ardent naturalist, his chief deUght was to make\\nlong pedestrian excursions to the forests and lakes and ocean-shores of New\\nEngland. Of himself he said, I am as unfit for any practical purpose as gossa-\\nmer is for shii)-timber. Thoreau dedicated his genius, with such entire love, to\\nthe fields, hills, and waters of liis native town, that he made them known and in-\\nteresting to all. He grew to he revered and admired by his townsmen, who had\\nat lirst known him oilly as an oddity. Emerson. He died in 1862, leaving his\\ngreat work unlinishetl, and his only remains are several quaint and charming\\nbooks of travel.\\nRalph Waldo Emerson (H. U., 1821), tlie sage of Concord, or, as Fredrika\\nBremer calls him, the Sphinx in Concord, is the head of the school of\\ntranscendental philosojiliy in America and in the world. Descended from\\nseven generations of mini.sters, and himself sometime a minister, in early life\\nh.e joined, and since has led, the most advanced and refined school of modern\\ntranscendental philosoi)liy. His writings are distinguished for a singular union\\nof poetic imagmation with practical acuteness, and also by a remarkable pungency\\nand com]iresscd iorcc. During his visits to Euro])e nuich honor has been shown\\nhim, and many of the greatest minds of the century have visited the pretty little\\nidyllian city of Concord (Bremer) to liold interviews with him. Thoreau, G. W.\\nCurtis, in his residence at Concord in 1844 45, and Hawthorne have been his\\nfriends at home. (The old Emerson homestead was burnt, July 24, 1872, sliortly\\nafter which the X hilosopher went to Europe for a long absence.) lie died in 1883.\\nNalhaniel Hawthorne (Bowdoin College, 1825), whose exquisite prose composi-\\ntion is world-renowned, lived at Conctnd in 1843-40, and here wrote the Mosses\\nfrom an Old Manse. (Sec Salem, Mass.)\\nThe Battle of Concord and Lexington.\\nAt midnight, April IS, 177-5, General Gage sent SOO grenadiers and light infantry", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Route 2. 29\\nto destroy the military stores collected by the Americans at Concord. At first\\nthe whole country ap})eared buried in a general sleep, till the deep tones\\nof a distant church-bell came sweeping down the valley in whi(?h they marched,\\nringing peal on jjcal, in the quick, si)irit-stirring sounds of an alarm Bell\\nbegan to answer bell in every direction, fires blazed along the heights, tlie\\nbellowing of the conchs and horns mingled with the rattling of the muskets and\\nthe various tones of the bells (Cooper), and when the troops dejiloyed on Lexing-\\nton Green, at dawn, 100 militiamen confronted them. Disperse, ye rebels,\\nthrow down your arms, and disperse cried the British commander, Pitcairn. A\\nAolley from the light infantry broke the line which refused to obey Pitcairn s or-\\nder, and under the smoke of the first shots of the War of Independence eight\\nAmericans lay dead on the green. Now by a rax)id march the invaders occujiied\\nConcord, 6 M. distant, and destroyed such of the military stores as had not\\nbeen removed. Meanwhile, 400 minute-men had gathered near the north bridge,\\n1 M. from the Common, and soon tliey attacked and drove away 3 companies\\nof light infantry detailed to guard it, ujion which the retreat to Boston was\\nordered. All military order among the provincials was at an end minute-men\\nwere collecting from all points from every house, barn, and stone-wall guns\\nwere fired with sure aim and the red uniforms of dead and M ounded recnilars\\nstrewed the long road. M. E. of Lexington church, the remnant of the de-\\ntachment was reini orced by Lord Percy, with -i regiments, 2 divisions of maruies,\\nand a battery. The jiitiless i rovincials worried them until they reached Prospect\\nHill, in Cambridge, where 700 men of E^sex, with the militia of Dorchester and\\nlloxbury, stopped, and held the flower of the British army until Percy s artil-\\nlery drove them from tlie field, and the noble Ntu-thumbrian led his shattered\\ncolun^ns on Bunker Hill, under protection of the fleet. On this memorable day,\\nthe royal forces lost 65 killed, ISO wounded, and 28 prisoners while the Ainericaus\\nlost 5i) killed, 39 wounded, and 5 missing.\\nCambridge.\\nW. of Boston (horse-cars from Bowdoin Sq.) is the ancient academic\\ncity of Cambridge, on the Charles River. Abont 3^ M. from Boston are\\nthe spacious grounds and buiklings of Harvard University.\\nCambridge was settled shortly after Boston, under the name of Newtown. In\\n1636, the legislature of Massachusetts (tlien, and occasionally now, called the\\nGeneral Court) voted 400 for tlie establishment of a school here. In 1G3S John\\nHarvard, the young pastor of Charlestown (from Emanuel College, in Old Cam-\\nbridge,), died, leaving to the young school his library and about 800 in money.\\nThen the General Court advanced the school into a college, and named it Harvard,\\nchanging also the name Newtown into Cambridge, in memory of the old univer-\\nsity town where, and especially at Emanuel College, so many of the founders of\\nthe new State had studied. In 1640 Charlestowu Ferry was made an appanage\\nof the College in 1642 its first class graduated and in 1650 the President and\\nFellows of Harvard College were incorpcjr.ited. Endowments and gifts now\\nflowed in from the province and its citizens, and the young college became the\\n]iride of New England. In 1696, of 121 clergymen in the eleven counties nearest\\nto Cambridge, 104 were gi aduates of Harvard. Many of the political leaders of\\nthe War of Independence were educated here, Sauuiel Adams (class of 1740),\\nJames Otis (1743), Artemas Ward, first commander of the army (1748), John Han-\\ncock (1754), Joseph Warren (1 75 In May, 1769, on the occujiation of Boston\\nby royal troops, the legislature refused to sit with British cannon pointing at\\ntheir doors, so they adjourned to the college buildings. In 1775 the students\\nwere sent home, and the classic halls were turned into Isarracks for the Continen-\\ntal soldiers. The library and ap]iaratus were sent to Andover and Concord. The\\nheadcpiarters of the American army of investment was near the College, and the\\narmy numbered 16,000 men in June, 1775. Of these, 11,500 were from Massachu-\\nsetts, 2,300 from Connecticut, 1,200 from New Hampshire, and 1,000 from Rhode\\nIsland. The left wing, under Ward, consisting of 15 Massacdiusetts regiments and\\nGridley s artillery, lay at Camln-idge. Later, Knox brought 55 cannon from the\\nLake Forts, and the New York volunteers and Morgan s Virginia riflemen joined", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "30 Route 2. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\nthe camp. The 10,000 royal troops in Boston were environed by 20 miles of can-\\ntonments, stretchijig from tlie Mystic Kiver to Roxbnry. Thomas, witli 4,000\\nMassachusetts troops, and 4 comptuiies o! ariillery, lield tlie Roxbury lines the\\nRliode Island men were at Jamaica Plain witli iSpencer s Connecticut regiment.\\nThe New Hampshire brigade Avas at Medford, and Putnam, with a Connecticut\\nbrigade, held Cliarlestown Neclv and picketted Bunker Hill. The siege was\\nhardly over, and the College in order once more, when the great captive army of\\nBurgoyne was led to Cambridge (Nov. 10, 1777). Tlie government ordered the\\ncollege to be vacated, for the accommodation of the British and Hessian officers.\\nBut the collegiate autliorities, feeUng that enough had already been sacrificed by\\nthem in tlie cause of freedom, sent in such a spirited protest that the order was\\nreconsidered, and the prisoners encamped on Winter and Prospect Hills until\\n1779, when they were sent to Charlottesville, Virginia.\\nIn 1639 tlie first New England printing-press was set up here, and for its\\nfirst works printed the Freeman s Oath, Tlie New England Alma-\\nnac, and the Bay Psalm Book. At present the vast University and\\nEiverside Presses turn out hundreds of thousands of volumes yearly.\\nMargaret Fuller, Countess D Ossoli, was born at Cambridge, 1810. A fine\\nlinguist and conversationalist, she became an enthusiastic tvansceudentalist, and,\\nafter writing several books, and spending some time in Europe, she married Count\\nd Ossoli, but was wrecked and lost on tlie Fire I.sland coast, returning, in 1S50.\\nOliver Wendell Holmes was born at Camliridge, 1809. A skilful physician, lec-\\nturer, aud microscopist, he has been Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in\\nHarvard University since 1847, and has found time to write many pleasant essays\\nand liumorous X oems, besides two or three novels and numerous medical lectures\\nami dissertations.\\nJames Russell Lowell was born at Cambridge, in 1S19. After writing several\\nvolumes of poetry, and spending some years in Europe, he returned, and succeeded\\nMr. Longfellow as Professor of Modern Languages, c., in Harvard University.\\nHe has published The Biglow Papers (two series), a political satire in the\\nNew England vernacular The Cathedral, and Under the Willows, his later\\npoems and several volumes of i)rose.\\nF. H. Hedge, the Unitarian theologian, Alfred Lee, Bishop of Delaware, and\\nRear-Admiral Charles H. Poor, were born in Cambridge.\\nHarvard College was founded at Cambridge only ninety years later than the\\ngreatest and wealthiest college of our Cambridge in Clil Enghmd. Puritan Har-\\nvard is the sister rather than the daughter of our own Puritan Emanuel. Harvard\\nhimself, ami Dunster, the first President of Harvard, were among the earliest of\\nthe scholars of Emanuel. Our English universities have not about them the\\nclassic repose, the air of study, which belongs to Cambridge, Massachusetts our\\nCambridge comes nearest to her daughter town, but even tlie English Cambridge\\nhas a breathing street or two, and a weekly market-day, while Cambridge in New\\nEngland is one gi-eat academic grove, buried in a philosophic calm, which our\\nuniversities cannot rival as long as men resort to them for other purposes than\\nwork. Sir Charles Dilke.\\nAmong the most distinguished of the New-England-born alumni of Harvard\\nmay be named, Increase Mather (class of ](35()), Cotton Mather (1678), John Adams,\\nsecond President of the United iStates (1755), John Quincy Adams, his son, sixth\\nPresident of the United States (1787), Fisher x\\\\mes (1774), W. E. Channing (1798),\\nEdward Everett (1811), W. H. Prescott(1814), Jared Sparks and J. G. Palfrey (1815),\\nCaleb Cushing and George Bancroft (1817), Ralph Waldo Emerson (1821), C. F,\\nAdams (1825), O. W. Holmes (1829), Charles Sumner (1830), Wendell Phillips and\\nJ. L. Motley (1831), H. W. Bellows (1832), R. H. Dana, Jr., and H. D. Thoreau\\n(1S37), J. R. Lowell (J 838), E. E. Hale (1839).\\nThe avei age age at which youths enter Harvard is ISs years and the students\\nare generally from the middle classes, \u00e2\u0080\u0094from families of hereditary culture. Mas-\\nsachusetts lias about of the stiulents New York has J and the Western States\\nsend 70 men. Prohi.ssorships of Music and of the History of Art have lately\\nbeen established. 470 students board at Memorial Hall, at an average cost of\\n\u00c2\u00a74.52 a week each. The Medical aud Denial Schools are in Boston. Between", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CAMBRIDGE. Route 2. 31\\nIfiGI and 1670, 45 per cent of the Harvard graduates became ministers between\\n1761 and 1770, 29 per cent and between 1861 and 1870, 5| per cent.\\nThe Ijuildings of the University are named generally in honoi- of its\\nbenefactors. The small brick building on the comer near the horse-car\\nstation contains the Law Library (13,000 volumes) embracing the stand-\\nard works on this subject by American, English, French, and German\\nwriters. The law-liall and the professorship were founded by Nathan\\nDane, an eminent Essex County jurist. The large and ornate edifice next\\nto Dane Hall is known as Matthews Hall. Beyond this, and at right\\nangles with it, is Massachusetts Hall, an ancient building which has been\\nchanged into two large rooms, the lower of which is occupied as a read-\\ning-room.\\nBeyond Massachusetts Hall is Harvard Hall, with its sober ornaments\\nand belfry, and then Hollis and Stoughton Halls, between which, and\\nnearer the street is the quaint little edifice (said to have been built by\\nLady Holden s bounty) whicli was long used as a chapel, and was built\\nearly in tlie 18th century. Across the upper end of the quadrangle\\nstretches the plain old Holwortliy Hall, back of which is the Lawrence\\nScientific School. Turning now on the other side, the first building is\\nthe new, lofty, and ornate Thayer Hall, behind which is the romanesque\\nAppleton Chapel. Beyond Thayer is the simple and substantial Uni-\\nversity Hall, built of granite, and next comes the modern and Mansard-\\nroofed Weld Hall. University Hall is the seat of the University gov-\\nernment, which consists of the President and six Fellows, with a second\\nbranch (Board of Overseers) elected by the alumni. The system of\\nelective studies and of special series of lectures is superseding the old\\nrigid course and text -book plan, and Harvard is accepting the style, as\\nwell as gaining the power, of the German universities. There are about\\n1,450 men in the various departments of study, with 55 professors and\\nmany tutors, c Four years study procures the degree of B. A. three\\nyears covers the courses in the Divinity and Medical Schools, and two\\nyears in the Law School. Beyond Weld Hall the fourth side of the quad-\\nrangle is occupied by the noble Boylston Hall (of granite, with several\\ncollections inside), and the modern Gray Hall. Opposite the wooden\\nWadsworth Hall is the Holyoke House (pertaining to the college) and\\nnearly opposite Massachusetts Hall is the First Church, with its venerable\\ngraveyard. Gore Hall, beyond the quadrangle, contains the University\\nLibrary. It is a neat building of Quincy granite, in the form of a Latin\\nCross, and in the 14th-century Gothic style.\\nThe new Law School is a large and stately stone building, designed by H. H.\\nRichardson, and of very interesting architectural forms. The Jefferson Physical\\nLaboratory stands N. of the College. A noble ideal statue of John Ilarvard {by D.\\nC. Trench) was placed on the College delta in 1884.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "32 Route 2. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\nInside there are 10 colnnms on eacli side of a nave 112 ft. lonj;, with a .Groined\\nroof 35 ft. high. About i:; !,0()o volumes are kept in this hall, besides whirh the\\nUniversity has about 7(),(K).i volumes in 8 other libraries. In glass eases, tiirough-\\nout the hall, are kept many literary curiosities a MS. Ovid ot the 14th century\\nletters of Washington Aristotle, in black-letter Latin MS. ancient Greek MSS.\\nof Hippocrates, Gregory Nazianzcn, ifcc, with EvangelisLeries, Psalters, c. old\\nHebrew MS. of Esther (in roll) the Gospels in Latin, 8th century (oldest MS. in\\nAmerica) illuminated Latin missals MS. Koran Sanscrit and Sianie.se bool-is\\nin leaves 8 lieautiful Persian MSS. on silk paper book printed in Mexico City,\\n1566 Rale s Dictionary of the Abenaki language, in liis own writing Eliot s\\nIndian Bible Bay Psalm-Book (1640), first book printeil in America, north of\\nMexico medals, relics, autographs, c. Busts of distinguished men surround\\nthe hall.\\nThe Memorial Hall is N. of the quadrangle, and is fne mo.st stately\\nand imposing building in Cambridge. It was erected in memory of the\\ngraduates and student.s of Harvard who fell in the War for the Union,\\nand was dedicated in 1874, liaving co.st nearly $400,000. The building is\\nof brick and Nova- Scotia stone, 310 ft. long, with a cloister at one end,\\nand a hifty and massive tower near the other end. The great liall (oi en\\nto visitors) is used for various public ceremonies and is also the dining-\\nhall of the students. It is adorned by 64 portraits of benefactors of the\\ncollege and ancient magnates of Massachusetts, by eminent artists (10 by\\nCopley, 2 by Stuart, 3 by Trumbull, and others by Smybert, W, I\\\\I.\\nHunt, Page, Harding, etc.). There are also many marble busts of\\nfamotis Americans, made by Powers, Story, Crawford, Greenough, and\\nother sculptors. (Catalogues of the pictures an l busts are kept near the\\nmain entrance.) Tlie diningdiall accommodates 1,000 per.sons, ])eiDg 164-\\nft. long, 60 ft. wide, and 80 ft. high, with a splendid roof of open timber-\\nwork, supported by hammer-beam trusses. It is one-third larger than\\nthe largest of tha English University dining-halls. At each end are\\ncarved screens and galleries and the great windows are to be filled with\\nstained glass. The W. windov/ is 25 X 30 ft. in area, and is of stained\\nglass, bearing the arms of the College, the State, and tlie United States.\\nThe walls are wainscoted in ash 22 ft. high, above which is red and black\\nbrick -work, witli belts of tiles.\\nThe Memorial Vestibule is 112 ft. long and 58 ft. higli, with a marble\\nfloor and a rich vaiilted ceiling of brown ash. At the ends are large and\\nbrilliant windows of stained glass and along the arcaded sides are\\ntablets of marble beai ing tlie* names, etc., of the 136 men of Harvard\\nwho died in the War for the Union. The great tower is entered from the\\nve.stiljule, and commands a beautiful view. It is open to the public dur-\\ning the vacation season. The Theatre is E. of tlie great tower, and is\\nentered from the Memorial Vestibule. It seats 1,300 persons, and the\\n.stage is 58 X 23 ft. in area. It is in the form of a half-amphitheatre, and\\nis richly finislied in brown ash. The Theatre is to be used for the Com-\\nmencement exercises and other oratorical exhibitions. Over its windows", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "CAMBRIDGE. Route 2. 32 a.\\nare sculptured heads of Demosthenes, Cicero, St. Chrysostom, Bossuet,\\nChatham, Burke, and Daniel Webster.\\nIt is tliis building which holds the choicest hope and the bravest memory of\\nthe University The lofty vestibule, by silent iteration, V)ids one lay decip\\nthe foundation of S ^holarship upon national well-being, connecting as things\\ninseparable the heroic sacrifice and the heroic devotion to learning. The great\\ndining-hall i.s at oncctJ^he meeting-place of hundreds of young men, bound to-\\ngether by all that makes youth glad and constantly before one are the faces of\\nthat long line of men, and of women too, who have joined the college by a tliou-\\nsand ties to the New England of history. The stern ancestry of early Xew-Eng-\\nland days, the opulent men and women whom Copley and Stuart painted wlieii\\nthe colonies were eonsciously and un(^onsciously husbanding their strength for\\nthe ajiproaching autonomy the fanuliar faces of presidents and professors,\\nwhose devotion to learning remains, as a precious legacy the younger, nearer\\nface of the hero of young Harvard, brave, generous, dying with the hafo of oblo-\\nQuy, all these forms and spiritual presences till the air of the great hall with\\nsoujething more than an aeademic glory Here is the centre of the Uni-\\nvei-sity of to-day, binding the past and the future, making great things possible,\\nbecause it holds and records great things achieved. Horace E. Scudder.\\nThe Gymnasium is an octagonal building on the Delta, nearlj- oppo-\\nsite Memorial Hall. The large brick building of tlie Lawrence Scientific\\nSchool is W. of Memorial Hall, and across the street from Holworthy\\nHall. It contains large and valuable collections of philosophical instru-\\nments, etc. N. of Memorial Hall, among pleasant groves, is Divinity\\nHall, the Unitarian Theological School.\\nThe Museum of Comparative Zoology is near the Divinity Hall.\\nIt is open daily, from 9 to 5, and contains large and valuable collections\\nin natural history and archaeology. Among its treasures are Schlagint-\\nweit s ethnographical collection of casts ol heads from India and High\\nAsia large numbers of stuffed animals complete lines of shells and\\ncorals fossil plants and shells nests and eggs a cast of the megathe-\\nrium and several valuable collections by eminent specialists. The Ob-\\nservatory and the Botanical Gardens are on Garden St., on the high\\nground N. W. of the college. Just E. of the college-buildings are the\\nresidences of the president and several of the professors.\\nThe Old-Cambridge Baptist Church is to the E. of the college-grounds,\\nand is a large and attractive Gothic structure of blue slate-stone, trimmed\\nwith granite, and adorned with several projecting porches and gables.\\nThe Comvion lies to the W. of the college, and contains a handsome\\nmonument to the memory of the 339 soldiel s of Cambridge who died in\\nthe War for the Union. Near this memorial are two ancient British can-\\nnon. Near the Common are the First Unitarian Church, the venerable\\nChrist Churcli (Episcopal, and the Shepard-Memorial Church, which\\nwas erected by the Congregationalists in honor of Thomas Shepard, an\\nEmanuel-CoUege divine who was pastor at Cambridge from 1635 to 16-19,\\nand was one of the patrons and founders of the college. Its location at\\nCambridge was due to him. The church is an elaborate Gothic struc-\\nture, of richly and variously colored Iloxbury pudduig-stoue and its", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "32 h. Route 2. CAMBRIDGE.\\nwalls are lirokon bj cloistered passages ami a tall spire. In front of this\\nedifice is the carefully protected Washing-ton Sim, which is thought to\\nbe 300 years old. Near it the old Indian councils took place, and, at a\\nlater day, the town-meetings and under its foliage, July 3, 1775, Wash-\\nington assumed the comman l of the armies of America.\\n*The Episcopal Theological School is in this vicinitj-, on Brattle St.,\\nand is of recent foundation, occupying several handsome gable-roofed\\nbuildings of Roxbury stone, with brown-ash interior trimmings. The\\nlibrary is opposite the entrance, and the refectory is adjacent.\\nThe S. front of the quadrangle is formed by the beautiful Memorial\\nChurch of St. John, erected at a cost of 50,000 by a citizen of Boston,\\nin memory of his brother, the Rev. Chas. JMason. The great W. window\\nis of London stained glass, and represents Christ, St. John, and St. Paul.\\nSitting low on the ground, and surrounded by fine greensward, the\\nchurch is a small, low-roofed, many-gabled buihiing, full of picturesque\\nniches and corners, a many-sided a/jsis, filled with stained glass, and with\\nits facings and trimmings of Nova-Scotia stone, with here and there bits\\nof dark color and fine carvings.\\nThe Harvard Annex, with head-quarters on Appian Wa} has 40 young women\\nstudying in the University course. Opposite the Episcopal School is the mansion\\nbi.iit before 1736; held by the Vassall family until 1775: and later a hospital for\\nthe wounded from Bunker Hill. Farther out on Brattle St., beyond the old Lech-\\nmere, Lee, and Fayerwether mansions, is Eimioood, an old colonial house, now\\nowned by James Russell Lowell.\\nFi)rt Washington, near the river, is the carefully kept remnant of one of Wash-\\nington s siege-batteries. Memorial tablets show the sites, of Fort Putnam, Gov.\\nDudley s house, the earliest church, etc.\\nThe city of Cambridge has 50,000 iidiabitants, with a valuation of\\nover S50,000,000, and is in four sections. E. Cambiidge, a manufactur-\\ning district on Lechmere Point, towards Charleslown Cambridgeport,\\nnear the W.-Boston Bridge N. Cambridge, devoted to residences and\\nOld Camliridge, the seat of the University. It is skirteil by several rail-\\nroads, but the easiest way to reach Harvard Square is by horse-cars.\\nCambridge has 36 churches, 6 banks, 4 savings-banks, a jjublic library, 4\\nposts of the G. A. R., 5 newspapers, and a lyceum. The factory-districts\\nare remote from the University, and produce great quantities of glass and\\nsoap, chemicals, bricks, tinware, furniture, castings, etc. In the suburbs\\nare great frint and vegetable gardens, muler high culture.\\nA large, old-style house, back from the street, and nearly opposite Gore Hall, is\\ncalled the Bisliop .s Palace. It was built in 1761-63 by East Apthorp, an\\nAnglican Bostonian, educated at Old Cambrid-e, who was sent hei C as a luissiou-\\nary, and liojied to be ajipointed l^ishoj) of New England. But the ho.stility of the\\nPuritan divines and people was so marked, that he returned to i ngland, and was\\ngiven a stall in St. Paul s. In 1777, Bui-goyne occupied the house as headquarters\\nof the cai)tive Anglo-llessian army. Near Brattle Ht is the liouse where\\nBaron Iliedesel, coinmander of the division of Brunswickers. was quartered. The\\nBaroness, with a di;iniond, cut her autograph here on a wimlow-pinie, which is\\nstill preserved. Near Brattle St., on the right, is a stately old colonial mansion.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "See page 20.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "THE PRINCIPAL PORTIONS OF THE CEMETERY.\\n1. Entrance.\\n2. Chapel.\\n3. Spruce Avenue.\\n4. Public Lot.\\n5. Laurel Hill.\\n6. Walnut Avenue.\\n7. Mountain Avenue.\\n8. Mount AuTiuni Tower.\\n9. Dell Path.\\n10. Pine Hill.\\n11. Central Square.\\n12. Cedar Hill.\\n13. Harvard Hill.\\n14. Juniper Hill.\\n15. Temple Hill.\\n16. Rosemary Path.\\n17. Jasmine Path.\\n18. Chestnut Avenue.\\n19. Poplar Avenue.\\n20. Auburn Lake.\\n21. Lime Avenue.\\n22. Larch Avenue.\\n23. Halcyon Lake.\\n24. Forest Pond.\\n25. Central Avenue.\\n26. Iload to Fresh Pond.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Route 2. 33\\nabove two terraces, surrounded by broad lawns and line elms. Built about the\\nmiddle uf the last century, the house was deserted by its Loyalist owner at the\\noutbrealc of 1775, and then occupied by Wai^hinyton as headquarters. Here,\\nthrough the ;ong winter of the sie.ne, Lady Vv ashin,i,4,oa often held receptions.\\nThis noble estate was the home of the poet Longfellow, who died in 1882.\\nHenry Wadsworth Lonyfellow, born in Portland, 1S07 (Bowdoin College, 1825),\\nspent four years (1826 -30) in Eurojje, and then was Profes ^or of Modern Languages\\nat Harvard University (1835-5*). Besides several prose romances and many\\nshort poems of great p jwcr, he has published Evangeline (1817,) The Golden\\nLegend (1851), Hiawatha (18.J5), a translation of Da.nte s DivinaCojumedia,\\n3 vols. (1SG7-70), The Divine Tragedy (1871), and Tales of a Wayside*Inn,\\ntirst (18G3) and second series. Mr. Longfellow is perhaps the most i)opular of\\nAmerican poets, and is distinguished as a faitliful tran.slator, an original and pro-\\nfoundly perceptive iioet, and an admirer of the picturesque features in mediaeval\\nEuropean history.\\nMount Auburn.\\n(Horse-cars every hr. from Harvard S(iucire, I OI. 5 M. from Boston.)\\nA large tract of forest-covered and romantic hills on the banks of tlie\\nCharles had long formed a favorite ramble for the students of Harvard,\\nuntil, in 1S31, it was purchased by the liorticultural Society, and a portion\\nof it consecrated for a cemetery, with imposing ceremonies. This was\\nthe pioneer of the large rural c nieterics of America, and is but a few years\\nyounger than Pere la Chaise, at Paris. Tlie whole tract of land was soon\\nbought in from the Horticultural Society, and large additions have since\\nbeen made, until now it covers 125 acres. The name Sweet Auburn,\\nwhich tlie Harvard men had bestowed upon it, ^vas changed to Mount\\nAuburn. This tract is beautifully undulating in its surface, containing\\na number of bold eminences, steep acclivities, and deep, shadowy valleys,\\nand is laid out v.dth broad, curving avenues intersected by foot-paths.\\nThe emblematic iron fence which bounds the front is provided with a mas-\\nsive granite entrance-gate of Egyptian architecture, 60 ft. long and 2-5 ft.\\nhigh, on whose outside is carved, Then shall the dust return to the earth\\nas it was, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. From the\\ngate Central Ave. runs to Pine Hill, Avhich overhangs Consecration Dell.\\nThe chapel, not far from the gate, on a hill to the r., is a handsome\\nGothic edifice, abounding in pinnacles, and furnished with stained glass\\nwindows from Edinlnirgh. Inside the chapel are four noble statues\\nJudge Story, by W. W. Story Jolin Winthrop, the first colonial gover-\\nnor, by R. S. Greenourjh James Otis, the leader of the first aggressior^s\\nagainst British misrule, by Crawford; and John A lams, representing\\nthe revolutionary and subsequent constitutional era, by Randolph Rogers.\\nOn Central Ave. is a fine statue of Hosea Ballou, an eminent Univer-\\nsalist divine, of Boston, not far from the statue (in a sitting posture) of\\nDr. Bowditch, the mathematician and nautical writer. Fronting tlia\\nchapel is a majestic memorial work (by Milinure) representing a colos-\\nsal lion coxichant with a calm and heroic female head. The design is\\ntaken from a work executed in the highest perfection of Egyptian art,\\n2* C", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "34 Route 2. ENVIRONS OF BOSTON.\\nand is a fine personification of the ancient idea of the mystic one who\\noutlooks stars and dreams o er graves. Hannah Adams, the historian of\\nthe Jews, was the first person buried in the cemetery, and her humble\\nmonument is still pointed out. Near the end of Central Ave. is the\\nmonument to John Murray, the founder of Universalism in America.\\nSpurzheim is buried near the Bowditch monument. Near the Ballou\\nstatue on Central Ave. is the monument erected to W. F. Harnden,\\nfounder of the express-business, by the express-companies of the United\\nStates. Under a canopy of granite is a large stone safe with bas-reliefs,\\nsupported on bronze claws, alongside of which a marble watch-dog lies.\\nOn Mount Auburn, the highest point of the cemetery, stands a massive\\naiid graceful granite tower, from whose top an extensive view is enjoyed.\\nThe rich valley of the Charles is in full sight, from the villa-covered heights\\nof Watertown to the widenings which are lined by tlie palaces on the\\nBack Bay at Boston. The rural roads of Brookline are in the S., and\\nover and beyond them rise the higli hills of Milton. In the E. is Cam-\\nbridge and the ancient walls of Harvard University, while a succession\\nof bright villages stud the country to the N. and W.\\nFor the rest, the tranquil and shaded walks of the cemetery are lined\\nwith thousands of monuments, of every form and style, from simple tab-\\nlets to costly and beaiitiful statues. Pretty lakelets diversify the surface\\nof the dells, and platoons of obelisks rise along the hills. Tlie gateway,\\nthe chapel, sphinx, and tower, are the piincipal objects to be seen.\\nHours may be spent in pleasant rambling through the other avenues,\\npassing the graves of scores of local celebrities and magnates of Massa-\\nchusetts. If the visitor wishes to know how to do Mount Auburn minute-\\nly, Moses King s Mount Auburn should be bought.\\nN. of Moimt Auburn about f M., is Fresh Pond, a pretty sheet of blue\\nwater, winding under the shadow of wooded hills, with villages on its\\nbanks. The Fresh Pond Hotel is favorably situated on its shore. 2 to\\n3 M. N. is Spy Pond (pleasant hotel), the ice from whose clear and spark-\\nling waters is much used in Boston during the summer heats. S. W.\\nof Mount Auburn, on the banks of the Charles, is the United States Arse-\\nnal, covering 40 acres, where great amounts of munitions of war are stored.\\nAbout 1 M. beyond, also on the river, is the village of Waterto^vn, 8 M.\\nfrom Boston, on tlic Fitchburg Railroad. Early in the 17th century a\\nnomadic church from this place founded Wethersfield, Conn. In 1643\\nMassachusetts sent four Puritan missionaries to convert Anglican Vir-\\nginia. The Cavaliers drove them off, and KnoAvles, the Watertown pas-\\ntor, went to England, and preached in Bristol Cathedral several years.\\nJohn Sherman, pastor here 1647-85, bears on his tombstone,\\nIn Sherman s lowlv grave are lain\\nThe heart of Paul, and Euclid s brain.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF BOSTON. Route 5. 35\\nHarriet G. Hosmer, the foremost of female sculptors, was born at Watertown\\nin 1S30. After lung uiiatoiuical studies, she v/ent to Rome in 1852, and has since\\nlived there. Most of her ^vorks are retained in Italy and England. Her most re-\\nmarkable pieces are Zenobia iu Chains, The Sleeping Faun, Puck, and\\nBeatrice Cenci.\\nS. of Waterto vvn is the citj of Newton, with several villages, in-\\nhabited mostly by men doing business in Boston. Brigliton {Cattle-Fair\\nHotel), K. of Newton, has the largest cattle-market in New England. The\\nday of market is Wednesday, when Brighton presents a lively sight. The\\nabattoirs cost over $1,000,000, and cover 50 acres.\\nS. E. of Brighton is the town of Brookline, famous for the suburban\\nresidences of Boston merchants. Near the station of the Boston Albany\\nRailroad (brancli line) is the principal village, with the ornate and attrac-\\ntive stone town-house, near which is a neat public-library building. Within\\nthis toAvn is Brookline Reservoir, with a capacity of 120,000,000 gallons of\\nwater. Here terminates the long and sinu^ous brick culvert, running from\\nLake Cochituate, in Natick, which is here suj^plemented by iron mains,\\nwhich carry the water into Boston. 1 M. distant is the great Chest-\\nnut Hill Eeservoir (5 M. from Boston City Hall), with a capacity of\\n800,000,000 gallons. The most popular drive about Boston is that to\\nand aroimd Chestnut Hill Reservoir. Jamaica Pond, near the village\\nof Jamaica Plain, and E. of Brookline, gave the first water-supply to\\nBoston. From 1795 to 1S40 it was carried through the city in hollow\\npine logs. In 1S51 this was stojiped, and now villas and immense ice-\\nhouses line the shores. In Jamaica Plain (where encamped the Rhode\\nIsland forces, the best ecpiipped and disciplined in the army, in 1775 -76),\\nis a fine monument to the soldiers of West Roxbury who were killed in\\nthe War for the Union. M. from this village is the large cemetery\\nof Forest Hills. (Horse-cars to and from Boston, also Providence\\nRaih-uad. It is entered by a large and elegant turreted Gothic gate-\\nway of stone, bearing the inscriptions, I am the Resurrection and the\\nLife, and, He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Near the gateway\\nto the 1. is tlie finest receiving-tomb in New England, with a Gotliic\\nportico of granite, of imposing size and form. On Mount Warren Gen.\\nJoseph Warren is buricvd on Mount Dearborn, Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn.\\nThis cemetery is larger and plainer than Mount Auburn, and is mainly\\nnotable for its air of rustic naturalness. Consecration Hill commands a\\nfine view of the hills of Milton and the fair Lake Hibiscus. In the S.\\npart is a monument Erected by the City of Roxbury in honor of her\\nsohliers v. ho died for their country in the Rebellion of 1861 to 65. A\\nbronze soldier, of heroic size, stands at ease on a granite pedestal, and on the\\niinier granite tablets of the wall, about the lot, are the names of many sol-\\ndiers in k tters of gold. 1 M. from Forest Hills, and a like distance\\nfrom I\\\\IatLapan, on tlie New York New England Railroad, is the cemetery", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "36 Route 3. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nof Mount Hope. This is in Dorchester, an ancient town \\\\vhich was united\\nwith Boston in 1870. Over its extensive area (which is bounded on one\\nside by the Bay) are scattered several villages and hundreds of country\\nresidences. The natural scenery is picturesque, and is diversified by hills\\nand forests. At Meeting-House Hill is the old church, with a soldier s\\nmonument on the green before it. At Grove Hall (horse-cars from Temple\\nI lace), amid ample grounds^, are the buildings of the Consumptives Home.\\nMount Bowdoin, commanding a tine view of the harbor and city, is JM.\\nbeyond; and near Harvard St. station is Sunset Kock, around which, in\\n1775, were cut the fascines with wliich Washington s army fortified Dor-\\nchester Heights. At Blue-Hill Avv. is the E. entrance to the great West-\\nRoxbunj Park.\\nEoxbury {Norfolk House, a large and comfortable old hotel, on Eliot\\nSquare). Horse-cars from Park-St. Church to Eliot Sq., c.\\nEoxbury, an ancient city, almost coeval v. ith Boston, was united with\\nthat city in 1868. In 1775 the Rhode Island forces built here that power-\\nful fort which Washington pronounced the best in the siegedines, and\\nwhich seriously galled the Royalists in Boston. Upon the hill occupied\\nby this fort is now tlic stand-pipe of the v/ater-Avorks, where the Cochi-\\ntuate water is forced up through a boiler-iron tube to a height of 240 ft.\\nabove tide-marsh level, and hence supplies the higliest floors in the city.\\nThe tower is a lofty and very graceful structure, with a fuie view from the\\nsummit, which, however, is usually closed. Eliot Sq. is the central point\\nin Roxbury, and here is the building of the first (Unitarian) church, the\\nsociety to which Eliot preached in the Puritan era. For the rest, the\\nhilly streets of Roxbury are made beautiful by the villas of the city\\nmerchants and by several pretty churches, of which the venerable St.\\nJames Church, with its massive Saxon tower, is most attractive.\\nBesides General Warren, who died on Bunker Hill, there were also bom at Rox-\\nbury Mujor-General Heath, of the Continental Army, and Joseph Dudley, gov-\\nernor of Massachusetts, 1702-15, while Thomas Dudley, long time governor, and\\nniai(jr-general between 1G30 53, had his estates and mansion here.\\nJohn Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians, was pastor of the church in Rocks-\\nbury from 1G32 to IGi O. Firmly believing that the Indians were descended irom\\nthe ten lost tribes of Israel, he niade every effort for their conversion. Acquiring\\ntheir language, he translated into it the Bible (1663), catechism, Baxter s Call, c.,\\nand preached frequently to those villages of praying Indians which he estab-\\nlished and protected through the war of 1675-76. Utterly improvident in his\\ncharities, he would sometimes give away his whole salary on the day of its re-\\nceipt, and it was only by Mrs. Eliot s care and econ(nny that his four sons were\\neducated at Harvard, and were ranlced afterwards with the best preachers of their\\ngpucration. When the old hero had become helpless, the church continued his\\nsalai y several years, until his death.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "QUINCY. Routes. 37\\n3. Boston to Newport and New York.\\nin^-io*^^\u00c2\u00ae Colony Railroad and Fall River Line steamboats from Fall River in\\n10 12 hrs. The station in Boston is at the corner of Kneeland and South Sts.\\nThe train soon crosses the Fort-Point Channel, and runs through S.Bos-\\nton and the pretty villages of the Dorchester District (see Route 2). After\\ncrossing the Neponset River, Atlantic station is reached; whence the Gran-\\nite Branch diverges to the S. W. to E. Miltonand W. Quincv iU M in\\nthe Blue Hills.\\nTliis branch was the first railroad in America (built in 1R2(5\\\\ and over it hor ^es\\ndrew gi-anite-laden cars from the quarries to the river. The Blue Hills cover 20\\nsquare miles, and are older than tlie Alps or Pyrenees. Charles of En-land named\\ntheni the Cheviot Jlills. In l.V hrs. one can go from Boston Common to the top of\\n^oe i T. (f -vilway to Readville; hi-hway, 1= M. path M\\nf^oo ft high, and VK-wiug 125 town and villages, Boston, Cambridge, Dorchester\\nNahant Cape Ann, Boston Harbor, the ocean, Ilingham, Scituate, Marshfield the\\nPlymouth hills, Duxbury, Bridgewater, Fall River, \\\\roonsocket Hill (R I Prince-\\nton, Wachusett, Mt. Watatic, Gran.l IMonadnock, Temi le Mt. (N II etc\\nSquanfum (2 M. N. E. of Atlantic) is a bold bluff overlooking the harbor and\\ncrowned by several boarding-houses and villas. At Mooyi Is/muf the great Boston\\nsewer (finished in 1884) empties into the harbor, ^quantum was the home of\\n(^ickatabut, Pncbem of Massachusetts, and was named for Squantum, the firm\\nfriend of the Pilgrims, who, when dying, besought Gov. Bradford to pray for him\\nthat he might go to the Englishmen s God in heaven.\\nWollaston Heights (WoUaston Hotel) is a beautiful new village\\n(founded in 1870) built on the lofty slope.s of one of the easterly Blue\\nHills, commanding broad water- views, f M. N. E. is the venerable\\nQuincy homestead, near which is the National Sailors Home, fronthig on\\nthe bay. Quincy is the chief station in a large and pictures(iue agri^cul-\\ntural town, much of whose land is in the estates of the illustrious Adams\\nand Quincy families. It has 12,C00 inhabitants, 7 churches, a paper, 70\\nfarms, and 700 acres of salt marsh. Opposite the granite town-hall is the\\nAdavis Tem.ple, an antique church near which the two Presidents Adams\\nare burie.l. A handsome granite shaft in the Wollaston cemetery com-\\nmemorates 11.3 soldiers of Quincy who died in the war for the Union.\\nThe Adams Academy is in this village, and has a neat stone building.\\nJohn Adams born in Quincy, 1735, was a firm opponent of the Stamp Act de-\\nfender otCaptam Preston and his soldiers in tlii so-called Bo.ston Matsaci?\\ntial and Congre.ssman 1774-77. In 1776, as leader of the cn^nnnittee on the\\nDeclaration of Independence, he fought the Declaration tlirough CV a ress in a\\nthree days debate. In 177S, 1770, and 1782, he visited Paris on as Sal mis^\\nS!on and in 1782 was chosen ambassador to Holland. In 17S.5-88 he S minister\\nbv h p f }K- Vice-President, and in 179G was electe^l l\u00e2\u0084\u00a2s lent\\n^^lir^^^n S^na?^?^.^^ f Republican candidate, and succeedfng\\nasluni,t.on. tuna 1801 to 182b he lived on his estate in Quincy and died oS\\nof IndeSnce anniversar? of th e Declaration\\n_ John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams, bom Quincy 17G7 He remained\\nm Europe most of the time between 1778 and 1785, then graduate I Tt^^^^^^\\nU^ vf^ t f r^ 1* He was successively Sster to Hoi\\nand, England, and Prussia, 1794 1801. A United States senatcfr 1803 8 in 1809\\nhe became minister to Russia, and later was appointed minister to Emdand Seere\\ntary of State, 1817-25, in the latteryear he was elected PresiSntof the uTi ted Itates", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "38 Roidc 3. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\n(the 6th). From 1831 to 184S he was in Congress, and died suddenly in th.e\\nCapitol (1848), his last words being. This is the last of earth 1 am content.\\nUnder his uiliuenee (as iSecretary of State or President) great national works were\\ncarried on Florida was added to the Union and the ttouth American republics\\nwere recognized. An opponent of tlie exteiision of slavery, and a powerful advo-\\ncate of the right of petition, his powers continued untd tiie la^t, and won for him\\nthe title of the Old Man Elocpient.\\nCharles Francis Adams, his son, was hom in Boston in 1S07, and long lived in\\nEurope. He was one of the founders of the present Republican party, was some-\\ntime a Congressman, and in ISGl received the hereditary office of minister to\\nEngland. He held this x osition until 1S( 8, an arduous duty, since, during this\\ntime, the (unofficial but efficient) English syni] atliy with tlie Rebel States re-\\nquired sleepless vigilance on his part. In ISl l he was one of the connnissioners\\nto Geneva (for the settlement of the Alabama trouble), and conducted his part\\nof the work with great skill.\\nJohn Hancock, bom at Quincy 1737, became a wealthy Boston merchant, and\\nearly opposed the aggressions of Parliament, so that lie and Samuel Adams alone\\nwere excepted from the general pardon which General Gage ofl ered to the\\nAmericans. Sometime President of the Provincial Congress, in 1775 he was\\nPresident of the Continental Congress, and v/as the hrst to sign tlie Declaration\\nof Iiidei endence. Later he became an officer in the militia, and was governor of\\nMa.ssachusetts 1780-8.5, and 1787-93.\\nThis distri -t was first settled by Weston s company (1622), and WoUaston s\\n(1625), at a place called Merry Mount, where their conduct was so opposed to\\nthe ])rinciples of the Pilgrims that Miles Standish marched Irom Plymouth against\\nthese jovial Episcopalians, and sent tlieir chiefs captive to England. I a 1630\\nthe Plymoutli foi ces made another damaging attack on Merry Mount. Thomas\\nMorton, of tliis colony, who was twice banished to England, and once imin-isoncd\\nfor one year by the Plpnouth government, wrote the New English Canaan, in\\nwhich he gives the following account of the aborigines: The Indians maybe\\nratlier accompted as living richly, wanting notliing that is needful and to be\\ncommended for leading a contented life, the younger being ruled by the elder, and\\nthe ekler ruled by the Powahs, and the Powahs are ruled by the Uevill, and then\\nyou may imagine what good. rule is like to be amongst them. This curiously\\nagrees with Cotton Mather s theory that the Indians are under the special pro-\\ntection of the Devill.\\nAt Braintree, in an ancient farming-town of 4,000 inhabitants, with\\ngranite-quarries and shoe-factories, and the stately Thayer Academy, a\\nraihvav diverges to Cohasset and Marshfield; and at S. Braintree a rail-\\nway diverges to Abington and I lymouth. Stations Kandolph (Howard\\nMouse) and Stoughton, in prosperous shoe-making towns, among the hills.\\nAt N. Easton is the great Ames shovel-factory (see page 53 b). Easton\\nstation is 2 M. N. E, of Easton. Kaynham is a lowland f-irming-town,\\nfamous in the Indian wars.\\nTaunton (Cttfj Hotel, $3 a day, on City Square) was founded by Mi.ss\\nElizabeth Pool, a pious Puritan lady, of Taunton, in Somersetshire. The\\nsettlement was on the territory of Cohannet, and King Philip was friendly\\nto the Tauntonians until midsummer of 1076, when ho attacked the place,\\nand was driven off and followed sharply until he was killed. In 1810\\nthere were but 50 houses here but the water-power of the river soon induced\\nthe location of factories, until it became a large manufacturing city, with\\n20,000 inhabitants. The Mason Machine Works and Taunton Locomotive\\nWorks employ 800 men. The Tack Companies make 700 varieties, from a\\nheavy boat-nail down to microscopic tacks weighing 4,000 to the ounce. In", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 3. 39\\n1871, 18,000,000 bricks were made here. The Taunton Copper Co. covers\\n15 acres with their buildings, and works up 3,000,000 or 4,000,000 pounds\\nof copper yearly. There are also 11 foundries, and manufactories of\\nscrews, stove-linings, and copper, large cotton-mills, and a famous manu-\\nfactory of Britannia ware. With all this, the city is clean and or-\\nderly, and clusters around the central square called Taunton Green.\\nThere are 19 churches, of which St. Mary s (Catholic) on Broadway, St.\\nThomas (Episcopal), and the First Unitarian, on Church Green, are\\nfine stone structures. The latter is a large, rambling, Saxon-towered\\nchurch, which looks like some secluded parish-church of Merrie England\\nwhich was built before the Conquest. The City Hall fronts on Church\\nGreen, and the Public Library is next to the rude stone church (Congrega-\\ntional) on Broadway. The extensive buildings of the State Lunatic Asy-\\nlum are near Taunton Green, surrounded by pleasant grounds.\\nStations, Weir Junction, Weir, N. Dightmi, DigMon. Near the latter\\nplace, on the opposite shore, is the famous Dighton Rock, a long\\nmass of granite with rude sculptures and inscriptions iipon it (copied and\\npublished in the Antiqicitaies Americance, Copenhagen), which some schol-\\nars refer to the Norsemen in the 11th century, while President Stiles\\nspeaks of the Phoenicians, who charged the Dighton Rock, and other\\nrocks in Narragansett Bay, with Punic inscriptions which remain to this\\nday. It is said that near this place a skeleton was found (in 1S34) with\\na brazen belt and breastplate, which is probably the same v.diich inspired\\nLongfellow s fine poem, The Skeleton in Armor. Station Somerset, then\\nFall Kiver {Narrayansett Hottl, 2.50-3 a day Wilbur House), an ener-\\ngetic and growing city, which enjoys a rare combination of great water-\\npower on the margin of navigable waters. The river rises in the Watuppa\\nPonds on the highlands 2 M. E. of the city, and falls 136 ft. in less\\nthan half a mile. Along this incline immense factories are drawn up like\\nplatoons in a marching regiment, built across the stream and resting on\\nthe granitic banks on either side. Over 30,000,000 are invested in these\\nworks, and 15,000 persons are employed in them. The great article of\\nmanufacture is cotton cloth, and more spindles are here engaged upon\\nthat work than in any other city in America. Most of the mills are now\\nrun by steam-power. Large quarries of granite are worked in the vicin-\\nity of the city, and many of its edifices, including some of the factories,\\ntv/o or three churches, and the City Hall, are built of that materiaL\\nThe city is compactly built, and fronts on Mount Hope Bay, across which\\nMount Hope looms into view. On South and North Main Sts. are the\\nprincipal churches, the City Hall, Post Office, and hotels, and from the\\nCity Hall a group of parallel factories stretches westward and downward\\nto the Bay. Fall River was formerly divided by the Rhode Island line.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "40 Routes. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nbut a change of boundary secured to Massachusetts, Fall River, The\\nBorder City. Its population is above 50,000.\\nThe U. S. Custom House and Post-Ollice is an imposing Gothic build-\\ning and the Episcopal and Congregational churches are notable. There\\nis a pleasant park of 70 acres. 12,000 French Canadians dwell here.\\niJaihi stages from Fall River to Westport, 8^ M. Westport Point, 16i New\\nBedford, 16; Dartmouth, IG Tiverton, 6A Little Couipton, 17 Portsmoutn, 10\\nNewport, 15| Swansea, 4; Seekonk, I4i Providence, 17. 0. C. Railroad to New\\nBedford and Providence.\\nTwo divisions of the Old Co^loiiy R. R. unite here, run tlirough Tiver-\\nton, cross to Rhode Island, and run to Newport, 19 M.\\nThe palatial steamers, leaving Fall River in the early evening, stop at\\nNewport,\\nHotels. *Ocean House, Bellevue Ave., 400 guests, $4 a day; Aquidneck\\nHouse, Pelham St 150 gue.sts, S 4 a day Perry House, VV ashingtou Sq., and U. S.\\nHotel, Thames St., lOU guests each, !ip2.50 a day; Cliff- Aveuue Hotel, 60 guests,\\n4 a day Cliff House, lOO guest.-;, 3 a day Boarding-houses of Joseph Bateman,\\nJ. B. Brayton (12 Pelham St.), A. A. Wilbur (44 Church), Mary A. Anthony (42\\nChurch), C. T. Hazard (4 Catherine St.), W m. Riggs(S Catherine), Mrs. W m. Hodges,\\nMrs. K. Paine (.36 Touro St.).\\nKeadiiig-rooins. At the Redwood Library; the Free Library, on Thames\\nStreet. *The Ca.siiio, on Bellevue Ave., is a handsome old-English building,\\n200 ft. long, with rcadiug-rooms, etc a theatre, racquet-court, tenuis lawn, balcouy\\nfor band-concerts, etc. Roller skating-rink, on Bellevue Ave.\\nChurches. Baptist, on Spring, Farewell, and Clark Streets; Catholic, St.\\nMary s, Spring St. Congregationalist, Spring St Methodist Episcopal, Marlboro\\nSt., Thames St.; Episcopal, Trinity, Church St.; Zion, Emmanuel, All .Saints\\n(Dr- Potter), Beach St. The Channing Church is of rich rose-granite, with stained\\nwindows by Lafarge. The Congregational Church, successor to that of Hopkins\\nand Stiles, was richly frescoed by Lafarge in Oriental designs.\\nBathing, on First Beach. During the hours when the white flag floats bath-\\ning in costume is obligatory. While the red flag is displayed (1 3 p. M. the beach\\nis re.served for gentlemen.\\nStajfes run to First Beach and other points at regular hours.\\nSteamhoats run to Rocky Point and Providence four times daily (in summer),\\nexcursion tickets, 75c. to Wickford (connecting with Shore Line R. R. for New\\nYork), 3 times daily to Narragansett Pier, 3 times daily. The magnificent steam-\\ners of the Fall-River Line to New York touch at Newport every evening on their\\nway to New York. Daily to Block Island.\\nKallroads. The Old Colony, to Boston, 67 miles, fare, $2. Via Wickford\\n(by stcaiii-ferry) and iShore Line to New York, 180 miles.\\nThe harbor of Newport was first Aisited (during the historic epoch) by Verraz-\\nzani, a noble Florentine, who was sent with the frigate Dauphin, by King Francis\\nI. of France, to explore the American coast. He remained two -weeks here, re-\\nfitting his ship, resting his men, and preparing reports for his royal master. The\\nDutch and English explorers visited the place occasionally, until in 1639 the settle-\\nment was made by exiled dissenters from the State church of Puritan land. These\\nembraced Baptists, Antinomians, and many Quakers, and Rhode Island had such\\na consequent air of heterodoxy and irregularity about it that it was excluded from\\nthe league of the United Colonies, although it had received a royal charter in\\n1665. So late as the beginning of the jireseut century, President Dwight attrib-\\nuted the laxity of morals in Stonington to its nearness to Rhode Island. So\\nthe little colonj drew in its outlying settlements, fortified Providence, and main-\\ntained armed vessels cruising about Rhode Island throughout King Philip s War,\\nso that no hostile Indian lauded on the shores of the Isle of Peace.\\nAnawan, the chief captain of King Philip, and 60 of his bravest warriors, sur-\\nrendered to Captain Clnn-ch after the death of Philip, being ]iromised amnesty.\\nThe broken-liearted chief delivered up his sovereign s rude regalia, and all accom-\\npanied Church to Newport, where, shortly after, in Chui ch s absence, he was per-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nd-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0078.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 8. 41\\nfidiously beheacled. The cliief Tispaquin and his men also surrendered to rimr.l,\\nunder solenni ])ledges of pardon and amnesty, but the muidei o this ,.S-^^^^^^^^^\\nleader was reserved for tlie people of Plvniouth patriotic\\na f.hiln^nTif.-^^f f y g^^*^ a liyl literary tone to the colony, and oi-anized\\n?-r i -^^f rf^ and seientUic disc-ussions. The harbor of Newport was\\nn V- xl Vl? ^^r l^ ^f of 1730 reported 4,G40 iiilial itants in the town\\n^^^^^S ^^r^ only to lioston in the extent of its conune^;\\nWn^ ^^^^^^^^f,^^^^ caused the British to b rn\\\\if fd^SS bif f the\\ntown feuUivan and Green advanced down tlie island in lu- 177^ b fVp,!\\nT\u00c2\u00abionri^ r ivniynt ot fet. John of Jerusalem, Governor of Hip\\nthe Count rlpp h T^ Bourbon, e., appeared in the harbor br 4\\ntue count de Roehambeau and 6,000 French soldiers rthp rp.rin,/. ,f V/^\\nSol^i^f f t^ r^ Sab^^ige t;S 2eux-^n? feuS\\ngeT comm-itdiL 4\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 Ins ohicers; were Aubert Dubayet, who aftei-wa^s was\\nC(Lt dSte^^^^ La Vendee, and inl 790 was Minister of Wa-\\nv.ount clAutieliam]!, afterwards an ejnigre who served in all C.ni.lp i 1.^,1\\nEsh-VlfT ^i^. afterwards President otie deh 1 e ml ly a d\\no t^h- fm hi, His sou Eugene betame Viceroy\\nterwm \u00c2\u00a3-1 5^1 p ^^l^h S* impress of France Berthic at^\\nLouis YVlJlnP ^7 ^6 of Neuichatel and Wagra n created bV\\ng.n;ernor of Toulorcommander o^tl Art/o L? Norlf and oi tt^T\u00e2\u0084\u00a2^^\\nRhine, and guillotined in 1793 ^^y ui uie rnortn, and ot the Lower\\n.ml Ssto S t L Chesapeake,\\ncourt of justice ra-s stufi\u00e2\u0080\u00a2e.fit^^,^ wh/i the public square in front of the\\nlean, unquiet .d/ilS^n-itt]^^^ Ho J ^7^ ^o\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\u00c2\u00ab=^ d\\nmade strenuous ettbrts to have RhSp llin 1 ?^f i^^*^ f^ government\\nPresident A(lanis n Se a rivil Sfnn T^f^ ^^^niain of France.\\nSanniel Hopkins tlfoundi of the h/i- f^^ tihed with six batteries. Dr.\\nTheology and l.eio S Mr? StoS s no?eV The^MhiL er w V\\nSlowly until thi war o^l^^I^^^J^iZ, l^S Set:;^!^^^!^.^:?", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0079.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "42 Route 3. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nNewport has been slow and uneven. But tliis unprngressivc and tranquil spirit\\nconstitutes one of the charms of Newport, and makes ol this quiet little marine\\ncity the Osteud, the Nice of America.\\nWilliam EUery Clianuing was born at Newport in 1780 (died 1S42). The in-\\nfluences of the climate and scenery of the i.sland where his boyhood was passed,\\nhad no slight inttuence ujion the social and moral attributes of liis mind. He\\nwon the highest honors at Harvard University, and afterwards was pastor of a\\nUnitarian Church in Boston lor 37 years. He was an abolitionist, an anti-\\nannexatiouist, and an advocate of peace, and his principles were sustained\\nwith fearless independence, iilain-spoken lidehty, and a soienm arid impressive\\nmanner. As the leader of the liberal party in the Unitarian controversy, his\\npower was derived as nmch from the symmetrical beauty of his lite as from tlie\\nremarkable strength of his writings. He has the love of wisdom, and the wis-\\ndom of love. CoLEKiDGE, of Ohauuing.\\nNewport, the Queen of American watering-place.s, and a semi-capi-\\ntal of the State of Rhode Island, is on the S. W. shore of the island\\nfrom which the State is nanieti, and fronts, across its harbor, on Narra-\\ngansett Bay. Its older portion, lying near the wharves, has many narrow\\nstreets, bordered with the houses of tlie year-round residents, many of\\nwhich are mansions of the old time. New Newport almost surrounds\\nthe old town, and stretches away to the S. with a great number of\\nhandsome villas and cottages. The bathing and boating at Newport are\\nfine, the drives over the Isle of Peace are varied and pleasant, but the\\nchief charm of the place is its balmy and equable climate, due, according\\nto most opinions, to a divergence in this direction of the waters of the\\nGulf Stream. Dean Berkeley likened the atmosphere of Newport to that\\nof Italy, wliile another writer speaks of tlie damp sea-air and equable\\nclimate as resembling those of England. Fogs are of frequent occurrence,\\nbut of short duration. There are many summer visitors from the South\\nand the West Indies, while the array of literary talent which gathers here\\nyearly is quite attractive. Several of the ambassadors from Europe, with\\nthe nobles connected with the emliassies, spend their summers here. The\\nfeature of private cottages is largely developed here, and hotel life is quite\\nsubordinate to it. Wealthy New York and Boston merchants move into\\ntlieir palatial villas early in the summer, and have their horses and car-\\nriages sent on, so that by Aug. 1 the broad, firm avenues, and the hard\\nand level beaches are fdled with cheerfid life.\\nThe central point in Old Ne\\\\vport is Washington Square, with its mall\\nand fountain. The State House fronts on this Square,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a plain but solid\\nold building erected in 1742, which served as a hospital from 1776 to 1781.\\nFrom its steps the Declaration of Independence was read, July 20, 1776,\\nand in its Senate Chamber is a line portrait of George Washington, by\\nStuart. The City Hall, the Perry Hotel, and the mansion taken by\\nCom. Perry after his victory at Lake Erie, all front on this Square. Gen.\\nWashington passed through this Square on his way to Rocharabeau s\\nheadquarters in his first visit to Newport. In the evening the town\\nwas illuminated, and Washington, Rochambeau, and the French nobles", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0080.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "EOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 3. 43\\nparaded through the streets. Trinity Church (on Church S-t.) was\\nl)uilt in the early part of the hist century, and was often preached in by\\nDean Berkeley (1729 to 1731). He presented an organ (still in use) to\\nthis churcli, and left a dearer token, one of liis children, in the old church-\\nyard. On Farewell St. is an ancient cemetery, where ai e buried many\\nof the earliest colonists and their governors. The Jewish cemetery on\\nTouro St. is a beautiful garden-spot kept in perfect order. Near it is\\nthe Synagogue, the first in the Union (built in 17G2), and not now used,\\nthough kept in order by permanent endowments. Tlie Redwood\\nLibrary is south of the cemetery, in a handsome Doric building, dating\\nfrom 1750. An elegant though small library is kept here, and some good\\npaintings, together with some fine pieces of statuary. The King of Eng-\\nland gave 84 volumes to this lil)rary, and Dean Berkeley gave also a largo\\nnumber but when the evacuating British army carried even the church-\\nbells with them, they spared not the Redwood Library. Touro Park is a\\nfavorite resort, and was the gift of Judah Touro, born at Newport in 177.5,\\nthe son of Isaac Touro, the pasfor of the Jewisli Synagogue. From 1802\\nto 1854 he lived in New Orleans, where he amassed a large fortune which\\nhe left to various charities, mostly those of the Christian Church, though\\nhe himself was a Jew. He gave $10,000 towards the Bunker Hill\\nMonument. On this Park, surrounded by an iron fence, stands the\\nSound Tower, otherwise called the Old Stone Mill, an ivy-clad, circrJar\\nstone tower supported on round arches. More battles of the antiqua-\\nrians liave been fought over this ancient tower than could well be num-\\nbered, the radical theories of its origin being, on the one side, that it was\\nbuilt by the Norsemen in the 11th century, an l on the other tliat a\\ncolonial governor (over perhaps 500 people), built it for a vdndmill in the\\n17th century. Verrazzani spent 15 days in the harbor and exploring the\\nland (1524), but makes no mention of this tower while, on the other hand,\\nit is certain that the early colonists never built in such architecture or\\nmaterials as are here seen. The only thing in favor of the mill theory is\\nthe fact that Gov. Benedict Arnold (died in 1678) bequeathes it in his\\nwill as my stone-built windmill. The opening scenes of Cooper s\\nSpy are laid in this vicinity; and Longfellow s poem, The Skeleton\\nin Armor, has told its story. But its history has already, in Young\\nAmerica, passed into the region of myth. Near the round tower stands\\nthe statue of Commodore M. C. Perrj^, who opened Japan to the world\\n(1854).\\nThe Vernon House (corner Mary and Clarke Sts. was Rochambeau s\\nheadquarters in 1780. Also on Clarke St. is the Central Baptist Church,\\nbuilt in 1733, and next to it is the annory of the Newjiort Artillery Com-\\npany, an elite corps, formed in 1741, The first Methodist steeple in the\\nworld is on the church on Marlboro St. The Penrose House, on Church", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0081.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "44 Route 3. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nSt., a famous old colonial mansion, where Gen. Washington was once\\na guest, is now a tenement house, and the Channing Mansion (built 1720)\\nis near Thames St. The First Baptist Church, on Spring St., dates from\\n1638. In the office of the Mercury^ a weekly pai^er started in 1758, is\\nBen. Franklin s printing-press, imported m 1720. The News is a bright\\ndaily newspaper.\\n12 M. N. E. of Newport is the Stone Bridge which unites Rhode\\nIsland with the mainland at Tiverton. About 7 M. out is the Glen, a\\nromantic spot, tree-shaded and quiet, where an old mill stands near a\\nsmall pond. This is a favorite drive for the Newport visitors, forming an\\neasy afternoon s ride. A small hotel is situated 1-2 M. fi om the Glen,\\nand a church in the vicinity was frequently preached in by Dr. Channing,\\nthe Apostle of Unitarianism.\\n6-7 M. from Newport, on a road running to the W. of the Stone\\nBridge highway, is Lawton s Valley, a beautiful rural resort, rich in\\nverdure and in trees which are kept green Ity a bright stream flowing\\nseaward. The Pond and Old Mill are the principal objects in the scenery.\\nOver the valley is Butt s Hill, where Sir Robert Pigott attacked the Amer-\\nicans under Sullivan and Green on their retreat from the siege. Pigott\\nimpulsively attacked the halting array, and was beaten back by them\\nuntil nightfall, when the Americans continued their retreat to the main-\\nland, saving botli their artillery and their stores. The British loss was\\n260, wliile the New England militia lost 206 men. 3^ M. from New-\\nport, on this road, is the pretty little church of the Holy Cross,\\nand near it is the farmhouse used by the British Gen, Prescott as\\nheadquarters. On the night of July 10, 1777, Lieut. -Col. Barton and\\na small party crossed Narraganset Bay in a boat, and took Prescott\\nfrom his bed, carrying him into captivity. He was exchanged for\\nGen. Lee.\\nThe grand drive is on Bellevue Ave., a clean, broad road, lined\\nwith villas, and running two miles to the S. Here, at the fashionable\\nhour, passes a procession of elegant eijuipages only equalled in Central\\nPark, Hyde Park, or the Bois de Boulogne. Many of the homes along\\nthis avenue are of palatial splendor, and they form a handsome panorama\\nof architecture. Bailey s Beach is at the end of Bellevue Ave. and\\namong the rocky clilTs on the sliore near by is the Spouting Cave, a deep\\ncavern running back from the sea, into which great waves crowd after a\\nstorm from the S. E. Unable to go farther, they break with a heavy\\nboom, and dash upward through an opening in the roof, sometimes to a\\nheight of 40-50 ft. From the cliffs in the vicinity (near the Boat-\\nHouse Landing) a noble sea-view is gained, stretching as far as Block\\nIsland, 30 miles S. W. The picturesque Gooseberry Island is nearer,\\nin the foreground. A finer sea-view lit up, as it is, moreover,", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0082.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 3. 45\\nby the ever tnily fairy-like spectacle of ships gliding luider sail over\\nthe waters the eye can rarely witness. Narragansett Ave. runs at\\nright angles with Belleviie Ave., and terminates on the E. at the Forty\\nSteps (leading down the rocks). It is lined with fine houses.\\nThe Eirst Beach (about M. from the Ocean House) is a strip of\\nwhite sand, hard and smooth, extending for 1 M, m length and lined\\nwith bath-liouses. The slope of the shore is very gradual, and the surf\\nis light rather than heavy, so that this is one of the safest beaches\\non the coast. It is a lively and brilliant scene here during the hours\\nof the wliite flag in warm days, and the beach is fringed with carriages.\\nThe Cliff Cottages are in this vicinity. 1 M. E. is the Second, or\\nSachuest Beach, whose hard black beach is the most perfect race-\\ncourse, and tlie heaving of the sea sympathizes with the rider, and in-\\nspires him. The hours of low tide are the favorite times to I ide here.\\nPurgatory is at the W. end of Sachuest Beach. It is a wonderful\\nchasm, IGO ft. long, 40-50 ft. deep, and 8-14 ft. wide at the top, torn\\nout by upheaval or eaten by the waves, m the graywacke rock. Several\\nfeet of water remain in the chasm at low tide, and in stormy high tides\\nheavy masses of water boom tlirougli it. The familiar story of the\\nLover s Leap of course attaches to tliis place, but is antedated by the\\nlegend that the Devil once threw into it a sinful Indian squaw, and his\\nhoof-marks can be seen by all unbelievers. Other stories, of later date,\\nattach to the Purgatory, but the origin of its name does not transpire.\\nParadise is a verdant valley adorned witli cottages, opening off Sachuest\\nBeach, and near it is a mass of rocks and upheaved boulders called Para-\\ndise Lost. The Third Beach is a long, quiet, and sequestered line of sand,\\nabove which are the Hanging Eocks, where, in a sheltered natural alcove.\\nDean Berkeley loved to sit, and look out over the wide sea, and write down\\nhis meditations.\\nHere he composed Alciphron or the Minute Philosopher, a series of Platonic\\ndialogues defending the Christian system. Here probably he wrote the noble\\nlyric ending with tlie prophecy\\nWestward the course of empire takes its way,\\nThe four iirst acts already past,\\nA fifth shall end the dramawith the day.\\nTime s noblest offspring is the last.\\nGeorge Berkeley, Dean of Derry, a famous philosopher and idealist, conceived\\na plan for converting tlie American Indians by a university, and came to New-\\nport, under royal charter, in 1729. He built the mansion Whitehall (now\\na farmhouse), 3 M. from the town, but soon found that hi scheme was im-\\npracticable, and returned to England in 1731, giving his Newport estate and a Hne\\nlibrary to Yale and Harvard Colleges. From 1733 until his death (in 1753) he was\\nBishop of Cloyne.\\nWashington x\\\\llston was fond of roaming on these beaches, and Dr. Channing\\nonce remarked (of First Beach), No spot on earth has helped to form me so\\nmuch as that beach.\\nSachuest Point is on the S. E. of the island, and is much visited by\\nfishermen.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0083.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "43 Route 3. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nTo Miantonomi Hill, l.^ M. from the city, with its old British earth-\\nworks and noble view of Newport and its environs, is a pleasant ex-\\ncursion for a clear day. ILmei/mcm s Hill, near Miantonomi, is another\\nfar- viewing point. The old MalLone Estate (see Malhone; a Romance\\nof Oldport, by T. W. Higginson) was at the foot of Miantonomi Hill.\\nThe Pirates Cave and Batemau s Point are often visited, being about\\n4^ M. from the city, and a favorite drive is around the Neck, past\\nFort Adams, and along Ocean and Bellevue Aves. to the city again, the\\ndistance being little more than 10 M.\\nFort Adams, distant 3j-4 M. from the city (by Thames St. and Wel-\\nlington Ave.). Tills is the strongest (save two. Fortress Monroe and\\nFort Richmond) of the coast defences of the U. S., and mounts 468 can-\\nnon, requiring a garrison of 3,000 men. Its systems of covered ways,\\ncasemates, and other protective works, is complete. The fort days,\\n(twice weekly), when the garrison band plays its best music, attract\\ngreat numbers of visitors, and many carriages pass the imposing granite\\nwalls. The fort is armed partly with Rodman guns.\\nThis fortress is on Brenton s Point, named for the noble family of that name.\\nWiUiam Brenton was governor oftlie colony l(JGG-()9 his son, Jalilcd, was a cus-\\ntoms officer under William III. his grandson, Jahleel, resided ontlie great family\\nestates in the island his great-grandson, Jahleel, refused very tempting otters\\nfrom the Americans, left hi^ estates, which were afterwards confiscated, and c(jm-\\nniandud the British frigate, the Queen his great-great-grandson, Jahleel, an\\nEnglish knight and rear-admiral of the Blue, died at Loudon in IS-i-i.\\nConanicut Island is opposite Newport, and is visited by several steam-\\nboats daily. It lias a pleasant village of summer cottages, with broad\\navenues, and the Conanicut Part House, a popular summer-resort.\\nGoat Island, opposite the city-wharves, is the headquarters of tlie\\ntorpedo division of the U. S. Naval Service. Here is the school in which\\nthe young officers of the navy are instructed in the tori)edo service. Lime\\nRock is beyond Goat Island, and is famed for being the home of Ida\\nLewis, tho American Grace Darling, who has saved many lives in this\\nharbor. Rose Island is farther out in the Bay, and has the remains of an\\nold fort upon it. Fort Greene was built in 1798, near the Blue Rocks and\\nthe line of Washington St. On Coaster s Harbor Island is the U. S. Naval\\nStation, on land left by Wm. C(jddington, the founder of li. 1., and for\\nnine years its governor.\\nRhode Island was bought from tho Indians in 1638. Its name was Aquid-\\nneck, floating ou the Water. The discoverers named it Claudia, and a later\\nex[il(n iug expedition from Holland, coming upon it in tlieautuuni, when its forests\\nwere in bright colors, called it Rood Eyl uuU, the lied Island. Roger AVilliams\\ntried to fasten the name Patmos upon it, but Rhode Island in evailed, derived,\\naccording to some, from its similarity to the Isle of Rhodes, a Moslem fortress iu\\nthe E. Mediterranean. In that early day Neale called it the garden of New\\nEngland, and even now the Rhode Island farms are the most valuable in the six\\nStates. Off its sliores are caught 112 kinds of fish, ranging from whales to\\nsmelts. The island is 1; M. long by 3-4 M. wide, and is pleasantly laid", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0084.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 3. 47\\nout in hills and vales and rising gronnds, with plenty of excellent springs\\nand fine rivulets, and many delightful landscapes of rock, and promontories, and\\natUac.ent lands.\\nM-iluoue, the celebrated portrait-painter, was born at Newport in 1777, and Capt.\\nDec.itur, of tlie navy, was born here in 1751, whose son was iStephen Decatur,\\nthe Bayard of the seas.\\nAfter leavi]ig Fall Iliver, and touching at Newport, the steamer moves\\non steadily through the night, passing Point Judith, Block Island, and\\nFisher s Island, after which she enters the tranquil waters of Long Island\\nSound. At a very early hour the narrowing W. end of the Sound is\\nentered, and the shores of Westchester County are passed on the N.\\nThrogg s Point, on the r., bears Fort Schuyler (318 guns), out on the\\nSound, which is mated by a strong fortress on Willet s Point (opposite).\\nAfter passing several villages, Flushing Bay opens to the 1., with the\\nbeautiful village of Flushing at its head. Richly cultivated islands anil\\nshores follow, up to Randall s Island, with the House of Refuge, and\\nWard s Island, with the Emigrant-Refuge and Hospital, and the Potter s\\nField, where 3,000 of the poor of New York are buried yearly. The\\nsteamer now enters Hell Gate, a wild and turbulent succession of strong\\ncurrents and whirlpools, caused by the action of immense bodies ol water,\\nin the changes of the tide, being poured througli this narrow and sinuous\\nstrait, which abounds in rocky islets and sunken ledges. Tlie passage of\\nthis point was formerly difficult and dangerous, and two or three British\\nfrigates were wrecked here during our wars. But immense ledges have\\nbeen removed by submarme blasting, and now but little danger remains.\\nAstoria and Ravenswood are beautiful villages soon passed on the Long-\\nIsland shore, after which Blackwell s Island comes into view, with its\\nlong lines of charitable and correctional establishments. The N. point\\nof this island is occupied by a neat little model of a fort, with a formid-\\nable array of wooden cannon, called Fort Maxey or the Crazy-Man s Fort.\\nIt was built by an Irish lunatic named Maxey, who has liv^ed many years\\nhere, and claims a great sum from the government for his defense of New\\nYork. The octagonal building, with two long wings, is the Lunatic\\nAsylum. One wing is reserved for each sex, while the more noisy\\nmaniacs are kept in a separate building on the E. The Work-Houses\\ncome next, where willing hands which can find no work, and vagrants,\\nwao will not do honest labor, are furnished with appropriate work. The\\nextensive Aims-Houses, with the handsome house of the Superintendent,\\ncome next, being divided into male and female departments. Then the\\nextensive Penitentiary and Cliarity-Hospital are passed, and, on the lower\\nend of the island, the ornate building of the Small-Pox Hospital. These\\nstructures are all of granite, quarried here by the convicts, and probably\\nthere is no cluster of such institutions, in the same space, in the world,\\nwhich combine so much of safety, comfort, and practical influence for\\ncorrection and restraint. Deep ship-channels run on each side of the", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0085.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "48 Route 4. BOSTON TO S. DUXBURY.\\nisland, and on the Manhattan shore, opposite its centre, is tlie great\\nGerman Festival-Garden, Called Jones Wood. Hunter s Point and\\nGreenpoint are now passed on the left, and a long line, on both sides of\\nthe East River, of foundries and factories. Then comes Williamshurg\\nwith its shipyards. On tlae 1., and beyond it, fronting on Wallabout\\nBay, is the Brooklyn Navy- Yard, the principal naval-station of the\\nUnion, where several U. S. frigates may usually be seen. Crov. ded\\nwharves now stretch into the stream on each side, with forests of\\nmasts, while fleet and powerful tug-boats dart to and fro in the river, and\\nthe crowded and ever busy ferry-boats cross and recross it. The spans\\nof the great East-River Bridge are seen near Fulton Ferry.\\nWhere Brooklyn bends off to the S. W., the steamer turns to the\\nW., and passes Governor s Island on the 1. This island belongs to\\nthe government, and its centre is occupied by Fort Columbus, a low-lying\\nbut powerful star-fort, mounting 120 guns. A water-battery on the\\nS. W. commands the channel toward Brookljai, and a tall, semi-cir-\\ncular fort with three tiers of guns, called Castle William, looks toward\\ntlie Battery. The steamer now rounds tlie Battery, the tree-shaded\\nlower extremity of Manhattan Island. This was once a favorite park,\\nbut is now neglected. The curious round buiUling at the water s edge\\nAvas built in 1807 by the government, as a fortress, under the name of\\nCastle Clinton. At a later day great fairs and concerts were held here,\\nand it is now used as an emigrant depot. On the 1., Ellis, Bedloes, and\\nStateu Islands are seen, and Jersey City and Bergen. Passing up the\\nNorth River tlie boat soon enters its dock at the foot of Murray St.\\n(see New York).\\n4. Boston to Cohasset and S. Luxbury.\\nVia Old Colony Railroad,39 M. 2-2| hrs.\\nBoston to Braintree, see Route 3. Beyond E. Braintree is Weymouth\\n{Weymouth Hotel), in a rich bay-shore slioe-manufacturiiig town, witli 8\\nchurclies, 5 villages, 2 lakes, and picturesque shores. It has a neat sol-\\ndiers monument. Here, in 1623; occurred the terrible attack of IMiles\\nStandish on the assembled Indian chiefs, whose justifiableness has not yet\\nbeen proven clearly. The scene is well described in the 7th part of\\nThe Courtship of Miles Standish, by Longfellow. After this affair,\\nthe Episcopalian colonists left, and in 1621 a company moved in from\\nWeymouth, in Dorsetsliire, Eng., who gave its name to the town.\\nStations N. Weymouth, E. Weymouth, W. Hingham, Hingham (see\\nRoute 2), Nantasket, and Cohasset. The latter is a small town with\\na quaint old church on its green. The rocky shores and resounding\\ninlets along the ocean front are very picturesque, and are adorned\\nwith fine villas, including those of Barrett, Uobson, Crane, Thorne, Boni-\\nface, and other actors.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0086.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO S. DUXBURY. Route 4. 49\\nNo district in America yields such quantities of Irish moss as do the shores of\\nCohasset and Seituate. On these same hard sienitic rocks, which the waves\\nhave laid bare but have not been able to crumble, in Oct., 1849, the emigrant\\nvessel !St. John was wrecked, and many scores of passengers were lost. The\\nsea-bathing at Cohasset Rocks was perleet. The water was purer and more trans-\\nparent than any I had ever seen. The smooth and fantastically worn rocks, and\\nthe perfectly clean and tress-like rock-weeds falling over you, and attaclied so\\nlirndy to the rocks that you could pull yourself up by them, greatly enhanced the\\nluxury of the bath. Thoreau. Capt. John Smith, when passing by one of\\nthese rocky promontories, in IGU, was attacked by the Indians with arrows,\\nwhereupon he says, We found the people in those jiai-ts verie kinde but in their\\nfurie no lesse valiant.\\nAt N. Cohasset are the Black Rock and Rockville Houses, while\\nthe Pleasant Beach House is south of these, and on a point near Minot s\\nLedge is the extensive Glades House. Minot s Ledge is a dangerous\\nreef far out from the shore. In 1849, a lighthouse on iron piles was\\nbuilt here, but this was swept away in the great storjii of April, 1851,\\nand its keepers were lost. The present lighthouse (8 M. from Boston\\nLiglit) is 88 ft. high, of which the lower 40 ft. are of solid masonry.\\nStations JV. Scituate, Egypt, Scituate (South Shore House), a quiet\\nold marine village looking out on the ocean through a wide harbor-mouth\\nscarce a mile away. Cliff St, leads up on an emmence v/hence a fino\\nview is gained of the sea, and the singular and desolate bluffs in the S.\\nNear by is Peggotty Beacli, with good bathing, but no hotel.\\nOn Coleman Heig-hts, near S. Scituate station, is the Cottarje House, a\\nsummer-hotel 150 ft. above the sea, on a plateau of 150 acres, conmiand-\\ning a superb view of ocean, river, forest, and valley scenery.\\nScituate was founded in 1648 by Kentish men, on the Indian domain of SaUdt\\n(whence its name). It has 4 churches, 3 hamlets, and broad salt-mars!ies. The\\npoein of The Old Oaken Bucket was written in, and is descriptive of a locality\\nin, Herring-Brook Valley, near Coleman Heights.\\n1 M. from Sen-View station is the new Hotel Humnrock (200 guests;\\n$2.50-3 a day), on the delightful peninsula called by the Indians The\\nHumarocks, 5 M. long, and 1,000 ft. wide, between North River and the\\nsea. There are many beautiful drives in this region. From Marshjield\\nstation stages run 4 M. E. to Brant Eock ChurchilVs Hotel Brant-Rock\\nHouse; Washburn; Bay View, etc.), a small and unconventional sea-side\\nresort. The ancient home of Daniel Webster, 2 M. from the station, was\\nburned in 1878, and has been replaced by an Elizabethan villa, which\\npassed out of the Webster family in 1884. To the S. is the ancient Winslow\\nhouse, built by the Pilgrim Gov. Winslow in the 17tl! century.\\nHere we are in the Old Colony, fragrant with the history of the Pilgrims.\\nA road turning to the 1. from the main road just N. of the Webster farm, and\\nrunning toward the sea, leads in a few minutes to an ancient burying-ground\\non an (Tcean-viewing hiU. The tirst graves reached are those of tlie Webster family:\\nDaniel, and his sons, Major Edward, died in the Mexican War, and Col. Fletcher\\nWebster (12th Mass. Infantry), killed at the battle of Bull Run, 18G2.\\nDaniel Webster, bnrn at Salisbury, N. H., Jan. 18, 1782, was in the class of\\nISOl at Dartmouth College, and afterwar ls became a lawyer. His matchless elo-\\nquence and vast ability carried him rapidly forward, and he became a Congress-\\n3 D", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0087.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "50 Route 4. BOSTON TO S. DUXBURY.\\nman (1813-17, and 1823-27), a Senator (1827-39, and 1845-50), and Secretary\\nof State (1840-43, and 1850-52.) The famous Dartmouth College case, carried\\nl)y appeal to Washington in 1817, placed him in the front rank of the American\\nbar. Among the great cases argued by him before the U. S, Supreme Court\\nwere thuse of Gibbons aud Ogden (steamboat monopoly case), that of Ogden\\nand Saunders (State insolvent laws), the Charles River Bridge case, the Alabama\\nBank case, the Girard Will case, and the Rhode Island Charter case Dec.\\n22, 1820, he delivered his celebrated discourse at Flymoutn on the anniversary\\nof the landing of the Pilgrims. Others of this class of efforts were that on the\\nlaying of the corner-stone of the Bunker Hill Monument (June 17, 1825), and\\nat its completion (June 17, 1843), and the eidogy on Adams and Jefferson, July 4,\\n1826. He again entered Congress in Dec, 1823; made his famous speech on\\nthe Greek Revolution and, as chairman of the judiciary committee, reported and\\nCarried through the House a com]jlete revision of the criminal code of the LF.\\nS. In the lyth Congress he made a masterly speech on the proposed diplo-\\nmatic Congress at Panama His great speech in reply to Hajaie, delivered\\nin the Senate Jan. 26 and 27, 1830, on Foote s resolution, has been declared,\\nnext to the Constitution itself, the most correct and comijlete exposition of the\\ntrue jjowers and functions of the Federal Government. As Secretary of State\\nunder Tyler and Fillmore, he settled the Northeastern Boundary question (Ash-\\nburton Treaty). Mr. Webster s person vvas imposing, of commanding height,\\nand well-proportioned, the head of great size, the eye deep-seated, large, and lus-\\ntrous, his voice deep and sonorous, his action apiirop.riate and impressive. His elo-\\nquence on great occasions has been called the lig.itning of passion running along\\nthe iron links of argument. He was very fond of rural hie, of farming, and of\\nfishing and hunting. On the 24tli of Oct., 1852, at his home in Marshheld, died\\nDaniel Webster, the foremost man in New England s history.\\nNear the Webster Monument is an iron-railed lot, containing the tombs of\\nThe Honble. Josiah Winslow, Gov. of New Plymouth. Dyed December ye 18,\\n1080, aitatis, 62. Penelope, ye widdow of Gov. Winslow, and others.\\nEdward Winslow came in the Mayflower, and was governor of Plymouth in\\n1633, 36, and 44. He was a warm friend of t.:e Sacliem Massasoit. In 1635.\\nwhile Plymouth s agent. Archbishop Laud imprisoned him 17 weeks in the Fleet\\nPrison for heretical acts. He died in 1655, while in i)artial superintendence of a\\nfleet sent by Cromwell against the Spaniards. From Edward s brother was de-\\nscended Jolm A. AVinslow, rear-admiral U. S. navy, wlio fought in the Mex-\\nican Vv ar, and in the Western river squadrons, 18^1-63. June 19, 1864, com-\\nmanding the Kearsage, he was attacked oilCherl)ourg by the Coufederate war\\nsteam,er, the Alabama. The vessels were of about the same strengtii, but so\\nskilfully was the Kearsage i rotected and manoeuvred tiiat her opijonent was\\nsunk within sight of the crowded Frencli coast.\\nJosiah Winslow, son of Edward, was born at Marshfield in 1629, commanded the\\ncolonial armies t .irough King Pliilip s War, and was the first native-born governor\\n(1673- 1680). His grandson, John Winslow, born at Marshfield, 1702, a brave and\\nable oflicer, was the principal actor in the tragedy of the expulsion of the hap-\\nless Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1755 and it is a siir^ular fact that, 20 years\\nafter, nearly every j erson of Winslow s lineage was, for i)olitical reasons, by the\\nforce of events, transplanted to the very soil from which the Acadians were ex-\\nI)elled.\\nStations, Webster Place (2 M. from Webster Hoiisp, at Cut Pviver);\\nDuzbury (Freevuin House, GO guests; ILdlls Jlouse; $7-10 a week);\\nand S. Duxbury, in a picturesque old rili^^rim tov.Mi.\\nDuxbuiy was allotted to John Alden (youngest of the Pilgrims, wliose great\\ngrandson commanded the 7th Mass. CoDtineiital Regt., and was killed in battle at\\nCherry Valley), and lO Miles Standish. The Bradfoni^uiiso settled here, and Alden\\nBradford, the autlior, and Gamaliel Bradford, colonel of the I4t!i Mass. Regt. tiirough\\nthe war for in lti)en(lence, were born liere. Duxbury was so named from its l7e-\\ning the ho.7ie oi the military chief (dux) of the colony. Standish lived on Cap-\\ntain s Hill, a \\\\m\\\\i\\\\ promontory near S. Duxbury, on wliich has lately l)cen erected\\na handsome rcular stone tower, 110 ft. higli, surmounted by a statue of Slan-\\ndish. The* view thence is one of the grandest on the coast, and imluiles he\\nictnres(iMe village and harbor of Duxbury,. wiLti its beai hcs, a wiile sweep of the\\nsea, Plymouth town and harbor, with the Gurnet and Clark s Island, the Kingston", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0088.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "PLYMOUTH. Routed. 51\\nforest, and the bold onMines of Manomet Hill and tlic Bluo TTills. Miles\\nStaiidish, a veteran of the Flanders campaigns, came over with the Pilgrims, and\\nwas made tlie liead of their arinies (consisting of 12 men), although he did not\\nbelong to their church. He Avas a short man, very brave, but impetuous and\\ncholeric, and his name soon became a terror to all hostile Indians. He is the\\nhero of a beautiful poem in nine parts, by Longfellow, called The Courtship of\\nMiles Standish.\\nRalph Partridge, the first pastor of Duxbury, had the innocence of a dove and\\nthe loftiness of an eagle. His epitaph is Avolavit. Mather.\\nThe Slandish House is a seaside resort near S. Duxbury, with still-\\nwater batliing, fishing, etc. The scenery in the vicinity is beautiful and\\ndiversified, witli anticjue houses. At Duxbury is the end of the French\\nAtlantic telegraph. The railroad runs S. W. 3 M. from S. Duxbury, to\\nKimjston, on the Plymouth Branch R. Pt.\\n5. Boston to Plymouth.\\nBy Old Colony R. R., 37^ M., in 1% hrs. To S. Braintree, see page 37.\\nBeyond S. Braintree, the stations are S. Weymouth {Gushing House);\\nN. Abington (Culver ITouse), whence a brnnch line runs E. to Boc.l-lnnd\\n(Sherman House) and Hanover (stages thence to E. Pembroke and W.\\nDuxbury); Abington (Centennial House), M. from station; ^i. AblngUm\\n(Pratt House), whence a branch runs S. W. to E. Bridgewater and Bridge-\\nwater; N. Hanson, with daily stage to Hanson. 3 M. E. S. Hanson, with\\ndaily stage to Pembroke, 5 M. N. E.; Halifax, with semi-daily s^age to\\nHalifax village, 3 M. S W.; Flympfon, near the summer picnic-grounds\\nof Silver Lake, and with daily stage to Plympton, b^ M., CarA er, 124, and\\nMiddleborough,14; Kingston (Faiuxtt //oiise), whence railroad to Duxbury.\\nPlymouth, iTmpame, or patuxet. (Sanioset House, a large and comfortable\\nhotel, near the R. R. statmn. \u00c2\u00a71.50 to $2 a day).\\nElizabeth Queen of England, in 1558 -G2, jiut into operation the Acts of Su-\\npreniacy and Uniformity, and the Articles of Riligion, sternly forbidding all forms\\not religious worship within her realm, save those prescribed by the Church of\\nEngland, of which she was the head. Almost simultaneously a sect si)rang up\\nclaiming that the Anglican Church still retained many of tl ie errors of Roniail\\nCathplicism while, in opposition to the Queen s primacy and ecclesiastical laws\\ntliey maintained that the church was spiritual, governed by the laws of Christ\\ngiven in the New Testament, and separate from temporal affairs and independent\\not earthly sovereigns. Hence tliey were c.-slled Separatists (sometimes Brown-\\nists) They were imprisoned and mart: Ted by the government, and in 1508 many\\nled to Holland. Churches existed at .Southwark and elsewhere, but the true\\nbirthplace of the Pilgrim Church (if not at Jerusalem) was at the deserted Manor\\nof the Bishops (of York) at Scrooby. Bancroft, the new primate, redoubled the\\npersecutions,^ ill 1602, and in 1608 tl:e church at Scrooby ran the blockade of the\\nl-nglish coasL, and went to Amster.lam. In 1G09 the Pilgrims moved to Levden\\nc .l^r I Delft haven, via Southampton, for America. On Sei.t.\\nT, J^ i;^y wer, previously driven back by adverse circumstances, left Plv-\\nmoutn in England, intending to reach land and settle near the Hudson River. By\\ntreachery or otherwise they struck the continent far north of this point, and oil\\nthe 21st Dec, 1620, the Pilgrims landed at New Plymouth. Capt. Smith was\\nseverely attacKed here by the In lians in 1614, and Standish s rude foravs on\\ncape Cod had enraged the aborigines, but the Wampanoag tribe, which iil 1616\\nnumbered 30.000 souls had been reduced by a great war, followed by a pestilence,\\nto a reinnant of 300. By the latter part of March, 44 Pilgrims Lad clied. and then\\niiie bachem Massasoit made an alliance with the dwindling colony In 1622 a\\nmassive structure Avas erected for a church, with a battlemented i-oof and ord-\\nnun-jc, which made it the castle of the village. In 1621 and 1623 other companies", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0089.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "52 Routed. BOSTON TO TLYMOUTH.\\nof Pilgrims crosscrl the sea, after which the colony throve and occupied thencigh-\\nboiing lands. In March, 1621, Sanioset and Tis(iuantum came in and told them\\nof the land (the latter having been stolen by Hunt, in 1614, from the coast, and\\nsold at Malaga as a slave). In 1G24, the first cattle ever in New England were\\nlanded here, and in the same year Plpnouth was found to consist of 32 houses,\\nsurrounded by a high palisade with fortified gates. Canonicus, chief of the Narra-\\ngansetts, sent a sheaf of arrows bound with a rattlesnake s skin, to Gov.\\nBradford, as a token of hostility. The skin was filled with powder and shot, and\\nsent back to Canonicus, who understood this grim answer, and as long as he lived\\nrestrained his tribe from attacking the colony. As one of the United Colonies,\\nPlymouth bore her part in the Indian wars, until it finally joined the colony of\\nMassachusetts Bay, in 1692.\\nMethinkslseeitnow, that one, solitary, adventurous vessel, the MajiloAver,\\nof a forlorn hope, freighted with the prosi)ects of a future state, and bound across\\nthe imknown sea. I behold it pursuing, with a thousand misgivings, the uncer-\\ntain, the tedious voyage. Suns rise and set, and weeks and months pass, and\\nwinter surprises themon the deep, but brings them not the sight of the wished-\\nfor shore. I see them now scantily supjilied with jirovisions, crowded almost to\\nsulTocation in their ill-stored prison, delayed by calms, pursuing a circuitous route\\nand now driven in fury before the raging temi^est on the high and giddy waves.\\nThe awful voice of the storm howls through the rigging. The lal)oring\\nmasts seem straining from their base the dismal sound of the pumps is heard\\nthe ship leaps, as it were, madly, from billow to billow the ocean breaks and\\nsettles with engulfing floods over the floating deck, and beats with deadening,\\nshivering weight against the staggered vessel. I see them, escaped from these\\nperils, pursuing their all but desperate undertaking, and landed at last, after a five\\nmonths passage, on the ice-clad rocks of Plymouth, weak and weary from the\\nvoyage, poorly armed, without shelter, without means, surrouncled by hos-\\ntile tribes Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were\\nthey all swept away by the 30 savage tribes of New England? Tell me, politician,\\nhow long did this shadow of a colony, on which your conventions and treaties had\\nnot smiled, languish on the distant coast? Is it possible, that, from a be-\\nginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy not so much of admiration as of pity, there\\nhas gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an exjiansion so\\nample, a reality so iniiiortant, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious Ed-\\nward Everett.\\nSee also Mrs. Hemans inimitable hjmn, beginning,\\nTlie breaking waves dpslicd high\\nOn a stem and rock-bound coast.\\nWhen a hand of exiles moored tlicir hark\\nI3y the wild IS ew iCiigUmd shore.\\nForefathers Kock, the corner-stone of the Republic, upon which\\nthe Pilgrims lirst landed from their shalloi), is a gray sienitic granite\\nboulder, near AValer St. and the harbor. Over it stands a granite canopy,\\nin whose attic are the bones of Pilgrims who died in ]()20 2L.\\nPilgrim Hall, a fire-proof granite building on Court St., contains\\nCharles Lucy s great ))ainting of the Embarkation of the Pilgrims, a line\\ncopy of Weir s painting of the same, Sargent s Landing of the Pilgrims,\\nand ancient portraits of John Alden, Sir Walter Kaleigh, the AVinslows,\\netc.; also, Aldeu s Bible, Standish s sword, Brewster s chair. Peregrine\\nWhite s candlestick. Carver s chair, Winslow s commission from Crom-\\nwell, Lorea Standish s embroidery, and many other relics of the May-\\nJloirer, besides 1,200 volumes of ancient books. Every tourist should visit\\nI ilgrim Hall, which is open daily.\\nAmong the old houses are the Carver house, part of Avhich dates from\\n16G7, the Stephens house, about lf)77; the Doten house, before 1669.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0090.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO PLYMOUTH. Route 5. 53\\nTown Greca is at the end of Main Street. On the site of tlie present\\nGothic Unitarian Church older churches were built in the first days.\\nThe remarkably homely Church of the Pilgrimage (Cong.) stands near\\nby. Opposite this church is the Town Hall, built in 1749. To the\\nr. of the Unitarian Church is the path to the Burying Hill, where\\nmany of the Pilgrims were interred. Ancient and moss-covered tomb-\\nstones cover the green slopes, with here and there more pretentious mon-\\numents, as those to Gov. Bradford, Elder Cushman, and others. In\\n1622, the embattled church was built on this hill, witli six cannon on its\\nsheltered flat roof. Every man brought his gun and ammunition to\\nchurch, and sentinels, on a tower, watched incessantly. The view from\\nBurying Hill is fine, embracing the harbors of Plymouth and Duxbury,\\nCaptain s Hill, Cape Cod, Mauomet Hills, c. Leyden St., the first\\nstreet in New England, runs E. from Town Sqiiare to the water. Near\\nthe foot of Middle St. and W. of tlie canopy-covered rock, is a small\\ngreen space called Cole s Hill, where were buried 60 of the Mayflower\\ncompany (including Gov. Carver), in 1620-21. Near the Pilgrim\\nHall are the handsome County buildings and on Training Green,\\nnear the High School, is a monument to the town s soldiers who died in\\ntlie War for the Union. Behind the High School is Watson s Hill, where\\nMassasoit appeared in Marcli, 1621, with 60 warriors, and concluded a\\nleague with the handful of Pilgrims which was sacredly kept for 50 years.\\nBillington Sea, one of the two hundred ponds which are in the vast\\nPlymouth Forest the Adirondacks of Massachusetts is about 2 M,\\nfrom the village, and is 4^ M. around. About 3 M. S. of Plymouth is\\nthe Clifi ord House, a favorite summer resort. S. E. of Plymouth is\\nthe lofty promontory of Manomet, near which is the village (hotel) of\\nManomet Pomls. A strip of sand 3 M. long forms a natural breakwater\\nbefore the town, on which, in Dec, 1779, the war-ship Gen. Arnold\\nAvas wrecked, and 70 men froze to death on her decks. In the N. part\\nof the harbor is Clark s Island, where the Pilgrims remained Dec. 9th\\nand 1 0th, 1620. Beyond are the prominent points of Saqiush and the\\nGurnet, on the latter of which stand a lighthouse and Fort Andrew.\\nOn a high hill uear the Sainoset House stands the National Monument to the\\nForefathei s, 81 ft. high, of granite and marble. The central statue, representing\\nFaith, is 36 ft. high, the largest granite statue in the world. Her right hand 18\\nuplifted, and her left holds a Bible, On pedestals about the base will be four sit-\\nting statues representing the cardinal principles of the Pilgrim commonwealth,\\nMorality^ Law, Education, and Freedom Each of these is to be 20 ft high, with\\n8 statues in nichod panels by their thrones, ^ach of which will be 9 ft. high, Ilis-\\nt(\u00c2\u00bbrical records and bas-reliefs will adorn the sides ol the pedestal, and an internal\\nstairway will lead to the feet of Faith. The statues of Morality and Education are\\nnow in place also, two of the large marble bas-reliefs.\\nPlymouth has 7,500 iuliahitants, 2 newspapers, 2 banks, 2 savings-banks, a public\\nlibrary, and 9 churches. It is an important port of entry Its manufactures reach\\n$4,000,000 yearly, and include cotton duck, woollens, cordage, nails, tacks, rivets,\\nzinc and cojiper goods, boots and shoes. The public water-supply comes from\\niSoath Fond.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0091.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "53 a. Ro^ite 6. LOSTON TO CAPE COD.\\nPlymouth is popular as a summer-resort, being- kept cool by a branch of\\nthe great Arctic ocean-Lurrent. The Samoset and ClilibrJ Houses, have\\nlarge livery-stables \u00e2\u0096\u00a0which afford facilities for riding to the many interest-\\ning places in the vicmity. Mayflowers (trailing arbutus) are found in\\nabumianoe in the great forests near by, where also is a great variety of\\ngame, partridges, quails, black ducks, rabbits, foxes, and deer, with\\ntrout in the brooks, black bass and pickerel in the lakes, and many larger\\n(ish in the outer bay. Maaomet BluiFs {Brastoiv IJouse, 50 guests, $8-\\n12 a week) are 7 M. from Plymouth, and have been formed into a sum-\\niiiei-nsort, witii cottages and avenues. Tlie facilities for hunting, fishing,\\nand bathing are good, and there arc broad sea-views. Near Manomet\\npoint (S. Plymouth) is the Manomet Jlouse, a favorite summer resort.\\nA. M. Watson and E. W. Watson have summer boarding-houses on\\nClerk s Island.\\nThe Clifford is a handsome first-class hotel at the head of Plymouth\\nBeach, with well-kept grounds and choice scenic surroundings. It has\\nsteam-heat, gas, running water, livery-stable, boats, etc., and affords good\\nfacilities for visiting the adjacent historic region, rich in diversified scenery.\\n6. Boston to Cape Cod.\\nBy the Cape-Cod Division of the Okt Colony R. R. in 5 6 hrs. (to Province-\\ntown tViro, ^;j). Two trains nm eacli way daily.\\nStations. Boston to Savin Hill, 3 M. Harrison Siiuare, 3| Neponset, 5\\nAtlantic, ;4 WuUaston Heiglits, li^ Quincy, 8 Quincy Adams, 85 Bniintree,\\n10 S. BiaiMtree, lU Holbrook, 15 E. Stoughton, i g| Brockton, 20 Cam-\\npello, 21.V Matticld, 23| E. and \\\\V. Bridgewater, 25 Bridgewater, 27 Titicut\\nand N. Middlehoro 80i- Middlelioro 344 Rock, 30 S. Middleboro 42 Tre-\\niiiont, 45 S. Warchani, 47 Warehani, 49 Agawa)ri, 51 Coliasset Narrows,\\n54 (branch to Wood s Holl) Monunieiit, 65 N. .Sandwich, 58 AV. Sandwich,\\n59 Sandwich, 02 W. Barnstable, (i9 Barnstable, 73 Yarmouth, 75 (Ijianch to\\nIlyanius, 79) S. Yarmouth, 80 S. Dennis, 81 N. Harwich, 83 Harv. ich, 84\\nBrewster, 89 E. Brewster. 92 Orleans, 94 Eastham, 97 N. Easthani, 103 S.\\nWcimoot, 100 Wellficet, 109 S. Truro, 111 Truro, 114 N. Truro, 120 Brov-\\nuicetown.\\nThe train leaves the. Old-Colony station, at the corner of Kneeland and\\nSouth Sts,, and runs S. across Fort Point Channel and hy S. Boston.\\nThence it runs down through the villages of the Dorchester District, with\\nfrequent views of the bay on the I. The beautiful cluster of villas on\\nSavin Hill, the high-placed ]Meeting-House Hill, and commercial Nepon-\\nset, where it crosses the Neponset River, are passed. Beyond Atlantic\\nand the modern hill-village of \\\\Vollaston Heights the line runs by ancient\\nQuincy. John Hancock was born in a house now standing, S. of Quincy\\nand tlie old John-A lams mansion is near by, at the foot of Payne Hill.\\nAdams Street is N. W. of the station, towards Wollaston Heights, and\\nis one of the stateliest avenues in New England, curving gracefully around\\nthe hill and passing a line of dignified old mansions^ with venei able trees,\\nbright gardens, and well-kept terraces. The tirst house on the r. across", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0092.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO CAPE COD. Rovte 6. 53 6.\\nthe railroad, in the midst of lofty trees, is tlie ancient Adams mansion,\\nnow occupied by Ciiarles Fi ancis, of that ilk. On the opposite hill is an-\\nother estate pertaining to the same family. Farther up the street are\\ntTie beautiful Greenough houses, the one ancient and stately, the other\\nmodern and cheerful, A cart-road leads from A iams St. to the granite-\\nquarries on J/; Ararat, a high hill which commands an interesting view.\\nThe estate and house of John Quiiicy Adams, Jr., are near Mt. Wollas-\\nton, Ilougli s Heck {Great- mil Hoxise) projects into the harbor, be-\\ntween Quincy and Weymouth Bays, and is the site of the Sailors Snug\\nJarbor, one of Boston s pet charities. On the end of tha peninsula is the\\naigli bluff known as Quincy Great Hill, overlooking tlie harljor. Tlie\\nSouth-Shore Railroad diverges from Braintree and the Plymouth Branch\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iYoni S. Braintree.\\nThe first station beyond S. Braintree is Holbrook, a prosperous shoe-\\nmanufacturing village, v/ith a Gothic town-hall and public library, the\\nhands(nne Winthrop Church, and the ancient Adams mansion, with its\\nfamous elm-tree. Franklin St. is 3 M. long, N. and S., on high ground,\\nand is lined v/ith fine old estates. Station, E. Stourfhton, a place of 1,100\\ninhabitants, devoted to shoemaking, with a paper and several churches.\\nThe scenery in the vicinity is hilly and })icturesque. Brockton {Brock-\\nton House), the only city in Plymouth County, has 18,000 inhabitants, with\\n6 papers, a library, 6 churches, and large manufactories of shoes and shoe-\\ntools, furniture, etc. The country-trade is very lucrative. Main St. is\\nseveral miles long, parallel with the railroad, and is a wide and well-shaded\\navenue. Brockton lost 50 men in the Secession War. Ilorse-cars to Cam-\\nyndlo; and ten lines of stages to adjacent tovv us. Campello is a manufac-\\nturing hamlet, 1^ M. S with a considerable Swedish population.\\n4-5 M. W. of Brockton, liy the West-Shave road, is Kortli Kaston, wliere\\n3 5 of tlie sliovels made in the world are turned out at Ames s great laetories.\\nThe 1ie;uitiful memmial churcli of the Unitarians, the villas of the Ames family,\\ntlie hi;,^h-se!iool (for whieh tlie Ameses gave $40,00 and the rural cemetery are\\nwoi tliy of notice. The town has 2 banks, a library, a i)aper, 6 ehurehes, and\\nabout 4,000 inhabitants.\\nThe train runs S. from Brockton near the Salisbury-Plain River, and\\npasses two small stations. Bridgewater {Ilijland Ilnuse) is a pros-\\nperous village with great brickyards, iron foundries, manufactories of\\ncotton-gins, nails, tubes, etc., and machine-works covering ten acres.\\nTlie town has about 4,000 inhabitants, 6 churches, an academy, and one\\noF the normal schools of the State.\\nTlie Indian domain of Xnnkcf.cst was bought of Massasoit by Miles\\nStar.dish in 1645, and named Bridgewater, after a town in old Somerset-\\nshire. In 1740, Hugh Orr erected a trip-hammer here (on IMatfield\\nRiver), and in 1748 made oOO muskets (tlie hrst made in America) for the", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0093.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "54: Route G. BOSTON TO CAPE COD.\\nProvince of Mass. In tlie Revolution lie made great numbers of iron\\nand brass cannon and caniiou-balls for the Continental army. Duriiip the\\nSecession War 700 men were kept at work here, night and day, for the\\nNational Government.\\nA branch railmail runs N. E. to Elmwood E. Bridgewater, a growing villafre,\\nwith 5 clnirches, 2 iiajicis, chain and cotton-y;in works, and various nianul ac-\\ntories and S. Abington, in a town wliicdi is famous fm- a)ii les\\nand nnlk, and lor ius maimlactories of boots and shoes, boxes and tac-ks. i he\\ntown has 2 banks, 3 ])apers, 9 churches, 4(5 sclio ds, and\\n3 ])nsts of tlie G. A. R. Abin.!:, tnn was founded in 1648, on tlie Indian donnin of\\nlyianamooskeagin. and sent 1,100 men against the Slaveholders Eebellion, of\\nwhom 100 were lost.\\nlieyond Bri lgewater the Cape-Cod train passes TUicvt, and soon reaches\\nMiddleborough {Namaskct House), where several railroads unite. This\\nis a i)rosperous town of 5,000 inhabitants, several villages, 7 churches, a\\npaper, an academy, a handsome town-hall, a public library, and manu-\\nfactories of straw-goods, shovels, shoes, boxes, broadcloths, etc. A little\\nway to the S. are the great Lakcville Ponds and on the E. is the town\\nof Carver, with its broad lake-strewn and deer-haunted forests, beyond\\nwhich is the ancient wilderness of Plymouth. S. of Middleborough is\\nthe secluded town of Rochester, with a pleasant handet in the N., near\\nGreat Quittacus Pond and Snippatuit Pond.\\nBetween S. Braintree and Fall River the Old Colony R. R has two lines, eastern\\nand western, several miles apart. On the western line (the sliorter of the two) the\\nste:imb(i:it trains run, while the eastern line, running E. of 8. from Boston to\\nMiddleboro, here turns sharply to the S. W. to Fall KiTer and Newport. From\\nMiddleboro to Fall River by the niidn (eastern) line is 14 M., passing stations Lide-\\ni-iile, M;/ricks^ and Assonct. A branch runs from Miiklleboro to Taunton direct, a\\ndistance of 10^ M. (fare, 40c.), passing the stations LakcriUe, Chacc s, E. TaiDiloii-,\\nand Weir. 3 -4 M S of Middleboro is a cluster of great ponds, abounding in fish.\\nAsowaiiisett Pond (LakeviUe House) is the largest sheet of fresh water in the State,\\nand contains 6-8 square nnies. On its shores .-ipt. Dernu^r was received by the\\nWainpanoag sachems in IGlU, and here the Anti-English chiel, Corbitant, revolted\\nagainst Massasoit, in 1G21, and seized the Plymouth envoys. Standish promptly\\nniarcheil forth, fell upon Corbitant s camp by night, and achieved success in the\\nfirst warlike expedition made from Plymouth.\\nThe Cape Cod Division of the 0. C. R. R. begins at Middleboro.\\nStations, Rock, S. Middleboro, and Tremont.\\nFrom Tremont the Fairhaven Branch runs to New Bedford (IG M.), passing the\\nstations Marion, Mattajpoisett, and Fairhaven. 3 M. S. of Marion station (()ld\\nLanding), passing Sip])i( an village, is White House Beach, fronting on Sippican\\nHarbor. 3-4 M. from Marion station is a high iiromontory, surrounded on three\\nsides by Buzzards Bay and Wing s Cove, on which is a favorite sunnner hotel, the\\nGreat Hill House. Mattapoisctt (Mattapoisett House) is a small village near\\nBuzzards Bay, with fine water-views and large inland forests. The fishing in the\\ninlets is fine.\\nBeyond Tremont and Warcham {Kendrich Uotel), the Cape-Cod train\\naffords pleasant views down the N. inlets of Buzzards Bay. 1 M. from\\nWareham (by branch track) is Onset Bslj (Prospect-Park House, etc.),\\na new seaside resort, where great Spiritualist camp-meetings are held.\\nThe far-viewing Tempers KnvO, Wldcc^t Jduud, and Indtptiidbnce PuluL", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0094.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO CAPE COD. Route 6. 55\\nare near by. Steamers run from Wareham to the Great-Hill House. At\\nBuzzards-Bay station, the line to Wood s Holl (see page 68) diverges.\\nSoon after, the Straits between Buzzards and Buttermilk Bays are crossed,\\nand then follow the stations, Monument, N. Sandwich, W. Sandwich,\\nand Saiiclwich. The Cape extends E. from Sandwich 35 M., and thence\\nN. and N. W. 30 more, in all 65, and has an average breadth of 5 M.\\nIt is nearly all sand, with boulders dropped on it here and there. Hitch-\\ncock thinks that the ocean has eaten out Boston Harbor, and other bays,\\nand built Cape Cod of the minute fragments. A thin layer of soil\\nreaches as far as Truro; but there are many holes and rents in this\\nweather-beaten garment not likely to be stitched in time, which reveal\\nthe naked flesh of the Cape, and its extremity is completely bare.\\nIt is believed that the shores of Cape Cod are the Furdustrandas (WoiKler-\\nStrands) discovered by Tliorhall, the Norseinan, in the year 1007. Wlien they\\nwere ready, and their sail hoisted, Tliorhall sang Let us return where our people\\nare. Ijet us make a bird (vessel), skilful to fly through the heaven of sand, to ex-\\nplore the broad track of shi])s while warriors who impel to the tempest of\\nswords, who praise the land, inhabit Wonder-Strands, and cook whales. lu\\n1524, Verrazzani, in the frigate Dauphin, coasted about Cape Cod, wliich is\\nprobably his Cape Arenas, and in 1525, the Portuguese mariner Gomez, explored\\nand mapped much of southei u New England. The first Anglu-iSaxon in New\\nEngland was Capt. Gosnold, who coasted and named Cape Cod in the year 1602,\\nhaving caught many codlish thereabouts, and landed at different points.\\nIn 1604, Champlain visited this locality, and named it Cap Blanc (White Cape),\\nbecause the sand contrasted so with the darlc rocls;s of the nortliern coasts. A\\nharbor on the S. E. he named Mallebarre, which name still clings to the S. E.\\nCape. In 1609, Hendrick Hudson, with a vessel of the Dutch E. I. Comiiany,\\nrediscovered Cape Cod, naming it New Holland, and found a mermaiil near by,\\ncouceriiing which (or whom) he gives a curious account. In 1614, Cayit. Jolui\\nSmith visited the Cape, and describes it as a headland of Ingli hills of sand,\\novergrown with shrubby pines, hurts, and sucli trasli, but an excellent harbor for\\nall weather. Prince Charles, his patnui, named it Cape James, but the name\\ndid not take. About this time tlie infamous Capt. Hunt kidnapped a ship-load\\nof Indians from the coast, so when Harlow landed at the Cape late in 1614, he\\nwas attacked, and only escaped (with loss) by cannonading the attacking flotilla\\nof canoes. In 1616, a French ship grounded or anchored near the Cape, was car-\\nried by boarding, and the Indians killed all on board save four, whom they sent\\nfar and wide through the country as curious trophies. The luM-rible pestilence\\nwhich immediately after passed over Massachusetts, was attributed by the Indian\\ndoctors to this fact. In 1620, the vanguard of the Pilgrims appeared in one of\\nthe Cape harbors, and erelong many villages sprang up here. In 1623, the blame-\\nless chiefs, Cawnaeome, Sachem of Manomet (Sandwich), Asiunet of Nauset\\n(Chatham), and lyanougli of Cummaquid (Barnstable), were with the council at\\nWeymouth when Standish made his attack. They escaped and hid in tlie swamps\\nof the Cape, where they soon died of sorrow and privation, and too late it was\\nIiroven that they wore perfectly innocent. Notwithstanding their unfavorable\\nexperiences of Christian civilization, the Cape Indians passed under its ijitluenc.e,\\nand soon 6 Indian churches and IS assemblies, with 24 native pastor.s, were num-\\nbered there. Consequently, at the outbreak of the war of 1675, they repudiated\\ntheir ancient allegiance to King Philip, and remained faithful to the colonists.\\nSandwich {Central House) is a town of 3,800 inhabitants, with a\\npaper, 10 churches, and 33,000 acres of wild forest. It manufacture.s\\nflint and colored glass (600 workmen). The village is near Cape-Cod Bay.\\nFrom W. jBarris^aWe station stages run to Cotnit Port, the home of\\ngonial sportsmen/ 6-7 M. distant, on the S. shore of the Cape. The", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0095.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "56 Route 6. BOSTON TO CAPE COD.\\nhighlands ahout the little harbor on which the village is situated are\\npartly clothed witii pine woods and interspersed with many fresh ponds.\\nThe Santuit House, near the teaches on the S. shore, is much visited in\\nsummer. Barnstahle is a quiet village with the county buildings.\\nOn Great Neck, in IMarslipee (Massapee), a few M. W. of Cotuit Port, was the\\nchief village of tlie Cape Inuiaiis who dwelt on this vesen ation. In 1G58, Rich-\\nard Bourne went there as a missionary, and formed a church of which he was\\npastor until his death in 1G85. Before King Philip s War there were 10,000\\nChristian Indians in New England. Many of these, including scores of the Mas-\\nsapees, were killed fighting for their white bretlu^en, or else, remaining neutral,\\nwere treated ])itilcssiy by the colonists. Nearly every man of the Massapee.\\njoined the 1st Mass. Reg. in 1775, and but few returned. Gideon Hawley (Yah-\\nCollege, 174 .i) preachesl here 17- )8 1S07. Marsh])ee now has 348 inhabitants.\\nOslerville is on the S. shore, and is a siuunier-resort (Cotocheeset House).\\n8-4 .M. N. 10 is Centrevilh, with the Soldiers Monument; and the picturesque\\nGreat Pond (750 acres) is just to the N. Barnstable is the best farming town on\\nthe Cape, and has also a large lleet. The town has 4,800 inhabitants, 11 churches,\\na paper, and 2G schools. It was visited by the Pilgrims in Nov., 1G20, and set-\\ntled in l(J3i). The cliief iiroductinns are salt hay, wood, butter, fish, corn, pota-\\ntoes, and cranberries. Carriages from W. Barnstable station to Osterville 8.^ M.\\nBarnstable (Globe House) is a ver}^ quaint old place, near a deep bay.\\nYarmouth^ settled in IG-SQj has 4 villages, 2,000 inhabitants, and many\\nvessels.\\nA branch railroad runs to Hvannis (hfnvm/gh Hnvxp), a decadent S. -shore port\\nand sunr.ncr-resort. U M. S \\\\V. is Hi/an iis P(r^ (Ilallett IIou e1 and 2 M. W.\\nis Cenireville (SaMn n Hnuse Cheqiuwucf Ifniise 10 a week).\\nS. Yarmouth station is 2 M. from the village (Howes Hott l). From S.\\nDennis (Nicker.son House) dailv sfnges to E. and W. Dennis. From\\nHarwich (Central, Phie-Gmre), stages 2 jM. to ILmrich Port (Sca-VicAv\\nHouse), and 8 M. to Chathnm (Ocean House). Brewster (Ocean TIovi^i\\nis U ]\\\\r. from its station, near Cape-Cod Ray. Large and singular bouldtis\\nare found iiere. Many sailors and captains belong in this town, and Orlear.a\\n(Shattuck House), and Kastham, which was .settled by the Pilgrims in IH U.\\nunder the k ad of Thomas Prince, who was for sixteen years govern-\\nor of Plymouth. A fortified church, twenty ft. square, was built, and\\na j)art of every stranded whale was by law reserved for the ministry.\\nAt Millennitmi Grove In this town were long held extensive camp-meet-\\nings. The line now passes, on the E., the broad, sandy plains of Nauset.\\nStations, N. Easthavi (Nauset House), S. WeUflcet, Wellflect (Ilolbrook\\nHotel). WellHeet Bay opens on Cape Cod Bay, and is sheltered by a\\nline of islands. The town has 2,135 inhabitants, a fishing-Heet, 3\\nchurches, and a soldiers monument. Its territory is covered with sand-\\nhills and pine-plains, among which are 15 fresh-water ponds and the\\nclimate is remarkably healthy. Truro is to the N., with 1,269 inhabi-\\ntants, 3 churches, 3 villages, and many ponds. It is a sandy desert, on\\none of whose beaches the British frigate Somerset was wrecked in\\n1778, and 480 men made prisoners. Near Wellflect, in 171S, the \\\\^nji-\\ndah, a pirate-ship mounting 23 guns, was wrecked, and 130 buccaneers\\nwere drowned. Truro was settled in 1700, imder the name of Daiiger-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0096.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO CAPE COD. Route 6. 57\\nfield, as it has perhaps the most fatal coast in New England. Scores of\\nvessels have been dashed in pieces on its shore, and hundreds of lives\\nhave been lost. There is scarcely a family in Truro, or indeed on the\\nwhole Cape E. of Barnstable, but has lost some member by the disasters\\nof tlie sea. Truro lost 57 men and 7 vessels, and Dennis lost 28 men in\\none day of 1841. The lofty Fresnel burners of the famous Highland.\\nLight shed a vivid radiance over leagues of rude coast and deep sea. vV.\\nTruro has farm boarding-houses, noble ocean scenery, and perfect quiet.\\nThoreau walked from Orleans to Pro^ inoetown (several days) on the ocean side\\nof this sand-bar in the midst of tlie sea, and says\\nTlie nearest beach to us on the east wns on the coast of Galieia, in Spain,\\nwhose capital is Santiago, though by old jfoets reckoning it should have been\\nAtlantis or the Hesperides but heaven is found to be farther west now. At first\\nwe were abreast of that part of Portugal entre Douro e Mino, and then Galieia\\nand the port of Pontevedi-o opened to us as we walked along but we did not en-\\nter, the breakers ran so high. Tlie bold headland of Cape Finisterre, a little north\\nof east, .jutted toward tis next, with its vain brag, for we flung back, Here is\\nCape Cod, Cape Land s Beginning. A little iuileutation toward the north\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for\\nthe land loomed to our imaginations like a common mirage we knew was the\\nBay of Biscay, and we sang\\nThere we lay till next day,\\nIn the iJay of Biscay, O\\nA little south of east was Palos, where Columbus weighed anchor, and farther\\nyet the pillars which Hercules set up.\\nTruro is a village where its able-bodied men are all ploughing the ocean\\ntogether as a common field. In N. Truro the women and girls may sit at their\\ndoors and see Avhere their husbands and brothers are harvesting their mackerel\\n15-20 M. off, on the sea, with hundreds of white harvest- wagons.\\nThe 2nd Mass. Continental Regiment marched from this E. end of the Cape,\\nand tl;e eight E. towns sent 2,000 soldiers against the Rebellion.\\nIn Nov., 1620, Standish and 16 men, with nuisket, sword, and corslet,\\nlauded at Long Point, Provincetown, chased the unresisting Indians into Truro,\\npillaged many graves, and carried ofT everything portable. They were attacked in\\nEaotliam, by Indians, but the arrows fell harmlessly from their corslets, while\\nthe musket-shot told on the half-clad red men.\\nProvincetO Wn (G lffoj-d House Central; Pilgrim; Aflnntic each \u00c2\u00a78-\\n10 a week), is a curious marine village, with 4,000 inhabitants, a large\\nfleet, 5 churches, a paper, public library, sohliers monument, and 2 banks.\\nThe street is o M. long, running around the harbor. Fine water-views are\\nenjoyed from Town Hill. Daily steamer to Boston, 50 INI.\\nThe Harbor is a noble one, broad and clear, and is the favorite refuge\\nof the fishing fleets. The energies of the townsmen are devoted to the\\nfisheries of mackerel, cod, .and sperm-whales, in whose pursuit tliey\\nsearch the wildest and most distant banks and bays of the N. Atlantic.\\nThe village lies along the b .\\\\ach between the sea and the desert, an in-\\nhabited beacli, where fisliernien cure and store their fish, wiLhoiit any\\nback country, save ocean-breasting knolls of v/hite sand.\\nThis is the last town in that strange region where the people are said to be\\nmore purely the descendants of the Puritans than the inhabitants of any other\\npart of the State. From these shores come the most daring and skilful of\\nAmerican seamen. Wherever over the world you see the stars and stripes float-\\ning, you may have good lio]ie that l)enoath them some one will be found who can\\ntell you the soundings of Barnstable, or Wellfleet, or Chatham Harbor. Cape", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0097.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "58 n.oute 7. BOSTON TO LIARTHA S VINEYARD\\nCod is the hare and bended arm of Jrassacliusetts the shoulder is at BTizzarda\\nBay the elbow, or crazy-bone, at Cai)e Malebarre the wrist at Truro, and the\\nsandy fist at Provineetown, behind wiiicli the State stands on her guard, with\\nher bacl: to tlie Green j\\\\Its., and lier feet i)lanted on the floor of the Orean, like\\nan atlilete, protecting her Bay, boxing with N. E. stonns, and, ever and anon,\\nheaving up her Atlantic adversary from the lap of eartli, ready to thrust for-\\nward her other fist, which l eeps guard the while upon her breast at Cape Ann.\\nThe era of constitutional government dawned ui on the world, when, on Nov.\\n11, 1()20, the storm-tossed Mayflower anchored in Provineetown Harbor. Here,\\non the bleak shores of a barren wilderness, in the midst of desolation, with\\ntlie blast of winter howling around them, and surrounded with dangers in\\ntheir most awful and appalHng forms, the Pilgrims of Leyden laid the foumlations\\nof American liberty. While the Mayflower lay in this harbor, that celebrated\\ncompact was drawn up and signed, which long governed Plymouth and her de-\\njiemlencies, and of which J. Q. Adams says This is, perhajis, the only instance\\nin human history of that positive original social compact which sjveculative\\njiliilosophers have imagined as the only legitimate source of government. This\\nsolemn compact (given below) was signed i)y 41 men (of Avhom -21 died in the next\\nfour months), 17 of whom had their wives with them, the remaining 43 persons\\nbeing young people and children.\\nIn the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal\\nsulijects of our dread sovercii;-n lord. King James, by the grace of God, of Great\\nBritain, France, and Ireland. King, defender of the faith, c., having undertaken,\\nfor the glory o, God, and advancement of the Cliristian faith, and honor of our\\nking and country, a voyage to plant tlie first colony in the northern parts of Vir-\\nginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the j)resence of God and\\nof one another, covenant and combine ourselves togetlier into a civil body politic,\\nfor our lietter ordering and preservation, and furtlierance of the ends aforesaid;\\nand by virtue hei eof to enact, constittite, and frame such just and equal laws,\\nordinances, acts, constitutions, and ottices, from time to time, as shall be thought\\nmost meet and exi)edient for the general good of the colony unto v/hich Ave\\npromise all due submission and obedience. In Avitness whereof Ave have hereun-\\nder inscribed our names, at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the\\nreign of our soverign lord. King James, of England. France, and Ireland, the\\nIStli, and of Scotland the 54th, Anno Domini, IG^O.\\n7. Boston to Martha s Vineyard and Nantacket.\\nVia Old Colony R. R. and Steamers. To Martha s Vineyard, 7S M., 3^ hrs.\\nNew York to Martha s Vineyard. To Fall River by steamboat, and thence to\\nWood s HoU by rail, whence the steamer runs to the Vineyard ^25 M. in all).\\nTo Buzzard s Bay, see Route 6. Crossing Monument River, the line\\nruns on to Monument Beach (Stearns House); Pocasset, near the sea-\\nvieAving Pocasset Heigllts (Pocasset-B eiy Ids House Bay View), where\\ndAvell many summer-cottagers from Boston (steam-yacht to Onset Bay);\\nN. Falmouth, near Cataumut Harbor, and the game-haunted Coonemossett\\nPond; W. Falmouth; and Falmouth {Hutd Falmouth), the chief vil-\\nlage in a toAvn of 2,400 inhabitants, Avitii 9 clmrches, academy, bank, 40\\nponds, and 140 farms. Falmouth was incorporated in 1G8G, on the Indian\\ndomain of Succanesset; and in 1814 was bombarded by the British\\nfrigate Nimrod. 3 M. E. is the Menauhant House. Faimouth Heights\\nTowej \\\\s Hotel) is a summer-resort, 1 M. S. E. of Fahuouth, fronting\\non Vineyard Sound, Avith high bluffs, and including 1 M. of beach, 2 small\\nlakes, several groves, and numerous summer-cottages. On the E., be-\\nyond Waquoit village, is the Indian reservation of ^fashpee. Wood s\\nHell is near Nobska llill and the Elizabeth Islands (page U2). It is a", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0098.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "MAKTHA S VINEYAKD. Route?. 59\\nsafe harbor, where the railroad connects with the steamboat, which crosses\\nthe Sound to Martha s Vineyard in 7 M. The Webster House is much\\nvisited in summer.\\nMartha s Vineyard.\\nSea-View House, gas-lighted, steam-heated, with elevator, billiard-room, c.,\\naccommodates 250 guests, iff 4.50 per day Ilighlaud House. Ou Circuit Avenue,\\niu Cottage City, are several good hotels, ou the Eurojjeau plau: Wesley House,\\nPawnee llouse, Central, Island, c.\\nRestaurants at the l*aviUou, Wesley, and Pawuee Houses, c.\\nPleasure-Boa ts at the Sea-Viow House.\\nSea-baths at the bathing-liouses, on Circuit Avenue beyond Ocean Parlt (30c.).\\nWinslow s skatiug-rink. Episcopal Church, ou Lake Ave.\\nIn May, lu02, Capt. Gosnold coasted the isLuid on tlie S., and landed on a bar-\\nren islet (No Man s Land) to the 8. W. whicli he named Martha s Vineyard. He\\ntlieu landed on this island (then called Nope), and found, iu S. E. Cliilmark, deer\\nand all kind of game, spvin^js and a Lilie of i)ure fresh water, four kinds of lier-\\nries iu profusion, and trees loaded with fruitful vines. Probaljly then, or dm-\\ning las stay at Cuttyhunk (over three weelcs) the name was transferred from No\\nMan s Land to its present pos^-cssor. The name is thought to have been given in\\nhonor of some friend of tlie Captain s, or else for the lady of some one of his\\npatrons. (A newspaper correspondent states that the oldest inhabitant, who\\novv^ned these isles, gave them to his daughters ere he died. Riioda took Rhode\\nIsland, Elizabeth took the island since named for her, Martha took and named\\nMartha s Vineyard, and as for tlie reriiaining i-jland, Nan-took-it. The legend is\\ninteresting, but cannot be traced back farther than the year 1870.) From this\\nisland and the neighboring main, Gosnold and Fring (1G03) got large cargoes of\\nsassafras, then esteemed a sovereign specific in Europe. In 1G14, Capt. Hunt\\nstole 27 Indians at Eastham, on Cape Cod, and sold them as slaves at Malaga, for\\n100 each. One of them, Epenow, was carried to England, where tiie sly fel-\\nlow told of vast gold-mines on this island. A ship was sent over, at great ex-\\npense, with Epenow to show the place, but as soon as he saw the shore, he leaped\\nover, swam to land, and was not seen again until Capt. Dcrmer landed here in\\n1619. In a dashing attack conducted by Epenow, the Captain and many of his\\nmen were killed and woundeil. In lo47, Thomas Mayliew, Governor of the Islands\\nby grant from the Eail of ytirling, settled at Edgartown. The lordship of the\\nisles remained in the Mayhew family fi om 1G41 to 1710, during which time the\\nkindness of these men won the hearts of the natives. Tlie Mayhews were all\\nmissionaries, and, learning tlie Indian language, preached with sucli success that\\nChristian villages arose all over the island. During King Philip s V/ar, the con-\\nverts remained true, and guarded the sliores. About 1060, some Quakers landed\\nhere calling the Puritan pastors priests of Baal, but the Indians soon drove\\nthem (jff. Gookiu visited the island in 1674, and fomid six towns of Christian\\nIndians, a very fruitful Vineyard unto the Lord of Hosts. For a century the\\nIndians slowly dwindled, and the coasting ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0essels began to frequent Holmes Hole\\nin yearly increasing numbers. In 177S, Lord Gray (who defeated Wayne at Paoli)\\nAvith a British force, destroyed a large niunber of \\\\-essels in the Hole. In 1S35, 9\\ntents were pitched at the present (Jamp-Grounds, and the first camp-meeting ou\\nthe island was held.\\nTlie Wesleyau Grove, or Camp-Meeting Grormd, is near the Sea View\\nHouse and is laid out iu gracefully curved streets, grass-paved and crowded\\nwith small but vigorous trees. Near Trinity Park, a wide lawn, is the\\ngreat tabernacle tent 160 by 120 ft. which can shelter 5,000 persons.\\nTliis is the centre of intense excitement during the meetings in late\\nAugust, when from 20,000 to 25,000 people are gathered here, and emi-\\nnent Methodist preachers address them. Lake Anthony borders the N\\nand W. of the ground, and beyond it, on the high bluffs toward East", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0099.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "60 Route?. MARTHA S VINEYAED.\\nChop LiiJ^ht, the Hiiclilands have been laid out. Cottage City was laid\\nout in 1808, on bluffs ^jO ft. hii^di fronting on Vineyard Sound, and now\\ncontains man} hundreds of handsome siimnier-cottages, surrounded by oak-\\ngroves and connected by avenues. A narrow-gauge railroad and the Sea-\\nView Boulevard follow the siiore S. E. to Edgartown (6 M.) and Katania.\\nEdgartown {Atlantic; Seaside) was founded in 1647 by Gov. Mayliew,\\nand is the capital of Dukes County. The harbor is sheltered by Chap-\\npaquiddick Island (5 M. long and 2 M. wide). The town has 1,300 in-\\nhabitants, a fleet, bank, paper, library, and 3 churches. It has become\\ndecadent since the decline of the whale-fishery.\\nKatama is 4 M. S. of Edgartown, and is a summer-resort on tlie lake-\\nlike Katama Bay (5 M. long), with numerous cottages and the handsome\\nhotel called Mattakeset Lodge. Katama has good facilities for boating,\\nbathing, and driving; also for fishing and bird-shooting.\\nBy walking to the East Chop Eight, a view is gained of Holmes Hole,\\nor Vineyard Haven (Mansion House), one of the most famous harbors on\\nthe coast, where, in seasons of stoi m, hundreds of vessels take shelter\\nunder the lofty bluffs. Through Vineyard Sound passes the vast and\\nunceasing procession of commerce from New York and Southern New\\nEngland to Boston and the East. The island is 21 M. long, and has 4,300\\ninhabitants.\\n20-25 M. S. W. of Oak BlufTs is Gayliead, near which is the Devil s Den, a\\nwild spot where the old Indian traditions say tliat llie giant Mosliup lived, v iio\\ncauglit Vv-hales and roasted tiieni on trees wiiich he tore up by tlie roots. He\\nTiictamoryhosed liis children into iJsii, and, on his wife s lamenting, he threw her\\nto Seconnet, where slie dwelt and levied contributions on all who passed the\\nrocks, until she herself became a rock. Then Moshnp disai)i)eared from Imman\\nsight and luiowlcdge. Gay Head is the most remarkahle natural curiosity in\\nNew England. The sea-view from the lighthouse is grand. Never since I\\nstood on Table Rock have I seen a sight so grand as this. General Twiggs.\\nAbout this promontory several score of half-breed Indians live a strange unsettled\\nlife. The remarkable clitfs by the shore have been closely studied by Prof. Hitch-\\ncock and Sir Charles Lyell. the latter describing them as the lofty cliils of Gay-\\nbond, more than 200 ft. high, where the highly inclined tertiary strata arc gayly\\ncolored, some consisting (it light red clays, others of white, yellow, and green,\\nand some of black lignite. Here the steamship City of Columbus was wrecked, in\\n1884, and 100 lives were lost.\\nNantucket\\nis 28-30 jNI. from Martha s Vineyard, and connected with it by a daily\\nsteamer. After leaving the Vineyard astern, the islands of Muskeget and\\nTuckernuck are seen in the S., and the low shores of Nantucket. The\\ntown of Nantucket has a fine appearance from the sea.\\nThe hotels are the Ocean IIou.=;e, Springfield, Shelburne, Bay View, Veranda,\\nAmerican, c., and many quiet boarding-houses. Narrow-gauge railroad to Siii f-\\nsi le Surfside Ilolel), a new cottage-colony on the S. shore and to Sia.sconset.\\n*The Nantuclctt is a large new hotel on Brant Point, at the mouth of the harbor.\\nThe Indian tradition is that t lc Great Si)irit was once smoking, when he partly\\ntilled his pipe with sand. When the mixed remains were emptied from the ))i]ie\\ninto the sea, they formed the Island of Nantucket. Its name is said to be an", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0100.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "AND NANTUCKET. Route 7. 61\\nIndian modification nf Nautikon, a name left by the Norsemen who visited it in\\nt la 11th century. The best authority pronounces it a corruiition of an Indian\\nv/ord meaning iar away. It is called Natocko on the map of 1630. It was\\nvisited by Gosnold in lij02, at which time about 1,500 Indians were here, and the\\nisland was covered with oaks. In 1604, Champlain and Poutrinconrt landed here\\nand remained several diiys, for the relief of those men of tlieir command w lo\\nhad been wounded in a battle with tlie Indians at Chatliam. Weary and dis-\\nspirited, they ceased their explorations here, and returned to Port P.oyal, naming\\nthese sad shores Isle Uouteuse. In 16U, Mayhew was made Governor of\\nthe Islands, his sway extending here. In 16-39, he dee leil jj^, of the island to ten\\nmen for \u00c2\u00a330 ami two beaver hats, and one family moved there, there being then\\n7()0 friendly Iiidians on Nantucket.\\nIn 1G65 King Philip visited his people here, and in 1671 the town Avas incor-\\nporated (.at ^laddefiuet, 5-6 M. W. from the present town), and in 1672 moved to\\nits present place. In 1072 the first wh.ale was taken. In 1073 tJie town was called\\nSherburne by the New York Governor, in who e doiiiaiu it was until 1693 (tlie\\nname was retained till 1795). The 700 English had no church or pastor, tiiough\\nthe Indians liad four churches. A white church was forined in 1711. In 1755 -G\\n9 whaliug-slon])s were sunk or captured, and but few men of their crews ever re-\\nturned. In 1704, there were 3,220 whites on tlie island and a iilague, the same\\nyear, swept off of the Indians, leaving but 130. 1,000 Nantucket men died in\\nthe Continental Army. In 17S4 the x oi ulation was larger than it is now. In\\n1S21, 78 ships and SI smaller vessels wexe owned here, and mostly engaged in\\nwhaling. Tlie last Indian died in 1S54. Notwithstanding devastating fires in the\\ntown, Nantucket in 1840 had 9,712 inhabitants.\\nThe town (400 buildings) was burned down in 1846, and the same year\\nthe whaling business began to decline, until now there is but one small\\nvessel engaged in it, and in the town which has houses for 10,000 people\\nthere are but about 3,700. The houses are of a quaint old style, with\\nplatiorms on the roofs (whence to watch the ships coming in). Tlie North\\nCliurch was the first on the island, and was built in 1711. It is still used\\nby the same society as a vestry, and its oaken timbers are hard as iron.\\nM. from the Ocean House, on Centre St., is a small house which was\\nbuilt in 16S2. The hospitality of the old families of Nantucket is famous,\\nand its churches and schools are numerous. Many houses have been\\ntaken down and shipped away, but of Late real estate is rising, as city\\nmen are securing summer homes here. Maiii St., at the head of which\\nis the old Pacific Bank, has tlie shops of the towni (shells and marine\\ncuriosities may be bought here), and is a wide, deserted, grassy street lead-\\ning to the heads of silent and decaymg wharves. The low, sandy beach\\nwhich shelters the harbor stretches N. W. 8-9 M. to Great Point, leav-\\ning a wide and quiet lagoon between it and the island. At the Athenroum\\nis a public library and a museum of marine curiosities and relics of the\\nolder days of Nantucket. Tlie Squantum is a peculiar institution of the\\nisland, being an informal picnic on the beach-sands, where the dinner is\\nmade of fish or other spoils of the sea. Excursions to the fishing grounds\\nare managed by veteran skippers, who let themselves and their boats\\ncheaply. There are rides to the ancient districts on the W. shore, and to\\nthe beaches on the S. shore. Siasconset Ocean- View, 100 guests, 10\\n15 a week; Atlantic), 8 M. from the town, is composed of a cluster of quaint\\nlittle cottages on a high bank fronting the ocean. Surf-bathing here is", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0101.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "62 Routes. HYDE PARK.\\nsafe only when the bathers use ropes, as (he shore descends rapidly. 1 M.\\nN. of Siasconset is Sankoty Head, where a powerful Fresiiel light is elevated\\non a far-viewing bluff 90 ft. high. 1 M. N. of Sankoty Head is the beauti-\\nful Sesacacha Pond, of pure, sweet water and abounding in fish (small inn\\non the shore). In 1G76 a village was built on this pond and remained for\\n140 years; but its last house was torn down in 18-20. Most of the island,\\nover which rambles may be made, consists of high, breezy, sea-viewnng\\nplains, where but few fences or houses are seen, and which the traveller\\nwill call downs, prairies, or pampas, as he happens to come from England,\\nthe West, or Buenos Ayres.\\n8. Boston to Providence and New York.\\nBy the Boston Providence R. R., and the Shore Line to New York (7 hrs.\\\\\\nor by stoaiucr from Stoiiington (12-14 las.)\\nStations. Boston to Roxbury, 2 M. Jamaica Plain, 3o Hyde Park, 7A\\nReadvilie, 8^(Dedliam, D^) Canton, 14 Sharon, 17^ K. Foxborougii, 21^ Mnus-\\nlield, 24; \\\\V. Manstield, 26; Attleboi ougli, 31 Dodgeville, 32; Hebrouville\\nPawtucket, 39 Providence, 43^. Sionington Providence R. R. Auburn, 49\\nHill s Grove, b\\\\k Apponaug, 52^ Greenwich, 5(U Wickford Junction. 67-2-\\nSlucuiii s, 71 Kingstuii, 74 Carolina, SO Wood-River Junction, S3 Nianlic,\\n87 Westerly, 88 iStonington, 94 Mystic, 98 W. Mystic, 99 Noaiik. I(i3\\nGroton New London, 106. Shore Line, N. Y., N. H. H. R. R. Boston to New\\nLondon, 106 M. Waterford, 110 E. Lyme, 114 S. Lyme, 118 Black Hall, 121\\nLyme, 123; Saybrook, 124^; Westbrook, 128; Clinton, 133 Madison, 136; East\\nRiver, 138^ Guilford, 140^ Stony Creek, 145 Branford, 148 East Haven,\\n152 Fairhaven, 154^- New Haven, 150^ N. F., jY. H. R. R. Boston to\\nNew Haven, 156^ M. W. Haven, 150 Milford, 167 Naugatuck Junction, 170;\\nSti-atford, 171 Bridgeport, 175 Fairlield, 180 Southport, 181 Westport, 186\\nS. Norwalk, 189 Darien, 192 Noroton, 194 Stamford, 197 Cos Cob, 200\\nGreenwich, 202 Port Chester, 204 Rye. 206 Harrison, 208 Mamaroneck, 210\\nLarch Manor, 212 New Rochelle, 214 Pelhamville, 215 Mount Yernon, 217\\nWilliams Bridge, 220 New York, 231.\\nThe train leaves the splendid terminal station in Boston (on Cohinihns\\nAve., near the Common), and traverses the made land S. W. of the citj\\nbetween Columbus and Huntington Aves. At Roxbury station it crosses\\nTremont St., and then passes Boylston and Jamaica Plain (see Route 2).\\nAs the train approaches Boylston station, the quaint buildings of the\\nMassachusetts Infant Asylum are seen on the r. Beyond the stations for\\nForest-Hills and Mt.-Hope Cemeteries is Hyda Park {Everett House and\\nWillard H:inse, used also as summer-resorts), a large suburban village,\\nmany of whose citizens are engaged in business in Boston. This town\\nwas incorporated in 1868, and has 7,500 inhabitants, 6 churches, a ])ai)er,\\na library, and several factories. Readmlle is 1.^ M. S., and was occui)ied\\nby great encampments of State troops during the war for the Union.\\nThe roads from Hyde Park and Readville to the E. over Fairniount and\\nthe Blue Hills are full of interest, giving beautiful views in all directions.\\nThe hamlet of Mattapan is 1 M. N. E. of Hyde Park, down the Neponset\\nRiver; and Milton is 4-5 M. E., over the hills. At Read\\\\iile the i res-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0102.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "CANTON. Routes. 62 a.\\nent route meets its Dedham Branch, and the New York New-England\\n11. R. (See also page 37.)\\nDedham {Norfvlh House), the quiet and antiquated capital of Norfolk\\nCoimty, is reached by two branch railroads from the main line, one\\ndiverging at Forest Hills and running 5 M. through W, Roxbury, the\\nother leaving at Readville, and running W. N. W. 1.^ M. The town has\\n6,500 inhabitnts, 10 churches, 2 papers, a bank, a liljrary, a soldiers monu-\\nment (for 47 dead), a handsome Memorial Hall, and a granite court-house.\\nThe streets are 2)leasant and vv ell-shaded, and many Boston merchants\\nhave homes here. The elm-trees completely overarch the streets for long\\ndistances, and the sidewalks are fringed with arbor-vitce. The Charles\\nRiver curves in close to the village on the N. St. Paul s Church (Epis-\\ncopal) is a handsome Gothic structure of stone, on Church St., and near\\nthe ancient cemetery. It has a tall stone s})ire and rich stained win-\\ndows and in its yard is the monument of Alexander Griswold, Bishop\\nof the Eastern Diocese. The Court H mse has Doric colonnades at each\\nend, and is surmounted by a high dome which rises finely over the trees\\nin distant views of the village. In the corner of the enrailed Court-\\nHonse grounds is the ancient Pillar of Liberty, which was set up by the\\nSons of Liberty in 1766. The anti(|uateii Unitarian and Congregational\\nChurches are near the Court House. The County Jail is a massive stone\\nbuilding, in modei n architecture. The Memorial Hall is a graceful stone\\nstructure, not far from the station. Dedham has many ancient mansions,\\nin wide and pleasant grounds, and is by many visitors considered the\\nmost beautiful village in Eastern Massachusetts. It has a large Catholic\\nChurch, a handsome station, and the picturesque Oakdale Cemetery. A\\nbranch of the N. Y. N. E. R. R. reaches Dedham.\\nStages run from the trains to ]V. Dedham, a rural hamlet 3 M. S. W.\\nMill Village is just E. of Dedham, and lias several factories.\\nDedliain was settled ia 1G35, imder the name of Contentment and in 1640 t^ie\\nfirst canal in America was dug liere, to increase the navigable fa-ilities of the\\nNc[ f)nset River by turning into it part of tlie Cliarles River. It i.s 3 M long,\\nfalling GO ft., and is called Mother Brook. The town was fortified and menacc4\\nduring King Pliilip s war (Li570), and sent troop.s to the attack on Havana (,1740),\\nnone of who:n ever returned. iSlie sent 100 soUliers to the Revolutionary armies,\\nand (572 to the Secession War. Fisher Ames was born here in 1758, and was an\\neniinctit lawyer and orator, and a leader in tlie Congress of the Confederation era.\\nBeyond Readville the main line crosses the N. Y. New-England\\nR. R., and ascends the Neponset valley to Canton {Tirrell IIvusc),\\nthe chief place in a town of 4,192 inhabitants, with manuf.ictoi-ies of\\nsilk, cotton, fancy woollens, shovels, rubber, axles, machinery, and cop-\\nper and iron wares. It has 5 churches, a bank, and a high school and\\noccupies the site of one of the ancient villages of Christian Indians\\nestablished by the Apostle Eliot. To the N. is the picturesque Blire\\nHill, 635 ft. high, overlooking Boston aii l the bay, and many busy vil-\\nlages, Ponka^xxj Pond is near the hilLs, and covers 200 acres. Not", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0103.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "0)2 h. Routes. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nfar from its shore lives Thomas B. Aldrich, the poet. Near the station\\nthe railroad traverses a massive granite viaduct, 600 ft. long and 63 ft.\\nhigh, near which a branch road diverges to Stoughton, on the Old-Colony\\nRailroad.\\nThe line now enters the highland town of Sharon, which has 1,600 in-\\nhabitants, 5 churches, small factories, and forests which yield much fire-\\nwood and charcoal. The Masscqioag House is a pleasant summer-hotel,\\non a hill aboiit 1 M. S. of the station and village, near the pretty Massa-\\npoag Lake, which covers 450 acres, and affords boating, bathing, and\\nlishing. Among tlie bold highlands of Sharon, Moose Hill is most con-\\nspicuous, and commands a rich prospect.\\nBeyond Sharon the line follows the valley between Bear-Foot Hill (r.\\nand Cow Hill, and reaches E. Foxborough, 2 M. E. of Foxborougli Cen-\\ntre {Cocasset House). This picturesque town has 3,168 inhabitants, 3\\nchurches, a park and ornamental cemetery, and a handsome granite\\nmemorial building in honor of its dead soldiers (used by the public li-\\nbrary). The specialty of Foxborough is straw hats and bonnets, whose\\nmanufacture engages over 1,600 persons.\\nAt Mansfield {Mnnsjidd House) the line meets railroads to New Bed-\\nford (31 M.) and S. Framingham (21^ M.). This town has 2,050 inhabi-\\ntants, 7 churches, and several small factories. Most of the people are\\nengaged in farming, on level lands of dubious value. W. Mansfield is a\\npretty hamlet, near Wading River.\\nAttleborough (Park-St. Hotel) is a prosperous village which contains\\nnearly 50 manufactories of gold and plated jewelry of all kinds, besides\\n3 cotton-mills, and other industries. The town was settled in 1069, and con-\\ntains 12,000 inhabitants, 2 banks, a paper, a farmer s hall, and 8 churches.\\nBranch niilroads run from Attleborouuh to N. Attlehorn iijh (o M.) and to Tauii-\\niOH (II M.), the latter of which crosses Norton, the seat of the Vvheaton Female\\nHeniinarv. iStages run to Plaiuville, S. Attleborougli (4 M N. Rchol.otli (fi M.).\\nand Kehoboth (11 M.). Rehoboth is a Hebrew name j.;iv( n by a Pilgriin pastor to\\nthe Indian domain of Seconnct. The town is remote from railroads, and has\\n1,800 inhabitants, 320 farms, G churches, and 5,000 acres of cedar-swamps.\\nBeyond the stations of Dodgeville and Hebronville the train reaches\\nPawtucket, Rhode Island (branch from Ea^t Junction tr Runiford and India\\nPoint).\\nPawtucket (Pawtucket Hotel; Park House) was the scene of a bloody\\naction in 1070. Captain Pierce, with 70 men, was driven back to the river\\nby the Indians, and his party was fairly showered with arrows. When\\nhelp came, not one man was living. At present, Pawtucket is the princi-\\npal thread manufactory in America, and wadding, hair-cloth, rope, braid,\\nc., are made here. Tlie Dunnell Manufacturing Co. has 36 buildings, and\\nprints 22,500,000 yards of calico yearly. The town has 25,000 inhabitants,\\n11 churcliGs, a newspaper, and a pid)lic library. The Pawtucket River\\nfalls here 50 ft., giving a valuable water-power.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0104.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "PROVIDENCE. MouteS. C3\\nProvidence Narmgansett House, corner Broad and Dorrance Sts., an\\neleo:ant new house, $2.50-4 a day; Hotel Dorrance, $2.50-4 a day;\\nAldrich House; Central Hotel, 6-10 Canal St., European plan) is the\\nsecond city, in wealth and population, of Xew Enii:lnnd, and a semi-\\ncapital of Ehode island. It is beautifully situated on hills at the head\\nof Niuragansett Bay, a cove of which lies far in the city and is suirouuded\\nby promenades. The view of the city from the Bay, or from the heights\\nE. of the river, is very pleasing. The China trade was once largely en-\\njoyed by Providence, but .since its loss the energies of the citizens have\\nturned to manufactures, and now large jewelry, iron, stove, and locomo-\\ntive works are kept going. The Corliss engines, the Peabody rifles, the\\nGorham silver-ware, Perry Davis s Pain-Killer, and millions of cigars are\\nmade here. 36 banks take care of the money.\\nProvidence Avas founded and named by Roger Williams, Avho was banished ft om\\nMassachusetts in 1636, for his advanced ideas relative to Church and \u00c2\u00abtate. He\\nwas boi n in Wales, 1599, educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and preached\\nfor some time at Salem, Mass. After his exile he settled at Seel^onk, wlience he\\nwas soon warned away by the Governor of Plymouth. In a canoe, with five\\n(companions, he dropped down the river, until, in passing a cove (near the present\\nIndia St. Bridge), he was ii.iiled by sorae Indians with tlie words, What clieer,\\nNetop? (friend). He lauded in tliis cove on the celebrated What Cheer Rock,\\nand then coasted around to the mouth of Providence River, where he landed and\\nremained. This was in June, 1633. Soon after he visited the Sacliem Canonicns (o;i\\nCanonicut Island) and received a grant of the land hereabouts. In 1639 Williams\\nbecame a Baptist, and in 1643 went to England, and got a charter for the new\\ncolony. In King Philip s War, every house between Stonington and Bridgewater\\n(save Providence) was destroyed, and the little colony was once fiercely atitacked,\\nand lost 30 houses. In the royal census of 1730, Providence had 3,916 inhabitants.\\nDe Warville visited it in 17S8, and reported it decayed, and in the silence of\\ndeath. In ISOO, it had 7,611 inhabitants, and in 1883, 116,755.\\nThe E,. R. station, fronting on Exchange Place, is a large, handsome\\nbuilding, near which is a costly monument, erected by the State in\\nhonor of her dead soldiers. The base of this work is of blue Westerly\\ngranite, bearing the arms of the U. S., and of R. I. Surrounding this\\nare four 7-ft. bronze statues representing the Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery,\\nand the Navy above which is a statue of militant America (10 ft. high),\\nbearing a sword and laurel wreath in one hand, and a wreath of immor-\\ntelles in the other. The names of 1,680 R. I. soldiers who died in the War\\nfor the Union are inscribed on the monument, which was designed by\\nRandolph Rogers, of Rome. Near Exchange Place, and parallel to it, is\\nVv estminster St., the main thoroughfare of the city. From this street to\\nWeybosset St. runs the Arcade, a fine granite building (built 1828), on\\nthe plan of the European galleries, containing a great number of shops\\nranged along a glass-roofed promenade. In the vicinity is the massive\\ngranite building of the Custom House and Post Oflice. The most notabla\\nchurches are St. Joseph and St. Mary (Roman Catholic), the Union\\nCongregational, the Roger Williams Baptist, the ancient First Baptist\\n\\\\society founded 1G39), Grace Church, and St. Stephen s (Episcopal), a", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0105.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "64 Route 8. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nmassive edifice of rugged brown stone, with a deeply recessed chancel, an\\nornate roof, and riclily stained windows. There are 80 churches in the\\ncity. In the S. part, and fronting on the harbor, is the stately building\\nof the E. I. Hospital, surrounded by pleasant grounds. Some distance\\nS. of this, the city is preparing a park on the bold shores of the Narra-\\ngansett Bay.\\nOn the E. side of Providence River are two long business streets and a\\nline of heights covered with residences. On N. Main St., near Presi-\\ndent, is the quaint old church of the First Baptist Society, and beyond it,\\non the corner of S. Court St., is the small brick building used for the\\nState House. Fine views of the sevfeu hills of Providence are gained\\nfrom Benefit St. above the State Hoiise. On the corner of College and\\nBenefit Sts. is the Athenaeum, a sturdy little granite building, con-\\ntaining a library of 42,000 volumes. Several busts are preserved here, and\\nsome fine pamtings, among which are a copy of Stuart s Washington,\\nby Allston portrait of Channing, Allstmi Charles II., long thought to\\nbe by Van Dyk, now held to be by Caspar portraits of Gen. Greene, J.\\nG. Percival, and Phillips Brooke portrait of a young lady, (his niece\\nreading, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, one of his finest works. But the gem\\nof this collection is Malboue s masterpiece, The Hours, painted in\\nwater-colors on a sheet of ivory 6 inches by 7, and presented to the\\nAthenceum in 1853, by 130 subscribers. Tlie picture represents Eunomia,\\nDice, and Irene, the Past, Present, and Future. The President of the\\nRoyal Academy said of it to Monroe, I have seen a picture, painted by\\na young man by the name of Malbone, which no man in England could\\nexcel. On the heights near the Athenaeum is the line of buildings\\n(R. I. College, Hope, Manning, and University Halls, c.), pertaining to\\nBrown TJniversity. There is here a fine library of about 60,000 volumes,\\na rausei;m of Natural History containing 10,000 specimens and in the\\nportrait gallery 38 portraits, some of which are of value.\\nRhode Island College was founded at Warren in 1764, and removed to Provi-\\ndence in 1770. Its buildings served as a hospital for the Franco-Auierican army\\nduring great part of tlie Revolution. Nicholas Brown, and others of that dis-\\ntingi;ished R. I. family, having greatly aided the college, in 1804 its name was\\nchanged to Brown University. Two tliirds of the Boards of Fellows and Trustees\\nare required by the charter to be Baptists.\\nThe hall of the R. I. Historical Society is near the University, and\\ncontains many relics of the Indians and early settlers, together wdth 6,000\\nbooks, 30,000 pamphlets, and 7,000 MSS. On Hope St., N. W. of the\\nUniversity, are the extensive biiildings, surrounded by fine grounds, of the\\nDexter Asylum (for the poor), near which are the ornate buildings of the\\nFriends Boarding School. The Butler Hospital for the Insane has large\\nand stately edifices, surrounded by 115 acres of ornamental grounds, on\\nthe heiehts which look down on the widenings of the Seekonk River", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0106.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nold-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0107.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab5\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nout is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0108.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "PROVIDENCE. Route 8 65\\n(which is the boundary of Massachusetts). N. of the Butler Hospital is\\nSwan Point Cemetery, a beautiful rural necropolis on undulating ground\\nnear the river. The Home for Aged Women is in the S. E. part of the\\ncity. Near the E. end of Power St., on the banks of the rivei is the\\nWhat-Cheer Kock, on which Roger Williams first landed.\\nThe Butler Exchange, near the station, is an imposing 6-story commer-\\ncial building. The Court House (corner Benefit and College Sts.) was\\nfinished in 1877, in Gothic architecture. In a similar style is the High\\nSchool, on Summer St. (built in 1878). The granite City Hall fronts on\\nExchange Place, near the station, and cost over 1,000,000. The Library\\nof Brown University is in a handsome Venetian-Gothic building SaA^es\\nMemorial Hall (built in 1880) is Romanesque, of granite; and Slater Hall\\n(built in 1879) is a modern dormitory The armory of the First Light\\nInfantry is a very large building on South Main St. and the fortress-like\\narmory of the Marine Corps of Artillery is on Benefit St. The Cathedral\\nof SS. Peter and Paul, on High St., is a noble Gothic structure, of rough-\\nfaced red Longmeadow stone, with white-marble clustered columns, up-\\nholding an oaken roof. The Friends meeting-house is on N. Main St.\\nRoger Williams lies buried in the North Burying-Ground; and in the\\nPark is a noble bronze statue of him, on a granite pedestal 27 ft. high,\\nwith a bronze figure of History writing his name on the base. On Stamp-\\ners Hill is the site of the King s Garrison fort, erected in 1656, which did\\nnot save the town from destruction by the Indians twenty years later.\\nThe Whipple house, on Abbott St., dates from before 1670 the Old City\\nBuilding, in Market Sq., from 1773; the Old State House, from 1762 (it\\ncontains a portrait of Washington, by Gilbert Stuart). The Public Library,\\non Snow St., has 16,000 volumes. The city gasometer is crowned by the\\nlargest dome in America (140 ft. in diameter).\\nKoger -Williams Park was given to the city by Betsy Williams, great-\\ngreat-granddaughter of Roger Williams, in 1871; and includes 100 acres\\nof beautifully diversified land, with the venerable gambrel-roofed house\\nof the donor (built in 1775), the What-Cheer Cottage (for refreshments),\\nCrystal Lake, and other attractions.\\nBroad St., a favorite drive, leads to the Park, and to Pawtuxet (4^ M.),\\npassing the popular Park Garden and theatre. Near Cranston are the\\nState Prison, and the Pettaconsett Pumping-Station.\\nTheatres, etc. Low s Grand Opera House, Westminster St., seats 1,800 Music\\nHall, 276 Westminster St., seats 2,200 Providence Opera House, Dorrance St., seats\\n1,500; Theatre Comique, 83 Weybosset St.; Park Garden; Sans-Souci Garden.\\nConcerts by the Arion Club (160 voices), Cecilia Society (100 voices), Liederkranz\\n(80 voices), and Mendelssohn Choral Union (200 voices). Art-Chib rooms, 35\\nN. Main St.\\nBase-Ball Ground s,Messer St. (Olneyville horse-cars). Bicycle Chib, Custom-\\nHouse St. Board of Trade, Market Sq. Caledonian ,S oc((^^//, 142 Westminster\\nSt. Tennis Club, Brook and Manning Sts. Y. M. C. A., 276 Vv^estminster St.\\nHorse-Cars to Olneyville, S. Providence, Pawtucket (10 cts.), Central Falls,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0109.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "65 a Routes. NARRAGANSETT BAY.\\nthe Park, Pawtuxet (12 cts.), Cranston, Swan-Point Cemetery, c., the lines cen-\\ntring at Market Sq. Stages daily to Danielsonville (25 M.).\\nSteamboats daily (in Summer) to Block Island, Mount Hope, c. Several\\ntimes daily to Rocky Point, Newport, Bullock s Point. Riverside, Silver Spring, c.\\nRailroads. From Union Depot, for Boston, New York, c. From India-St.\\nstation, for Warren and Bristol. From Gaspee-St. station for Pascoag.\\nNarragansett Bay.\\nsteamboats leave Providence several times daily for the Bay resorts, Newport,\\nand Block Island. Providence to Rocky Point and back, 40 cts. to Newport and\\nback, 75 cts.; Newport to Rocky Point and back, 40 cts.; Providence to Conanicut\\nPark, 40 cts. to Newport, 50 cts. j 7 boats daily to Rocky Point; 4 to Newport.\\nRunning down from Providence, the boat passes Sassafras Point on the\\nW., with its lighthouse; Field s Point (E.), crowned by the old Fort In-\\ndependence; Squantum Bluff, Ocean Cottage (E.), and Silver Spring,\\nwith Hiram Maxfield s famous clam-bake pavilion, many summer-cottages\\nand diversified scenery. Off-shore are the Pomham Rocks, named for a\\nbrave Narragansett sachem whom the English killed in battle in 1676, and\\nbearing a sturdy lighthouse. Cedar Grove (E. shore), 5 M. from Provi-\\ndence, has an array of cottages, and summer amusements; and close beside\\nit is the great E iverside Hotel, accommodating 200 guests. Farther down,\\non the shore, is the Elliott Hotel. Across the bay stands Pawtuxet, a\\nquiet and lovely village, in front of which, on Fort Hill, near the site of\\na Revolutionary battery, is a group of pretty villas. Farther down, on\\nthe E., is Bullock s Point What-Cheer House), and on the W. is Gaspee\\nPoint, off which the British sloop-of-war Gaspee grounded, while pursuing\\nan American vessel, in 1772, and was surprised, captured, and burnt the\\nfollowing night, by eight boat-loads of Providence men. S. of the point\\nflows Turtle Cove, below which are Mark Rock, anciently known as The\\nNatchez of Rhode Island, and Conimicut Point, Avith its tall lighthouse.\\nNayatt Point {Nayatt-Point House) now opens, on the E., with its\\nquiet villas and emparked grounds, once owned by Massasoit, and later\\nby Miles Standish, On Rumstick Point stands a lighthouse.\\nBeyond Nayatt the bay opens to treble its former width, and the steamer,\\npassing on the VV. the River-View House (75 guests) and Long-Meadow\\nHouse (100 guests), lands at Rocky Point, a rocky and wooded promon-\\ntory midway between Providence and Newport, and crowned by a colossal\\ndining-hall, famous for clam-bakes, with attendant arbors, menagerie,\\nbowling-alleys, observatory, c. 8 15 a week). 1 M. below stands the\\ngpacious Warwick-Neck House, with a noble water-view and farther W.\\nare the Buttunwoods and Oakland Beach (see page 67). Farther down\\nthe bav is Prudence Ishnid. the Indian Chifxjctiicest, 6 M. lung, and con-\\ntaining many tine farms. Near Prudence are Patience. Hope, and De-\\nspair Islands. On one side (off Bristol) is Hog Island, where the early\\nsettlers kept their swine, out of the reach of wolves and hears. Farther\\ndown is Conanicut (Conanicut-Park Hotel), an island 8 M. long, bought\\nfrom the Indians in 1655, and in 1678 named in honor of King James,", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0110.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "BLOCK ISLAND. Route 8. 65 6\\nJamestown, v/hich name it still retains. On its N. part is Conanicut Park,\\ncovering 500 acres, with avenues, sea views, the Captaln-Kidd house (200\\nyears old), and many summer-cottages. At its S. end is Beaver-Tail\\nLight, the oldest in America (dating from 1GG7), near the ruins of an old\\nBritish fort. On the E., near Newport, stands Fort Dumplincf, a pictu-\\nresque ruin nearly a century old. Beautiful views arc afforded from the\\nadjacent rounded and rocky hills, over the sea and across to Newport;\\nand here are the costl\\\\ villas of Wm. T. Richards, Chas. Wharton, and\\nother Philadelphia patricians. The steamer runs between Conanicut and\\nRhode Island, and passes under Fort Adams into the harbor of Newport\\n(see page 40).\\nBlock Island.\\nHotels. *Ocea7i-Vieio Hotel, 600 guests, $3.50-4 a day, .$12-35 a week.\\nPiazzas, M. long, electric bells, Schumauu Orchestra, theatre, spring-water, hot\\nsea-baths, livery stable, couuected cottages; 7Vie Manisses, 200 guests, ^12-20\\na week Spring House, large and comfortable, with a valuable chalybeate spring;\\nNorinlch House (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S6-10 a week); Highland House; United States; block-\\nIsland House; Narragansett Central; Fequot Betle Vieio JVeptune\\nUnion, c.\\nSteamboats leave Providence at 9 every summer morning, reaching Block\\nIsland at 3 p. M. The boat touches at Newport at 10.45, where it may be caught\\nby the morning Old-Colony train from Boston. The Block Island leaves Norwich\\nat 8 A.M., New London at 9.80, and Watch Hill at 11, and reaches Block Island at\\n12.30 p. M. She returns at 2.30, arriving at AVatch Hill at 4 p.m., and New London\\nat 5.30. Another steamer leaves Newport about noon, daily.\\nDi.stances. To Beacon Hill, 2i M.; Pilot Hill, IJ Salt Lake, li; Black Rock,\\n5 Dickens Point, 5 the Cliffs, 2j Old Harbor Point, 1 Sachem s Pond, 4A.\\nBlock Island (see page 71) lies 15 M. out at sea, off the mouth of Narra-\\ngansett Bay, midway between Point Judith and Montauk Point. Its brac-\\ning, ozonized air, grand ocean-views, singular and attractive scenery, and\\nprimitive tranquillity have sufficed to make here one of the chief Ameri-\\ncan summer-resorts. The thermometer rarely rises above 75 in this\\nBermuda of the North. There is good bathing, in water less cold than\\non the more northerly beaches. Among the fish found in the adjacent\\nwaters are sea-trout, bluefish, black-bass, cod, and sword-fish, Edward\\nEverett Hale characterized the place as our future Isle of Wight.\\nTourists visit the old burying-ground, the peat-bogs, the life-saving\\nstations, the lighthouses, the windmills, the government breakwater, and\\nthe high bluffs and cliffs which rebuff the waves. The Great Salt Pond\\ncovers an area of 1,000 acres.\\nThe views from Beacon Hill (an almost complete circle of sea), Pilot\\nHill, Mohegan Bluffs, Bush Hill, and many other points, are full of\\ngrandeur. The island is traversed by several roads, giving attractive\\ndrives. Persons in search of rest, and a pecidiarly equable and tonic\\nclimate, and not desirous of excitement, find tliis locality beneficial.\\nPeat is largely used here for fuel. The sea-weed thrown on the i.sland is\\nworth 20,000 a year. 90 per cent of the inhabitants were born on the\\nisland, of native Block-Islanders. They are all Baptists. The little stone-\\nwalled farms, the rolling lulls, and the lily-strewn [jonds give inlerest to tlie", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0111.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "66 Routes. WARREN. BRISTOL.\\ndrives; while near the harbor are modern restaurants, shops, and a large\\nskating-rink. Several of the islanders take summer-boarders, charging\\n|1 6 10 a week. The adjacent waters are the scene of li. II. Dana s poem,\\nThe Buccaneer, and of Whittier s poem, The Palatine. Many visi-\\ntors from the Southern and Western States make Block Island their sum-\\nmer home; and statesmen, diplomats, society-leaders, and other prominent\\npersons are found here every season.\\nProvidence to Warren and Bristol.\\nTlie Providence, Warren, and Bristol li. 11. leaves its station at Fox\\nPoint, crosses the Seekonk River, and passes the popular resorts on the E.\\nshore. Stations, India Point, Boston Switch, V ue de I Eau, Drownville,\\nNayatt, Barrington and Warren. The latter town (Cole s Hotel, estab-\\nlished in 1762) is a busy manufacturing place on the E. shore of Narra-\\ngansett Bay. It is a nursery of sailors, and has a well-protected harbor.\\nThe Saclnem Massasoit had his favorite dwelling here on his territory of\\nSowamset, near a spring which is still called after his name. The Warren\\nVeteran Artillei y has two cannon which were made at Strasbourg in 1760,\\ntaken from the French at Montreal, surrendered with Burgoyne at Sara-\\ntoga, and used in the Dorr Rebellion (1842). A railroad runs from\\nWarren to Fall River.\\nThe next station, 4 M. S. of Warren, is Bristol (a small hotel). Tliis\\ntown is a pleasant summer-resort, and is built on a high peninsula sloping\\nto a deep, safe harbor. Three wide, grassy streets run down the penin-\\nsula, Water St., near the harbor Mahi St., with St. Michael s (Epis.)\\nChurch, and two or three old colonial mansions; and High St., with the\\ncommon, the poor county buildings, and a fine Cong, church, in rambling\\nmediaeval arcliitecture. From this broad and quiet street may be seen\\nMount Hope, where was King Philip s seat (Arnold), or Philip s\\nsty at Mount Hope (Palfrey).\\nKing Pliilip, or Metacomet, was the son of Massasoit, and chief of the Wam-\\npanoags. After enduring various aggressions from his white neighbors, in lOZl,\\nthf Plymouth people demanded that nil the Indians should give up their arms,\\nand Pinlii) dennirred at this. Then, travelling throughout New England, he\\nformed a powerful anti-English league, and attacked the colonies in 1675. After a\\nlong war conducted with unexamiiled ferocity by both combatants, liis jiower\\nwas broken by the Narragansett Fort Fight, and the repulse from Taunton.\\nHaving dechnated the colonists and destroyed many of their fairest towns,\\nhe was hunted down and shot near the foot of Mount Hope, in midsunnner,\\n1G7G. During the war 600 colonists were killed, and 12 towns were destroyed.\\nIn 16S0 the peninsula was bought from the Government by a company of Bos-\\nton capitalists, who divided it into lots, and sold the land to actual settlers. In\\nOct., 1775, three British frigates bombarded Bristol, and in 1778 a raiding party\\nof British soldiers plundered this town and Warren.\\nFine yachts are made at Bristol, also cotton goods and refined sugars, while\\nan immense ruhber manufactory does a business of 8 2,000,000 a year.\\nPapasqua.sh Neck, between Bristol Harbor and Narragausett Bay, has many\\npleasant rural villas.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0112.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "WxVHWICK. WJCKFOr.D. Route 8. C7\\nProvidence to New Haven and New York.\\nAfter leaving Providence, the Shore Line route to New York (Eoute 8,\\ncontinued) runs S., passing the stations Elniville, HiWs Grove, Apponaug,\\nand Greemcich (Updike House, Greenwich Hotel). Greenwich is a neat\\nvillage on Cowesit Bay, and is the seat of a large Methodist Seminary.\\nIn 1G41, a trading-post and inn were erected here on the great Southern\\nroad, or Pequot Path. Its site is now occupied hy the Uj)dike House,\\ninto which many of its timbers are built. At this post the Mass. and\\nlymouth forces met before the Narragansett Fort Fight (1G75), and\\nither t]i3y retreated witli their wounded.\\nOld WarAvick; is a few miles distant, across Cowesit Bay. Samviel Gorton,\\na 1 lyinau who iutraded into tlie arena of theological polemics, was banished\\nfrom Plymouth m 1037, from Newport in lo41, from Providence in 1642, from\\nCraustoi) later in the same year, and tlien settled on Shawomet. In 1643, 40\\nsoldiei s from Bjstou came here, and took Goi ton and 10 colonists to Boston,\\nwhere they were tried and sentenced as damnable heretics, and banished\\nfrom America. The Earl of Warwick sent him back to yiiawomet (which he\\nnamed Warwick), and under that nobleman s protection he spent the remainder\\nof his life in launching anatliematic treatises at Massachusetts and R. I., among\\nwhich were Simplieitie s Defence against Seven-Headed Policy, Antidote\\nagainst Piiarasaic Teachers, c. In 1652, the clerk of this unfortunate settle-\\nn^icnt was disfranchised on seven charges first, for calling the officers of tlie\\ntown rogues and tliieves second, for calling all the town rogues and thieves;\\nthird, for threatening to kill all the mares in town. In 1G76, the place Avas at-\\ntacked and burnt.\\nNathaniel Greene Avas born at Warwick, in 1742. He led the R. I. brigade to\\nCambridge in 1775. commanded the left wing, and took the guns at Trenton,\\nsaved the army at the Battle of the Bi-anclj-Avine, and leil a brigade at German-\\ntown, Monmouth, and Newport. In 1780, he commanded the shattered Army of\\nthe South in its celebrated retreat across Soutlx and North Carolina into Virginia,\\nand fought the drawn battle at Guilford C. H. In Aprd, 1781, he was badly de-\\nfeated by Lord Rawdon, at Hol)kirk s Hill, and Avas repulsed from Fort 96, but\\nin September he won tlie sanguinary and decisive battle of EntaAV Springs, which\\nruined the British hopes in the South. Congress jiresented him with a medal, a\\nBritisli standard, and two captured cannon, and the State of Georgia gave him a\\nline iilantation near Savannah, where he resided until his death.\\nGens. Greene and Casey, of the Army of the Potomac, were born near here.\\ni)aklan l Beacli (hotel for lUO guests famous for clam-bakes) is a modern\\nsuumier-n\\\\sort on Horse Neck, Greenwich Bay, reached by railroad from Warwick,\\nor from Providence (open cars, f hour 40 cts. both ways). The R. T. militia ea-\\nc imp here one week each summer. The Buttonwoods, W. of Oakland, has\\na ibie beach, 1 M. long, boating, bathing, fishing, fifty cottages, and a large hotel.\\nP. to\\\\voniut Neck, across the bay, is a delightful region of farms and suaimer-\\nviilas. The Warwick-Neck House (100 guests) is 1 M. from Rocky Point.\\nStation Wickford. The village {American ffoitse), a quaint and quiet\\no! 1 })lace, is on a broad bay, and is reached by a branch railroad in 2 J M.\\n(connecting with a steamer to Newport daily). In the edge of the village\\nis a curious square Episcopal church, which was built in 1706, and has\\nbeen long deserted.\\nStation Kingston. Tlie village (Kingston House) is on the heiglits, 2\\nM. E. of the station, and contains the county buildings of Washington\\nCo. 9 M. from the stati(-)n is the fashionalile sea-\\nside resort at Narragansett Pier (branch railroad in 30 minutes).", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0113.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "68 Routes. NAERAGANSETT PIER.\\nHotels. Toicer-Hilt House, a noble building on Narragansett Heights,\\nwhich overlook the whole Bay, is 3 M. from the shore; Delavan House; Coii.ti-\\nncntal House Massasoit, 150 Metatoxtt; Sea View; Ehmvood Narragnn-\\nsett MattliKWSon; Atlantic; Ativood lievtre Mount iff /yje, and others. Most\\nof these hotels accouimodate 60 80 guests, aud charge JjJ 12 18 a week. The Tower\\nHill charges $2.50 a daj 10-15 a week (get o\u00c2\u00a3f at Tower-Hill station).\\nMusic, Lectures, c., in Canonchet Hall. Handsome Episcopal church of\\nstone. Narragansett Pier P. 0. receives two mails daily. Steamers leave daily\\nfor Newport (10 M.), and Providence. K. 11. to Kingston, 5 trains each way.\\nIn 1856, a family from Pliiladelphia came here, and boarded at a farm-\\nhouse near the beach. The next year they returned with some friends,\\nand the farm was called the Narragansett Boarding-House. Summer\\nvisitors increased, until in 1867, the Atlantic (SO guests), the Atwood (175\\nguests), and the Revere (50 guests) Houses were built. Other hotels\\nv.-ere rapidly built, and in 1871, the Continental, Maxson, Mt. Hope,\\nand Tower Hill Houses Avere finished.\\nThe Beach afibrds fine riding and bathing (light surf), and many fish\\nare caught from the rocks. Narragansett is more quiet and unassuming\\nthan Newport. Below the Pier is a mass of rocks, beyond which stretches\\nthe long line of Wolcott s Beach. Indian Rock and Castle Rock are much\\nvisited; also Willow Dell, White Lake, and Little Comfort Beach. The\\nfamous mansion of the Sprague family is near the hotels. Every visitor\\nshould go to Narragansett Heights (3 M.), where the palatial Tower-Hill\\nHotel stands on its 800-acre plateau, near Silver Lake, 125 ft. above the\\nBay. The view is fine, extending over Newport and 10-12 villages, and\\ncovering a horizon-line of 100 M. The Ocean, the Bay, Point Judith, and\\nthe lakes of S. Kingstown, are all visible. 4-6 M. W. of the Pier is\\nPeacedale, with a fine stone church, and a large manufactory of woollen\\nshawls.\\nThe road running S. W. from Peacedale, through Wakefield, passes the remains\\nof the old Potter Palace, and the birthplace of Commodore Perry.\\nJohn Potter was a magnate of the middle of the ISth century, who built here\\n-in Narragansett a line mansion, richly frescoed throughout, surrounded by gar-\\ndens, and kept by 100 slaves, where he used to receive company in baronial\\nstyle.\\nAt and before this time large Quaker settlements were scattered through the\\ndistrii^t, and three of their deserted churches still remain in this town.\\nOliver Hazard Perry was born in 1785, of an old aristocratic family of Narra-\\ngansett. He served as a midshipman in the Tripolitan War, and was ])ut in com-\\nmand of the squadron on Lake Erie, at whose heud, ^ei.t. 10, 1S13, he won a bril-\\nliant victory, and captured the entii-e British Heet. He died of yellow fever, at\\nTrinidad, in 18lfl. His brother, Commodore M. G. Perry, born at Newport, 17S14,\\nwas an active naval officer, chiefly distinguished for leading the Japan expedition\\nin 1852-4, when he concluded an important treaty with that empire.\\nConunodore Perry s cousin, Stephen Champlin, Connnodore in the U. S. Navy,\\nwas born here in 178 He iired the first and last shots at the battle of Lahe\\nErie, where he comnimded the Scorpion, in Perry s squadron. His services in\\nthe War of 1812 were important.\\nG. C. Stuart, tlie celebrated portrait-painter, was born in this town in 1754.\\n]\\\\Iost of the time from 1772 to 1708 he spent in London and Paris, and bent his\\nstudio at Bosron, 180!) 2h. i\u00c2\u00a3is rtnnr,\u00c2\u00ab ol WaslnDgnm ami other founders of\\ntlie Republic are tiie best in existenci-, aud ^how \u00e2\u0080\u00a2kiU of the highest order.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0114.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "NARRAGANSETT FORT. Route 8, G9\\nWanomachin was the Indian sachem of this region. 5 M. from tlie Pier, by a\\nnoble sea-side road, and beyond the fish-abounding Point-Judith Pond, is Point\\nJurtitli, named for Judith, wife of John Hull, wh(^ bought this land from the\\nIndians in 1659. In 1777, H. M. S. Siiren, 28, was wrecked here, and her crew\\nbecame prisoners. Point Juditli is the site of an important lighthouse.\\nThe legend runs, that far back in the colonial days, a storm-tossed vessel was\\ndriven in towards the Narragansett shore. The captain, an ancient mariner, was\\nat the wheel, watchful amid the perils of an unknown coast, when his bright-\\neyed daughter, Judith, called out to him, Land, father I see the land His\\ndim eyes could not discern the distant shore, and he shouted, Where away?\\nPoint, J;idith, point! She did point, and he changed his course, and left the\\nsurf-whitened caiie far away under lee and when he reached port, the story of\\nthe fearless girl pointing out the danger from the storm-swept deck was told often\\nand again among the sailors, so that the old sea-captains, when they passed this\\ncajie thereafter, repeated the story, and gave her name to the j)lace.\\nDuring much of the year 1778, the Count D Estaing s fleet of 16 vessels, with\\n933 cannon, was stretched across tlie Bay from Point Judith, and maintained an\\nefficient blockade of the British forces at Newport. Admiral Lord Howe attacked\\nD Estaing with a large squadron, and after an indecisive battle and a severe storm,\\nboth fleets were forced to leave the Bay and refit.\\nThis towii of S. Kingstown is the largest in the State, covering over 76\\nsquare M. N. W. of Kingston, near the Exeter line, on a high, rocky\\nhill, are the rnins of the Indian Queen s Fort. Part of the stone-wall\\nremains, also a rock-chamber called the Queen s Bedroom, where many\\narrows liave been found.\\nOn a hill in the great pine and cedar swamp near Worden s Pond (S.\\nW. of Kingston) are the scanty remains of the Narragansett Fort\\n(guide necessary, who can sometimes be obtained at the farm-houses on\\nthe edge of the swamj^).\\nAt the time of the landing of the Pilgrims, the Narragansett Indians, unwasted\\nby pestilence, ruled the E. There were 30,000 souls in this nation (Brinley). or\\naccording to Roger Williams, 12 towns within 20 M., with 5,000 warriors.\\nGookin (1074) calls them an active, lab(jrious, and ingenious people, and they\\nwere extensively engaged in trade and manufacture, supplying nearly all the New\\nEngland tribes with pipes, pots, and wampum .jewelry and coin. Their territory\\nstretched from Wickford nearly to Westerly, with its largest villages in the vicin-\\nity (favorable for fishing or agriculture) of the great ponds in S. Kingstown. In\\ntheir simple theology they looked forward to some mystic realms in tiiefar S. W.,\\nwhere the gods and pure spirits dwelt, while the souls of murderers, thieves, and\\nliars are doomed to wander abroad. They fought freciuently with the Mohegans\\nand Pequots, but lived more peaceably with the Massachusetts, which was the\\nname they (living in a flat country) applied to the dwellers at Neponset, Milton,\\nand Canton. It is from Massa (many) and Waschoe (mountains), and means the\\n])eo[)le of the many mountains he high blue hills of Milton). Canonicus and\\nMiautonomoh ruled irom about IGOO to 1G43 the former being a wise and peace-\\nable prince (Roger Williams), and the latter a brave and magnanimous chief,\\nwho gave lands freely to the R. I. colonists. But the unvarying friendship be-\\ntween the settlers and this great tribe was ended in 1G75, wlieuthe fiery eloquence\\nand crafty subtlety of King Pliilip of the Wampanoags induced them to enter\\nthe anti-English confederation of tlie New Englaiid triV)es. The United Colonies\\ntook ijrompt action, and assejiibled 1,000 men under Gen. Winslow, on the verge\\nof the trLl)al territory. Many of the Indians were campaigning with King Philip\\nmany fled to the N. W. and the rest abandoned their villages and took refuge in\\nthe ancient fortress of the tribe in the swamp near Worden s Pond. After a long\\nmarch through the snow in Dec. 1675, the colonial troops came in sight of tlie\\nhill, covered with a system of embankments, palisades, and abatis, and defended\\nby the flower of tlie Narragansetts. The iMassachusetts men, in the van, dashed\\ninto the Fort through au enfiladed enti ance, and after a furious struggle, being", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0115.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "70 Route 8. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nunsupported, they were driven out with heavy loss. The whole force now having\\narrived, a double attack was made the troops of Connecticut stormed the gate,\\nand, wliile tlie attention of tlie whole Indian garrison was centred on tliat point,\\nthe Plymouth companies broke tiirough the abatis and palisades on the other\\nside, and attacked them in the rear. A bitter combat ensued, the Indians retir-\\ning to their wigwams and repulsing every attack of tiie colonials, who now held\\nthe walls. Fire was now applied to the wigwams, and spread rapidly, amid a\\nscene of unutterable confusion and carnage. A band of chosen warriors dashed\\nforth and cleared a way and covered the retreat of full 3,000 people, after which\\nthe colonials were left in full possession, having lost SO men killed and 150\\nwounded. 300 warriors were killed, and 600 prisoners taken, of whom most of\\nthe fighting men were either shot on Boston Common, died on Deer Island, or\\nwere sold into slavery. The tribe was annihilated. Nearly all the colonial captains\\nwere shot, and a considerable proportion of the wounded, borne through a road-\\nless country in midwinter, scores of miles to the settlements, died on the wa.\\\\\\nhome.\\nThe bitter cold, the tarled swamp, the tedious march, the strong fort, the;\\nnumerous and stubborn enemy they contended with lor their God, King, and\\ncountry, be their trophies over death. Conn. Legislatui-e on those dead in\\nthe Fort Fight in Narragansett.\\nIn 10 12 mill, after leaving King.ston Station, the train passes through\\nthe swamp where the battle took phace. The next station is Carolina,\\nwith large woollen mills, 3-4 M. S. of which is a reservation, with cliurcli\\nand school-house, where lives the scanty remnant of tlie Narragansett\\ntribe. Stations, Wood-River Junction, Niantic, Westerly (about\\n6,500 inhabitants). In 16G5, a division of the Newport clmrch moved\\nto Westerly, and, in 1671, embraced the tenets of the Seventh-Day\\nBaptists, so if the traveller chances to be here on Saturday, he will\\nfind but little business going on, and the church bells ringing. Westerly\\nis also noted for its extensive manufactures of flannels and cotton goods;\\nand also for quarries of fine granite (800 workmen), for monumonts and\\npublic buildings. Many summer visitors stop at the elegant Dixon House,\\nand avail themselves of the steamer which runs semi-daily down the Paw-\\ncatuck River to\\nWatch Hill Point.\\nHotels. Ocean House, on a far-viewing hill; Watch Hill House, 30-40\\nyears old, the first hotel here Larkin House, near the hghthouse Atlantic\\nHouse, Dickens, Bay View, and Plimptnn Houses. There is but little dillerence\\nin these hotels, and the ]iriees are somewhat less than those at Nairagansett Tier.\\nSteamers in sunnner run from Westerly to Watch Hill twice daily from\\nStoniiigton 4-5 times daily from New London, daily and from Norwich, toach-\\ning at New London and Mystic, daily.\\nWatch Hill Point, the S. W. extremity of R. I., is a high, bold promon-\\ntory, from which the sandy Narragansett Beach runs E., while to the W.\\nNapatree Beach, a narrow strip of sand, runs out to Sandy Point. From\\nthe top of the hill a good sea view is obtained, with Block Island to the\\nS. E., Fisher s Island to the S, W., and the town of Stonington close at\\nhand in the W. From its fine views, excellent bathing beaches, and (piiet\\nand unpretentious hotels, this has become a favorite summer resort.\\nIn August, 1872, the passengei steamer Metis, bound from New", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0116.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 8. 71\\nYork to Providence, was rmi into by another vessel off this point. She\\nsank in deep water, in the storm and night, and 25 or more of her passen-\\ngers were lost. Most of the corpses, together with the deck of the vessel,\\nwere thrown up on Watch Hill Beach.\\nAfter Westerly comes Stoiiington (the Wadawanuck House is a large\\nsummer liotel, commanding a fine water-view. It accommodates 140\\nguests, and charges 4. 50 a day large reduction for board by the\\nseason. There are one or two smaller houses here).\\nTliis district (Pawcatuck) was claimed by Mass. as hers in right of joint con-\\nquest, after the defeat of the Pequods, but was settled in 1(J49 from Coniierticut.\\nIll ISOl it became a borough, about which time President Dwight wrote that Ston-\\nington and all its vicinity sutfers in religion from the nearness of R. I. Aug. 9,\\n1814, the borough was attacked by the Ramilies, 74 the Pactoltis, 38 and\\nseveral other British vessels, which 1)ombarded it for three days, throwing 60 tons\\nof iron into it. Four attempts to laud were repulsed witli grapcsliot, with heavy\\nloss, and the Dispatch, 22, was seriously injured and driven oft by a3-guu battery\\non the point. The town was deserted by its people, and 50 soldiers were scattered\\nthrough it to put out the fires.\\nStonington is built on a narrow, rocky point, with quiet streets, embel-\\nlished here and there by iron relics of 1814.\\nSteamers from Stonington to Watch Hill 6 times daily in summer (25c.).\\nTlie Stoiiiiigtoii Line of steamers (to New York) has fine boats which leave\\nthis port on tlie arrival of the steamboat train from Boston (9-10 P. M.), and\\narrive at New York early in t!;e morning. Tliis is one of the four great routes to\\nNew York, the others being the Fall River Steamboat Line, the Shore Line U. R.,\\nand the R. R. route via Springfield and Hartford.\\n8 M. beyond Stonington, after passing Mystic (Hoxie House) and W.\\nMystic stations, the train readies No(mk, off which is Mystic Island\\n{My Stic- Island House), a quiet summer-resort, with good boating, bathing\\nand fishing, and fine sea-views, including the Conn, shore and\\nFisher s Island (several summer boarding-houses, at $8-10 a week),\\nreached by semi-daily steamers from New London, 10 M., which was\\ngranted to Gov. John Winthrop in 16G8, and became the Governour s\\nfarme of Fysher s Island. It remained in the Winthrop family until\\n1868, when Robert R. Fox, a retired merchant of New York, bought the\\nisland, for a stock farm, remodelling the Old Winthrop mansion, near\\nWest Harbor, for a manor-house. Tliere are 30 40 summer-cottages near\\nthe shore, favored by cool breezes, good fishing, and singular scenerj\\nof sand dunes, emerald meadows, and fresh-water ponds. The island\\nbelongs to New York, and is 9 M. long, covering 8,000 acres.\\nBlock Island, named for Adrian Block, the Dutch discoverer, was called by\\nthe Indians ManLsees (the i.sle of the little god). The natives made the wampum\\nfor the interior tribes. In 1636, they captured a Boston ves.sel near the island, and\\nkilled the crew, shortly after which a Conn, coaster ran down on her, raking the\\ndecks with musketry. The coaster then towed her to sea, and, having removed her\\nsails, let her go, in a fearful storm. Gov. Endicott campaigned on Block Island,\\nand destroyed 2 villages. The island sent 60 ft. of wampum to Boston for tribute,\\nin 1638, and in 1661 an English settlement was made here, and nearly destroyed by\\na raid from French vessels in 1690.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0117.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "72 Ro^de 8. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nNear Mystic, on the N., is Peqnot Hill, wliieli was attacked May 2Cth, 1637, by\\nMason, who had niarclied from Narragansett with 90 Englishmen, and 460 Mohe-\\ngaus and Narragansetts, under the Sachems Uncas and Miantonomoh. On\\narriving before the Fort, tlie Indian allies were afraid to attack, and drew off,\\nwhereuxion the colonial soldiers prepared to do the work alone, and knelt down\\nin prayer. (Tlie Saclieiu Wequash, the guide of the forces, was amazed at this\\nsiglit, and Avhen he understood it, he became inix)ressed and converted, and\\npreached throughout New England until he sealed his faith by a glorious mar-\\ntyrdom.) The English now moved steadily to the assault, and, favored liy the\\ndarkness, succeeded in getting inside th.e palisades, but they were soon over-\\nAvhelmed by A^astly superior numbers, and fell back, alter setting fire to the wig-\\nwams. The greatness and violence of the lire, the flashing and I oaring of the\\narms, the shrieks and yells of meti, women, and children within the Fort, and the\\nshoutings of Indians without, just at the dawning of the morning, exhibilcd a\\ngrand and awful scene. The Narragansetts, Mohegans, and colonials surrounded\\nthe hiil and shot down the fugitives. GOO IVquots were .shot or burnt on tliis\\ndreadful ujorning, which was a death-blow to the tribe. It was a fearful sight\\nto s^e th !m frying in tlie lire, and tlie streams of Idood quenching the same, and\\nhorrible was the stink and scent thereof; but tlic \\\\ictory seemed a sweet sacri-\\nfice, and they gave the praise thereof to God. Cotton Mather.\\n4 M. from Peqnot Hill (half-way to New London) is Fort Hill, v.^here\\nSassacus, saclieiu of the Pequots, had his royal fortres.s. On heaving of\\nthe attack of Mason, the chief sent 300 of his best warriors, who caused\\nthe Indo-colonial forces great loss in their retreat. But meanwhile those\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0who had remained iu the fort revolted, and Sassacns, with his court and\\nchiefs, was forced to flee to the Hudson Piiver, whence they never\\nreturned, and the tribal organization was blotted out by the colonies, who\\ngave for slaves to the friendly tribes those remaining of the dreaded\\nPequots or -Destroyers. There is a noble view from Fort Hill (4 M,\\nE. of New London) which embraces parts of 15 towns, 4 counties, 3\\nStates, 20 islands, 7 lighthonses, with New London, Stonington, Fort\\nGriswold, and Fisher s Island Sound.\\nGroton is a very hilly tow^nship, and has but little good soil (in the\\nriver valley). In 1832, 40 Pequots were living here on a reservation, and\\nstill heartily hating the Narragansetts. Silas Deane, an early American\\ndiplomatist, who died in poverty and sorrow in a strange land, after hav-\\ning made successful negotiations with France, kc, was a native of Gro-\\nton. Between 1812 and 1819, 500,000 yards of cotton cloth were woven\\nat home by w^omen with hand-looms.\\nMystic Island, a quiet summer resort, is off the month of the river.\\nAfter passing the station of Groton, the cars are ferried across tlie\\nTliamos River to New Loridon Crocker House). Above fhe city, at\\nWinthrop Point, a II. bridge is being built across the Thames.\\nNow London is a city of 12,000 inhabitants, on a granite-strewn declivity\\nfacing S. E., on a fine harbor, 3 M. long and 30 ft. deep.\\nThis was forniei-ly known as Pequot Harbor, and was raided successively by\\nMason, Endicott, and Underhill, and was settled by John Winthrop, Jr., in IGto.\\nIn 1G58 the Couuecticut Assembly resolved, Whereas, this court considering\\nOne authority s.ays that Pequots means Gray Foxea.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0118.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YOEK. Route 8. 73\\nthat there hath yet no place in any of the colonies been named in honor of the\\ncity of London, tliere being a new place, within this jurisdiction of Connecticut\\nsettled upon that fair river Mohegan in the Pequot country, behig an excellent\\nliarbor, and a fit and convenient place for future trade, it being also the only place\\nin these parts which the English jjossessed by conquest, and tliat upon a very\\njust war, upon that great and warlike people, the Pequots, we, therefore, that we\\nmight thereby leave to posterity that we memory of that renowned city of Lon-\\ndon, from whence we had our transportation, have tliought fit, in honor to that\\nfamous city, to call the said plantation, New London. In 1G98, the pirate Capt.\\nKidd cruised along these shores, and buried on Gardinei- s Island 75 ounces of\\ngold, G33 ounces of silver, and a large lot of precious stones, which were recov-\\nered l)y the Earl of Bellomont, governor at Boston, in 1G99. During the Revolu-\\ntion, the navy of Conn., consisting of 2G vessels, made New London Its chief\\n]iort and here, in 1776, were landed the governor, officers, and plunder from New\\nrrovi(k nce (of the Bahamas), which had been ca]itured by an American fleet.\\nSept. 5, 1781, the renegade riider Benedict Arnold appeared oft tlie town with a\\nfleet and a large force of British troops, and having taken Fort Trumbull lie\\nplundered and burnt New London. At the same time a strong detachment made\\nan attack on Fort Griswold (across the river), which was defended Ijy Col. Led-\\nyard with 150 militia-men. The sliarp fire of the Americans repulsed the first at-\\ntack, but a bayonet-charge ensued, which carried the enemy into the fort. The\\nIh-itish commander was killed on tJie rampart, and the Toiy Capt. Bloomfiekl\\n(from New Jersey) took his place. As he shouted, Who commands this Fort?\\nCol. Ledyard gave him his svv ord, saying, I did command, sir but you do\\nnow. The infamous renegade ran Ledyard through with his own sword, where-\\nupon a general massacre ensued, and 70 Americans were killed and 30 wounded\\natter the surrender. In storming the Fort the British lost 191 men.\\nAn excursion should be made to Groton heights, where are the remains\\nof old Fort Griswold, near which is a bnsiness-like 20-gun battery, in ad-\\nmirable order, which protects the channel. Within stone s-tlirow of the\\nfading ramparts of tlie old Fort is a Monument to the massacred militia,\\na noble granite shaft, 134 ft. liigli, and 2(5 ft. square at the base, on\\nwhich was inscribed, Zcbulon andNajjhthali were a people that jeoparded\\ntlieir lives till death in tlie high places of tlie Lord. A marble tablet at\\nthe base contains the names of the slain, wliicli will be seen to run in\\nfamilies out of 84 names, 9 are Averys, 6 Perkinses, 4 Allyns, 4 Lesters,\\nkc. The ascent of the inside of the monnment should be made (key, 10\\nc. at small house close to the monimient). From the top a view is\\ngained which is charming for the student of nature and yet more charm-\\ning for the student of the romance of American history. LossiNG. To\\nthe W. is New London, with its sj^ires and terraced streets, its shipping,\\nFort Trumbull s massive walls, and up the river the widenings of the\\nThames where the U. S. has prepared a Navy Yard. On the E. are the\\nstony hills of Groton, with Fort Hill 4 M. aAvay and on the S. the mouth\\nof the Thames with its lighthouses, hotels, and summer-cottages. The\\nlong, irregular line of Fisher s Island (9 M. long), belonging to New York\\nand occupied by three farms, is in the S. E. over which the ocean is seen,\\nand, if the day is clear. Block Island may be made out Avith a strong\\nglass. Many leagues to the S. E. over the W. end of Fisher s Island,\\nmay be seen the white cliffs of Montauk Point.\\nA steam-ferry (4 c.) leaves the foot of State St. every 15 min. for Gro-\\n4", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0119.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "74 Route S. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nton. M. E. of the old Fort, Col. Ledyard is buried under a monument\\nerected by the State.\\nNew London is built on a declivity, which is ascended by State St. from\\nthe R. R. Station to the County Court House, passing on the r. the brown-\\nstone City Hall and Post Office, and a fine Cong. Church of granite with\\na spire of the same material. Near tlie Court House is Sj;. James Epis-\\ncopal Church, a large brown-stone edifice in wliose chancel is buried\\nSamuel Seabury, the first Anglican bishop in the Republic. The Englisli\\nbishops (in 17S4) would not consecrate him, but tlie office was performed\\nby 3 bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church, after which he preached\\nat New London for 12 years. On Federal St. in a lofty situation is a\\nmassive and extensive Cong. Church, near which is an ancient cemetery\\nwhich overlooks the harbor. The lofty towered new school-house on the\\nhill, and the spacious Catholic Church on Huntington\\nSt. are fine buildings. 1 M. N. is Cedar Grove Cemetery. Bank St. is\\ntlie main business avenue of the city. Fort Trumbull is a massive and\\npowerful granite fortress Avith a heavy armament, but built too near the\\ncity to keep it unscathed. The high j^oints of land in the city command\\nbeautiful water and landscape views, including the estuary of the Thames,\\ntlie Sound, and the adjacent hilly country. The costly granite wharf of\\nthe N. L. N. R. R. is said to be the finest in the country and the har-\\nbor is always free from ice. New London is famous for its noble elms,\\nanticjue mansions, and picturesque hill-streets. There are fine villas on the\\nHarbor road, and at Goshen, a patrician summer-colony, 1^ M. from the\\nRequot House, amid admirable English scenery. Ospfey Beach, famous\\nfor its clam-bakes, is near the lighthouse. Daily stages, 14 M. to Salem,\\nover a picturesque road. The State military camp is at Atlantic.\\nThe Harbor road leads by Fort Trumbull, and through a line of cot-\\ntages, in 3 4 M. to the mouth of the Thames, near which is the Pequot\\nHouse, a costly and exclusive aristocratic resort, which accommodates\\nabout 500 guests ($4.50 a day), with cottages and pleasant drives, and\\nbeautiful views over the Sound. Steamboats run frequently to the city.\\nOn the opposite side of the Thames is the quieter and less expensive\\nEdgecomb House.\\nSteamers run twice daily (in summer) to Watch Hill Point. Aline runs also to\\nSag Harbor, Long Island. Two steamers leave daily for New York (distance 12(J\\nM.) bv the Norwich Line.\\nThe New London Northern Division of the Vermont Central R. R. runs N. W.\\nfrom tliis city to Palmer, Amherst, and the State of Vermont.\\nAfter leaving New London the Shore Line R. R. passes Waterford\\n(Niantic Hotel,) and E. Lyme, where at the village of Niantic (Howard\\nHouse), on the bay of the same name, are fomid fishing and boating ad-\\nvantages. This territory, from the Thames to the Connecticut, was\\nformerly held by the Niantic Indians, a clan of the Narragansetts, who\\nunder their sachem, Ninigret (brother of Canouicus, and uncle of Mian-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0120.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route S. 75\\ntoiiomoli) conquered tlie Long Island Indians. The colonies declared\\nwar against Ninigret twice, on absurd pretexts, but lie escaped Avitliout\\nfighting, though his territories were ravaged, and in King riiilip s War\\nke kept his people from attacking the English. Lyme Pierrepont\\nHouse, a new suninier-hotel) is a venerable old handet, buried in foliage,\\nabout 1 M. inland from the station. The main street is 1^ M. long, lined\\nwith old ti ees and historic n)ansions, with two churches and an academy\\nand Black IIoll, the mansion of the patrician Griswolds, is 3 M. distant.\\nN. of Old Lyme is a picturesque hill-country, in which is Roger s Lake,\\n2 M. long, with ancient homesteads on the adjacent heights. Lyme was\\nfirst settled in 16G4 and Cluef Justice Waite was born here, in 1816.\\nBeyond Lyme the train crosses the Connecticut River on a long bridge,\\nand stoics at Saybrook, whence trains on the Conn. Valley R. R. run S.\\nto Saybrook Point and the shore.\\nOn Saybrook Point a fort Wcis built by Plymouth in 1335, and well armed,\\nseveral of the cannon remaining here in ISOO. In 1G3-3 Col. Femvifk came here to\\nrule the plantation, Vv liich v/as named in honor of Lord Say and Sele, and Lord\\nErook. In 1G37 the Pequots nmbushed and destroyed a detaclnnei t near the\\nfort, and attempted to carry tlie works by a isanlfc, but were received with such\\ndischarges of grapesliot that they gave it up, and, capturing several vessels\\nabove the Point, put their crews to death with horrible tortures. Lady Fenwick\\ndied in 1648, and her husband sold the territory to Conn., returned to England,\\nand v/as one of the regicide judges. The fort eSfectually prevented Dutch vessels\\nfrom ascending to reinforce Hartford, and in 1G75 forced Andres s fleet to lie out-\\nside of the river. Springfield vessels refused to pay the toll demanded at the\\nFort, and appealed to Mass., which i)ut a toll on all Conn, vessels entering Boston\\nHarbor, and soon enforced a colonial reciprocity. In 1701 Yale College was\\nchartered and located at Saybrook, and remained there 1707-17, where it held its\\nfirst 15 commencements. It then occupied a one-story building SO ft. long on the\\npeninsula near the Fort. The celebrateil Saybrook Platform was drav/n up here\\nin 1708, because the chiurhes must have a x ublic profession of faith agreeable\\nto which the instruction of the college shall be conducted. On Good Friday,\\n181 1, 100 British sailors, in the boats of the La Hogue, 74, took the Fort and\\nascended the riA-er 20 ]\\\\I. destroying 27 vessels. The commander of this raid was\\nSir Willi.am E. Parry, afterwards famous for his Arctic voyages. The steep,\\nsolitary hill near the river, on which still stood the remains of the Fort, was cut\\naway by the railroad in 1871 2, to r.iai-e embankments with. It is fortunate that\\nthe Acropolis and the temiilcs of Caalbec are not in America.\\nIn the cemetery at Saybrook Point is tlie transplanted monument of\\nLady Fenwick, and 1 ^t 2 M. beyond i; the quiet, elm-shaded, and wealthy\\nvillage of Old Saybrook.\\nThe railroad now runs across a v. ide cove, and stops close to Fenwick\\nHall, an elegant hotel, accommodating S90 guests.\\nA stony strand leads to Lynde s Point on the E. at the mouth of the\\nriver, with its lighthouse. On the W., near Cornfield Point, is a small\\nbathing-beach. Several fine cottages are near Fenwick Hall, from which\\nthe Long Island shore is seen. In seasons of long adverse winds, a fleet\\nof 150-200 sail somdlimes collects in the mouth of the river.\\nSteamers running between Uartford and tlie river villages and New York, New\\nLondon, and Sag Harbor touch at Saybrook Point.\\nThe Connecticut Valley R. R. runs Vrom Saybrook Point to Hartford (Route 14),", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0121.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "76 F,oute8. GUILFOED. BRANFORD.\\nAfter Saybvook, the Shore Line R. R. passes WesihrooJ: (Westbrook\\nHotel) and CUnton (Clinton House), whence daily sta^-es run G M. N. W.\\nto the pretty and secluded village of Killingworth (Stevens House)\\nwhere Asaliel Nettleton, the evangelist, was born in 1783. Tlie Indian\\nname of this place was Hamnionasset, but the settlers changed it to Kenil-\\nworth, which was registered, by accident, Killingworth. The pastor of\\nthis parish was chosen first President of Yale College, but as he refused\\nto go to Saybrook, the students were obliged to come to him, and so the\\ncollege was practically here, 1701 7, tliough holding its commencements\\nat Saybrook. Longfellow s poem, The Birds of Killingworth, will be\\nremembered here. Stations, Madison (Hammonasset House), E. River,\\nand Guilford. Guilibrd (Guilford House) was settled by 4 inimigrants\\nfrom Kent and Surrey in 1639, on the Indian tract called Menuncatuck.\\nThey Avere led by their pastor, Henry \\\\Vhitefield, a man of marvellous\\nmajesty and sanctity. The regicides were hidden here for some time,\\nand in 1781 3 frigates landed a force near the village, but the rapidly\\ngathering militia drove them off. During the extermination of the\\nPequots, in 1G37, the Mohegan Sachem Uucas pursued a Pequot chief to\\nthis point, and having shot him on the shore, put his head in the fork of\\nan oak-tree, where it stayed many years, and the point is still called\\nSachem s Head.\\nFitz Green Halleck, the versatile poet, was born at Guilford in 1790, and in his\\nlater years retired h.ere and lived on a handsome iiensiou allowed him by the As-\\ntor3, of New York. He died in 1SG7.\\nW. H. li. Muiray, the popuhir imlitit orator, was Lorn at Guilford in 1840.\\nThe village is a very pretty one, built around an extensive tree-studded\\nand enclosed green, on which 5 churches front.\\nNear the village on the S. is Guilford Point (Pavilion, Guilford Point\\nHouse, kc. and across the harbor is the bold and pictxiresque promontory\\nof Sachem s Head, where formerly stood a large hotel.\\nStation, Stoni/ Creek (Stony Creek, Brainerd, Thimble Island, and In-\\ndian Point Houses, all small and inexpensive), famed for its large and\\ndelicious oysters. The romantic group of the Tliimble Islands lies off\\nshore here, and may be reached by boat from the Indian Point Hotel\\n(2j- 50 c. On Money and Pot Islands are small and primitive hotels, Avitli\\ncabins and cottages, while around and betAveen these rocky and wooded\\nislets rowing and sailing is full of pleasant surprises. Money Island Avas\\none of the rover Capt. Kidd s resorts, and it has been dug all over by\\ntreasure-seekers.\\nStation, Branford, (Branford House on land ,sold by the Sachem\\nof Quinnipiac to the English in 1638, he being glad to get an ally against\\nthe dreaded MohaAvks. It Avas named from Brentford, where Edmund\\nIronside fought the Danes. The shore hereabouts is lined with sum-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0122.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0123.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "i^ -k\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nDut is being digitized, and will be inserted at a\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0124.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route S. 77\\nmei hotels, the Montana, Sea View, Totocket, Pine Orchard, c. Ou\\nIndian Neck are the Indian Neck and Montowese (200 guests) Houses,\\nboth about 2 M, from Branford station. At the head of the rocky-\\nsliored aiid island-sprinkled bay of Branford is the large Branford\\nPoint House (160-200 guests), distant 8 M. from New Haven, and near\\nby is the favorite Double Beach House (100 guests, $3-3.50 a day).\\nIn 1665, the colonies of Plartford and New Haven were united by royal\\norder and the common consent. The people of Branford had steadily\\nopposed this union, and when it was consunmiated, they moved in a solid\\nbody, headed by their pastor, and bearing all their household goods, to\\nNewark, N. J., and the site of Branford was silent and deserted for\\nyears.\\nStation, E. Haven, an ancient resort of the Indians (for oysters, c.\\nand the seat of iron-works in 1655, now has large cop2Jer-smelting works.\\nThe train now passes Saltonstall Lake, crosses the Quiimipiac River, runs\\nthrough Fairhavcn, and enters\\nl^ew Haven.\\nHotels. New Haven House, corner College and Chapel Sts., opposite the\\nCollege, i!!4-4.50 a day; Tontine Hotel, corner Cliureli and Court Sts., a quiet\\nold house fronting the Green, i$ i a day Treniont House Elliott\\nHouse.\\nClarriages. The regular tarift is 50 e. lor one i)assenger for one course in the\\nciiv, or lor Uvo passengers 35 e. each.\\nHorse-Car 3 (head-quarters at the foot of tlie Green) run to Fairhaven and\\nE. Haven, to W. Chapel St., to Westville and Vv RocU, to CeutreviUe, to E.\\nRociv, and in suunner to W. Haven and Savin Rock. The longer routes are to\\nNewhfillVille,, AVhitncyville, and Ced;ir Hill, and other pleasant rural suburbs.\\nFroni Oliaiicl St. to the Union Depot.\\nlieading-Koonis. In the hotels, and at the Young Men s Institute, Phaniix\\nBuilding, Cnaiiel Si. Also at the Young Men s Christian Association rooms, over\\nthe Palladium Building.\\nAirmsemeiits. Popnlar lectiiro.*, theatrical entertainments, concerts, c.\\nare frequently held in Carll Opera Houfg (accommodating 2,500 persons). Also i a\\nHarmnnv Hall, and Loomis s Temple of Music, Orange and Centre Sts.\\nIlailroads. At this point converge tlie New Haven, New London, and Ston-\\nington R. R. (see pi eceling pages) the New Haven, Middletown, and Willinian-\\nt c (Air Line route, Boston to New York) the New Haven, Hartford, and Spring-\\nheld R. R. (grand route from Boston to New Y(n-k, via Springfield) the New Haven\\nand Northami)ton (Canal) R. R. the New Ha\\\\-en and Derby R. R. and the\\nNew York and New Haven R. R., which is the last division of all three of the\\nland routes from Boston (see sm^ceeding jiages).\\nSteamboats. Steamers leave for New York twice daily (morning and even-\\ning) making the voyage in 5 hours. Fare 1, dinner and state-rooms extra. Tlie\\nCitizens Line runs boats to New York every morning. Steamers run (in sununcr,\\n4 times daily) to the beaches at the mouth of the harbor.\\nStages run from New Haven to Hartlbrd via DurJiam, to North Branford and\\nDeep River, c. Daily at 2 R M. for Westville, Woodbridge, and Seymour, also\\nto Milford and Mt. Carmel At 8 A. M. daily to Seymour, Oxford, Southbury,\\nand Woodbury. To Centreville semi-daily to Kasthaven 4 times daily to N.\\nBranfoid, N. GuiliV))-d, N. Madisnu, Killingwortli, and \\\\Vint!irn]i, J ues. iind Fri.,\\n8 A. M. to Watcrbury and Naugatuck, Tues., Tliurs., and Sat., iO A. M. to Guil-\\nford, Thurs. 8 A. M. to S. Britain, Wed., 7 A. M. to Woodbridge and Ansonia.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0125.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "78 Routes. NEW HAVEN.\\nJohn Davenport (of Magdalen College), a powerful parish pastor of London,\\njoined tlie Puritan wing of tlie Anglican Clnirch, and in 1G37 was forced to leave\\nEngland, with many of his jieojile. After nearly a year s sojourn at Boston, he\\nset sail with his people, and landed at Quinnipiac, the present site of New Haven,\\nin April, 1638. His was the most opulent colony which came into New Eng-\\nland, and they laid out a city with 9 squares for buildings enclosing a large cen-\\ntral square (the Green), though their houses only occupied then a small space on\\nthe present George St., between Church and College Sts. The colony was gov-\\nerned for many years by its 7 most prominent church-members, after a curious\\nfind impressive sennon by Davenport from the text, Wisdom hath builded her\\nhouse she hath hewn out her 7 pillars. One of the cliief of these was the\\npure and learned Davenjjort, who was revered by the Indians as so big study\\nman.\\nla looS the 7 pillars bought of the Indians 130 square M. of land for 13 coats,\\nand in lt)39 the truculent Nepaupuck was tried for murder and beheaded on the\\n(ircen, where his liead was long exposed. The trading-posts o New Haven on\\nthe Delaware River were broken up by the Swedes, and other losses combined\\nto discourage tlie settlers, who resolved to go to Jamaica, and then completed\\nnegotiations to buy Galloway, in Ireland. The ship Avhich bore their commer-\\ncial estates, sailed under Capt. Laml)erton for Galloway, in Jan., 1647, but never\\nwas heard from afterwards, save when, as the legend says, the spec^tre of the sliip\\nsailed into the harb(jr in the teeth of a head-wind, and when in full view of the\\nanxious people, it slowly melted into thin air, and vanished. The colonists\\nremained at New Haven, and in 1665 this jilantation was united with that of Con-\\nnecticut (Hartford) on condition that cacli town should retain the dignity of cap-\\nital and until 1874 the State had two semi-capitals. In 1755, the Conn. Gazette\\nwas established here, and became the pioneer of the 8 weekly and semiweekly,\\nand the 3 daily papers of New Haven. In Jan., 1761, 7 companies of militia and\\nthe council convened, and proclaimed George III. King, drinking to him, the\\nroyal family, and the King of Prussia. In 1775, Benedict Arnold (afterAvards so\\nfamous and infamous) led to Cambridge the Governor s Guards, the best conqiany\\nin the army. At sunrise, July 5th, 1779, 1,500-2,000 Hessians and Tories were\\nlanded at W. Haven Point, from 48 British vessels. They took the fort and\\ntown, wliich they plundered and partially burnt. Tliey were much galled by the\\nmilitia who hovered on their flanks and fought them in the streets. Rev. Dr.\\nNapthali Daggett, President of Yale College, was captured by them with fowling-\\npiece in hand, and forced to guide their columns. When wcUnigh dcnd Irom\\nmortification, and sore from repeated bayonet-wounds, he was asked, Will you\\nlight again? Tlie nulitant divine answered, I rather believe I shall, if I have\\nan opiiortunity. He or another pastor of the town was forced to pray for the\\nKing, wliicli he did as follows: O Lord, bless thy servant King George, and\\ngrant him wisdom, for thou knowest, O Lord, he needs it. Yale College was\\ntransferred to New Haven in 1717. In 1820 the town had 8,326 inliabitants in\\n1880, 62,882.\\nNew Haven, The City of Elms, the seat of Yale College, is built on\\na flat alluvial plain, at the head of a bay which sets in from Long Island\\nSound. It is a handsome city, of modern appearance, rich in stately elm-\\ntrees, and surrounded by pictiiresque hills. The city has a large West\\nIndia trade, and has about 10,000,000 invested in manxifactures, which\\nin 1869 turned out 6,000 hay-cutters, 50,000 scales, 200,000 corsets, 1,200\\nEureka organs, 600 Colibri pianos, and about 20 carriages daily. Fish-\\nlines, saws, Baumgarten church-organs, and cars are also made in great\\nnumbers, while Sargerit Co. employ 800 men in vast hardware works.\\nChapel, State, and Church are the principal streets, the two former in-\\ntersecting near the cavernous city market. There are several handsome\\nchurches here, and a very interesting old cemetery (on Grove St., at the\\nhead of High)-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0126.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. RgiUc S. 7D\\nAmong those buried here are Jehmli Aslimun, agent, fortifier, and defender nf\\nLiberia; Ai thur Tappan, the philantliropist Hany Crosswell, D. D., daslung\\npolitical editor, 1802-14, and rector of Trinity Cliurch, NeAv Haven, 1815-58 N.\\nW. Taylor, D. D., a disciple of Edwards and proiessor of didactic theology in\\nYale, 1823-58 Lyman Beeehcr, D. D., the most widely known and influential\\npreacher in the country, between 1815 and 1851 Timothy Uwight, D. D., grand-\\nson of Jonathan Edwards, a distingriislied tlieologian and poet, and President of\\nYale, 1795-1817, who rode horseback through New England and N. Y. and pub-\\nlished an account of it in 4 volumes, also a system of theology in 5 volumes Den-\\nison Olmsted, LL. D., professor of natural philosophy and astronomy at Yale,\\n1825-59, and a jTof ^^^nd .astronomer; C. A. Goodrich, D. D., theologian and\\nlexicographer, professor of rhetoric at Yale, 1817-39; Noah Webster, LL. D.,\\nauthor and publicist, whose Elementary Spelling-Book had a sale of 50,000,000\\ncopies, and who prepared (1807 -28) and iiublished a Dictionary of the English\\nlanguage which has since been the standard Benjamin iSilliman, |\u00c2\u00bbrofessor of\\nchemistry at Yale, 1802-55, one of the loremost scientists of his time Jedediah\\nMorse, D. D., the father of American geography 8. F. B. Morse (born 1791,\\ndied 1872), who, in 1844, put in opcratiim the first electric telegraph in the U. S\\nwho was covered v. ith honors by European sovereigns and societies, and in 1857,\\nwas presented with 400,000 francs liv a continental assembly at Paris Elbridixe\\nGerry, Vice-President of the U. S., 1812-16 R. S. Skinner, Gov. of Conn., 1844-\\nG, and U. S. Senator, 1847 51 David Daggett, sometime Cliief Justice, and U. S.\\nSenator, 1813-19 S. W. S. Dutton, D. U., and Gov. Henry Dutton Prof. Mur-\\ndock and Sidney E. Morse James IlilUiouse, U. S. Senator, 1794-1810, and James\\nA. Hillhouse, the poet of Sachem s Wood Andrew H. Foote, Rear-admiral U. S.\\nNaA y, bom in New Haven, 1806, died 1863. He fought the West India and\\nSumatra pirates, and in 1856 attacked the 4 Banner-Forts at Canton, China, with\\nthe Portsmouth and Levant. After a bombardment, at the head of 280\\nmen, he landed and stormed the forts in succession, though they were hea\\\\Tr\\ngranite works, mounting 176 cannon, and defended by 5,000 men. In 1862 (Feb.\\nApril) in a short, sharp campaign at the head of tlie iron-clad squadron on the\\nTennessee and Mississippi Rivers, he assisted in the reduction of P orts Henry,\\nDonelson, and Island No. 10. He was a veiy religious man, and was accustomed\\nto preach to his sailors every Sunday.\\nJonathan Knight, professor of surgeiy at Yale, 1838-64; James L. Kingsley,\\npro essor of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, at Yale, 1805 51 David Humphreys,\\nthe aid-de-camp and friend of Washington, and minister to Portugal and Spain,\\n1790-1802 Theophilus Eaton, Gov. of the New Haven colony, 1638-57 Roger\\nSherman, from 1774 to 1793 a meml)er of the Continental Congress, and a signer\\nof the Declaration of Independence, who never said a oolish thing in his life\\n(Jefferson) Theodore Winthrop, the knightly soldier (author of Cecil Dreeme,\\nCanoe and Saddle, c.), who was killed at the battle of Great Bethel, June 10,\\n1861 Ezra Stiles, long President of Yale and Eli Whitney, the inventor of the\\ncotton-gin.\\nAmong the broad streets liuefl Avitli noble elms which extend on the N.\\nand W. of the Green, the most beantiful is Hillhouse Ave., a broad,\\npark-like drive, Hanked by fine mansions, at the head of which is the man-\\nsion and domain, Sachem s Wood, belonging to the Hillhouses. In\\ntlie W. parL of the city is the Orphan Asylum, Alms House, and County\\nPrison. But the chief interest of New Haven centres in and about tlie\\nPublic Green. Here, on Church St. is the City Hall, one of the most\\nelegant municipal buildings in New England, and the Tliird Cong, Church.\\nOn Chapel St. is the stately granite building of the Am. Life Trust\\nCo. The Public Green itself is a great lawn, studded with tine\\ntrees, and often used for parades. The North, Centre, and Trinity\\nchurches stand in line near the middle of the Green (the first two are\\nCong., and the last is Episcopal), and preserve a curiously ancient appear-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0127.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "80 Routes. YALE COLLEGE.\\nance. Back of the Centre Church is the monument to the regicide, John\\nDixwell, a member of a prominent Kentish family, a colonel in the Par-\\nliamentary army, and a member of the British State Council, who fled to\\nNew Haven at the Restoration. Near him is buried a fellow-judge,\\nEdward Wlialley. Near Temple St. is the ancient and dilapidated\\nclassic building of the Old State House, wherein the sessions of the\\nlegislature were held on alternate years, until the recent decapitalization\\nof New Haven. College St., with a glorious Gothic arch of ehu-trccs,\\nseparates the Green from the grounds of\\nYale College.\\nIn the year 1700 ten olergj men I lainied to erect a college in the colony of\\nConn., and to further that end, contributed as many books as tliey could spare,\\nfor its library. In 1701, it was chartered, and its classes recited at Killingwortli\\nluitil 1707, when it removed to Saybrook Poiiit, and in 1717 a final remove (it is\\nliopL d) was made to New Haven. At an e;irly date the college was named in\\nhonor of ElUm Yale (born at New Haven in 1648), Gov. of Madras, and afterwards\\nGov. of the East India Corapanv, who gave \u00c2\u00a3400 towards its support. The\\nPresidents of Yale Timothy Dwigiit, Ezra Stiles, Theodore D. Woolsey (1846-71),\\nand others, will compare favoralily with the corresi:ondiiig othcers of Harvard.\\nAfter the secularization of Harvard University, the Orthodox churchmen rallied\\non Yale. This college has done a noble work of education, and especially in\\nshaping and strengthening those minds of Conn, which have been so busy and\\nhonored througliout the Republic.\\nSaid L e Tocqueville in a Fourth of July dinner at Taris Von day I vas in the\\ngallery of the House of Representatives. I held in my hand a map of the Con-\\nfederation. Dere vas one leetle yellow spot called Connect-de-cofit. I found\\nby de Constitution he Avas entitled to six of his boys to represent him on dat\\nfloor. But wlien I make the acquaintance personelle with the member, I find\\ndat more than tirty (80) of the Representative on dat floor was born in Connect-\\nde-coot. And den ven I vas in de gallery of the House of th.e Senate, I find de\\nConstitution permit (lis State to send two of his boys to represent him in dat\\nlegislature. But once more, ven I make de acquaintance personelle of the\\nSenator, I find nine of the Senator was born in Connect-de-Coot.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2And now for my grand sentiment Connect-de-Coot, the leetle yellow spot\\ndat make de clock-])edler, the schoolmaster, and the Senator de first give you\\ntime, the second tell you what to do with him, and de third make j our law and\\ncivilization.\\nThe line of ancient buildings fronting on College St. includes South\\nC( lle je,, built in 1793-4, now the most popular of the dormitories the\\nAthenceum, built in 1763 for chapel and liln ary, now used for Freshman\\nrecitation-rooms Sojith Middle College, Iniilt in 1751 with moneys\\nraised by lottery and from a French prize captured by a Conn, frigate,\\nand then named Connecticut Hall\\ntlie Xorth Middle College, built in 1803 the Old Chapel, built\\nin 1824 and Xorth College, built in 1822. These buildings are used\\nmostly for dormitories and recitation rooms, and are each 4 stories high,\\nwith 2 entries, each of xrhich gives access to 16 rooms. Farnam Hall,\\n(built in 1870) is a handsoma brick donnitory N. E. of this line, nearer\\nCollege St., accommodating 89 students. Dvrfee Hall (built in 1871) is\\non the Elm-St. side, and is a picturesque sandstone building, 4 stories\\nhidi. The angle betAveen Farnam and Durfee is occupied by the new", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0128.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "YALE COLLEGE. Route 8. 81\\nChapel, a cruciform sandstone building (seating 1,150 persons), with an\\nornamental rounded apse and two small towers.\\nBack of the ancient halls are three small buildings, of which that nearest\\nDurfee Hall was built for the Trumbull paintings, and is now occupied by\\nthe President s and Treasurer s offices. The next is the Caimei, containing\\nthe students reading-room, c. and the third is XXio, Laboratory, built\\nin 1782 and interesting as the scene of the labors of the elder Sillinian.\\nJitst bej ond, near Chapel St., is a l)ronze statue (by Launt Thompson, in\\n1874) of Abraham Pierson, a noble old Puritan scholar, the lirst Eector\\nof Yale College.\\nThe Art School is near the Pierson statue, at the corner of Cliapel\\nand High Sts., and is a handsome H-shaped building of sandstone, which\\ncost 200,000, and was completed in 1866. There are 30 students, who\\noccupy studios on the lower floor, while the upper floor is devoted to\\npaintings, statuary, and casts. The Library is N. of the Art School,\\nfronting on Higli St., and is a Gothic building of Portland sandstone,\\ncontnining also the libraries of the Linonian Society and the Brothers in\\nUnity. The college owns 162,000 volumes, including 20^000 in the pro-\\nfessional schools. Alumni Hall is a red-sandstone building in semi-\\nGothic architecture, with two turrets, at the corner of Higli and Elm\\nSts. Lecture-rooms are in the upper story and the lower hall is dec-\\norated with portraits of benefactors and enanent graduates of the college,\\nHuntimjlon s portrait of George Peabody, and Smiherfs Bishop Berkeley\\nare interesting. The annual examinations and the Commencement meet-\\nings of the alumni take place here. The college-grounds cover 9 acres,\\nnear the centre of the city, and its property is valued at upwards of\\n5,000,000.\\nIn the Art School the first gallery contains 70-80 paintings loaned by\\nfriends, some of which are by the first American masters. These are often\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0withdrawn, and new ones are added. There are landscapes by Gij/brd, Weir,\\nHenncHsy, etc;. and large copies of the Madoiin;t, di Foligno, the Transliynra-\\ntion, and the Last Cnniinunion of St. Jerome: Autumnal Scene, Gif ord\\nAmmimoosue, Valley, IVcir Taking the Veil, IVcir and a lar^re numlier of\\nportraits, sketches, c. by CoZ. Trumbull. In the second room aixi many casts\\nfrom antique sculptures 130, cast of Jupiter, after Phidias; 131, Ilioneus, aftKr\\nPraxiteles: l? 2,Ji\\\\.ith, Lombardi 133, Jephthah, ^wg wr 135, Edwin Booth 130,\\nCol. Trumbull, Ball Hughes; 137-8, busts by Po we r.s; 139, statuette oi Apollo\\n1, head of Apollo 2, ^Esculapius 3, the River-God of the Cepliissus 4, The -ens,\\nafter Phidias 5, Victory, after Phidias; 6, Kane]ihora 7-28, Panatlienaic pro-\\ncession, from the outer frieze of the cella of the Parthenon 29-33 Combat of the\\nGreeks and Amazons, from the frieze of the Mausoleum at Caria. In the corridor\\nare works of the same class 1, cast from Eleusis 3, 4, 11, Metojies of the\\nTlieseum 12, 13, Combat with Centaurs. In the third room is tlie funtuis\\nJarvet; collection of early Italian pictures (fine catalogue and Manual of the\\nStndy of early Clinsti/ui Art, lor saie by tlie.iunitor). i he pictures from 1 to 10\\nai-e Byzautine Italian, of tlie eleveuth and twelfth centuries 1, an altar-piece, tlic\\n4* P", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0129.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "82 Route 8. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nCrucifixion, Deposition, and Entombment 2, the Nativity 3, a triptych. Ma-\\ndonna and Child and .Saints 4, lU small pictures from the history of Christ, in a\\ntriptych; 5, a laige altar-piece, Christ and the Madonna, with Angels; 6, ttt.\\nGeorge killing the Dragon 7, an altar-j iece in 5 sections, Christ in Hades, c\\n8, The Annunciation 9, Miraculous Appearance of !SS. Mercurius and Catherine\\n(13th century) 10, Ma k)nna and Child 11, Cru(;ifixion, Glunta da Pisa 12, altar-\\npiece in 7 sections, Margaritone daArezzo; 13, Madonna and Child, Cimabv.e\\n14, Crucifixion, and Madonna and Child, Buccio da Slcna 17, Entombment,\\nGiotto; 18, Crucifixion, Giotto 19, Annunciation, CavaUni; 20, Vision of S. Domi-\\nnic, attributed to Taddco Gaddi 21, SiS. James, Julian, and the Archangel\\nMichael 22, tlie Madonna and Child, c. 23, SS. Augustine and Lucia, Orcagna\\n24, SS. Dominic and Agnes, Orcagna; 25, S. John the Baptist, Orcagna; 26, *S.\\nPeter, O/ cof/iia 27, The Truiity and Adoring Saints, Capana; 28, St. Francis\\nreceiving the Stigmata, Agnolo Gaddi; 2vl, The Agony in the Garden 30, Legend\\nof S. Giovanni Gualberto, Casentino 31, Madonna and Chikl, c., Giottino 32, The\\nAdoration of the Shepherds, Giottino; 33, Crucifixion, Aretino 34, Vision of\\nConstantine, and Fall of Satan, Aretino 35, The Assumi tion of the Virgin 36,\\nSS. Cosmo and Damian, Bicci 37, the Deposition 1rom the Cross, Veneziano 38,\\nThe Triumph of Love (on wood), Gentile da Fabriano 39, Madonna and Child,\\nGentile da Fabriano 40, SS. Zenobio, Francis of Assisi, Anthony of Padua, Fra\\nAngelico da Ficsole 41, The Madonna adoring the Infant Saviour, PamcaZe; 42,\\nInfancy of S. John the Baptist, Masaccio 43, 44, Scenes from the iEneid, painted\\non wood, Uccelli 45, Tournament at Florence, Dcllo Belli 46, St. Martin and the\\nBeggar, Dello Belli; 47, St. Jerome in Penance, Castagno 48, The Temptation of\\nS. Anthony, Sassetta; 49, Adoration of the Magi, and 50, Coronation of the Virgin,\\nSano dl Pietro 51, S. Catherine of Siena pleading the Cause of the Horentines\\nbefore Gregory VII., Giovanni di Paolo; 52, Martyrdom of a Bishop 53, St.\\nAnthony tormented by Demons 54, Hermits exorcising Demons 55, Nativity,\\nSquare io ne 56, Crucifixion, Manfegna; 57, Madonna and Child, Matteo da Siena;\\n60, Penitence of S. Jerome, Fra Filippo Lij-ipi 61, Madonna, Biamante 63, An-\\nnunciation, Gozzoli; *67, Adoration of the Magi, Luca Signorelli 68, The Princess\\nVitelli, Francia; 70, The Baptism of Christ, Perugino 73, Portrait of a Lady,\\nGhirlandajo 74, Madonna and Child, Botticelli 75, S. Peter, Giovanni Bellini 77,\\nThe Circumcision of Christ, and, 78, Portraits of noble Venetians, Giorgione;\\n80, St. Sebastian, and 81 The Dead Christ, Filippino Lippi 82, Diana and Acta;on,\\nand 83, the Three Archangels, I^iero di Cosimo 84, Crucifixion, Lorenzo di Credi;\\n86, The Dead Christ held hy the Viri^in, Fra Bartolovico 89, Tlie Madonna sup-\\nporting the Dead Christ, Raphael (!iis earliest known work) 90, Madoima, Lo\\nS pagno 92, Madornia and Child, Andrea del Sarto (badly injured); 94, Christ\\nbearing the Croas, Sodoma 95, Madonna and Saints, So(?o?Ha 97, Madonna and\\niiaints^ Ghirlandajo 99, Martyrdom of the Theban Legion, and, 100, Portrait of\\nCosmo dei Medici, Pontornio 104, Portrait of the Princess Vittoria Colonna,\\nSebastiano del Piombo 106, The Death of Lucretia, Vasari 107, Portrait of\\nBianca Capello, Bordone; 109, Tlie Crucifixion, Paolo Veronese; 110, Christ in\\nGlorj with SS. Feter and Paxil, attributed to Veronese; 111, Venal Love, ^s?(\u00c2\u00ab.o\\nCaracci; 112, Joseph and the Infant Jesus, Gnido Ilcni 113, Venus, Minerva, and\\nJuno disarming Cupid, Gnido Reni 114, Artemisia, Queen of Caria, Porneni-\\nchino; 115, Madonna holding the Crown of Thorns, vnknoivn; 116, Spanish\\nNoble, Velasqticz; 117, Head of the Dead Christ, Albert Diirer; 118, Portrait of the\\nEmperor Charles V., Holbein; 119, The Procession to Calvary, Brmgliel.\\nThe Sheffield Scientific School was founded in 1847, and endowed in 1860\\nby Mr. J. E. SlielKeld, who gave upwards of 500,000 to it during his life,\\nand a still larger sum at his death. It has costly buildings, at the head of\\nCollege St., with 17 professors, 10 lecturers, and 212 students. The main\\nbuilding is devoted to engineering; the W. Aving to chemistry and metal-\\nlurgy; and the E. wing to the Museum of Practical Sciences. N. Sheffield\\nHall is near by, and has a large lecture-room, c.\\nThe Divinity School (Congregational) was founded in 1822, and has", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0130.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "YALE COLLEGE. Route 8. 82 a.\\n6 professors, several lecturers, and about 100 students. The E. and W.\\nDivinity Halls are on Elm St., opposite Durfee Hall, and are of brick,\\nfive stories high, with class-rooms on the lower floors. The pretty little\\nMarquand ChajJel is attached to E. Divinity Hall, The Lowell-Masou\\nmusical library is attached to this institution. Courses of lectures are\\ndelivered before the students every year, on the Lyman-Beecher founda-\\ntion. The lecturers include some of the foremost divines of America,\\nand among their number are Henry Ward Beecher, John Hall, W. M.\\nTaylor, and Phillips Brooks. The Law School was founded in 1824, and\\nhas 6 professors, 10 lecturers, and 69 students. It occupies the third floor\\nof tlie new Court House. The Medical School was founded in 1810, and\\nhas 8 professors and .32 students. Its lecture-halls, museum, and dissect-\\ning-room are on York St., near Cliapel St.\\nThe Peabody Museum of Natural History is opposite Alumni Hall,\\nat the corner of Elm and Higli Sts., and was richly endowed by George\\nPeabody. But one wing has been completed of what is to be an immense\\nand imposing Gothic building. The college collections include one of the\\nbest niineralogical cabinets in the world, begun by Silliman, and contain-\\ning the Perkins, Gibbs, Razamousky, and Count de Bournon collection.s.\\nThe proceeds of the annual Yale exploration in the West, American\\narchseology and ethnology, zoology, and other rich cabinets of curiosi-\\nties are arranged here. The Museum building is constructed of brick and\\nstone, in the most substantial manner, and its halls are adorned with\\nstained-glass windows.\\nThe Gymnasium is on Library St., opposite the new Sloane Physical\\nLaboratory (opened in 1883, and well equipped). The boat-house of the\\nYale, Navy is on Mill River. The Scroll-and-Kej Society has a beauti-\\nful building of black and white stone, at the corner of College and Wall\\nSts. the Delta Kappa Epsilon has a mysterious-looking structure on\\nYork St., near Library St.; the Psi LTpsilon is on High St., near College\\nSt.; and the SkuU-and-Bones Society has a windowless edifice, like a\\nmausoleum.\\nYale College now contains 110 instructors, and about 1,100 students, of\\nwhom the academic department has 31 instructors and about 700 students.\\nThe Annual Commencement (last Wednesday in June) is a great day in\\nNew Haven, the exercises being conducted mainly in the Centre Church\\nand Alumni Hall.\\nAinong the graduates of Yale were S. F. B. Morse, Eli Whitney, Wm. Cliau-\\nveiiet, James D. Uaiia, Beiijainiu Silliiii.m John C. Calhoun, James Kent, Wm.\\nM. Evarts, Jeremiali Mason, T. S. Griuike, Morrison R. Waite, Edwards Pierre-\\npont Joiiatliau Edwards, Natlianiel Enniioiis, Timothy Uwiglit, Samuel Hop-\\nkins, N. W. Taylor, T. D. Woolsey, Leonard Bacon Jan ies Hadley, J. D. Whit-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0131.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "82 h. Route 8. ENVIRONS OF NEW HAVEN.\\nney, Niiali Webster, Joseph E. Worcester E. C. Stedman, Theodora Wintlirop,\\nC. A. Biisted, Joliii Fierpout, J. Fenimore Cooper, J. G. Percival, N. P. Willis,\\nDonald G. Mitchell, Horace Bushnell, and JSamuel J. Tilden.\\nThe CJiurch of the Redeemer (Cong.) is a rambling Gothic buihling at\\nthe corner of Wall and Orange Sts., diagonally opposite the great struc-\\nture occn})ied by the High School. St. Mary s Church is a large new\\nCatholic tem[ le, on Hillliouse Ave. At the corner of Chapel and Olive\\nSts. is the two-towered Episcopal Church of St. Paul. Tlie New Haven\\nColony Historical Society has its rooms in the elegant City-Hall build-\\ning. Tiie old railroad-station is now used as a market. The environs of\\nthe city are rapidly enlarging, and are being laid out in broad a\\\\enues,\\nlined with villas. The horse-cars out W.-Chapel St. give a good vi;;w of\\nthis section. Tlie city has recently been gaining rapidly in commercial\\niniportance, by the slow withdrawal of shipping from New York to more\\nconvenient and less expensive ports. I\\\\Ianufa(during industries have also\\nincreased in an extraordinary manner, and the futui-e prospects of New\\nHaven are very llattering. Whitneyville is 2 M. from the city (horse-\\ncars every 20 min.), and was founded by Eli Whitney, inventor of the\\ncotton-gin. The route affords fine views of East Rock and West\\nRock.\\nThe new TJnion Depot at New Haven cost 250,000, and is a large\\nbrick building (with restaurant, etc.) erected on made land fronting on\\nthe harbor, with Long-WIiarf lighthouse on the 1., and City Point on the\\nr., and the East-Haven shore across the harbor.\\nEnvirons of New Haven.\\nBesides the beaches at Branford and Guilford (before spoken of), there\\nis a fine drive dowm the E. side of the harbor, by the old Forts, Hale and\\nWooster. The Grove (steamer from New Haven 4 times daily) and the\\nCove Houses are near the lighthouse, 5 M. from the city, the latter\\n(\u00c2\u00a710 -$15. 00 a week) being on a long, smooth, curving beach of white", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0132.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF NEW HAVEN. Ruute S. 83\\nsand. (Tlie siilnirb of Fairliaven, on this side, is famoiis for its large and\\ndelicious oysters.) Fort Wooster, 1^ M. lYom the city, was built in\\n1814, and is now in ruins a noble view is gained from tlie bill on wliieli\\nit stands. About 200 yards N. of this Fort was the cemetery of the\\nQuinnipiac Indians. I5-2 M. from this point is Fort Hale, which was\\ngreatly strengthened during the war of 18G1 -G5, but is now dismantled.\\nThe East and West Rocks are bold and lofty masses of trap-rock, on\\nthe plain near the city, which geologists think were driven up through\\nother strata by some great thi oe of the central forces. They form the\\nsouthern limit of the great system of mountains which extends from\\nHereford, in Canada, forming the valley of the Connecticut River, which\\nmany believe once Howed between these cliffs to the Sound. East Eock\\n(carriage-road to the top, horse-cars to the base from the Green) is\\n1^-2 M. from tlie centre of the city, by way of State St. A small stone\\nhotel is on its summit. An extensive view is afforded hence, embracing\\nthe broad valleys and bright waters of Mill and Quinnipiac Rivers, the rural\\ndistricts of North Haven and Hamden, the high hills toward Mount Car-\\nmel, the frowning cliffs of West Rock, the city of New Haven, its har-\\nbor, and a long swee]3 of Long Island Sound.\\n*West Rock (horse-cars from Chapel St.) is 2-2| M. N. W. of the\\nCrreen, and rises sharply from the plain to an eleration of over 400 ft.\\nTlie ascent (difficult for ladies) is over a rugged and rocky path beyond\\nthe quarries. The view from the summit is nearly the same as that from\\nthe East Rock, except that a great portion of the Quinnipiac valley is\\nhidden, the northern mountains are differently grouped, and the western\\ntowns are unfolded to the view. A hard walk of 15-20 min. to the N.\\nover the rugged plateau leads to the Judge s Cave, a small cleft in a\\ngroup of boulders, where the regicides GoiTe and Whalley were hidden\\nfor some time in 1661. A citizen who lived about 1 M. off brought them\\nfood, until one night a catamount looked in on them and blazed his eyes\\nin such a frightful manner as greatly to terrify them. Wintergrecn\\nFall is near the upper base of the rock, and above it is a dam of rock\\nand earth 3,500 ft. long, which forms a lake of 75 acres for the water sup-\\nply of the city. Near West Rock is Malthy Park, covering 800 acres,\\nwith 3 M. of driveways, and the city water--\\\\7orks. At the foot of the\\nrock is Westville, near which is Edgev/ood, the rural home of Donald\\nG. Mitchell (Ik Marvel), the author of Dream Life, Reveries of a\\nBachelor, and otlier charming books.\\nSavin Rock, 4 M. S. W. of New Haven (horse-cars from the Green\\nhalf-hourly) is the favorite resort of the citizens. The road passes\\nthrough West Haven, a quiet old village, with a tall church on an elm-\\nshaded green. Savin Rock is a bluff promontory pushing a rocky front\\nagainst the waves, and stands at the end of a long, sandy beach whicli has", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0133.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "84 Roitte 8. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\na very light sxirf. A pretty view of the Sound is gained from the top of\\nthe bluff, near which once stood a fine hotel, which was burned\\ndown. Tlie Sea- View House can now accommodate 75-100 guests.\\nSeveral busy manufacturing villages are in the vicinity of New Haven.\\nNeAvhallville, where the Winchester rifles are made Centre ville, the\\nhome of large car, carriage, and saw factories Whitneyville Westville,\\nwhere 360,000 gross of match-splints and $50,000 worth of berry-baskets\\nare made yearly, c.\\nOn leaving the new and costly railroad-station near the bay, at New\\nHaven, the Shore-Line train passes on to the rails of tlie New York k,\\nNev/ Haven R. R., on which the cars of the Springtield route run, and\\nwhich is also now used by the Air-Line route. Tlie first station is West\\nHaven, 1 M. from Savin Rock. Next comes Milford, (Milford Hotel,\\n2. 00), a pretty village, with wide streets lined with arching elms, and\\nwith an enclosed green M. long.\\nThe aborigines of Wapowage having been crowded ofT, this district was settled\\nand named, in 1639, by a company from Milford, in England. The occupation\\nseems to have been in accordance with a series of resolutions at an early nueting\\nof the Milford church. Voted, That the earth is the Lord s, and the fulness\\nthereof. Voted, That tlie earth is given to the saints. Voted, That we are the\\nsaints. The settlement being menaced in the Indo-Dutch War of lGi3-6, it\\nwas surrounded by a v/all and palisade 1 M. around and the dreaded Mohawks\\nhaving been repulsed by Connecticut Indians near Miliord, the saints ]iossessed\\nthe earth in peace. On New Year s Day, 1777, 200 American soldiers, eajitives\\nfrom the i)rison-shii)S at New York, were east ashore here from British cartel-\\nships, and despite the truly saintly ministrations of the Milfordites, 46 of them\\ndied in one month. They were buried in the old cemetery (near the station), and\\na monument 30 it. high raised over them, which states the facts, and the names\\nof the victims, and asks, Who shall say that Republics are ungrateful?\\nSt. Peter s (Episcopal) Church is a venerable and ivy-clad stone edifice\\non the green and terraced banks of the tranquil Wepowaug. Two large\\nwhite churches (of wood) stand on the hill beyond. A large amount of\\nstraw-goods is made in the village. Cfiarles Island is in the Sound near\\nMilford, and is the headquarters of the American Steam Yacht Club.\\nSoon after leaving Milford, the line crosses the broad Housatonic River,\\nand stops at Stratford, a quiet village with neither hotel nor factory, and\\nrich in two or three elm-lined, tranquil streets, where one can stroll on\\ndreamy autumn afternoons and feel as if in a second era of the Truce of\\nGod. Such streets are found only in these old towns on Long Island\\nSound. Stratford was settled by Massachusetts men, in 1639, and its\\npastor was Adam Blackman, whom Cotton Mather (who is fond of play-\\ning upon words) calls a Nazarite purer than snow, and whiter than\\nmilk. The society which he organized now meets in a new Swiss Gothic\\nchurch near the station. Dr. Samuel Johnson, first President of King s\\n(Columbia) College, and Father of Episcopalianism in Connecticut, is\\nburied near the veneralde Christ Church (founded 1723).\\nThe next station is Bridgeport.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0134.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "BRIDGEPORT. Route 8. 85\\nBrirlgeport. (Sterling IIousp, Main St.; Atlantic House, opposite station,\\neaeli !ip3 a day Cai rkuies, 5()c. for eacli person, or ijp 1. 00 for 3 persons. Post\\nOj/ice on State, near Main St. Optra lIou. e on Fairfield Ave. Librari/, corner\\nMain and Joiiu, with 12,000 volumes; magazines and papers in the reading-rooai.\\nHome-cars run all over the city.\\nTliis district v/as owned l)y tlie Paugusset Indians, and was occupied soon after\\nMasf)n s victory in 1(537, when he pursue l the Pequots in this direction. The in-\\nnocent Panyussets (vi ith their hniidred v,i;;wams) were soon crowded on to a res-\\ncrvntion of SO acres at Golden Hill (so luuned from its glittering mica), and the\\njtoor half-dozen who remaiiicd in irGf) sold out and left. Fi^om the contiguous\\nt wns of Strat ford and Fairtieh! a new jiaj-ish was forincd, called Stratfield, and from\\nlais Pridgc]). irt was aiterwaixls organized. Charle.s Chauncey, the famous Puritan\\nFather, was pastor here lor 20 years, and whiie he lookcil after the adults the\\niuirch Voted thnt Natlianiel Wackle should he the man to look after y\u00c2\u00ab boyes a\\nt^abhatii dayes in time o exercise that they jilay not. In 1715, Pa.^tor Cooke of\\nNew Ha\\\\ cn accepted a call here on a salary of 2O0 1, a year, or p)ro visions at the\\nfidlowiug ra es, viz Indian at 2.s\\\\, ry at 2s. 8(7., v heat at -Is. per bush., porck at\\n20s. percwt.,and firewood for the yous of tlie family. People were seated in\\nthe cliurch by diginty, Ad.ge, and a state. In 1707, an Episcopalian mission-\\nary was sent here from England, who, by 1748, had organized a cllui ch (the pres-\\nent St. John s Society.\\nBridgeport has 40,000 inhabitants, with 31 churches, 5 newspapers,\\n9 banks, 3 academies, an opera-house, and the county buildings. It is fa-\\nmous for its great factories, among which are the sewing-machine works of\\nWheeler Wilson (1,200 hands), Elias Howe Jr. Machine (1,200 hands),\\nand the J. B. Secor Co. the Sharps Ritle Co., the Ornamental Wood Co.\\n(pressed goods), the Frary cutlery factor} the Tomlinson Spring and Axle\\nCo., the Union Metallic Cartridge Co. (1,500 hands), 6 corset companies\\n(2,500 hands), Bridgeport Organ Co. (500 hands), Malleable Iron Co. (500\\nhands), Bridgeport Brass Co., tanneries, a carpet-factory, soap-works, c.\\nFairfield Ave. (horse-cars) runs from the station across Main St., and\\npast the Public Library and the stately St. John s Episcopal Cliurch,\\nto the picturesque Mountain- Grove Cemetery (SO acres), where there are\\nmany fine monuments. M. beyond are Holland Heights, which over-\\nlook Bridgeport, Fairfield, Black Rock, and the Sound. North Ave.\\n(then called the Kiwfs IHglnoay) was the centre of the ancient settle-\\nment, of which a few gray houses remain. Broad St. is parallel to Main,\\nand has a line of neat churches. St. Augustine s Church and Convent\\nare imposing stone buildings, with the Cluny-like Wheeler mansion op-\\nposite, in extensive grounds, and the aristocratic streets of Golden Hill\\nextending beyond. Washington Park is in E. Bridgeport, and contains\\na grove of forest -trees. St. Paul s Church and the pretty Pembroke\\nLake are near it and antique Stratford and the far-viewing Old-Mill Hill\\nare beyond. On the S. of the city (horse-cars on Main St.) is Sea-Side\\nPark, which has a trotting-course, a grove of venerable trees, a soldiers\\nmonument adorned with statues, and a magnificent esplanade-road,\\nwhich follows the curves of the sea-wall over the beach for nearly 1 M.,\\ngiving broad views over the Sound and on to the Long-Island coast, 20\\nM. distant. During the Revolutionary War the 4th Conn, encamped\\nhere, and the remains of the old fort are still visible.\\nBeyond the Park is the summer-resort of Black Rock, the birthplace of Capt.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0135.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "8G Routes. FAIRFIELD.\\nChauncey, a distinfniislierl naval officer in the war of 1812. Fairfield is just be-\\nyond, a pleasant 4 M. drive from Bridgeport. Waldemere is tlio stately and\\nhiyli-towered mansion of P. T. Barnuni, fronting the farlv, sumptuously fur-\\nnished, and with spacious ornamental grounds which are open to the people.\\nBarnuni was born in Conn., 1810, and began his great career as showman in\\n1835 (with Joice Heth). In 1849, he paid Jenny Lind $160,000 for singing 150\\nnights in America. In 1865, his great museum at New York Avas destroyed.\\nCharles y. Stratton, or Gen. Tom Thumb, was bom at Bridgeport in 1832. His\\nsize and growth were as usual until his seventh month, when he ceased to grow.\\nIn 1844 Barnum took him to Europe; and his travels were incessant and his reve-\\nnues large until his death, in 1882. In 1863 he married Miss Lavinia Warren, of\\nMiddleboro Mass., a young lady of about the same stature as himself, to wit,\\n28 inches.\\nSteamers leave Bridgeport for New York semi-daily (i? 1) also for Port Jeffer-\\nson, L. I., twice daily (fai-e, Sl.OO). Stages for Black Rock, Easton, c.\\nRailroads. Tlie Naugaruck R. R., from Bridgeport to Winsted (G2 M.), runs\\nN. in the valleys of the Ilousatonic and Naugatuck Rivers (Route 16). Tlie\\nHousatonic R. R. runs from Bridgeport to Pittsfield, Mass., 110 M. (Route IT).\\nThe next station is near tranquil old Fairfield (Merwin House,\\n$10 -$12.00 a week open in summer only). Fairfield is an ancient\\nvillage, with a beantiful street lined with villas and careful landscape\\ngardening. On the Green are the Episcopal and Congregational Chnrches,\\nand the Court House, Built A. D. 1720, destroyed by the British\\nA. D. 1779, rebuilt A. D. 1794, remodelled 1870.\\nJuly 7, 1770, Tryon with his Hessian Yagers, returning from the pillage of New\\nHaven, landed here, sacked the village, and burned 200 houses. The scene in-\\nspired Col. Humphrey s Elegy beginning,\\nYe smoking ruins, marks of hostile ire,\\nYe ashes warm which drink the tears that flow,\\nYe desolated plains, my voice inspire.\\nAnd give sett music to my song of woe.\\nHow pleasant, Fairfield, on th enraptured sight,\\nRose thy tall spires, and oj)e d thy social halls.\\nAnother poet of that day was more pointed in his remarks\\nTryon achieved the deeds malign, And smiled to see destruction spread\\nTryon, the name for every sin. While Satan, blushing deep, looked on.\\nHell s blackest fiends the flame surveyed And lutkniy disowned her son.\\n10 min. walk S. of the Green leads to the beach, the best on the Sound,\\nprotected by a bar from S. winds, with a gradually-sloping, sandy shore,\\nand no surf. To the S. is the lighthouse on Penfield Reef, and Black\\nRock light is to the E., in which direction is a high, grassy bluff on which\\nit is contemplated to build a mammoth hotel. 15 min. walk N. of the\\nGreen is Round Hill, commanding a wide vieAv of Bridgeport and the\\nSound, Some miles N. are Samp Mortar Rock (a precipice 70 ft. high,\\non whose top is a deep hole where the Indians poimded corn), and Green-\\nfield Hill, where President Dwight was once settled, and where he wrote\\nthe poem (popiilar 70 years ago) of Greenfield Hilh From this point\\na fine view is gained, embracing, according to tlie poet,\\nNorwalk s white ascending spires, sky-encireled Easton s churchei,\\nStratford s turrets, Fairfield giving lustre to tlie day.\\nPrince of the waves, and ocean s favorite child,\\nThere Longa s Sound all gloriously expands.\\nSouthpo^ t station and village is 2 M. from Fairfield. N. of the railroad", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0136.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Routed. 87\\nand near the station is a cultivated field, which occupies the site of the\\nSasco Swamp, where, in 1637, the Unquowa (Fairfield) Indians and astrong\\nband of Pequots took refuge. Mason, with troops of Mass. and Conn,\\nsurrounded the swamp, and after a parley the Unquowas were allowed\\nto come out (being blameless). The Pequots refused all terms, and, after\\nan obstinate attack, 70 of them broke the English line and escaped. 180\\nAvere made prisoners and sold to the West Indies as slaves. Soon after\\nthese fair fields were occupied by a company from Concord, Mass.\\nTlie next station is Westjx^rt. The village is 1^-2 M. N. of the rail-\\nroad, on the widenings of the Saugatuck, and is a lively little place.\\nThe Memorial Church of the Holy Trinity is a fine G-othic edifice of\\nsandstone, alongside of which, and in strong contrast, is a heavy Egyptian\\ntomb.\\nStation, S. Norwalk {City Hold; Warinck), near which is the\\nvillage of NurioalL (iiorse-cars to station). The legend says that this\\nland, in the purchase (1640) from the Indians, was to extend one day s\\nnorth walk from the Sound. In 1653, the town was incorporated,\\nhaving then 20 families. July 11, 1779, Tryon s Hessians plundered and\\nburnt the village, meeting with such resistance from 50 Continental\\nsoldiers and tlie militia that they lost 148 men. The town includes sev-\\neral villages, with the so-called city of S. Nonocdk (3,000 inh.abitants)\\nand the borough of Norwalk (Adami^ Ilnvse Conn. Hotel), which has\\n6,000 ndiabitants, and is 1-^ M, from the station. Midway between Nor-\\nwalk and S. Norwalk is the palace which was built by Le Grand Lock-\\nwood, at a cost of over $1,000,000, and now pertains to Chas. D. Mat-\\nthews, of New York. The Norwalk Lock Co. makes 900,000 locks\\nyearly, in 300 forms the Union Knob Works turn out 1,500,000 knobs\\n(of New Jersey clay) yearly and there are manufactories of hats and\\nshoes, felt, beaver-cloth, cassimeres, shirts, earthenware, engines, etc.\\nThe oysters of Norwalk are famous.\\nStations, Darien (village i M. S. of the station), Noroton. Noroton is\\n1^ M. from Darien, and near the Sound. Upon the Boston Post road at\\nNuroton stands the Episcopal Church, connected with which is a mortuary\\nchapel, erected by Mr. lienj. Fitch in memory of his mother, who is\\nburied in a vault beneath. In the tower is a chime of nine bells, given by\\nMr. Fitch. Near the Noroton station is situated The Home, founded\\nby the same gentleman. This institution was first established for the edu-\\ncation and maintenance of soldiers children. It is now, by a change in\\nthe charter, a home for disabled soldiers. A fine gallery of modern French\\npictures is attached to the home, and can be visited. It includes many\\nchoice paintings and works of art, collected by Mr. Fitch iu Europe.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0137.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "88 Route 8. BOSTON TO NEW YOEK.\\n3 M. beyond Noroton, the train stops at Stamford, {Stamford\\nHouse, Union House), wliicli was founded in 1G41, and thereafter\\nsometimes harried by the Dutch from New York. In 183S it was a (bill\\nhamlet of 700 inhabitants but soon after the Empire City looked with\\nfavor upon it, and during the last 25 years its hills have been occupied by\\nthe villas and parks of New York gentlemen. Hence fine churches have\\nbeen built, broad avenues are laid out, and the place now has over 12,000\\ninhabitants. St. Andrew s (Epis. Church is a little gem of Gothic archi-\\ntecture, guarding a wide sweep of graves. Tlie Univ. Cliurch, near by, is\\na handsome stone building, wliile tlia Catholics are raising a large cluiich,", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0138.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 8. 89\\non the road from the station. A fine new Town Hall, of brick and Ohio\\nstone, 150 ft. front and with a tower 100 ft. high, rises in the centre of\\nthe village M. from the station). Near it is a small, triangular park\\nwith a fountain. A pleasant drive is that on the New Haven road, passing\\nmany fine villas, among whicli is Quintard s stone chateau. 1000-1500\\nNew-Yorkers come liere during the summer, many of whom stop at Shiji-\\npan Point (I5-2 M. from the station), wliere is the large Ocean House,\\nfrom whose beach a pretty still-water view is afi orded. Tlie Hamilton\\nHouse (Mr. S. T. Cozzens) is a favorite summer-resort on Noroton Hill.\\nCol. Abraham Davenport, a man of stern integrity and generous benevo-\\nlence, was born at ytamford in 1715, and was for 25 years in tlie IState legisla-\\nture. On the memorable Dark Day, May 19th, 1780. great fear fell on the legisla-\\nture, then in session and in antitdpatioa of the approach of the Day of universal\\nJudgment, an adjournraeut was moved. The brave old man arose, and tlius spoice,\\ncalming the fears of the legislators, and continuing the session: lam agaiii.it\\nan adjournment. The Day of Judgment is either approaching, or it is not. If it\\nis not, there is no cause for an ailjournment. If it is, I choose to be found doing\\nmy duty. I wish, therefore, that candles may be brought. This scene has been\\nmade the theme of a fine poem by Whittier. Col. Davenport s sous, James and\\nJohn, were ofBccrs in the Revolution, and afterwards members of Congress (1796 -99;\\n1799-1817). His great-grandson was living in Stamford in 1884.\\nSteamers leave Stai7iford for New York daily. A Railroad runs from this point\\nto New Canaan, a quiet country town 8 M. to the N.\\nStations, Cos Cob (village N. of the railroad, on the Mianus River),\\nand Greenwich. Greenwich was settled in\\n1610, and in 1650 was appointed by the Anglo-Dutch frontier commission\\nh\\\\ session at Hartford as the W. limit of Conn. Somewhere in this early\\nage, a desperate battle lasting all day was fought on Strickland s Plain,\\nbetween the Dutch and Indians. The village stands on rolling hills,\\nM. N. of the station. 15 min. walk to the E. is a stately Cong.\\nChurch, built of gray rubble, with deep transepts, a wide and picturesque-\\nly irregular front, a high pointed roof, and a fine stone spire in open-\\nwork. Tills fine edifice is on a high hill, and may be seen for leagues\\nalong the Sound, resembling some pilgrimage church on the Seine\\nor Danube. Near this is the exquisite Christ Church (Epis. )iii a shel-\\ntered grove on the ridge, built of gray stone trimmed with Caen stone.\\nTlie Lenox House (150 guests; $1 a day) is a first-class summer-resort\\nand winter-hotel on Putnam Hill, M. from the station.\\nA few rods beyond (to the E.), on the r. of the road, is an old cemetery, wheri\\nstood the church in 1779, near which Gen. Putnam, with 00 militia-men, fougi; j\\nan advancing force of dragoons until the last moment possible. Then, since t\\ngo down by the curving road (the present road is modern and more direct) v/oui I\\nexi)ose him to a close Are from many of the enemy, he galloped 11 is horse dov M\\nthe steps built in the steep hillside for the church-goers. The British cavalry\\nsent a volley after him (one shot piercing his hat), but dared not follow, althougii\\ntwo or three dragoons of Lafayette s escort to the place (in 1821) performed tiio\\nfeat safely. Putnam l-^st 2 cannon here, but his men mostly escaped to the adja-\\ncent swamps, and the next day Old Put attacked Tryon s rear-guard with a force\\nfrom ytamford, and captured 38 men.\\nS. E. of the Greenwich station is Indian Harbor, on a point near which", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0139.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "90 Routed. BOSTON TO NEW BEDFORD.\\nM. from the R. R., is the elegant ^Morton House (250 guests; $4 a\\nday), formerly the Americus-Cliib House, with gas, running water, a band\\nof music, and rich lawns. Fine water-view from the hotel.\\nSoon after leaving Greenwich, the train crosses the Byram River, and\\nleaves Yankee-land, which is said to stretch, from Quoddy Head (in\\nMaine) to Byram River. Stations, Port Chester, in Westchester\\nCounty, New York (De Soto House), a busy village with 5 churches. Rye\\n(with a tine beach 2 M. S. E. of the station), Mamaroneek, the place\\nof rolling stones, where Smallwood s Maryland battalion defeated\\nRogers s Tory Rangers in 1776, and New Rochelle. This village was set-\\ntled by Huguenot refugees in 1691, after the fall of La Rochelle, and the\\nFrench language was long used here. The State of New York granted a\\ntract of land here to Thomas Paine.\\nThomas Paine, was born in England, 1737, and came to America in 1774. Early in\\n1776 he published a tract, Common-Sense, advocating republican indepen-\\ndence, and in Dec. The Crisis was published, beginning with the words, These\\nare the times that try men s souls. This was read at the head of every Conti-\\nnental regiment, and aroused the drooping spirits of the army and people. Af-\\nter filling several otfiees in the U. S., he went to France in 1791, and was elected\\nto the National Convention. After a stormy life in Europe, during which he\\nattacked Burke in the Rights of Man, and advocated atheism in the Age of\\nReason (17 5), he came to New Rochelle in 1S02, and settled on an estate given\\nhim by New York, where he died in 180 In 1819 Wm. Cobbett removed his re-\\nmains to England, and in 1839 the State erected a monument to Paine on his old\\nfarm.\\nAfter Neio Rochelle, the train passes Pelhamville, and at Mount Ver-\\nnon turns to the S. W., and runs on the rails of the Harlem R. R.,\\nthrough several suburban villages without stopping, then crosses tlie\\nHarlem River, and stops at the station, 42d Street, corner of 4th\\nAvenue.\\nNew York, see Route 51.\\n9. Boston to New Bedford.\\nVia Old Colony Railro id, in Ih hr. 54 7n.\\nBoston to Taunton, then to Weir Junction and Myrick s (crossing other\\nlilies of the same railroad at these places); then Rowland s and E. Free-\\ntoirn (1^ M. from K. Freetown village, at the head of one of the great Lakc-\\nville ponds) then over the level farming plains of Freetown to Acushnet,\\nW. of the quiet hamlet of the same name (also reached, from New Bed-\\nford, by stage; running 5 M. farther to Long Plain in Rochester); then to\\nNew Bedford.\\nNew Bedford (Parker House; Bancroft Hoiise), the Acushnet of tlie\\nIndians, was settled in 1661, by Quakers, on lands owned later by Russell.\\nThis being the family name of the Dukes of Bedford, the settlement was\\nnamed in compliment to them. In the Revolution the place became a\\nperfect nest of privateers, until a British force under Earl Grey attacked\\nit (in the autumn of 1778), and destroyed its slii] i)ing, wharves, and", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0140.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW BEDFORD. Route 9. 91\\nstores. In colonial times, a few vessels were sent out after whales. Tho\\nRevolutionary AVar briefly interrupted this career of prosperity, but be^\\ntween 1790 and 1857 tlie whalers from this port penetrated every sea. In\\n1857, there were 329 whaling-vessels, with 10,000 sailors, and an invested\\ncapital of $12,000,000. The business began to decline after the Californian\\ngold-fever; scores of the old ships were filled with stone, carried to the\\nSouth, and sunk in the channels before the rebellious cities on the coast;\\nand in the last hours of the Secession War the Confederate cruiser She-\\nnandoah destroyed a large part of the Pacitic whaling fleet. In 1871,\\n33 whalers were caught in the ice in the Arctic Ocean and abandoned.\\nThe whaling business (though declining) is still carried on here to a greater\\nextent than from all other parts of the world combined. New Bedford\\nhas 28,D00 inliabitants. Its extensive water-works cost $1,200,000. Tlie\\nWamsutta Mills have 2.300 workmen and 202,000 spindles, and use 22,000\\nbales of cotton yearly; the Potomska Mills, 1,300 hands and 106,000\\nspindles; the Grinnell and Acushnet Mills, 62,500 spindles each; the\\nOneko Woollen Mill employs 175; the glass-works, 300; the Gosnold Iron\\nWorks, 100 the Morse Twist-Drill Works, 200 the carriage factories,\\n150 and 300 are engaged in art-productions. The new Grace Church has\\na fine chime of bells.\\nNew Bedford fronts on the wideriings of the Acushnet River, near its\\nmouth, and is built on the side of a ridge slojiing to the water s edge. It\\nhas a cosmopolitan air always blowing over its strata, from the number\\nof foreign mariners who are found here, and one of its quarters is called\\nFayal, from the large population of Portuguese there residing. The upper\\npart of the city is pleasant, and County St. is lined with stately old\\nresidences of the marine aristocracy, whence Lady Emma Stuart Wortley\\ncalled this a city of palaces. Tliese palaces are all on the model of\\nthe architectural boulders so common in the decadent fishing-ports\\nalong the coast. The City Hall is a fine granite building, and the\\nCustom House is built of the same material. Several of the churches are\\nnotable for their neatness and grace, especially the spacious Unitarian\\nChurch. The City Library is a large and rapidly increasing collection of\\nbooks, kept in finely arranged rooms, and free to the public. The wealthy\\nold families of the aristocracy of New Bedford are famous for their hospi-\\ntality and culture, and but few of the citizens go abroad to seek summer\\nrecreation. The favorite drive is around Clark s Point, which extends into\\nBuzzard s Bay, and is bordered by a broad, smooth road, constructed at\\ngreat expense by the city to give its people the benefits of the sea-breezes\\nin summer. This avenue (5 M. aroimd) affords a brilliant scene in sxiltry\\nsummer afternoons.\\nOpposite the city, and joined to it by a bridge (horse -railway) is Fairhaven (so\\nnamed from its pretty location), a village formerly devoted to the whale trade.\\nIn 1778, while New Bedford was burning, a large British force crossed to Fair-", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0141.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "1)2 Route 9. ELIZABETH ISLANDS.\\nhaven, intent on its destruction. But Major Fearing of the militia, fearing not,\\nattacked and repulsed them and saved the village.\\nW. of New Bedford are the large but thinly settled towns of Dartmouth and\\nWestport, on long inlets from the sea, on a branch of th(^ 0. 0. K. R. These towns\\n(the Apouiganset and Aeoaksct of the Indians) are nurseries of sailors, and have\\nbut an inferior soil, wliieli produces fair ero^is when nifinured by menhaden fish.\\nIn one year (1843) six seines off Dartmouth shore and below Padan-Aram, caught\\n18,100 barrels of these fish, which sold for oOc. a barrel.\\nRailroad from Fairhaven to Tremont, on the 0. (1. T?. R., Rpe Route 6.\\nSteamers leave daily during the summer, for Martha s Vineyard. Upon leaving\\nthe wharf, a line view is obtained of Fairliaven on the E., and of the hmg wharves\\nand i)Oiiulous slojies of New Bedford on the W. Palmer s Island with its light-\\nhouse and Fort Phanix, is soon passed, and then the long, projecting Clark s\\nPoint, with a sti ong fortress now in process of constniction. The s eamer\\nnow passes straight to the S. E. across Buzzards Bay, a noble estuary 30 M. long\\nby 10 M. wide, with thinly poj)ulated shores. Tlie Norsemen (11th century)\\ncalled this Bay, Straum Fiord the origin of its present name is not apparent.\\nFar to the S. are seen the Round Hills, on the Dartmouth coast, and Cuttyhunk,\\nthe outermost of the Elizabeth Islands. Cutiyhunk was colonized by c:apt.\\nGosnold, in May, 1C02, with a company sent out by the Earl of fcouthamjiton.\\nHe named the Island Eliznbeth, in honor, probably, of the maiden Queen. The\\nisland is 2h M. long, and at that time a tiounded in game. Gosnold and his\\npeople erected a fort and cabins on an islet in a jjond near the centre of Cutty-\\njiunk, and here inaugurated the first settlement of New England. But tlie\\nIndians were hostile and numerous, and tlie colonists supplies soon gave out so\\nwithin a few weeks the plan, was abandoned, and the peoide returned to England.\\nThe island is now occupied by a merry club of Nev.--\\\\ u kers, and the 115 iuhalii-\\ntants of Gosnold townshiiJ. On Penikese Island (covering about 100 acres^\\nis the villa long occu]ilcd liy John Auders(ni, of New York, who (in April, 1873)\\ngave the island and i! 50,000 in casli to Prof. Agassiz for the location of a summer\\nschool of zoiilogy and science (since abandoned). Nashawena\\n(3 M. I ing) is E. of Cuttyhunk, and beyond that is Pasque Island. This is owned\\nl)y a New York club, wliicli has built a club-ho sc, f;ini;s, and staMes, and jTeivired\\nfruit and flower gardens, and preserves of small fish or bait. The surrounding\\nwaters abound in bass, bluc-fisli, S(iueteague, sword-fish, c. Next to Pas([ue is\\nNauslion, 8 M. long, which was for many years the favorite residence of James\\nI^owdoin, an early American diplomatist, whn.se mansion was adorned by a large\\nlibi-ary, philosophical a])pa; atus, and a fine picture-gallery, whicdi h.e had collected\\nin Eurojje. At his death he left all these things, together with the reversion of\\nNaushon, to Bowdoin College. Lady Wortley, who visited the island early in\\ntills century, says, Naushon is a little pocket America, a Lilliputian Western\\nv. orld, a coni] ressed Coluiubia.\\nNaushon is owiumI by John M. Forbes, of Milton, and is said to l)e stocked\\nwith all tlie varieties of Englisii and Scotch ga!iie-) irds, and most of their pme\\nanimals, including also several liundred Amerii-au deer. I lairic I ov, 1, etc. Kettle\\nand Tar)iaulin CoVes a.i-e well-known harbors, r -sp(^cti\\\\ cly on the N. and S. shores\\nof Naushon. Near the N. E. end of tlie island are t!ie islets of Wcjiecket, Uiica-\\ntena, Nonamesset, and the Ram Islands. Hftwcen Nausiiou and tlie Falmouth\\nsliore is tlie strait called Wodds Holl, a dKH T.lt and intri -ntf^ ]iassage between\\nBu/.zards Bay and the Vii!?\\\\vard Sonnd. The steamer sto])s at tl;e village of\\nWoods Boll, where there are several summer boarding-houses. (See Route 7.)\\nAfter le-iving this jMiint. and passing Nobstpie Light on the 1., the steamer crosses\\nVinevard Sound, and stous at the wharf at MartJia s Vineyard (Route 7). Says\\nan English tourist: What scenes can be more rcfre.shing and exalting th;in an\\nexii.ansive view of the miudity wa\\\\es, dotted here and there with sucii beautifvd\\nislands as those hi the Vineyard Sound? Vtliile a^iuatic birds skim the waves,\\nami the gulls are scre.-uuing. dipping, and darting over a siioal of blue-fidi, or\\nmenhaden, vessels outward and homeward bound ai e always passing, for it In-\\n(dudes in its range of view the packets and sailing-craft between New York and\\nBoston. We have here the foreground and persi ective worthy of the pencil\\nof Claude Lorraine, while the background is granite shores of\\nMassa husetts.\\nNoisouitt {Xonquitt House), 6 M. S. E. of New Bedford, is a charming and\\nqui.t su inmiT n-.-ort, on an upkind on the W. slioie of Uuzzards buy, wUa tiue\\nbeaches and many cottagesr Steamer d.aiy to New iicdford.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0142.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "PROVIDENCE TO WORCESTER. Route 10. 93\\n10. Providence to Worcester.\\nVia Prov. and Worcester R. R., 43 M., Fare \u00c2\u00a71.20.\\nTlie railroad follows the line of the Boston and Providence R. R. as far\\nas Pawtucket, and then turns iip the valley of the Blackstone River. Sta-\\ntions, Pa\\\\vtucket, Valley Falls, and Lonsdale. At the latter place the track\\npasses through a deep cut in Study Hill, to which William Blackstone,\\nthe first settler of Boston, retired after the Puritan immigration. He\\nlived here in the wilderness from 1G34 until his death, in 1675, surrounded\\nby his books, and deeply respected by the Indians. The busy little river\\nwhich flows by the hill was named in his honor. After passing the\\nstations of Berkley, Ashton, Albion, and Manville, the train stops at\\nWoonsoeket {Momunent House, Wonnsockct Hotel), a thriving manufac-\\nturing town. Within a radiixs of 3 M. from the centre of the town are\\nSOjOOO inhabitants. In the tov/n itself, 4,200 persons are engaged in\\ncotton -factories 2,400 in woollen-factories, and 700 in other manufactoiies.\\nIn 1869, the production of these busy hands was reported as 43,000,000\\nyards of cotton cloth, 3,300,000 yards of woollens and cassimeres5 100,000\\ngrain-bags, 30 tons cotton- warp, 1,000 tons of soap. The celebrated\\nHarris cloths are made here. The Social Mills have 43,000 spindlas and\\n500 liands. The town has erected a neat monument in memory of her\\nbrave sons who, during the great Rebellion, gave their lives that the\\nRepublic might live. The Harris Institiite is a popular institution given\\nby Mr. Harris to the people, containing a large hall, and a library of\\n7,000 volumes. Woonsoeket Hill, the highest land in the State, com-\\nmands a fine view of the populous and busy valley.\\nKailroads. A branch road runs from Woonsoeket to Ashland, Mass. The\\nWoon.sot^ket Division of the New Yoriv New England R. R. terminates here,\\nwhile the main line of that road crosses the Worcester route at Waterford.\\nBevond Woonsoeket the line enters Massachusetts. Blackstone {Lhv-\\ncoin House) and Millville (Clarendon Hotel; stage to Slatersville, 2 INI.)\\nare in a manufacturing town of 5,000 inhabitants, in the BLackstone val-\\nley. Uxbridge {^Hotel Windsor, new and luxurious) is a textile-manu-\\nfacturing village of 3,000 inhabitants, with 5 churcbes and a bank, (iood\\nviews from the hotel, along the valley; and picturesque hill-scenery on all\\nsides. 4-5 M. W., in Sutton, is Purgatory, a wild and precipitous chasin,\\ni iM. long, 4 M. from Whitinsville. Xear Uxbridge, in 1G7 Major Tal-\\ncott attacked and killed tbe Queen of Narrngansett in her fortress.\\nWhitins is Ih M. from Whitinsville (Whitinsville Hotel) and its cotton-\\nmachiner} works. Northbridge is 2 M. from Nurthbridcje Centre. Front\\nFdrnumsville (Farnumsville Hotel) dailv stages run to Uj ton (Warren\\nHouse) hill farms (4 M.), and Milford Sh M.); also to Grafton. Beyond\\nSandersville the train readies Milibury {St. Charles Hotel), a prosi)erous\\nfactory-village, whence dailv stages run to W. Millburv (3 M.), Sutton\\n(3; M.), and W. Sutton (OJ M.); and a branch runs N. to the Alliany R. R.\\nlir. beyond Millburj the train reaches Worcester (see Route 21).", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0143.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "94 Route 11. PliOVIDENCE TO HARTFORD.\\n11. Providence to Hartford and Ifewburgh.\\nVia New York and New England R. R. To Hartford, 90 M. fere, !$3.30. To\\nWaterbury, 12 2i m. j tare, ^4.15. To Newburgh-ou-Hudsou, 2Ul M.\\nAfter leaving Providence the train passes tlie stations, Cranston, Oak\\nLawn, Natick, Riverpoint, Quidnick, Anthony, Washington, Nipmuck,\\nSummit, and Greene. These are mostly manufacturing villages in the\\nextensive town of Coventry, and several of them are occupied h\\\\ large\\ncotton and woollen factories. Shortly after leaving Greene the train\\nenters the State of Connecticut, and passes the stations, Oneco, Sterling,\\nMoosup, and Plainfield. The latter station is in the Indian district of\\nQuinnibaug, which was bought by Gov. Winthrop in 1659, and settled\\nby Massachusetts people. From the great quantities of corn which it\\nproduced, it w^as called in the colonial era the Egypt of E. Connecticut.\\nAt Plainfield the Norwich and Worcester R. R. crosses the line. After\\npassing the stations, Canterbury, Jewett City, Lovetts, Baltic, W^aldo s,\\nand S. Windham, the line crosses the New London Northern Division of\\nthe Vermont Central R. R. at Willimantic {Drainard Iloiixe), This is\\na large manufacturing village, on the ii\\\\er of the same name, which falls\\n100 ft. in 1 M. Extensive thread, silk, and cotton mills are located on\\nthe water-power thus afforded, occupying large factories built of stone\\nfound in this vicinity. The Air Line R. R. between Boston and New\\nYork passes through Willimantic, which is becoming a great railroad\\ncentre. The only legend connected with Windham (in which town Wil-\\nlimantic is situated) is of a long battle betv/een tw.o hordes of immigrat-\\ning frogs, in which several hundred of the combatants were killed. This\\nevent has been duly attested and described by a local poet in a Batrachy-\\nomachian ejjic of 30 stanzas. The train now passes Andover, Bolton (near\\nwhich is Bolton Notch, a romantic pass into the valley of the Connecti-\\ncut), and Vernon. At Vernon a branch track (5 LI.) runs to Rockville, a\\nprosperous manufacturing village on the w^ater-power afforded by the\\nHockannon River. Beyond Vernon is Manchester, which makes yearly\\n2,000,000 yards of gingham, 90,000 pairs of socks, 450 tons of book-paper,\\nbesides government and bank-note paper for several nations. From\\nthence a branch railroad 2h M.) runs to S. Manchester, the seat of the\\nsilk-works of the Cheney Brothers. After Manchester comes Burnside,\\nwhere paper-making was a brisk business in 1776, and Avhere there are\\nnow 3 paper-mills, whose yearly production is 3U0 tons of writing-\\npaper, 400 tons of manilla paper, and 500 tons of book-paper, vhe\\nnext station is E. Hartford, with a wide, level street lined with elms,N^p4\\n2 M. long. This district was the home of the Podimk Indians, whose", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0144.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "AND WATERUURY. Route 11. 95\\ncMef, Totanimo, could bring 200 bowmen into the field. The train now\\ncrosses the broad Connecticut River and enters the city of Hartford (see\\nRoute 21). Connections are made here with the New Haven, Hartford,\\nand Springfield R. R. (Route 21, for New York or Boston) also with the\\nConn. Western (Route 20) and the Conn. Valley (Route 14) Railroads.\\nFrom Hartford the line runs by Newington to New Britain {Strickland\\nHouse, Humphrey House), a wealthy and working towar. Tlie water-supply\\nis from a large reservoir some 200 ft. above the village. In the centre of\\nthe town is a spacious square, adorned with trees and fountains, and near\\nits end is the elegant and imposing S. Cong. Church. In the same vicinity\\nis the State Normal School. The products of the industry of New\\nBritain are varied and extensive. The Russel and Erwin Co. employs 500\\nmen in 5 acres of works, and sends out millioiis of dollars Avorth of locks,\\nwhich are used in all parts of the world. Hardware, lace, hose, merino\\ngoods, gold jewelry, and knives are made here in large quantities.\\nElihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, was born at New Britain in ISll. At\\nthe ai^e of 16, he was apprenticed to a blacksmith, and followed that trade for\\nmany years. Desiring to read the Bi )le iu its original languages, he mastered the\\nGreek and Hebrew by evening studies, and acquired sucli a i)liilological ta?te,\\nthat he afterwards became familiar witli all the principal ancient and modern\\nlanguages. He became an earnest advocate of universal j)eace, temperance, and\\ntlie abolition of slavery, and published a paper and several books in defence of\\nthese movements. After making several visit j to Europe, he became U. S- Con-\\nsid at Birmingham.\\nAt Plainville, the next station, the New Haven and Northampton R. R.\\n(Route 15) crosses this route. Many carriages are made in this village.\\nAt Forcstville, Bristol, and Terryville stations are many large clock-fac-\\ntories, where every variety of clocks are made. After passing several\\nflag stations, the train stops at Waterbury (Earle House; Scuvill),\\na prosperous city of 22,000 inhabitants, on a narrow plateau at the\\njunction of the Mad and Naugatuck Rivers. The principal streets di-\\nverge from Centre Square, a small but well-kept green, on which front\\ntwo Cong, churches, the new and elegant building of the City Hall, and\\nSt. John s Episcopal Church. The latter is called the finest church in\\nthe State, and is built of granite and Ohio stone in the pointed Gothic\\nstyle. The sharply pointed ceiUng is highly ornamented, and the spire\\n(200 ft. higli) uplifts a massive stone cross. The Silas Bronson Library,\\nthe gift of a New York gentlemen, contains 13,000 volumes and is free to\\nthe citizens. St. Margaret s School (Episcopal diocesan) is on the hill\\nnear the square.\\nTlie manufacturing interests of the city employ a capital of neaily\\n8,000,000. 2,000,000 are invested in the brass-works, besides which\\nthere are 5 button-factories, 2 clock-factories, and works which turn out\\ngreat quantities of wire, steel traps, hooks and eyes, hoop-skirts, and kero-\\nsene fixtures. The American Pin Co., the Benedict and Buruham Mfg. Co.,", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0145.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "96 Route 12. KOIIWICIL\\nand the Waterburv Brass Co., have their works here. Silver-i)lated ware\\nis made, also tlie best quality of steel rolls. G M. N. E. (tri-weekly stage)\\nis the ancient hill-town of Wolcott, Alcolt s New Connecticut.\\nThere is a pleasant drive, much of the way on the quiet and embowered river-road,\\nto tile Riverside Cemetery (l.^ M.), a pm;ill but picturesque rural ground among the\\nforest-covered hills S. of the Naugatuck River.\\nAt W aterbury the line crosses the Naugatu.ck 11. R. (see page 111), and runs S. W.\\nand W. to llawleyville, on the Ilousatouic R. It. (,see page 11-i); Danbury (see page\\nlltj); Brewster s (on the Harlem K II. and N. Y. City and Northern R. R.); Hope-\\nwell Junction (on the Newburgh, Dutche.ss, and Conn. R. R.) Fishkill, Matteawan,\\nand b ishkill-on-lludsou. At the latter point passengers are lerried across the liud-\\nsou to Newburgh.\\n12. New London to Vermont.\\nVia the New London Northern Division of the Central Vermont Railroad, New\\nLondon to Brattleboro r.il M. Fare, 3.(30.\\nThe train leaves the Shore Line Station at New London. Beautiful\\nviews of the broad and expansive Thames on the E. so a seat should be\\nsecured on the r. side of the car. Near Mohegan is the old Mohegan i-eser-\\nvation, wdiere 821 Indians of that tribe were numbered in 177-i. After\\npassing Waterford, Montville, Massapeag, Mohegan, and Thamesville,\\nthe train crosses the Yantic River, and enters Norwich Waurefjan Ilmise,\\ni$ 2.50 3.00, corner Main and Union Sts. Union-Square MetmpoHtan\\nAmerican House; Chelsea House). Norwich is a city of 22,000 inhab.,\\nwith its streets terraced on a steep acclivity facing to the S. over the\\nlake-like Thames, of which a local writer claims that not Richmond\\nHill itself, or Greenwich observatory, looks on a Thames more fair.\\nThe situation of the city is indeed beautiful, being on high ground be-\\ntween the Yantic and Shetncket Rivers, which here unite to form the\\nThames. The business part of Norwich is in a semicircle of which Main\\nSt., from Franklin Square to Central Wharf Bridge, is the chord, and\\nbeyond this the residence-streets rise in terraced lines. The banks, stores,\\nancl hotels are mostly in the district between Main St. and the rivers.\\nThe city and county buildings are neat aud substantial, and there are\\ntwo or three fine churches.\\nWashington St. and Broadway are noble avenues lined with large\\nand secluded old mansions. The former street runs near the Yantic,\\npassing the ivy-clad Christ Church (Epis.), and ends at Williams Park, or\\nthe Parade, near which is the mansion of the Revolutionary General Wil-\\nliams, and the imposing building of the Free Academy. The latter is a\\nmixed school, of high grade and of a wide reputation. Turning to the 1.\\nfrom the Parade, Williams St. (opposite the Academy) leads to a pretty\\nrural cemetery on the hills over the river. In this vicinity were the\\nYantic Falls, whose praises have been soimded by Mrs. Sigourney and\\nothers, both in prose and verse. A deep cutting in the hard rook, and\\ncuriously piled and water- worn boulders, are all that remain of the", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0146.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "NEW LONDON TO VEUMONT. Routs IS. 97\\nbeetling cliifs, the compressed channel, the confused mass of granite, and\\nthe roaring, foaming river, by which a former generation s lone enthu-\\nsiasts wandered and dreamed. The river has been dammed and diverted\\ninto an ai tiiicial channel, through which it affords a heavy water-power\\nto a large chister of factories below. Fine wood-carving machinery, rub-\\nber goods, corks, iron pipes, files, blankets and carpets, Hax and twine,\\npaper, envelopes, and cotton goods are manufactured in Norwich and its\\ntributary villages. On Sachem St., near the site of the Falls, is a little\\ncemetery in a cluster of pine-trees. This spot was chosen centuries ago\\nas a sepulchral ground for the blood royal of Mohegan, and has been\\ncarefully reserved by the tribe ever since. Many of the Grand Sachems\\nare buried here, from those earlier chiefs of whom earthly history has no\\nrecord down to Mazeen, the last of the line, who was buried in 1826 in\\nthe presence of 25-30 of the feeble remnant of tlae tribe. In the centre\\nof the ancient monuments stands a massive obelisk erected to the memory\\nof Uncas. (Its foimdation-stone was laid by President Jackson.)\\nUneas was a chief of the Pequot tribe, who revolted in 1634 against the Sachem\\nSassacus, and joined the Mohegans. He was chosen Sachem of tlie latter tribe,\\nand by sagacious alliances with the Enghsh cohniists, lie steadily increased tlie\\npower of his people, wlio had jireviously lield a subordinate position among the\\naboriginal clans. He led his warriors by the side of the colonial train-bands in\\nthe campaign of 1637, wliich annihihited his most dreaded foe, the Pequot ti ibe\\nand in 1643, he fouglit the jiowerful Narragansetts until the Anglo-Mohegau\\nforces, under his direction, had defeated and iinmbled that tribe. He repelled an\\ninvasion of the Western Indians, aided by a strong Mohawk contingent, in 1648,\\nand kept up an incessant war upon his Indian neighbors until he became the\\nmost powerful and prosperous prince in New England. In 1640 he ceded to the\\ncolony of Conn, all his land except a tract on the W. shore of the Thames em-\\nbracing three or lour townships, and sold (for 70) the present site of Norwich,\\nwhich was occupied in 1660 by a nomadic church from Saybi ook. He frequently\\nvisited the colonial capitals, Boston and Hartford, and ever remained friendly to\\ntlie settlers, holding his people to peaceful ways while every other tribe of New\\nEngland (except the Christian Indians) joined King Philip s league against the\\ncolonies. After reigning as Sachem of the Mohegans for nearly 50 years, he died\\nin 1683, a consistent Pagan to the last. He was crafty, cruel, and rapacious in\\nhis policy but as the head of a savage people, he was sagacious and far-sighted,\\nand as a military leader he was skilfid and fearless. It is difficult to tell what\\nwould have been the course of New England history, or what final and over-\\nwlielining disasters might have blotted out tiiose feeble colonies along the coast,\\nluul not the two great southern tribes been ruined by the attacks (somedmes\\naided by a few dozen English nmsketeers) of the Mohegans under their Sachem,\\nUncas. Beyond the village of Greenville is Sacliem s Plain (1.V-2M. from\\nNorwich. Horse-cars most of the way). Here was fougiit a battle between Mi-\\nantonomoli and 900 Narragansetts, and Uncas with 500 Mohegans.\\nMiantonomoh was the nephew of Canouicus, and in 1636 succeeded to the gov-\\nernment of the Narragansetts. He was ever a firnr friend to the colonists, grant-\\ning them a large portion of the present State of Rhode Island, and leaving his\\nquarrels with Uncas to their arbitration. In 1642 he went to Boston to meet\\ncertain men who had accused him of planning hostilities against the colonies.\\nHe awaited his accusers in th3 presence of the Governor and council of Massa-\\nchusetts, but no charges were preferred against him, and he left Boston after re-\\nceiving high honors from Gov. Winthro]), who admired his chara(!ter. In the\\nfollowing year, stung to madness by insults offered by Uncas, he led 900 Narra-\\ngansett warriors in an attack on Mohegan. Uncas and 500 men met him on\\nSachem s Plain, and in accordance with a plan preconcerted by the Mohegan\\n5", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0147.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "98 Rovic 12. NEW LONDON TO VERMONT.\\nchiefs, invited him to a parley. While this parley was going on, and the Narra-\\ngansetts were off their guard, the Mohegans made a fierce and sudden attack and\\nscattered them in al! directions. The pursuit was continued for many niile.s, and\\nhunilreds of the invaders fell, but Miantonomoh was captured and led prisoner to\\nHartford. After remaining here in close confinement, he was surrendered to Un-\\ncas, by whom, by the advice and consent of the Enghsh magistrates and elders,\\nhe was executed. The royal Narragansett was carried by Uncas and his warriors\\nfrom Hartford to Norwicli, and was put to death on the battle-field of Sacliem s\\nPlain, at a place now marlved by a stone monument inscribed Miantonomoli,\\n1643. He was a brave, magnanimous, and humane Sachem, incapable of dissim-\\nulation or treachery, and therefore he became their victim.\\nFor many years his people came hither in the season of flowers and adorned his\\ngrave, eacli of them leaving a stone u]ion it. Tlie lofty cairn thus formed re-\\nmained till a farmer (of the English Hodge tyjie) carried av/ay the stones to\\nmake a foundation for a new barn. In 18-11, the i^resent granite monument was\\nerecfted.\\nNanunteno, the son of Miantonomoh, and his successor in the government,\\never cherished a just hatred of the colonists, and joined King Pliilip s league with\\nenthusiasm. Having been made prisoner, in 1676, he was offered pardon in case\\nhe would treat with the English. On declining to make tenns, he was threatened\\nwith instant death, whereupon he answered, I like it well I shall die before my\\nheart is soft, or I have spoken anything unworthy of myself acting herein,\\nsays Cotton Mather, as if, by a Pythagorean metempsychosis, some old Roman\\nghost had possessed the body of this Western Pagan, like Attilius Regulus. He\\nwas instantly shot.\\nAbout 5 M. S. of Norwich is the old fortress of Uncas, on the highest hill in\\nMohegan, and in the vicinity live the few half-breeds who are all that remain of\\nthe tribe of Uncas. President Dwight s remark about the Pequots at Grotou will\\napply equally well to the Mohegans or to the Narragansetts in Charlestown, R. I.,\\nthe former proud, heroic spirit of tlie Pequot is shrunk into the tameness and\\ntor]ior of reasoning lirutism.\\nSteamers leave Norwich every morning, in summer, for New London and Watch\\nHill, Block Island, and Fisher s Island.\\nAfter leaving Norwicli the line passes the stations Norv/ich Town, Yan-\\ntic, Franklin, and Lebanon. The village of Lebanon, situated in a rich\\nfarming district, was very lively during the War for Independence. Jon-\\nathan Trumbull, Governor of Conn. 1769 83, resided here, and here was\\nthe War Office of the State, which furnished more men and money in the\\nRevolutionary War than any other State save Massachusetts. Gov.\\nTrumbull was Washington s right-hand man during the northern cam-\\npaigns, and when any perplexing qiiestion or pressing demand arose, the\\nnoble Virginian would often say, Let us see what Brother Jonathan\\nsays. The name Brother Jonathan has passed into universal use as\\na humorous designation of the U. S., corresponding to the John Bull\\nwhich is applied to England. At the gubernatorial mansion in Lebanon,\\nTrumbull received Washington, Lafayette, Rochambeau, Jefferson,\\nFranklin, and other distinguished men. Five French regiments were can-\\ntoned in the town and reviewed by the commander-in-chief, while De\\nLauzun s Legion (500 horsemen) Avintered here. Tlie Trund:)ull mansion\\njuid War Office are still standing, and in the little cemetery E. of the vil-\\nlage is the family vaidt.\\nThe most prominent of the Trumliulls are Jonathan, Gov. of Conn. 1760-83\\nJonathan, his sou, M. C. in 1789-05, U. S. Senator in 1705-6, and Governor in\\n1793-1809; Joseph, another son, ccunaissary-gencral of the Continental Army;", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0148.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "T ni:\\\\V LONDON TO VERMONT. Route 12. 99\\nJoseph, .crrandson of Brother Jonathan, 5 years M. C. and 2 years Gov. of Conn.\\nLjnnan Trunibull (born near Lebanon in 1813), the einhient jurist and U. feJ. Sena-\\ntor from Illinois, 1855-72 and Col. John Trumbull (some time of the 1st Conn.,\\nand afterwards aide to Washington), who studied painting under West, in Lon-\\ndon, and executed many large historical pictures, depicting scenes of the Revolu-\\ntionary era. Four of his worlcs are in tlie rotunda of the National Capitol, and a\\ngood collection of Ifts i)aintings is in t!ie Atlien;euin at Hartford. The ^Vi t Gal-\\nlery of Yale College has a large number of his minor worlcs, 57 in all.\\nThe line now leaves the Yantic Valley, runs along the horder of the\\nShetncket, and, passing S. Windham, stops at Willimantic (see Eoute 11).\\nAt this point the New York\\nand New England tracks cross the New London Northern Railroad.\\nRunning N. from Willimantic, the line follows the Willimantic River,\\nthrough the county of Tolland. Stations, S. Coventry, Eagleville (with\\nlarge sheeting manufactories), and Mansfield, with four companies engaged\\nin making sewing-silk, a j)rofitable industry which was inaugurated here\\nin the last ceutiiry. Stations, Merrow, S. Willington, and Tolland, about\\n4 M. W. of which is a sequestered village containing the modest county\\nbuildmgs. Stafford is celebrated for its mineral springs, the ]:)rincipal\\none being among the best of chalybeate springs. It contains considerable\\niron in solution, with carbonic acid and natron, and is a pleasant water to\\nthe taste. It is held to be very efficacious in all cutaneous affections.\\nTlie other spring, which is charged with hydrogen gas and sulphur, has\\nbecome choked up, and has long been disused. The Indians were in the\\nhabit of using these waters with beneficial effect, and the whites began to\\nvisit the springs about 110 years ago.\\nThe Stafford Springs House is a large and inexpensive hotel near the\\nchalybeate spring, on the 1. of the track.\\nThe train now runs N. for 10 M. across the sparsely populated to-wn of\\nStafford, and at State Line it enters the State of Massachusetts. The\\nto-\\\\vn of Monson is next crossed (11 M.). Much manufacturing is done\\nhere aloag a branch of the Chicopee River, and a fine granite quarry is to\\nbe seen near the central station, from which great quantities of stone have\\nbeen sent to Albany for the new State House. The extensive buildings\\nof the State Primary School are in tliis town, on a farm of 260 acres, and\\nthere are over 400 pupils. The scenery here is picturesque, and culmi-\\nnates in tlie bold heights of Peaked and Moon Mts. The village (Mon-\\nson House) is pleasantly situated on high ground, and has a bank, an\\nacademy (150 pu})ils), 3 churches, a hat-factory, and several woollen-\\nmills. The town has 3,400 inhabitants.\\nAt Palmer tlie line crosses the Chicopee River and the Boston k Al-\\nbany R. R. Stages run S. E. to Parksville, 5 M. Brinifield, 9\\nE. Brinifield, 12 Fiskdale, 14^ Sturbridge, IG^ and Southbridge, 20.\\nBrimjield is a hilly farming town with 1,201 inhabitants and a soldiers\\nmonument (Brinifield House; see page 130). Stages run to Wales (Wales\\nHotel), 4i M. S., near the far-viewing Mt. Hitchcock, a grazing town, with\\n1,000 inhabitants. Holland (Holland Hotel) is a farming town, 4| M. S.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0149.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "100 Route 12. NEW LONDON TO VERMONT.\\nStations, Three Rivers; BarretVs Junction, M here the Springfield,\\nAthol Northeastern R. R. is crossed; and Belchertown {Belcher\\nHouse), a hill-town devoted to farming, with 2,315 inhabitants, a public\\nlibrary, a high-school, and 3 churches. It lias several hold eminences\\nand handsome ponds. The settlement took place in 1731, and was named\\nCold Spring, after a large fountain within its borders.\\nAfter running across Belchertown (13 M. the train passes S. Amherst\\nand stops at\\nAmherst {Amherst House, $2.50 a day, M. from the station), o\\npretty village situated in a romantic district, and distinguished fo:\\nits college. Its society is of tliat culturetl and refined order which iy\\nusually found in American academic towns, and its jestlietic taste is seen\\nin the fine architecture of its cliurches (notably Grace Church and the\\n1st Congregational). The buildings of Amherst College (founded in\\n1821) are located on a hill on the edge of the village to the S. On the\\nstreet W. of the buildings are the President s House, the Library, and\\nCollege Hall. The curious octagonal structure with a bright blue dome,\\nwhich stands in advance of the line of college halls, is devoted to the dis-\\nplay of rare collections. Part of it is occupied by the Lawrence Observ-\\natory, and on the upper story are the great cabinets of minerals and\\nmeteorites prepared and collected by Prof. C. U. Shepard, a disciple of\\nSilliman, Avho has been for the last 45 years one of the leading physicists\\nof America. These collections are only surpassed by those of the Brit-\\nish Mu.seum and the Imperial Cabinet at Vienna. They rej^resent an\\nimmense value, some single pieces having cost thoiisands of dollars. The\\nlargest ruby in the woi ld is shown here, being 2 ft. high by 1 ft. in diam-\\neter. It was found in N. Carolina. A sapphire, in the cabinet, weiglis\\n30 lbs., and many other rare and costly specimens are here preserved.\\nOn the lower floor is Wood s Cabinet of geology and paleontology, em\\nbracing over 20,000 specimens. The Nineveh Gallery opens out of Wood i\\nCabinet, and contains many Oriental and Indian relics, togetlier with a\\ncollection of rare coins and medals. Along the walls of tliis room are\\narranged a succession of large Assyrian sculptures from the palace of\\nSardanapalus, at Nineveh. E. of this building is the line of the older col-\\nlege-halls, N. College, the old Chapel, and S. College. These are in the\\nearly Novanglian architecture, and closely resemble the older halls of\\nHarvard. At the S. end of this line is the Appleton Cabinet, whose up-\\nper story, surrounded by barbarous frescos, contains several collections\\nembracing 5,900 species of animals and 8,000 species of shells, prepared\\nby Prof. Adams, of Amherst, the conchologist. An Herbarium (in the\\nold cha})el) contains 4-5,000 kinds of plants and the Gilbert Museum\\nof Indian Relics is on the ground-floor of Appleton. The new Pratt\\nGymnasium is N. of the campus. The library has received a large fire-\\nproof annex. IMost of the Shepard collections (above mentioned) were\\ndestroyed by fire in 1882.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0150.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "NSW LONDON TO VERMONT. Route 12. 101\\nOn the lower floor is a hall 110 ft. long by 45 ft. wide, wherein are kept\\n9,000 specimens of ancient tracks in stone. This wonderful collection\\nis by far the largest in the world, and well illustrates the science of ich-\\nnology which iirst arose at Andierst. The tracks of birds, beasts, and\\nreptUes, which have been dead perhaps a myriad of years, and tlie marks\\nof the pattering of raiu-storms which fell through the silent air of pre-\\nhistoric ages, are here preserved on the sandstone of the Connecticut\\nvalley.\\nE.lwaril Hitchcock, D. D., the founder of ichnological science, was born at\\nDeorlield Mass in 179:^. He was connected with Amherst CoUege, either as\\nprofessor or president, from 1825 to 1865, and planned and executed the geological\\nsurvev of Mass.. the first survey of an entire State under the authority of gov-\\nernment in the world. He published 20-25 volumes, mostly on geological sub-\\njects, of which the Elementary Geology and the Religion oi Geology\\npassed througli manv editions in America and England. Ihe Ichnology ot\\nNew England, published by the State in 1858, illustrated and explained the\\nbranch of science which he founded.\\nAmherst College is under the auspices of the Congregational Church, and has\\nabout 350 students, with libraries of 50,000 volumes. Morning stages run from\\nAmherst to Hadley and Northampton afternoon stages to Shutesbury, near the\\nMount Mineral Springs.\\nE. of the verdant lawn and overlooking the valley is the new and\\nelegant Memorial Chapel, whose exterior is a beautiful model of Gothic\\narchitecture. It is cruciform in shape with finely finished rose-windows\\nin the transept, and colonettes of polished Scotch granite at various points\\non the outside. The graceful spire is built (as well as the Chapel walls)\\nof stone, and within the tower is a marble tablet, containing the names\\nof the alumni and past students of Amlierst who fell in the War for the\\nUnion. From the E. side of the chapel is obtained a pleasing view of the\\nrich valley E. of Amherst. The Barret Gymnasium is near the E. College,\\nand the N. side of the prospective quadrangle is occupied by two fine\\nstone buildings; the Walker Hall, a tasteful and ornate structure sur-\\nmounted by a spired observatory, and fronted by an elegant portico,\\nformed by five Gothic arches supported on coupled columns and the\\nWilliston Hall, a snltstantial brick building. Before leaving the College\\nHill, the College Tower should be ascended for the sake of the view,\\nwhich is one of the most beauliful in New England, extending over parts\\nof the rich Conn, valley and over the rugged and picturesque towns of\\neastern Hampshire. The Art Gallery is in Williston Hall, and has a\\nrich collection of casts, ilhistrative of every school and jjcriod of sculp-\\nture. On the opposite side of Amherst, and about 1 M. from tlie Green,\\nis the Massachusetts Agricultural College. Its handsome buildings are\\non the edge of a rich plain, from which fine views are obtained of the\\nmountains on the W. and S. On the experimental farm of 400 acres is\\nthe Durfee Plant-House, where many rare and valuable plants are\\npreserved. The Aggies (as the students here are called by the other\\nNew England collegians) are drilled to a high state of discipline (infantry", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0151.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "102 Route 12. NORTIIFIELD.\\nand liglit artillery) by military instructors; and of such a nature is the\\nfield-work, that this has become the best agricultural school in America.\\nExcursions are made from Amherst to Mt. Norwottuck (4 1\\\\I.), North-\\nampton (7 M. iMounts Holyoke, Tom, and Sugar-Loaf Mt. Toby (1,000 ft.\\nhigh) is ascended by a carriage-road, and has a hotel and observatory\\non top, Aviiere pure air and quiet are found. The views from the tower\\nare broad and beautiful. R. R. station, Mt. Toby or IMuntague.\\nBeyond Amherst are the stations N. AmhersI, Jft. Tooy, and Leverett.\\nThe latter is situated in the midst of very picturesque scenery. The line\\nnow passes through Montague, with the Hunting Hills on the E. Stations,\\nMuntivjue and Miller s Fall.-!, Avhere the Vt. and Mass. R. R. (Route 25)\\nand IMilicr s River are ;rossed. Stations, NorthJIdd Farms and then\\nNorthfieid {Norihfeld llotd), a charming village with broad streets, on\\na plateau above the intervales along the Conn. River. This peaceful agri-\\ncultural town was settled in 1GG3, on the Indian lands called Squawkeague.\\nDuring King Philip s War frequent and fierce attacks Avere made upon it\\nby the Indians, and troops conveying supplies were ambushed and cut to\\npieces. When Major Treat, with his flying army of Conn, soldiers,\\nreached the place, its people evacuated it, and passed, under his escort, to\\na ])lace of safety. It was reoccupied in 1685, but Indian attacks soon\\ncompelled the decimated settlers to leave, and it lay desolate until 1712,\\nwhen the erection of Fort Dummer afforded sure defence. I) wight L.\\nMoody, the evangelist, was born and lives here and near liis house stands\\nthe girls seminary which he founded, 1 INI. N. of the village, and with a\\nnoble view. 5 M. distant, in Gill, is Moody s Mt. Hermon School for\\nBoys, with 300 acres of land and half a dozen buildings. The main street\\nof Northfield, 2 jNI. long, between t!ie river and the mountains, is 200 ft.\\nAvide, lined with ancient houses and quadruple rows of grand ehn-trees.\\nMany summer-boarders sojourn here. The broad intervales and the quiet\\nConnecticut River are crossed between Northiield and ^5 Wrnon.\\nAt S. Vernon a connection is made with the Ashuelot Railroad, which passes\\nthe stations, Hinsdale, Asliuelot, AVinchester, Westford, and Swuuzey (all in New\\nHampshire), and at Keene connects with tlie Cheshire Railroad. Hinsdale was\\nsettled by Mass. i)eople in 1683, and was the site of Hinsdale s and Bridgnian s\\nForts. Throngliout the early border-wars it was the scene of numerous atbieivs\\nand skirmislies, but was boldly held as the outpost of colonial civilization. Hins-\\ndale is now a prosperous town, through which the Ashuelot River flows to the\\nConnecticut. From Mine Mt., a few years ago, volcanic signs were seen, and a\\nlava-lilce substance was thrown out. An ancient Indian fort is situated on a hiU\\nnear the river, and isohited from the plateau by a deep, broad trench. Winchester\\nwas granted by, and settled from, Mass. in 1733, under the name of Arlingtun, and\\nwas totally destroyed by an Indian attack in 1745. Swanzey is a large and thinly\\npopulated town, settled under the same circumstances, and destroyed at the same\\ntime as Wimdiester.\\nAt S. Vernou the Conn. River Railroad from Springfield terminates.\\nFrom S. Vernon the New London Northern track runs N. about 9 M.\\nthrough the town of Vernon (seats on the r. side of the car command a\\nview of the fertile intervales of the Connecticut, and of the river itself).\\nThis is one of the oldest towns of Vermont, and scores of its early set-", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0152.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "BRATTLEBORO Route 12. 103\\ntiers were killed by the hostile Indians. The next station is Brattlehcro\\n120 M. from New London.\\nHotels. Brooks House, the best in Vermont, acconnnoflating 175-200\\nguestis, y 3 -3.50 a day. Brattltboro^ House American House.\\nIn 1724 the Legislature of Mass. liad a fort built near the river and about 1 M.\\nS. of the present village. This fort, called Fort Dummer, was garrisoned by\\ntroops of the colony and friendly Indians, and served as a shield for the river-\\ntowns. Though often atta( ked, it was never lost. The first settlement in tlio\\nState was located here under the protection of the fort, and but two or three\\nsmall villages were established in the S. part until the conquest of Canada, after\\nwhirli, IVoin 17(50 to 1768, l;38 townsliips were granted in Vermont. In 1703, tlio\\nvillage near Fort Dummer was named Brattleborough, in honor of Col. Brattle, a\\ndistinguished Bostoniau, who was one of its proprietors.\\nBrattleboro is a large village, well and compactly built, at the junction\\nof Whetstone Brook (whicli affords a considerable water-power) with the\\nConnecticut. The location of the village is beautiful, being on an uneven\\nplateau above the great river, and surrounded by lofty hills. Main St.,\\nthe principal thoroughfare, is near and parallel to the river, and 100 ft.\\nabove it. The Brook, with its numerous factories, is near the station, in\\nthe S. of the village. A beautiful view of Brattleboro and its mountain-\\nampitheatre is enjoyed from Cemetery Hill, an eminence just S. of the\\ntown. The opposite side of the river is filled by the dark and frowning\\nmasses of Mine and Wantastiquet Mts. At the N. end of the village is a\\npretty park, on the edge of the plateau, whence a charming vievv^ of the\\nmountains is gained, while the placid river is seen gliding between its\\nbroad and fertile intervales. Below the park, in the valley, is the Ver-\\nmont Asylum for the Insane, a well-conducted institution, connected with\\nwhich is a farm of 600 acres, which is carried on by tlie inmates of the\\nAsylum. From various points (back of St. JMichael s Church, c.) on the\\nriverward side of the plateau, pretty views of tlie river and Wantastiquet\\nMt. are obtained. Tiie Estey Coltage-Ort/an Works are the lai gest in the\\nworld, occupying 9 sliops, with a capacity of 20,000 organs a year.\\nThe monument to James Fisk, Jr., is in the cemetery, and is much visited. It\\nwas executed by Mead, at a cost of -i^ 25,000, and bears emblematic female statues\\nrepresenting Navigation, the Drama, Railroads, and Connnerce.\\nDaniel Webster was a freciuent visitor to Brattlebf^o and at present it is the\\nhome of Holbrook, the VVar-Sovernor of Vermont, and Gen. J. W. Phelps, a vet-\\neran of tlie Mexican and Secession Wars, who first enlisted and disciplined ne-\\ngroes in the armies of the Union. Among those born here were Wilbur Fisk.\\nthe Methodist divine, who twice refused a bishoiiric, and was President of Mid-\\ndletown University, 1830-39; R. M. Hunt, the architect; W. M. Hunt, the\\npainter of genre pictures and Larkin G. Mead, tlie sculptor, who, while yet a\\nmere lad, worked one long winter night on a snow-figure at the head of Main St.\\nand on the next morning (Ncm Year s) the citizens were startled to see there a\\nstatue of the Recording Angel modelled in purest snow.\\nIn W. Brattleboro (Glen House, Vermont House) is the Glenwood Seminary, in\\na romantic site (stages three times daily).\\nA bridge crosses the river here, and a road runs into hilly Hinsdale, N. of which\\nis the i icturesque town of Chesterfield (N. H.), from whose level uplands mucli\\ncorn and hay is obtained by unwearied labor. Spotford Lake, in Chesterfiehl\\n(7-8 M. from Brattleboro is a beautiful sheet of water 8 M. around, said by\\nHowells to possess natural charms equal to those of the Italian lakes.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0153.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "104 Route 13. NORWICH TO NASHUA.\\nThe Brattleboro and TVhitehall K. R. runs N. W. to Londonderry 36 M.,\\nin 2,^-4 lirs., passing 11^. Dummcrslon (small inn): Wllliamsrille (iuu daily\\nstages to JJover); Newfane Windliam-Co. House), the shire-town Townshend\\n(West-River House; daily stages to Grafton, 9 M.); ]V. Totcnshend (daily stages\\nto Windham and Chester); Wardfihoro (two inns); Jamaica (Jaimiica House;\\ntri-weekly stages to Manchester, 18 M.); Winhall and S. Londonderry (Pen-\\nhody House). 3 M. N. is Lnndonderry (Sanborn s; Lowell-Lake House), whence\\ndaily stages run to N. ^V indham and Chester, and triweekly stages to Laudgrove,\\nPeru, and Manchester (151 M.).\\nDaily stages run from Brattleboro W. to W. Brnttlehoro\\\\2 M. Marlboro\\\\ 10 M.\\nW. Marlboro 14 M. Wilmlnriton (Vermont House), 20 M. Searsburgh, 26 M.-\\nWoodford, 35 M. and Bennington, 42 M. Also, S. W. to Shelburne Falls (Mass.)\\nvia Halifax (cascades on North River, and Dun s Den, 25 ft. long, 5 ft. wide and high,\\nin solid rock) in 27 M. to Shelburne Falls (45 M.) via hitingham,in which are the\\nSadawga Springs, with a hotel, near Sadawga Lake, in whose vicinity, in a poor log-\\nhut, the heiesiarch Brighaui Young was born in ISOl.\\nFrom Brattleboro the Central Vermont Railroad runs N. to Montreal, Quebec,\\nand upper Vermont (Route 20).\\n13. Norwich to Nashua.\\nVia Norwich and Worcester Division, New York and New England Railroad, and\\nWorcester and Nashua Railroad. Distance, 108 M. fare, $3.55.\\nNorwich to Putnam, see Route 19. Station, Thompson (good hotel), a\\npretty village 1 M. from the station, much resorted to in summer, and\\nabounding in neat villas. Stations, Grosvenordale, N. Grosvenordale,\\nWilsondale, after which the train crosses to Webster, in Mass. {Joslin\\nHouse, Sheldon House). lu this vicinity is a great, island-studded pond,\\nwhich enjoys two names, Chabonakongkomon and Chargoggagoggman-\\nchoggagogg. About this lake were the Elysiau Fields of the Nipmuck\\nIndians and the reputed home of the Great Spirit. The town has 5,050\\ninhabitants and 7 churches, and makes shoes and textile goods. Both\\nat Webster and N. Webster are large manufactories. Station, Ox-\\nford, a pretty village, on the Indian lands called Maucharge. 2 M. S. E.\\nof the station is Fort Hill, bearing the remains of a bastioned fort built\\nby a community of French Huguenots who settled here in 1683. 13\\nyears later, an Indian irruption so alarmed them that they abandoned\\nthe place, and lived in Boston for many years. Oxford Centre has large\\nshoe manufactories, and several cotton and woollen mills are in the town.\\nA monument stands on the site of the Huguenot fort in Oxford (Oxford\\nHouse). Stations, N. Oxford, Auburn, S. Worcester, and Worcester.\\nTrains connect at Webster for Southbridge and E. Thompson at Worcester, for\\nBoston, Albany, Providence, Gardner, Fitchburg, c. The Mass, Central R. R.\\ncrosses at Oakdale.\\nThe train runs on high terraces through W. Boylston, a picturesque\\ntown which was settled in 1720, and has 2,902 inhabitants, and 5 churches,\\nwith several factories at Oakdale {Oakdale House). Boylston is a diver-\\nsified fanning town, 3-4 M. E. From Sterling Junction the Worcester\\nand Fitchburg R. R. diverges to Fitchburg (14 INI). Sterling {Central\\nHotel) has 3 churches, large dairies, and high lulls.", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0154.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "PEPPERELL. Route 13. 105\\nBeyond the Waushaccum Ponds (1.) and Clinton Ponds tlie train crosses\\nthe GUI Colon}- R. R. (N. Div.) at Clinton {Clinton House), a prosperous\\nvillage of 8,000 inhabitants, with 2 papers, 5 churches, a library, a bank,\\nand a Memorial Hall which cost $90,000. It has manufactories of fine\\nBrussels and Wilton carpets, quilts, wire-netting, ginghams, laids,\\ncombs, and cotton goods, S. Lancaster station is near the State Indus-\\ntrial School for Girls and Lancaster Lancaster House) is a beautiful\\nold village on the highlands near Ballard Hill, with broad and elm-lined\\nstreets, 2 churches, a bank, a public library (8,000 vols.), ^nd a Memo-\\nrial Hall to commemorate its dead soldiers.\\nThis town was settled in 1653, and in 1676 was attacked by Kinor riiilip and\\n1,500 Indians, who besieged and burnt the pastoi- s housn, killing 22 and captur-\\niiij; 20 jieojile. Several other attacks followed, and in 1704 the town was swept\\nbj 500 French and Indians.\\nBeyond Still River is Harvard {Harvard Hotel), a picturesque high-\\nland farming village (stages to village, 2 M.), much visited in summer,\\nand near the far-viewing Prospect Hill, and the island-studded, fish-\\na1)0unding, Bare-Hill Pond. To the N. are the deep and sequestered\\nHell and Robbins Ponds. A Shaker community is in the N. E. part of\\nthe town. Ayer Junction (see Route 2,5). The next station is Groton\\nCentre, a pretty village in a country of hills and lakes.\\nIt was attacked in 1676, by the Saehem Monoco at the liead of 400 Indians,\\nand 40 houses and the chui-ch were burnt, thou^li the ])eople repulsed all attacks\\nfrom their refuge in 4 garrisondiouses. This sanie sarheni boasted to the be-\\nsieired tliat he was marching on Concord and Boston, to destroy those towns.\\nWithin a year he was indeed in Boston, but as a captive, led through the streets\\nwith a rope around his neck, and afterwai-ds hung on tlie Common. Hon. G. S.\\nBoutwell, Gov. of Mass., 1851 3, and Se(;retary of the U. S. Treasury, 1869- 73,\\nwas for many years a merchant in this town. Groton is the seat of Lawrence\\nAcademy.\\nStation, Pepperell (Prescott House the village is across the Nashua\\nRiver, W. of the station), a town named after Sir Wm. Pepperell, the\\nfirst New England baronet, by its fii-st pastor, who was a chaplain in his\\nLouisburg expedition. S. W. of the village is the curious hill called\\nThe Throne, while to the N. are the picttu esque Hills of Missitisset.\\nThis is a quiet village with an old church, whose bell, according to an old\\nNew England custom, tolls out the number of the letters in the name,\\nand of years in the age, of each villager when he or she dies.\\nPepperell has 2,500 inhabitants, 4 churches, 180 farms, an imposing town-\\nhall, and large paper-mills. Daily stages run 7 M. N. W. to Brookline,\\nN. H. The old Prescott mansion is on a broad domain 2|- M. from the vil-\\nlage. This was founded by Col. Wm. Prescott, who led the Middlesex minute-\\nmen to Cambridge, and commanded the Americans at the battle of Bunker Hill,\\nwhere the Pepperell Co. lost 16 men. He left the reiioubt within push of bay-\\nonet of the British, warding olf their thrusts by his flashing sword. His sou,\\nJudge Wm., succeeded to the estate, and from him it was inherited by his son,\\nWm. Hickling Pi-escott, who here wrote a great part of his noble historical woi ks.\\nHis son now owns the estate.\\nSoon after leaving Pepperell the Line enters the State of New Hamp-\\n5*", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0155.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "106 Route U. MIDDLETOWX.\\nsliire. Station, Hollis, 3 M. S. E. of the village of tliat name (stages\\nto all trains) which gave 250 men to the Continental Armies. Soon after\\nthe tram enters the city of Nashua (.see Route 26).\\n14. Saybrook to Hartford and Springfield.\\nTo the city of H.Trtford in 47 M. Fare, 1.05. Tliis route follows the W.\\nLanlc of the Conn. River, and a seat on the r. side of the car atl ords pleasing\\nviews of the river and the villages on its shores.\\nFor Saybrook Point see Route 8. After leaving Sa\\\\ brook and crossing\\nthe Shore Line R. R. (Route 8), at the Junction, the line runs N. W.\\nthrough the old limits of Saybrook, with tlie river close at hand. The\\nsoil of this town is enriched by piling thereon great quantities of white-\\nfish, which are caught off its sliore.s, and sold for a triHing sum per thou-\\nsand. Stations, Essex, Deep River, S. Chester, Chester (rich farming\\ncountry, with an Episcoiml academy dating from 1792), Goodspeed s (vil-\\nlage across the river), Arnold s (near which the village of E. Haddam is\\nseen on the E. bank), and Haddam. Near Arnold s, the mouth of Sal-\\nmon River is seen on the E. bank, and 30 Mile, or Lord s Island divides\\nthe Connecticut some distance above. The ancient territory of the\\nfierce and warlike Wongung Lidians embraced Haddam and E. Had-\\ndam. They parted with their birthright for 30 coats, and the land was\\nsettled byi^eople from Hartford. Quarries of some imi^ortance have been\\nworked here, and the annual catch of shad is considerable. Stations,\\nWalkley Hill, Higgauum (a thriving river-landing and ferry), Maromas,\\nand Middletown.\\nMiddletown McDoywugh House, 150 guests), the Forest City, is a\\nbeautiful academic city, Ijuilt on gromid gently rising from the river at\\nthe bottom of a great bend. Its maritime interests are along the wharves\\nwhich run out from Water St. the seat of trade and of the hotels is on\\nMain St. while High St. is above all, and is lined with fine houses and\\ncarefully kept gardens. The Custom House and Court House (of Middle-\\nsex Co. are plain stone buildings, and there are several handsome churches\\nin the city. The manufactures include pumps, Avebbmg, and tape 600,000\\na year), rules and chisels, sewing-machines, and several companies make\\nbritannia and silver-plated ware. The safe and convenient harbor (10 ft.\\nof water at the wharves) renders this the last port on the river for heavy\\nvessels.\\nThe campus of Wesleyan TJniversity fronts on High St. (which, with\\nits double lines of stately trees, Charles Dickens called the finest rural\\nstreet he had ever seen). The University appertains to the ^Methodist sect,\\nand sustains a high reputation. The Eclectic Hall and the Greek-letter chap-\\nter-houses (especially the Alplux Delta Phi) are worthy of notice. Besides\\nthe old buildings in the usual Novunglian style, there are three fine new", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0156.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "SAYBROOK TO HARTFORD. Route I4. 107\\nedifices of Portland sandstone. Ricli Hall contains the library of about\\n35,000 voliunes. Judd Hall (the gift of Orange Judd, tlie agriculturalist)\\nis a finely finislied building, containing admirable natural-history collec-\\ntions. Some of tliese cabinets are unexcelled in America, having been\\ncollected and arranged by scientists who have spent years in special\\nstudies. Casts of skeletons and parts of colossal animals whose species\\nliave long been extinct are arranged here. The Memorial Chapel is a\\nfme work of arcliitecture. Its lower room is used for daily college\\nprayers, while above is tlie church proper, with memorial windows Avliich\\ncost 700 each.\\nThat on the left is in honor of tlie ]iast students v/ho died as soldiers of the\\nUnion, and bears the Insci iiitions, The beauty of Lsracl i.j slain upon her hi^Ii\\nplaces It is sweet and litting to die for one s fatherland, in the Latin of\\nHorace; The earth is a grave of heroes, in the Greek o. Homer. Under the\\ns^anbolic figure of a pelican are the names of the slain. The Wesleyan Guard\\n(Co. G., 4th Conn. Reg.) went from the University, On the r. opposite is a win-\\ndow bearing portraits of four presidents of the University Wilbur Fisk, D. D.\\n(1330-39) Stephen Olin, D. D., author of Travels in the East, c. (1842-51)\\nNathan Bangs, D. D., an itinerant minister, lSOl-20, agent and editor of the\\nBook Concern, 1820-36, and afterwards President of the University and A. W.\\nSmith, LL. D., a jn-ominent mathematician. The University has 19 in-\\nstructors and 209 students.\\nThe vieAv from the tower of the old chapel is delightful, embracing\\nthe bay-like river and its riparian hills, the city below, and the busy quar-\\nries at Portland, the long and imposing buildings of the Insane Asylum\\non a liill in the S., the Industrial School, and tlie rolling hills to the W.\\nOn this hill was the far-viewing fortress of Elattabesick, the aboriginal\\nchief Sowheag, and around its base the Massachusetts immigrants settled\\nin 1653. Erissot de Warville, a French tourist (in 17SS), asserted that\\nfrom the hill over Middletown is one of the finest and richest prospects\\nin America. The villas and gardens of High St. extend on each side of\\nthe campus, and not far from it is the Indian Hill Cemetery, with a hand-\\nsome sepulcliral chapel at the entrance, and faie views from its hills over\\nleagues of farm-studded valleys. Here is buiied Gen. J. K. F. Mans-\\nfield, Avho stormed Monterey, v.^as highly distinguislied at Buena Vista,\\nfortified Washington City (ISGl), and was mortally wounded while leading\\nhis corps at Antietam. In this vicinity is the Industrial School for Girls,\\na model institution with fine buildings surroundeil by broad lands, wliere\\nthe inmates are given three hours daily for study, and do their own work\\nOn a high hill 1^ M. S. E. of the city are the vast and imposing build-\\nings of the State General Hospital for tlie Insane. The main building\\nis of Portland stone, and has a length of 7G3 ft. with accommodations for\\n4.50 patients. It stands on spacious grounds which cover 230 acres of the\\nhill, and commands a fine view of the city and the widenings of the river.\\nFarther down the river are points often visited by geologists. Feldspar is\\nfound here in sucli quantities as to make it an item of trade, as it is used in mak-\\ning porcelain. The lead mines so actively woriced during the Revolution have\\nlong been abandoned.", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0157.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "108 Route 15. MIDDLETOWN.\\nOn Main St. near the McDonongli House is the Berkeley Divinity\\nSchool, an Episcopal institution under the presidency of Bishop Williams.\\nIt was founded in 1850, has graduated 193 men, and has six ])ro-\\nfessors and 25 students. The Chapel of St. Luke is a small hut beautiful\\nGothic structure, built of stone and adorned Avitli rich stained windows.\\nThe stiidents attend service in goAvns, and their singing is fine. Near by\\nand on Main St. is the elegant Church of the Holy Trinity (Episcopal) built\\nof Portland stone, with a graceful timber roof. The N. and S. Congrega-\\ntional churches are fine buildings^ and I\\\\Iain St. has three banks, built in\\nthe style of bank-architecture peculiar to New England, with one high,\\nsolid story, of stone or brick. The quaint little Parthenon which is used\\nfor a Court House is on the same street.\\nNear tlie N. end of Jlain St. (with its large Roman Catholic churcli) is the pier of\\nthe Portland ferry. The quarries of red sandstone at Portland are of continental\\nfame, and are situated near the pier at the other end of the ferry, whence also is\\ngained a fine view of Middletown and the graceful Air Line Railroad bridge. The\\nfirst quarry approached is the deepest, and from the sharp edge of the hill one can\\nlook down into a vast chasm from which has been taken the material for Inui-\\ndreds of fine buildings, and for fronts of long blocks in nearly every Atlantic city.\\nThe second quarry is the largest and oldest and beyond this is a third. These\\nworks employ 800 men, great numbers of draught-animals, and 40 vessels. The\\nstone is easy to work, of a durable character, and of a rich shade of brown.\\nThe New Haven, Middletown, and Willimantic R. R. runs from the former\\ncity to Middletown, and here crosses the Connecticut River on a fine iron bridge.\\nA branch track leaves the New Haven and Springfield Railroad at Berlin, and\\nruns 10 M. S. E. to Middletown.\\nThe steamers between Hartford and New York stop at this point, generally late\\nin the afternoon, and then proceed down the river, from whose mouth Middle-\\ntown is 34 M. distant.\\nAfter leaving Middletown the Conn. Valley Railroad runs N. about 15\\nM. passing through the towns of Cromwell, Ptocky Hill, and Wethersfield,\\nand enters the city of Hartford. Beyond Hartfoixl tlie Conn. Central\\nR. R. runs through the town E. of the Conn. Riv^er, to Springfield, in li\\nhours. This is now the Springfield Division, N. Y. N. E. R. R.\\n15. New Haven to Northampton.\\nVia N. H. and N. R. R., in 84 M.\\nTills line is olten called the Canal R. R., since it follows the line of the old\\nFarmington Canal for a considerable distance. It runs tlirough a quiet agricul-\\ntural country, and terminates near the W. centre of Jlassachusetts, on the line\\nof the (projected) IVIass. Central R. R. Shortly after its completion in 1S49 it was\\nleased by the New York and New Haven R. R. for 20 years, and on the expiration\\nof that time it reverted to the original proprietors.\\nThe line passes West Rock soon after leaving New Haven, and enters\\nthe valley of Mill River, which it follows for nearly 20 M. The town of\\nHamden, which is soon entered, is in a valley between the W. Rock Mts.\\nand the E. Rock Mts., two ranges which run N. nearly jDarallel until they\\niinite in Southington, and then advance into Massachusetts. Mt. Carmcl\\n(near the station of the same name) is a lofty spur from the E. Rock", "height": "3100", "width": "1903", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0158.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "NEW HAVEN TO NORTHAMPTON. Route 15. 109\\nRange, and is composed of gi eenstone, Hcamden is a quiet country town,\\non fertile lands. The stations, Cheshire and Hitchcock s, are in the town\\nof Cheshire, a picturesque farming district, in one of whose villages is\\nsituated the Episcopal Academy of Conn, (military), which dates from\\n1801. Plantsville and Southington are in a town by the latter name,\\nformerly noted for extensive tin-ware manufactories, but now depending\\non iron-works. Station, Plainville, with the Farmington Canal on the\\nr. and the Blue Hills on the 1. At this point the New York and New\\nEngland Eailroad crosses the present route. Station, Farmington.\\nThe village is seen about M. aAvay in a beautiful situation near the\\nbroad, rich meadows of the Farmington River. A broad and shaded\\nstreet 2 M. long composes the village. This fair and fertile valley was\\nthe Tunxis of the Indians, who dwelt here in great numbers. Many of\\ntheir cemeteries and fishing-places have been found. Tlie land was\\nbought from them by immigrants from Boston and Roxbury, who settled\\nhere in 1640. It was the pastor of this village who preached to tlie troops\\nmarching to Boston in 1775, from the text, Play the man for your\\ncountry, and for the cities of your God and the Lord do that which\\nseemeth him good.\\nFrom Farmington a branch track runs to New Hartford (14 M.), by tlie stations\\nUnionville, Biu-liny-ton, CoUinsville, and Pine Meadow. At CoUinsville (l^alley\\nHouse, good) tlie Farmington River is dammed, and affords a gi eat power which\\nis used by extensive works for the manufacture of axes and edged tools. The\\nbusiness was founded by Mr. Collins, and now employs 6 700 men, who, with\\ntheir families, make up a populous village. 15,000 steel ploughs are sent out\\nyearly to all parts of the world, and 200, r\u00c2\u00bb00 Brazilian hoes have been made here\\nin OFiC year. Vast numbers of ^Mexican machetes are turned out, and more axes\\nthan at any other factory in America. Here, also, were made the pikes for John\\nBrown s raid on Virginia.\\nAt CoUinsville the Conn. Western R. R. forms a junction with the branch.\\nBeyond Farmington is Avon, a pretty village, where Silliman found\\nremnants of primeval New England customs. On the E., Talcott Mt.\\nis plainly seen, with a lofty tower on its top. (See Environs of Hartford.\\nStations, Weatogue and Simsbury, in the town of Simsbury, which was\\nsettled in 1670 on the Indian lands of Massacoe. During King Philip s\\nWar the colonists buried their goods and fled, but the town was destroyed\\nby tlie Indians and left so long neglected that the wilderness reclaimed it,\\nand the returning settlers never found their buried treasures. On a hill\\nW. of tlie track is the principal village, ambushed in trees. Just before\\nreaching Granby, the next station, the Farmington River, which has\\nfollowed the track for 15 M., turns sharply to the S. E. through a pass\\nin the mountain, and flows down into the Connecticut. Station, Granby\\n(three small hotels in the town), in a rugged farming town. Here was\\nlocated Newgate Prison (State of Conn. a grim pile on the top of Copper\\nHill, where the prisoners were confined in the cavernous shafts and pas-\\nsages of a copper-mine, abandoned in 17G0. Some of the convicts lived", "height": "3075", "width": "1959", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0159.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "110 Route 15. NEW HAVEN TO NORTHAMPTON.\\n60 ft below the earth s surface, amid unceasing darkness. Tlie nioutli cf\\nthe main shaft was covered by a massive stone building, and the prisoners\\nwere-uardedby20 soldiers. This subterranean labyrinth served for a\\nState Prison from 1775 to 1827. The State says that the average mor-\\ntality durin- that period was less than that in the other American prisons,\\nbut harsh stories went abroad about the gloomy caverns of Newgate.\\nSoon after leaving Granby the line enters Massachusetts, and runs along\\nCon-amuck Pond to Soutlmick (Union Hotel), an elevated farnung vil-\\nla\u00c2\u00a3re\u00c2\u00b0 On the W is the picturesque mountain-town of Granville (Gran-\\nville House), devoted to farming and dairies (stages from Wes^hel.l,\\n9 M The line now descends to the lowlands, passes through West-\\nfield village, and crosses the Albany R. R. (Route 25) and the Westlicld\\nRiver. A branch line runs thence 10 M. N. E. to Holyoke.\\nSouthampton is under the shadow of high hills. After leaving the latter\\nTdace thelono- ri(ke of Mt. Tom looms upon the r., while Pomeroy s\\nMt. is farther^wa; on tlie 1. Easthampton is now reach-.l J/a,m.m\\njj^^^s This is tjie seat of Williston Senunary, which\\nhas been endowed with .$250,000 by Hon. Samuel Williston, who has also\\neiven .^125,000 to Amherst College, large sums to Mt. Holyoke Seminary,\\nand has 3 times rebuilt the Payson Church in Easthampton. He began\\nbusiness by making buttons at home with his wife s aid, after which he\\nperfected machinery, and erected a factory.\\nThe trains runs N. by the great bend of the Connecticut, with Mt. Hol-\\nyoke visible on the r., and passes through Northampton and Florence\\nisee page 159). It then goes N. W. by Leeds (sewing-silk factories) and\\nnaydenviUe (brass-works), to Williamsburg {Hampshire House).\\nn d O M to Hiu^dnle on t- C Albany K. R. Daily stages also M. to Lne^-\\n?.5; fcbm ^Tav^ nmuntain-town, famous for its rare nnnerals\\nS M ti. irS^Soi! i grazing town 20 M. to Ferrt, a decadent and highly p.c-\\nturesouo mountain-town, 4 M. from Hinsdale. _ ^i,,,i\\nw iiUm ruUen Bryant, born at Cummington ui 1794, is one of the lead-\\nILitfiild, Whatcly, S, Dferfi.Ul. ni.a Couwa, Junction, where it connects \u00c2\u00bbitl. the\\niloosac-Tiluaul route (jw^e 17S", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0160.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "BRIDGEPORT TO WJNSTED. Route 16. l\\\\\\\\\\n16. Bridgeport to Winsted.\\nVia Naugatuck R. R. in 62 M. Fare, $1.85.\\n4 M. from Bridgeport the train crosses the broad Honsatonic River.\\nAt Naugatuck Junction tlie rails of the Shore Line Raih-oad are left, and\\nthe line turns to the N. E. and follows the Honsatonic as far as Derby.\\nThe village of Birmingham (Basset House) is picturesquely located on a\\nhigh headland at the junction of the Honsatonic and Naugatuck Rivers.\\nCommerce was formerly carried on on a large scale from this point, its\\nvessels running to the West Indies, but manufactures have now taken\\npossession of Derby. Great numbers of pins, tacks, brads, corsets, crin-\\nohne, stockings, and melodeons (Sterling s) are made here. The great\\nHonsatonic Dam is about f M. from the village and aflFonls an immense\\nwater-power. It cost \u00c2\u00a7500,000, and was three years in building, being\\nconstructed of solid masonry in tlie form of an arch, with the convex sur-\\nface turned toward the pressure of the stream. The dam is 600 ft. long,\\nand has 23 ft. fall, and the heavy roaring of the plunging waters can be\\nheard miles away at night.\\nGen. David Humphreys was born at Derby in 1752. He was Washincrton s aide\\nand long resided at Mount Vernon, after which he was minister to iw4l and\\nSpam, and connnander of the Conn, militia uiiu-,di ana\\nPortThttf iTH^ ^%l r\\\\ ^entered the na^T, and m 1800 captured\\nfo/o distinguished liunself in the Tripolitan War ami in\\n1812, comraamhng the Constitution, he escaped from aBrit sh squadron nmt\\nw, w \u00c2\u00b0f Guernere. and caj^tured lier after a short, .sharp action Gen\\nWm. Hull born here, 175:J, was condemne l to d. atli in 1812 for s irrenderin-tl^e\\nArmy of tlie Northwest, at Detroit, but President Madison pardoned l^hn\u00c2\u00b0\\nAn omnibus runs Irom Hirmlngliara to its sister-village of Ansonia passin-\\nalong breezy lie.ghs which afford fine views of the Naifgatuck Vallev am the\\nriiral homes of Derby scattered on tlie Trans-Nangatuck hills. In the Ned of\\nB.nmngham a small Green is ,iassed, with a Saxon-towered Epise pal Chureh\\nA r iln T ^V^ f ^^^^thodists, Congregationalists, and ci holes\\nA Railroad rims from Ansouia to New Haven direct.\\nAnsonia (Ansonia House), the next station beyond Derby, is a thrivin^r\\nborough near the falls in the Naugatuck. It was founded in 1838, and\\nhas become the seat of numerous rolling-mills and foundries, a large\\nhoop-skirt factory, and manufactories of clocks, lightning-rods, and brass\\nwares. Some fine mansions are built on the heights over the river, and\\nfrom near the tall stone clmrch is gained a neat valley-view, embracing a\\ngreat part of the old Indian domain of Paugussett.\\nAt Seymour, the next station, is a small villa^re founded by Gen\\nHumphrey in 1810, for the manufacture of cotton,^ paper, and woollen\\ngoods. For the latter purpose he had imported large flocks of Spanish\\nmerino sheep.\\nBeacon Falls has a water-power which is used by factories making a\\ngreat number of woollen shawls. Station, Naugatuck, which is the", "height": "3090", "width": "1914", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0161.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "112 Route 16. BRIDGEPOET TO WIHSTED.\\n.eato\u00c2\u00bb.eGo\u00e2\u0080\u009ea,e.G,o.^.a\u00e2\u0080\u0094 )Co^^a^^^^^\\nWorks, which tuni out 400,000 ^^^^^^l u ^ne large tree,\\nstations, W. er.me, f ^^^^^:^::Z^nZ, on W,\\nUtcVM, 4 M. by stage lovely s.\u00e2\u0080\u009enn,ev-\\nwL ri of n ra vis, and sOO snmnter visitors annually\\nresort, with scores I,,wley,ine (32 M and Betl.e .-on-\\nJ, /,?,KLfil\u00c2\u00a3s\u00e2\u0084\u00a2TVru4|t.rcJ-.,/seato^\\n^rfefSerrc=t|s?;3.^\\nof His Majesty s donmnons m ^e^v En|,la^^^^^^ Massachusetts Plantation,\\nNarragansettBay o^.^f in^SSude from said Narragansett Bay on\\nand on the S. by the sea ^ikI m loni^it ule ^^^^^^^,,to belonging. bub-\\nE. to the South Sea on the W- part w th the isian York and\\nfequently royal grants ^^^^^ached fiom tl_as^v^^^^^^^\\nPennsylvania, although much o^^^^/^ Yt the close of the Revolution the State\\nof Wyoming), Avas settled from Conn At the Ji g f L-Uce\\nceded this, her western domam to the Ui^yi; e^c v\\nErie as wide as Conn, and 120 l\u00c2\u00ab g-J?^;^3 f ^t^^^ towns which had been\\nland 500,000 acres (the Fire Lands were^ranx remainder of the\\nrs^rrrrs::i;-\u00c2\u00b0ii^^^^^^^^^^\\nnear the intersection of these avenues, ft\u00e2\u0084\u00a2* a p y _ ^_^ ^^_.^\\nisaaornodl yasoldie,V monument ^e^-ath the\\nis a list of nearly 60 n,e\u00e2\u0080\u009e f. LttchfieU, ho i,ake, con-\\nUnion. 2-3 M. from the \u00c2\u00bb8\u00c2\u00ab f %f .r^ h,\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009et of many lish,\\ntaining 900 .acres, the largest ake m the State, teh-^ ,^^^_.\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nand scarcely yet invaded i,y the _\u00c2\u00bb l gt. th\u00e2\u0080\u009el.) is\\nof so many of the ^e- f-d la cs^ I^- N^h S\\nProspect Hill, from which a fascmating o,,cl stretch a^vay in\\nwild!mess of high hills which l^ J 1 1 nous shores,\\nthe W. Bant.am Lake is seen, ff ,i\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009es of Litchfield\\nahont a mile distant, and the gre.a elms a ^e road\\nnthe^ainahove^. trBeeirm^il ^hicrh.as heen moved\\nt^ S:X h 0- the end of N. gf y^ J V^\\nL.BneVs (private, as .nm for tlieius-ane On f \u00c2\u00abt ;t.s or), and\\ncott Mansion, built about 1/00, by uov. v", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0162.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "BPJDGEPOET TO WINSTED. Route IG. 113\\nwhere was bom Oliver Wolcott, an officer of the Continental Army, Secre-\\ntary of the U S. Treasury (1795-1800), Gov. of Conn. (1818-27). His\\ngrand-neice, Miss Alice Wolcott, now dwells there. The leaden statue of\\nGeorge III., which stood on the Bowling Green in New York City, was\\nbrought to this house, and melted into bullets by the Governor s daughters.\\nMany other solemn old colonial mansions are along the roads, and French\\nroofs have not yet invaded this dignified seclusion. This air of antiquity,\\ntogether with the balmy, cool, and salubrious breezes which dwell among\\nthese hills, have given Litchfield a ]iigh place among tlie restful and un\\nfashionable of the summer-resorts.\\nLake Warramaugr, near New Preston, is reached by semi-daily stages ^4-\\n\\\\.lo. i P V. T S green wooded hills, a modifiedkimi of\\nAiuoiig tlie pleasant drives in the vicinity is that to Bantam Lake with its\\nnnibrageous gruves(2-3 M.) to Mount Tom, and to the village of Morris with\\na quamt old country inn, unchanged since the colonial days (5-G M Smi Alt\\nSie Com Rf^ r the E. the^hills heboid\\nseft ed hf Ir^f ^%f S y i^ I lS for about \u00c2\u00a3300, and was\\nsh uWreurnhi Jp+r surrounded by a palisade, lest the Indians\\nsm ukl retu u 111 foice to their ancient and favorite hunting-grounds of Bantam\\nT \u00c2\u00abw ^^hnnl f ^^l I p I^^eve (who married Aaron Burr s sister) establisl ed a\\ntoiled Mm nnTi rif ^^f J\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0084\u00a2^\u00c2\u00ab \u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab^^1 ^Se of tlie Supreme Court of C.i n!\\nibnolin 4, remained 40 years. This was then the most renowned law\\nSemh a V b thp Tt; lawyers were educated here. The llrst Young SS\\nman ,1 ,pn Ph f established at Litchfield. The to^m has produced\\nD D the f ther of T!^! I^om are Beecher and Bushnell. Lyman Beecher.\\nht^reisio 28 ofhf.l ^-u any other man in America, was pastor\\nIR j\u00c2\u00abvlr w l^ strious children, the most famous is\\naf T.fn 7 Ward Beecher, born at Litchfield in 1S13. He was educated\\n?Lf l^^v?sTe?t?ecftn^T r Y^i ^h hi^father was president Som S to\\nPh^iouti Chn S T^ Tf l/ y^^^^ became pastor of the\\ndur Krwh;; w ^y This position he has held ever since\\ndmuig wh ch time he has won a world-wide fame for his oratorical nowers be-\\nsides building up a powerful church with active auxil arv Sanehes H^-r;H^n\\nThe Peari of Orr s Island, and many ^.harming stories of N^w EnglaiKl life\\nAft^er leaving Litchfield the train stops at Wolcottville (founded by\\nGov. Wolcott m 1802), the seat of large woollen-mills, brass-works and\\nmanufac ones of plated goods. In this town, John Brown, of Ossawa-\\ntoinie, tlie invader of Virginia, was born in 1800. Station, Burrville,\\nafter which the train reaches\\nWinsted (Clarke House, $2; Beardsley House), a long, narrow vil-\\nlage between steep hills on tlie line of Mad River. Iron and steel works\\nabound here; pins, scythes, hoes, clocks, and other articles are also\\nmade. Long Lake, 3^ M. long, and Littk Fond, he high on the plateau-\\nH", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0163.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "114 Roidel7. KENT.\\nand Mad River falls 2U0 ft. in 2 M. Winsted has 3 banks, 3 Bewsparors,\\nand 5 churches. It is the home of Rose Terry Cooke, vho (article My town,\\nin Harper s Magazine, Vol. 55) highly praises its landscape beauty.\\nAt Winsted the Nau.atnck R. R. forms a Junction with the Conn. Western R. R.\\nrunning from Hartford to MiUerton ou the Harlem R. R. (Routt /U).\\n17. Bridgeport to the Berkshire Hills.\\nVia the Housatonic R R. in 110 M. (to Pittsfield). Fare, $3.30.\\nShortlv after leaving Bridgeport (on Route 8) the line enters the alley\\nof the Pequanock, which it follows for 15 M. through a tluuly settled\\nc Jntrv abounding in low hills. Stations, Stepney, Botsford, and\\nNewt wn, ^Dl^s Hoi.l; GranJ-Cenfral HoUl)^ situated on a high\\nhill il the midst of Newtown, the Patatuck of the abor.gnics. It\\n?s h^; according to Beecher, that the hills first begm ^o ^how xn.m^\\ntainous symptoms. At Hawleymlle the Shepaug R- R- con es m\\nfrl Litclild (see Route 16), and at i^rooAy.^.W /..^^^o. a short ra.^\\nroad runs S. W. to Danbury (see Route 18). Station, Brookheld, beyond\\nwhich the track approaches and crosses the Housatonic River, and stops\\nat Ne.o Milford (New Milford House). This is a fine village near the\\nTnnction of the Housatonic and Aspetuck Rivers, with a Made verdant\\niommon, and well-shaded streets. A silver-mine was worked here m\\n1790, and much marble and slate has been quarried m the hills. At pies-\\nent, factories for making buttons, boots, hats and 1.vme -in the\\nplace which is furthermore one of the centres of the tobacco rade in the\\nvalley Stations, Merwinsville, and Kent (restaurant m the s ation\\nElmore House). This sweet valley was the home of the Scaghticoke\\nMan and here the Moravians founded a mission. The cause winch\\nmore han any other forced the Christian tribes of New England t. lose\\nThe identity by miscegenation operated in ^^^^^^^^^f^^^^\\nof this tribe joined the Continental Army, and but few of them ev.r le\\nLned. So several negroes and a few poor whites joined the con-uin^e\\nand from the combination arose the present representatives of the tnbe,\\nwho pough and plant, wear trousers, go to church, and otherwise are\\nr^^h Lulns as Massasoit never dreamed of. V^TlT^h\\nYale College, has spent much time with this fragment of the Scaghti-\\nlots 0:L lofty plain near Kent (ascended by\\nroad) are the Spectacle Ponds, -Uvo 1^^-\\nconnected by a short strait. From the round hill above the N. Pond the\\nfittingness of the name is clear.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0164.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "S. NOEWALK TO DANBURY. Route 18. 115\\niToo stations are in Cornwall, which toivn was sold\\nm 1738 for 1,500 (46 square M. and settled in the same year. It is in\\na double sense the roughest township in the county. S. Cornwall is sit-\\nuated m a deep valley, and here a Foreign Mission School was founded in\\n1\u00c2\u00ab10. In 1820 there were 19 Indians and 6 Paeinc-Islanders studyin- at\\nthe school, and here, in 1818, died Obookiah, the gifted Hawaiian.\\nCo\u00e2\u0084\u00a2if*; !f r-/r f\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 \\\\Connvall Bridge to Litchfield and Sharon, and from W\\nLoiuwall to Goslien and tlie villages of Cornwall\\nGroshen IS a lofty town, in whiL^h are 5 ponds, and Ivv Mt rthe hi-hpof hi +ii\u00c2\u00ab\\n_ The train now runs along the narrow valley of the Housatonic with the\\nridg^e of Sharon on the W. Just beyond that ridge, .tnd extending thence\\nto the N. Y. hne, is a rich and fertile valley.\\nStation, Falls VUlage (Dudley House and a snug country inn in the\\nglen over the river). The Great Falls of the Housatonic are near the\\nv-illage and form a fine sight, the river plunging over rocky ledges for 60\\nIt., with a tremendous roaring. A near scrutiny of the Falls is unad-\\nvisable, as its vicinity is crowded with squalid Irish shanties, while tlie\\nK X. repair-shops are situated above them on the site of the Ames\\nfoundries which produced some of the heaviest iron fortress-cannon dui-\\ncaHv ^f Tr i f -thusiast\\ncally of these Falls (about 1800) they were surrounded by the fitting\\nadjuncts of a great primeval forest. 2-3 M. N. VV. of the village is\\nafforfr t^r t wood-road, and\\naffords a view of the broad valley of the Housatonic. At the foot of\\nProspect IS a remarkable group of rocks, the darkest, deepest nook of\\nwh ch IS called the Wolfs Den. W. of the village L the far-viewinl\\nGallo^vs 111, where, according to the tradition, the corpse of a negro ^Z\\nDaily stages to Salisbury and Lime Rock. Station, Canaan (two\\ntheS. ^it^^ great, ridgy mass of Canaan Mt. on\\n(Ashley FaUs), the liife enters the C,^^^^^^^^ ^xt station\\nsetts. For the rema nin M nf t Berkslure and State of Massa-hu-\\n(Route 23). remaining oo M. ot tuis railroad hue see the Berkshire Hills\\n18. S. Horwalk to Danbury.\\nJl mf f ^Oc. stations, A^or-\\n^oall, innnej^cuk, Kent, Wilton, Canno^.s, Georgetown, Ri^efield.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0165.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "lU R^UIS. S. NORWALK TO DANBURY.\\ni- 1 M from tlie station, on a brancli track, and is\\nThe latter vdla e 3 j\u00e2\u0084\u00a2m t ^_^^^.^_^^\\nLT( DiS S^ ^;ave al^von ta,ne as authors.\\nStation .-.^wh^eP^^^^^^^^\\nIn 1783 86, he was one of the author ot\\nDavid and Jonathan. Joel and Timothy,^\\nOver the ocean set up the hynm ot the\\ncrossing Bet,, (innetion o, the Si.epang R- tUe train en-\\nBan.W Wooster Honse, _\\nDanburvwas ankle-deep m P^^^J^* .V^i^^ ^^It is said that, as the ran ers\\nhaSSSyed the arj^ ^S?^ ^S^s S^er V le to its crest ajd s^.o^d.\\ndivided into 2 sects. -1700 when Zadoc\\n.A o^ T^at factory wa? started here m 1780, when z.a lou\\nThe first American h ^t-factory companies\\nBenedict, with 3 of which make 216,000 hats a\\nin the business, with 500,000 capiiai,\\nyear. The borough\\nhas a.out 12,000 inhaHtants, 9 ^^^:^^t:Jj:^ i^^^-\\ncounty buildings, and a grea -1 j ^^^^t .ii of the town is\\nMain St. is li M. long, and fro,n Deer H a\\ngained. I^^ f K\u00c2\u00bbo^ fii,. Powerful water-works supply the\\nwith good boating and nsnni\u00e2\u0080\u009e.\\nborough. \u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e,\u00c2\u00bbter\\\\ of 100 acres, containing a monu-\\n^^Ho^s riS :r sS:\\nr:S\u00c2\u00abeS --Air ir X, soldiers .n the Be-\\nat the -tua^ ^f ry,^,l,urv who are buried elsewhere,\\ncession War) of Dan bury, wnu\\nNo sound shall awake them\\n?S^e^ K fougM tJ^eir last battle. To glory again.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0166.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 19. 117\\n19. Boston to Uew York. Norwich Line.\\nBy the New York ami New Eugland R R. (from foot of Summer St.) to Norwich\\nand New London, and thence b} steamboat.\\nAfter crossing the S. Boston flats the line runs through populous Dor-\\ncliester, Hyde Park, and Dedham (page 62), with fine views of the Blue\\nHills. It then crosses bright Norwood, the busy town of Walpole (in-\\ntersecting the Old Colony R. R., N. Div), and rural Norfolk.\\nFranklin {Central Iloust) is a pretty village with a pa{)er, 5 churches,\\na bank, high-school, and public library. It is the seat of the new and\\nrichly endov^^ed Dean Academy, whose building cost S 150,000. This town\\ncontains over 200 farms, and manufactures of straw hats, boots, S:c.\\nA battle with the Indians took place here in 1676; and in 177S the town was\\nnamed in honor of Benj;imin Franklin, to whom (then in Paris)aliint was conveyeil\\nthat a good church-bell would be acceptable in return for this honor. He sent 500\\nbooks (still preserved), observii!;i; that the people were probably more fond of\\nsense than sound. Nathaniel Emmons, D.D., one of the leaders of the Ilopkiu-\\nsiaii school of theology, was pastor here for 54 years (1773 1827). Horace Mann,\\nthe educationist, A. D. Richardson, the journalist, and Theron Metcalf, the jurist,\\nwere born at Franklin. A railroad runs S. fi om Franklin to W. Wrentham, Cum-\\nberland, and Providence. Another line runs W. to Milfortl (Milford Hotel), a\\nprosperous and attractive manufacturing place.\\nStations, IVndsworth, near S. Franklin; WoonsocJcet Junction, where\\nthe Woonsocket Division is intersected; Blaclcstone, where the Prov.\\nWor. R. R. is crossed, and whence daily stages run to Slatersville; MilU\\niille, and Ironstone, in the picturesque Blackstone valley; E. Douglas\\n(axc-factory), and Douglas (Dudley s Hotel, over a century old), a land\\nof lakes and highlands, with 5 churches, a paper, library, and high-school.\\nFrom E. Thompson station the Webster Southbridge Branch diverges\\nto the N. W. runs near the picturesque Lake Chabonakongkonion\\ncrosses the Norwich Worcester R. R. at Webster returns S. W, into\\nConnecticut to Quinnebaug and New Boston passes W. Dudley, 2\\\\ M.\\nW. of the lofty hamlet of Dudley, the seat of the Nichols Academy, in\\na ricli farming town and terminates at Southbridge, a busy manufactur-\\ning village on the Quinnebaug River, with a bank, paper, library, high-\\nschool, 7 churches, a large French population, and manufactories of cot-\\ntons, woollens, worsted, muslins, spectacles, shoes, and cutlery. The\\ntown has 5,740 inhabitants, and its surface is highly diversified.\\nDaily stages run to Sturbridge {Central Hotel), Z\\\\ M. N. W., and Fisk-\\ndale (Fiskdale House), 2 M. beyond. This town contains 2,200 inhabitants, 3\\nchurches, a library, a soldiers nionument or 27 dead), and manufactories of cot-\\nton and woollen goods and augers. Brimjiekl (page 130) is 5 M. W.\\nAfter crossing diagonally the large town of Thompson (much visited in\\nsummer), the train passes on the rails of the Norwich Worcester Divis-\\nion, at Putnam (a village containing several cotton and woollen factories.)\\nA daily stage runs from Putnam to TVoodstoclc, starting generally late in\\nthe afternoon. Elniwood Hall, at Woodstock, is a line summer hotel (opening\\nJune 15), surrounded by pleasant lawns. From this mountain village are obtained\\nnoble views. It is a miniature Mount Holyoke and its prospect, the Counec-", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0167.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "118 Route 19. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nticnt Valley in miniature. Woodstock Lake is a beautiful sheet of water. Near\\nby is Henry C. Bowen s famous estate of Roselaiifl Park; and many pretty sum-\\nmer villas kre in this region. The local polo club has a high renown\\nS AV of Woodstock (passing Crystal Lake on the way) is Ashf ord, a secluded\\nrural own Hefe was born fhonias Knowlton, who fought m the six campaigns\\nSig in the conquest of Canada, and then in the Havana expedition. He led\\nthe Ashford minute-men to the lines at Cambndge and fought with theni at\\nBunkei Hill While commanding a light infantry reg. he was kiUed at its head ui\\ni^lSew SllljS^ly Lyon. Nathaniel Lyon w.s born at Ash-\\nford in ^9. He was engaged in the Florida War the ^f^;:^\\nthe Belen Gate of Mexico City), and the Kansas tree-btate A\\\\ai. Hi M.cj, 1851,\\n^vhilf coninianding at St. Louis Ai senal, with a handlul of Regulars and several\\nre mentiof loyal Missourians, he captured a large rebel camp and army near the\\nStv By rapid movements and hard blows, he saved Missouri to the Union, but\\nwas at last confronted at Wilson s Creek by a force 4 times as large as his owti.\\nroniTTosed of disloyal Missourians, Arkausians, and Texans. Disdaining to flee\\nhe iff Ms little army again and again to the attack, unti he was shot ^ead win e\\nheading the foremost files of a charging regiment. He elt his ortune 30 oo)\\nto te government, to aid in putting down the rebelbon a /\u00c2\u00bbfterf solemn\\ntriumphal transit across the country his body was laid to rest in the village\\niTe SSl^fe rfSshfordwere ultra-orthodox in the old days. One day while\\nthey were Shipping a nonchurch-goer on the public^ Green, a stranger rode ii\\nand cried, Min of Ashford, you serve God as if the Devil was m you. Do ou\\nthink you can whip the grace of God into a man? Christ will have none but\\nvolunteeis. Then lie spurred away, leaving the little Inquisition of Ashtord\\nastounded, confused, and ashamed. -u i 4- \u00e2\u0080\u009e-\u00e2\u0080\u009eri P^o^iM^nt nf\\nIn 1773 Eliphalet Nott, D. D., the distinguished educator, and President of\\nUnion College (ISOl: -6(3) for 02 years, was born at Ashford. Galusha A. Giow\\nwas born at Ashford in 1823.\\nStations, Daysville and Danielsonville, lousy villages engaged largely in\\nthe cotton raamifacture (the fomier turning out 240 miles of fancy cassi-\\nmeres and 540,000 yards of cotton cloth yearly). These stations are in\\nthe large town of Killingly, which occupies part of the Indian districts of\\nAttawangan and Minnetixit.\\nThis region is rich in Indian traditions, the most curious of which is attached\\nto Mashapaug Lake, M. N. of Daysville. Far back m the ante-colonial daj s, the\\nIndSn wL^accustonled to hold revels on a lull on the site of this hike but\\nince, after a merry-making four days long tlie Great ^.P^ b^,?,^. ^^fl^J^^ J^\\ntheir riotous orgies, and, as he struck out the foundations of the h.l it saiik in\\ndeep waters, carrying down all the assemblage of the fea^teis. ^f all tie tribe\\none woman alone was saved on an island which still stands in the lal^e J3ii\\nsSll clear days a great submerged forest may be seen under the deepest Avaters.\\nAvillagfof tieN.^^^^^^^^^ gave the Nipmucks (who inhabited this d.s-\\nfrili) airand sea-shore feast of clanfs and fish. The next year they were invi ed\\ninto thfs hiU-countrv to eat venison in the wigwams of the ^lpmucks. But a\\nqliarrel arose during the feast, and the guests from the \u00c2\u00abf -\u00c2\u00ab^^\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb:^J7 i^^^f J^J,^^\\nThe Narragansett tribe took action on the matter, -^1^^ ofif/fnr.^ri the\\ninto the Nipniuck country, only to receive a severe defeat at the foids ot the\\n^f\\\\t of Daysville is Pomfret, which was settled by R\u00c2\u00ab^l^ ^y /Mass\\npeople on the rich lands of Mashamoquet, in the year 16b7. In Pomtiet is tbe\\nWolf Den, where the intrepid Putnam descended hi the darlmess, alone, and killed\\na great wolf which had been the terror of the town -R^^^t\\nS of Pomfret and 4. M. W. of Danielsonville is the pretty village of Brook-\\nlyn (Putnam House). This is the county-seat of A\\\\ mdham Co and has a re-\\nfined and cultivated society, while its broad streets are I V^xl i st ^^J\\nand fine mansions. The Unitarian Church, on the Green, is the oil chnich ot\\nthat sect in the State, and the building is more than a century old.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0168.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 19. 119\\n^f^^ i-n ^^n ?^.?f\u00e2\u0084\u00a2t?* 1^18 ^f ttled within the present limits\\nof Brooklyn in 1739. From 1755 to 17G2, he fought in tlie French wars a,, TJ.q\\nat the capture of Crown Point, Montreal, and IlavanL He thL ret\\nBrooklyn and remained there until one day, when ],e was pIoiudiim on irfarm\\nl^t^in t l^f battle of Lexington came down the coun? v ^^.e pi Zw^^^\\nSi scene of IS ^\\\\f\\\\ l^^^ \u00c2\u00abl-f^\u00c2\u00bbS on .his fleetest horse and rode towa?d\\nr^t\\\\ scene ot battle. He raised a regiment in Windham County was made a\\nmaj.-geii. in the Continental Army and was one of the lpidpr/\u00c2\u00abt +i-,l f i f\\nBreed s Hill. He commanded at New Ymk, at grinceton and \\\\n the Hudson\\nHighlands, until he was forced to retire from active service on acemnt of his a^e\\nt^iy f o/wie -iihay obscured^ bS iJ. a ceS\\nDanielsonville is the seat of extensive factories on the water-power\\nfurnished by the Quinehaug River. Cotton cloth and shoe-making are\\nthe prmcipal industries.\\nKilSv Ti ^-^i BrookljTi, and other lines run to Willimantie S\\nKilLngly, and Providence (the latter route crosses the State of R. j ^^^^^C\\nStations, Wauregau (village W. of the station). Quinebaug Pond (3 M\\nlong) IS a pretty lake, where the Narragansetts fishing-ljcdit rises in\\nthe form of a pillar of fire, at midnight, once in every seven years Such\\nIS the old legen.l, and dwellers in the country-side claim to have seen this\\nfiery colunni blazing over the centre of the pond. The large Wauregan\\nMills (cotton sheetings) are situated in this village\\nStations, Central Village (with several factories), Plainfield Junction\\n(where the hue crosses the Providence Division, N. Y. N E R R\\nOuSi ^l^^^^-^-^ ^h^ two latter places are large ^L\\nThe Qiunebaug River is crossed at Jewett City, and soon after the train\\npasses through a rock-tunnel 300 ft. long. At Norwich the cars run on\\nhe New London Northern Line, and reach the steamboat wharf at New\\nLondon late m the evening.\\nAfter going on board tl,\u00c2\u00b0e .steamboat, passenger., \u00e2\u0080\u009e.,nally retire, and sleep\\nwbjle she moves through the quiet waters of Long Island Sound! Ari.,in^\\ntbi .i, f T \u00c2\u00b0f \u00c2\u00ab^t ani\\nom ,f r- P North River, and\\nfom the next p.er runs the ferry to Jersey City, which enters here\\ntheSoXndtr and Washington,", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0169.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "120 Routed. HAKTFOED TO SALISBUEY.\\nBoston to WoonsocUt.\\nJ *n o^TT \u00c2\u00ab+ntir.Ti Distance to Woonsocket, 37^- M.\\nTrains leave the Boston and Albany Station, l^istanc\\nFare, $1.10. ii ,miv track and l-asses the stations BrooU-\\nll elinesoondivergesfromtheAlbanytrack am 1 entered a\\n1iv,V Reservoir and Chestnut Hdl (see Route 2) ^ewion\\nlameSpicturesque town, abounding J ^j^ ^is feSity and after a formal\\nS cSme to the Indian village ^;f N^ them the tenets\\ndeception by the aged chief f ^J,*,^,%^fSe accei his teachings, formed a diurch\\nof Christianity. A large part of te tube ace en^_ Newton Centre, on\\nand adopted the laws and eu^to s 2,iif,ino- to a Theological Institution of the\\na far-viewing hiU, are tl^e ;uddmg^^^ deputation, ^and has grown rapidly\\nBaptist denomination. This ^t ho m i ^^,i.ee years.\\nsince its foundation m 18-25. The course oistu Falls is a\\nsitions, Newton Highlands, Upper F^^ HUdana ^.^i^v ^h^^rles\\nmanufacturing village where the track ^,\u00c2\u00abf ^^^J J^w passes through the towns\\nRiver Station the river is again 7^|^*^,V,K^ham twice crossing the sinuous valley\\nof Dover, Medtield. Midway and Bellmgu^i Jj fierce attack by a Bwarin of\\nof the Charles. Medheld retains the ^e\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 f 50 houses were burnt,\\n?uSansed by King Philip, who 7\u00c2\u00abf^,f;S;Vbu? finally the people got an\\n20 of the villagers killed and many i^ rV^*: J^^^ John Wilson, Jr., a graduate\\nohl cannon into positi^on ^^^^^\u00c2\u00a3^A schoolmaster of the lage\\nnfthe first Ilarvard class, was pastoi, pnjsRu, Dover. Medheld, K\\n?rou lS. l to 1691. Ji- ^t-^!\u00c2\u00ab ^!\u00c2\u00bb5rN E i^^ghlm, Bellinghain, E. Blavkstone\\nSSJ^iSt^sS-lSuS Al^S^iock^a connection is made with the\\nProvidence and Worcester Railroad.\\n20 Hartford to Salisbury and MiUerton.\\nVi. the Connecticut Western R. K Distance, 6. M. to Salisbury GO M. to\\nt,ehigMnnswlnciy.ouM..^^^^^^ and Sin..ury\\nBloonifield, Scotland, TanttMlle J New Haven\\n(,.e Bout. 15, At tUs po.n^ t ^s sLton Bvoo., an. New\\nand Nortliampton E. (l importance, tei.igahalt-\\nHarttovd. Thelattertown^vastonnerb nnua V\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^^,\u00e2\u0096\u00a0V^^^^ -f^^^^^^ l^f Z Z^L :^ii i^ engaged in the\\nEngland to Albany and W. New York, iv i\\nn Jmfactnre of eotton and steel i- ^\\\\^l ^^^[^2\\\\^i Honse, 10 12\\nW. Winsted, Norfolk. Tins .s a Pf* yj^^f^^ X\u00e2\u0080\u009e,, Gveen, with\\na week) with monntains on ^^.J^fJ^fJ\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 ,vho died fov their\\na monnment to the memory .^\u00c2\u00bbJt l *J^\u00e2\u0080\u009e Norfolk is cold, rugged,\\ncountry in the War of the Eebelon. ^he^sod oi\\nand stony, and it is wntten tha PJ 49 t\u00e2\u0080\u009e,f,ited their\\n1719 after inspection ot the tracL, *j7\\nthe iovm m 1/42, alter msp aairy Inisiness at one time\\nclaims and the moneys paid on them. f 3", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0170.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "SALISBURY. Route m. 121\\nmost prominent elevation in the vicinity is tlie massive Haystack ML\\n(footpath to the summit), fi-om which a very extensive prospect is enjoyed,\\nstretcliing from Mt. Everett in Mass. to the Mts. of New York. About\\n5 M, from the village are Camel s Falls, which are attractive after heavy\\nrains. The line now follows the valley of the Blackberry River to its\\njunction with the Housatouic, crossing at Canaan Station the Housatonic\\nRailroad (Route 17) and River. After passing the stations, Twin Lakes,\\nChapinville, Salisbury, Lakeville, Ore Hill, and State Line, all in the io\\\\m\\nof Salisbury, the line enters the State of New York, and at Millerton\\nconnects with the Harlem, the Dutcliess and Columbia, and the Pough-\\nkeepsie and Eastern Railroads.\\nSalisbury.\\nO, this silence in the air, this silence on the mountains, this silence on the\\nlakes On either side, to the E. and to the W., ever- varying mountain-\\nforms frame the horizon. There is a constant succession ol hills swelling into\\nmountains, and of mountains flowing down into hills. The hues of green in\\ntrees, in grasses, and in various harvests arc endlessly contrasted. At Salisbury\\nyou come under the shadow of the Taconic Range. Here you may well spend a\\nweek, for the sake of the rides and the objects of curiosity. 4 M. to tlie E. are\\nthe Falls of the Housatonic, called Canaan Falls, very beautiful, and worthy of\\nnuieh longer study tlian they usually get. Pi-ospect Hill, not far from Falls Vil-\\nlage, affords altogether the most beautiful view of any of the many peaks with\\nwhich this neighborhood abounds. (This, and the other quotations under Salis-\\nbury, are from Beeeher s Star Papers).\\nHotels. Maplo Shade Rocktj-Dell House, at Lime Rock Wononsko and\\nLakeville, at Lakeville.\\nThe road to Falls Village leads for 2 M, doAvn a nan-ow valley rich in\\ngrain, and then to the E. over bold spurs of Wolonanchu Mt. with Pros-\\npect Mt. on the 1. and rapidly changing views of the Housatonic Valley.\\nOr, without crossing Wolonanchu, the road down the valley may be fol-\\nlowed to the hamlet of Lime Rock and the borders of the Mts. of Sharon.\\nA favorite excursion is to the Bald Peak on Mt. Rig-a. From Salisbury\\nto the Mountain Pond on Riga it is 4 M. of easy ascent, most of the way\\nalong the edge of a ravine filled with resounding, but invisible, cascades.\\nA road leads along the plateau to the base of Bald Peak, whence the as-\\ncent must be made by a rude path. The view from the summit is very\\nextensive, embracing on the W. the Oblong, Buck, and Catskill Mts. in\\nN. Y., on the S. the wilderness of high hills which form Sharon, on the\\nE. Canaan Mt., Rarack Matiif, and the lakes of Salisbury, and on the K\\nRace, Alander, and Everett Mts. in Mass. From the little cluster of\\nhouses near the pond on Mt. Riga, one can return to Salisbury, via Lake-\\nville, by a road over the brow of the hill, or by a slightly longer road\\n(8 M.) leading down the side of a water-course with pretty views of the\\nlakes, to Ore Hill (4 M.), the centre of the iron-raining industries of the\\ntown. There are 5 iron-mines in Salisbury, employing 240 men, and sup-\\nplying metal to the forges, anchor- works, and foundries which abound on\\n6", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0171.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "122 Route 20. SALISBURY.\\nT A ;i ici\u00c2\u00abi the miners of Salisbury\\nthe streams of N. W, Conn. In Apn 18\u00c2\u00ab1 *_^; \u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u009ej\u00e2\u0080\u009e eannon-Uall.\\nsent 100 tons \u00e2\u0080\u009et u-on to t,\u00c2\u00ab, govennne. t, o b mad _^^^^\\nFrom Ore Hill (wWeh wi lun 1, \u00c2\u00b0t the j,^^ \u00e2\u0080\u009e,i\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eear the railway track a^a P-- ^U a Wononseapanurc, pleasant\\nAs the road passes the lakes vvono.ii i^^,.,,. above their quiet\\nviews are obtained and a^^-J^XiaUis -to stately old man-\\nwaters. Between the road and he 1^ ^j^^t ^\u00e2\u0080\u009ea the\\nsion of the Holley family, l ^y ^n divtae Ion Pre ident of\\nbirthplace of Horace HoUe, ^f^ ^l^^Zl NY. lawyer and\\nTransylvania University, and O. L PoH^^y\\njonrnalist. On ^e i\u00e2\u0080\u009eLile, where, by ski.fnl treat-\\nbuildings of the State Hospital lor l j\u00e2\u0080\u009e.\u00e2\u0080\u009e,\u00e2\u0080\u009eped into action, use-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eent, thethonght-germsuistr^Unn,^^^^^^^^^^ P^^^^^^\\nful instruction is imparted, and many\\nelevated, and sent forth i^JZI a hill wMch\\npital accommodates about 50 patients an i\\ncommands fine views of the al.e and of M m,. Beecher\\ncharming lakes, a ride of IJ f-; \u00e2\u0084\u00a2S,n\u00e2\u0080\u009ef\u00e2\u0080\u009etrbe taken to Brace\\nsuggests that after ^a f J\u00c2\u00b0 f^,,, water,\\n^:si:;^s,r -r;, ;:T^ airxl M.. and wHoHy .ong t,. moan-\\ntrils. .alls are i*o. M^^^ ^tS^S^tS\\nCopake station on the ll-^\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 \\\\f,; J ,Vd was much visited before the\\nwhich has been well painted by fLenseii,\\ndestruction of the hotel by fire. j^ is ti,e antithesis of\\n4M. N. of Salisb,iryis\u00c2\u00ab SagesRavine, Ineh 1^ ^^_\\nBash-Bish. Sage. Eavine, not withont ^an^- J.^.ty! is yet\\ntractions in its beauty B^ \u00e2\u0084\u00a2gged, full of rocks,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eost remarkable for grandeur jj \\\\;\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,Jred to beauty and\\ncascades, grand -\u00c2\u00bbt- f ^l^^f^r hen A -1\\nsoftness by various and abundant f^ New York to see\\nwould willingly make the jom-ney ^J-^^^X^^^^^tiful falls may be\\neither of them. J^- l\u00e2\u0084\u00a2^ ite n^rd^Vrton-s Falls. The\\nseen alter heavy rains which ha e ^e- ame* ^^_^^\\nway to the ravine l^ads a \u00e2\u0084\u00a2g the under mou ^^^_^^\\nbefore reaching a blacksinith s f alongside, by tak-\\nthere is a small hut on the 1., and tlie ficld-ioaa tur\\nIwn bars. It is best to ^^XZ^^t^Z^:;^^. The\\ntake the first path to f^rUpper Falls (well rep-\\nprincipal falls are knovv as to Lo.,Tvvm,\\nnir f The^vX v h^nkr-5.i h. i^", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0172.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "SALISBURY. Rotde20. 123\\n})eaTity, Avill he worth all the pains you may take to climb through it.\\nOne requires a good foot, a strong hand, and a clear head, and then there\\nis but little danger, though the path is soon lost in a perfect chaos of\\nrocks. Heavy gloves and boots are necessary, and the ascent is not rec-\\nommended for ladies, although several have accomplished it. An obscure\\nmoantain road leads to the vicinity of the upper end of the ravine, but\\nthe descent is harder than the ascent.\\nFrom Salisbury, by Sage s Ravine, N. into Massachusetts, runs the\\nunder-mountain road, along the foot of the Taconic Range, to Sheffield and\\nthe Berkshire Hills. From the ravine to Salisbury, visitors sometimes\\nreturn by way of the Twin Lakes, a longer but pleasanter route.\\nTlie Twin Lakes are gained from Salisbury by a road passing along\\nthe low spurs of Rarack MatifF Mt., with the isolated mass of Lion s Head\\non the W. Tlie beautiful lakes of Washining and Washiiiee are soon\\nreached, and the liigh hills in the vicinity (Tom s Mt., Boar Mt.) are seen\\nmirrored in them. Near the S. shore of Washinee a road diverges to the\\n1. through the thick pines, to a remarkable cave. Tlais was but lately\\ndiscovered by a hunting dog chasing a small animal into it, and the\\nhunters, imeasy at his long absence, tore away the debris from the hole\\nand entered. At a hut near the cave, v/here the keys are kept, visitors\\ncan get appropriate clothing, lights, and refreshments. The main cavern\\nhas been explored for about 700 ft., and its course trends steadily down-\\nward. The curious forms assumed by stalagmites are well shown here.\\nIn one place a stone lady is seen, facing the wall in another, vast num-\\nbers of stalactitic candles depend from the roof; and numerous other\\nmarvels are found by imaginative visitors. The village and station of\\nChapinsville is situated near the lakes. Mr. Beecher speaks of tlie lake\\nrides as extremely beautiful. But they should always be afternoon\\nrides for these discreet lakes do not choose to give out their full charms\\nexcept at about an hour before sunset.\\nRides are taken from Salisbury through the romantic hills of Cornwall\\nand Sharon, and even as far as Great Barrington (N.), and Litchfield\\n(S. E.).\\nSalisbury was first settled by the Dutch in 1720, who lived in peare Avitli the\\nIndian tribe who held the valley and of whom no relic remains save the quaint\\nnanic.5 which they gave to lakes and Mts. This was the farthest advance of the\\ntimi.l Hollanders on that Alpine land (the present Mass., Conn, and Vt which\\nwas portrayed on theirmaps by a blank white space(as Greenland is on onrraaps\\nniscribed with the cool word Winterberg. The word Housatonic has given\\nrise to more controversy among antiquarians and philologists than almost any other\\nIndian word, and one good authority removes it from an aVjoriginal derivation\\naudrlaims that it is a euphonic change of Westenhok (Western corner or\\nnoo.c), I he name given to the Dutch settlement here as being in a western nook of\\nthe rugged hills which stretch away E. toward tlie Conn. River. But in 1740 the\\nrestless Anglo-American wave of advance reached this point. There are no Dutch\\nor Indians there now.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0173.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "124 Route 21. BOSTON TO NEW YOEK.\\n21. Boston to New York.\\nThe great Express route, A ia Springfield and Hartford. There are three through\\nexpress trains daily in 6-8 hours. Distance, 236 M. fare, $0.00. This is the\\nmost popular and pleasant of the railway routes to New York, passing through\\nthe large cities of Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford, and following the rich\\nvalley of the Connecticut for a great distance. Elegant parlor and sleeping cars\\nare attached to all through trains. By leaving Boston at 9 in the morning, one\\ncan pass over this route by daylight while by leaving at 10.30, P. M., one\\nsleeps all night (.$1.50 for a berth in the sleepmg-car) and reaches New York at\\nG.25 o clock in the morning.\\nThe train leaves the terminal depot in Boston (comer of South and\\nKneeland Streets), and passes out over the Back Bay lands. Charles\\nRiver is approached on the r., and a fine view is given of the compact and\\nmore ancient parts of Boston, crowned Ly the State House dome. Beyond\\nthe city, and apparently at the end of the lake-like widenings of the river,\\nthe populous heiglits of Cliarlestown are seen, wliile Cambridge lifts her\\nspires on the nearer western shores. The line crosses the town of Brook-\\nline, studded with pretty suburban villages, and stops at Brighton (Cattle\\nFair Hotel), celebrated for its great cattle-market. The stock-trains on\\nthis railroad bring immense numbers of cattle, sheep, and swine from\\nthe West, Avhich are here made into beef, mutton, and pork, for the daily\\nneeds of Boston. The sheds, yards, and pens cover many acres, and the\\nbusiness has been increasing for scores of years. As far back as 1S37, the\\nyearly sales were ,$2,500,000. N. of the station is seen the tower on Mt.\\nAuburn, and the U. S. Arsenal at Watertowni, on the other bank of the\\nCharles. Newton is next entered, a wealthy suburban city (valuation,\\n18,000,000), with a population of 20,000. Newton Corner is near the\\nancient Nonantum Hill, whei e the Apostle Eliot first preached to the\\nIndians (probably the jiresent Mt. Ida, from which a pleasant view is\\nobtained). This village has a public library in an elegant and costly stone\\nbuilding, and three or four churches. From this point to Waltham it is\\n3-4 M., to the Watertown Arsenal and Mt. Auburn, 2-3 M., and to the\\nBaptist Theological Seminary at Newton Centre, 2-3 M. S. The line\\nnow passes Newtonville M, N. of Grove Hill Cemetery), W. Newton\\n(2 M. S. of the Watch Factory at Waltham), and Auburndale (the seat of\\nthe Laselle Female Seminary). These villages are all in\\nNe^vton, From Pdverside Station, a branch track runs S. to the manu-\\nfactories at Newton Upper Falls. Stations, Grantville (a factory and\\nresidence village), and Welleslev, a picturesque suburban village, near\\nLake Walian, the Hottl Wclledt-y (^unnner-board), and the famous\\nWelleslev College (which is seen on the 1.).\\nNaticfi: Wilson House Everett) is a slioemaking town of 10,000 in-\\nhabitants, near the Charles River. A branch-line runs N. W. 4 M. to\\nSaxonville, the seat of blanket and worsted-yarn mills, on the Sudl)ury\\nRiver, near Nob-cot Hill. S. Nailclc (Bailey s Hotel), 2 M. by stage from\\nWellesley, is a lovely village near the Began Hill, on the Charles River,\\nwith 3 ciiurches, Eliot s oak, and an Indian cemetery.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0174.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 21. 125\\nIn 1651 the Christian tribe of Nonantum, which had embraced the faith after\\nthe preaching of Eliot, removed to Natick, where they formed a government\\nbased on the ISth chapter of Exodus, witli rulers of hundreds, of fifties, and of\\ntens. Their village consisted of three streets lined Avith gardens and huts, a\\nbuilding for a church and school, a large, circular fort, and a bridge over the river.\\nTlie Bible was translated into tlieii language by Eliot, and published at Cam-\\nbridge in 1663 (second edition in 1685), whose title-page read as follows\\nMamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up Bidlum God Naneeswe Nukkone Testament\\nKah Work Wusku Testament. But despite the tender care of the colony, the\\nIndian church and tribe suffered the usual fate of inferior races in the presence of\\nAnglo-Americans, and died out from the opei ation of internal causes.\\nJust N. of Natick, across the track, and visible from the train soon\\nafter leaving the station, is Cochitaate Lake, fi-om wliich the water supply\\nof Boston is carried to that city by a long and sinuous aqueduct.\\nS. Framingliani {S. Framingham Hotel) has three straw-hat factories\\nand the villas of several Bostonians; and is near the great Methodist\\ncamp-meeting ground, the Sunday-school assembly The Chautauqua\\nof New England and the fort and camp-ground annually occupied by\\nthe brigades of Mass. militia. The ancient elm-shaded village of Fra-\\nmingham {Framinfjham Hotel) is 2^-3 M. N., with its fine memorial\\nhall and library and 2 churches. On Bear Hill is the State Normal School.\\nA railway runs hence S. W. 12 M. across the shocmaking hill-town oi HoUislon\\n(Ilollis House), to Milfor\u00c2\u00abl {Mansion House), a handsome shoe-manufacturing\\nvillage, ou higli ground. The town lias 11,000 inhabitants, and produces much\\nmilk, fruit, and market-produce. Semi-daily stages run li M. S. W. to IFopedale,\\na hamlet of 600 inhabitants, in a lovely valley, with tlie cotton-machinery works of\\nGeorge Draper Sous. Semi-daily stages run 3 M S. ^V from Miiford to Meiidon\\n{Addins House JMendon Hotel), a picturesque hill-town devoted to farming, near\\nthe pretty Nipmuck Pond. II. K. from Miiford to Boston in li hr., see page 117\\nalso to Ashland, 12 M. N.\\nThe Lowell Division runs from S. Framingham to Lowell, 28 M. N. Stations,\\nFramingham and Sudbury. Sudbury was settled in 1638, and in 1676 was\\nthe scene of a bloody contest, when 70 men, marching to relievo Marlboro\\nwei e ambushed here by Indians. 26 of the colonists were killed on the held,\\nand the rtimainder were captured, and many of them were put to death by ter-\\nrible tortures. A monument to their memory was erected on the field, by President\\nWadsworth, of Harvard College, whose father was captain of the defeated party.\\nIn Suilbiiry was a famous old tavern in the colonial days, which, during the\\nmnrcli of the western counties militia on Boston, was a busy place. This is the\\nWayside Inn of Longfellow s poems, the purer, fairer Canterbury Tales of\\nAmerican literature\\nAs ancient is this hostelry\\nAs any in the land may he,\\nBuilt m the old Colonial day,\\nWhen men lived in a grander way,\\nWith ampler hospitality.\\nA region of repose it seems,\\nA place of slumher and of dreams,\\nRemote among the wooded hills.\\nThe characters represented auKmg the story-tellers around the fireside at\\ntiieir ease were as follows Tlie Landlord, grave in his aspect and attire, waa\\nyquire Lyman Howe, of Sudbury. The\\nStudent of old books and ways.\\nWith tales of Flores and Blanehefleur\\nSir Ferumbras, Sir Eglaniour,\\nv/as young Henry Wales. The yoimg iSicilian,", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0175.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "12G Route ^21. BOSTON TO NEW \\\\ORK.\\nIn sight of Etna bred and bom,\\nwas Luigi Monti, American oonsul at Palermo. The Theologian, from the\\nschool of Cambridge on the Charles, was Prof. Treadwell, of Harvard. The\\nPoet was T. W. Parsons, of Boston, translator of Dante s Inferno, and anthop\\nof many short poems. The blue-eyed Norseman, who bore the Stradivarius\\nviolin, a miracle of the lutist s art, and sang the Saga of King Olaf, was Ole\\nBull. Tlie inn still stands, 2 M. W. of Sudbury proper.\\nlieyond Sudbury is Concord Junction, where the Fitchburg Railroad crosses\\nthe present route. Station, Acton (see page 410), whence in;irched a company\\nof minute-men, who were among the flrst engaged at the battle of Concord. Tlieir\\ncaptain was killed at the tight by the bridge. The line crosses the towns of Car-\\nlisle and Chelmsford, and stops at Lowell.\\nAnother division of this railroad runs from S. Fraraingham to Fitchburg. Sta-\\ntion, Framingham Centre, built around a level Green, in a large farming town.\\nThe great tide of travel between Boston and the West formerly passed through\\nthis village, which then had a famous inn. The town hall, old church, and\\nAcademy (founded 1792) front on the Green. The line now passes across the\\nfarming town of Southboro and enters fair and fertile Marlboro This was the\\nsite of the Christian Indian village of Okomniakamesitt, and was colonized by\\nSudbury people in 1655. Its first pastor (1666- 1701) uniformly refused baptism\\nto children born on the Sabbath. At Marlboro the present route connects with\\na branch of the Fitchburg Railroad. Northboro is the next town, and is devoted\\nto farming and cattle-raising. The vilhige churchyard contains the grave of the\\nRabbi Judah Monis, who renounced Judaism in favor of Christianity in 1722, and\\nbecame teacher of Hebrew at Harvard College, wliere he remained till his death\\nin 1761. The train crosses the Assabet River E. of the station, and then passes\\non through the town of Berlin to Clinton (Clinton House), a busy village at the\\njunction of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad. At Pratt s Junction the Fitch-\\nburg and Worcester Railroad is crossed, and tl:e train runs across Leominster,\\nwith occasional views of Wachusett Mountain on the W. The central village of\\nLeominster is finely situated. Soon after leaving this station the train reaches\\nFitchburg.\\nFrom S. Framingliam the main line follows the Sudbury River, which\\nit often approaches and once or twice crosses. Stations, Ashland (Cen-\\ntral House), Cordaville, South ville, and Westboro (Westboro Hotel).\\nThis is the seat of the State Reform School and a large Avater-cure estab-\\nlishment. 3|- M. S. E. of the station are the Hopkinton Springs (small\\nhotel) near the large and handsome Whitehall Pond, abounding in fish.\\nTliere are three springs, all different, and carbonate of lime and iron are\\nthe chief ingredients. This was formerly a fashionable resort, and is on\\nthe old Indian domain of Maguncook.\\nStation, Grafto7i (the Indian Hassanamesit), Avith 3 small hotels, on a\\nreservation of 4 M. square, given by the colony to a tribe of Christian\\nIndians, Shrewsbury is a town just N. of the track, where Avas born\\nArtemas Ward, major of the 8th Mass. Reg. at the siege of Louisbourg\\n(1758), and commander of the army besieging Boston until the arrival of\\nWashington. Levi Pease Avas born -here, Avho started the first line of\\nmail stages between Boston and Ncav York (1784), previous to Avhich a\\nfortnightly mail Avas borne betAveen the tAvo places, in saddle-bags.\\nBeyond MiUbury (near NeAV-England Village, and with a branch to\\nMillbury Village, 3 M.), the line runs N. by Lake Quinsigamond, a deep\\nand narrow loch, 4 M. long, Avith 12 islands, boat-liouses, A-jllas, restau-\\nrants, sunmier-cottages, c. Its hotels arc the Island House and the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0176.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "WORCESTEE. Route 21. 127\\nHotel Eyrie. Dummy cars and omnibuses run hitlier several times daily\\nfrom Worcester; and small steamboats run hourly to the Eyrie, King s\\nToint (small hotel), the Narrows, Quinsigamond Park, and Ilolden s Grove.\\nWorcester.\\nHotels. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Bay-State Ilou^e, S3 50, corner of Mahi and Exohancre Sts. Linnoln\\nHouse, S3.50, Elm St.; Waldo House, Waldo St.; Exchange Hotel; Wave r ley\\nElmwood. OQ Webster Square Continental United States.\\nHorse-car.s on iMaiu St., from Welister Square to Adams Square, on Lincoln\\nSt. and on Front St. to the Union Railroad Station.\\n//arAs, 50 cts. eacli passenger within the mile circle. Herdics run regularly on\\nMain, Front, and Pleasant Sts., c.\\nStages to Quinsigamond, S. Worcester, Oakham, Shrewsbury (5 M.), and Marl-\\nboro Leicester (6 M.I, and Spencer, Paxton (8 M), Ooldbi-ook, .and Barre.\\nKailr: a\u00c2\u00abls, to Providence (Route 10), Norwich, Nashua (Route 13), Albany\\n(Route 22), Barre, Gardner, Fitchburg, Boston, and Lake Quinsigamond.\\nWorcester, the second city in wealth and population in the Common-\\nwealth, and the capital of Worcester County, is situated among a group\\noC hills on the Blackstone River. Its manufacturing interests have ris( n\\nrapidly to a commanding position, being favored by the central location\\nof the city, and the large railroad system converging there. The popula-\\ntion is over 65.000. There are 46 churches, and 5 societies of Irish, 3 of\\nGermans, 2 of French-Canadians, and others of English and Swedes.\\nWorcester claims the name of an academic city, in virtue of its numer-\\nous fine schools. Its Classical and English High School employs 4 mas-\\nters and 5 assistants, and has a noble building, which is snrmounted by a\\ngraceful tower terminating in a spire. This tower is a copy of one of\\ntlie best European campaniles, but is unfortiuiately too slender in com-\\nparison with the heavy mass of the building. Near Main 8t. on the S.\\nis the celebrated Oread Srminarij (now closed), in picturesque stone\\nbuildings located on a hill and surrounded by trees. The castle-like\\nstructure, with embattled towers, on a commanding hill S. E. of the city\\nwas built for a Medical School, but is now used as an academy under the\\ncare of the Baptist Church. The Roman Catliolic College of the Holy\\nCross occupies an extensive range of imposing buildings on Packachoag\\nHill, 2 M. S. of the city, and is well attended by the youth of that church\\nfrom all parts of New England. A State Normal School occupies a hill\\nE. of Lincoln Scpiare, and across the valley to the W. are the buildings\\nof the Free Institute of Industrial Science, with lectures, laboratories,\\nmachine-shops, and all appliances for learning young men to be practical\\narchitects, carpenters, engineers, chemists, civil engineers, ;c. The\\nultimate end of this institution is the elevation of the mechanic by giv-\\ning him thorough and complete scientific Icnowledge on which he may\\nbase his future work. The school is richly endowed, and is free to\\nyoung men of this county (others pay 100 a year). Boynton Hall (named\\nill honor of the founder of the school) is a graceful and ornate stone build-\\ning. l-?j- M. N. of W^ircester is the Hig/iland Military/ School, widely\\nkjiov.ji for the string nit thoroughness of its discipline.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0177.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "128 noate^l. WORCESTER.\\nThe State Lunatic Asylum, on Millstone Hill, overlooking Lake Quin-\\nsigamond, cost 1,;J50, 000, and is an imposing pile of granite buildings,\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00ac11 echelon^ with a high tower. It accommodates 700 patients. The State\\nAsylum for the Chronic Insane holds 400 more. Hope Cemetery and\\nRural Cemetery are attractive burial-grounds. The Plymouth Church\\n(Pearl St.) and St. PauTs Catholic Church are stately granite buildings.\\nThere is a chime often Troy bells in I lymouth-Church tower. All-Saiuts (Epis.),\\non Jrving .St., is the fianilsouiest church in tiic city, a perfect geui in brownstone.\\nGeorge IJancroft was horn iu a house now standing on Salisbury St. The Cdy\\nJlospltal ou a liill to the \\\\V. of the city, is an iuipo.-ing brick building.\\nMain St. is about 2 M. long, and contains the principal business houses\\nand hotels. It is a wide, pleasant street, well lined with trees, and adorned\\nwith some fine commercial buildings. Near its lower end the Jesuit Col-\\nlege is seen across a broad valley. The Common contains the Old South\\nChurch, the City Hall, and the Soldiers and Bigelow Monuments, while four\\nother churches are seen on its sides. Passing N. on Main St. many tine\\nbusiness blocks are seen, with St. Paul s Catholic Church, Trinitj M. E.\\nChurch, the towers of the High School, and numerous tall spires on the\\nhills to the 1. On the r. is Mechanics Hall, a fine audience-chamber\\nseating 2,500, with a brown-stone front in rich Corinthian architecture.\\nOn side-streets diverging to the 1. in this vicinity are the Post-Cfiice,\\nEpiscnpal Church, the Agric. Hall, b^lm Park, and the Free Library (Elm\\nSt.). The latter contains 00,000 volumes, being especially rich in mechan-\\nics and medical Avorks, while its reading-room (open from 9 A. M. until\\n9 P. 31.) has 24^} different magazines and papers, in 4 languages. On\\nFoster St. are the rooms of the Natural History Society with valuable\\ncabinets (open Wednesday afternoons), and the library (8,000 vols.) and\\ncollections of the Society of ArUiquity. On INIairi St. beyond Mechanics\\nHall and the Bay State House, is the old Exchange Hotel, a famous inn\\nof the colonial days, where Washington and Lafayette have stojiped.\\nJust beyond is Lincoln Square, where, on a high terrace, are seen the\\nFirst Unitarian Church, the granite Court House with its classic front,\\nand the neat building of the American Antiquarian Society.\\nIn the latter structure is preserved a valuable library of 80,000 volumes, with\\nancient portraits of Samuel, Increase, and Cotton ]\\\\Iather and other Puritan\\ndivines Governors Wiiithrop, Endicott, and other founders of the State. Mr.ny\\nbusts adorn the walls, and there are large easts of Michael Angclo s JVIoses, and\\nChrist (houglit in Rome by Hon. Stejihen Salisbury). In glass cases about tl;e\\nhall are several literary curiosities, ancient black-letter MSS on vellum (15th\\ncentury) an elegant Persian MS. richly illuminated (date, 14S0) 3 British tax-\\nstamps of 1763 MS.- sermons of microscopic fineness written by old Puritan\\npastors Latin hooks printed at Rome and Venice in 1475-0; Cranmer s Bible\\n(1538) Ptolemy s Gengiaphy missals on vellum ami a superb Koran in Arabic,\\nbrilliantly illuminated. Two cases of Indian relics are near the entrance to the\\nhall. This collection is open, 9-12, and 2-5 o clock daily, except Saturday ami\\nSunday. From the hill behind the building, the Free Industrial School and the\\nNormal School may be seen.\\nOn the Common, near the Old South Church, is a pretty English Golluc", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0178.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "WORCESTER. Route 21. 120\\nmonument, nnilt of granite and Tuscan marble, over the remains of\\nTimothy Bigelow, Colonel of the 15tli Mass. Continental Regiment. At\\nthe N. E. corner is the Soldiers Monument, wliich was designed by\\nRandolph Rogers, and consists of a tall Corintliian column, surmounted\\nby a statue of Victory, standing on a globe, with a drawn sword in her\\nuplifted hand. Aroimd the column are colossal bronze statues (cast at\\nMunich) representing soldiers of the American infantry, cavalry, artil-\\nlery, and marine service.\\nThe Union Railroad Station is an imposing granite building, 514 ft.\\nlong and 256 ft. wide, witli a graceful stone clock-tower 200 ft. high. It\\ncontains a restaurant, waiting-roonus, news-stand, etc. From this station\\nstart the trains of tlie Boston Albany, Norwich Worcester, Provi-\\ndence Worcester, Worcester Nashua, and Boston, Barre k Gardner\\nRailroads.\\nIn 1669 a legislative committee located a settlement for 30 families at Worces-\\nter (Saxon, Weqera, Ceaster, War-Castle), as a lialf-way halting-place between the\\nvalley-towns and tlie coast. The citadel of this colony was near tlie present\\ncorner of Main aiid Columbia Streets. The Indians soon forced tlie evacuation\\nof the settlement, and it lay desolate from 1702 to 1713, when it was reoccupied,\\nand stern defensive laws were passed. A fortress-like church was built (on the\\nCommon), and each man was ordered to carry to Sunday services his nuisket and\\n6 rounds of ammunition. In 1720 some Scotch Presbyterian immigrants built a\\nchurcli of their own, wliich was assaulted and torn dov/n by the Puritan colonists\\nas a cradle of heresy. In 1755 numerous exiled Aeadians were sent here, and soon\\nafter tlie Massachusetts Spy newspaper (still published there) began to fan tlie\\nflames of revolution. April 19, 1775, a breathless messenger bore into town,\\nthe news of the battle of Lexington. His white horse, flecked with blood and\\nfoam, fell dead on Main St., but he rode westv. ard on another, while the minute-\\nmen move l on Boston by thousands. In July. 1776, the Sons of Freedom had a\\ngrand feast, and among their toasts were, May the freedom and independence\\nof America endure till the sun grows dim with age, and this earth returns to\\nchaos. Perpetual itching without the benefit of scratching, to the enemies of\\nAmerica. The town sent 27 offlcers and 409 men to the army. In 178G, Worcester\\nwas taken, and its courts closed by 800 of Shays insurgents, wearing the emble-\\nmatic pine-branch. Father Fitton, on a missionary tour in 1834, found four\\nCatholic familiesin Worcester that denomination now has six churches in the\\ncity, including I\\\\otrc Dame des Canadians. The population in 1830 was 4,082. In\\n1861, at the very horn- when the 6th Mass. was fighting in the streets of Baltimore,\\nthe Bigelow Monument was dedicated here. Said Judge Thomas at the dedica-\\ntion, The cry to-day in the streets of this beautiful city is that which 86 years\\nago startled the quiet village, To arms So be it, to arms It will cost\\nus a long, severe, and bitter struggle, but this rebellion must be crushed out.\\nTiiere is f n- us no hope of freedom, of peace, of safety even, till this work is fully\\ndone. Seven years of war were spent in the purchase of our freed mi seven more\\nof toil in giving it organic life. If seven years of toil and blood are spent in\\nsecuring it, in our national redemption, they will be wisely, divinely spent,\\nwith the blessing of God and all coming generations of men. Within five months\\n5,000 men marclied from the Park to the Potomac. The 15th Mass. (Worcester Co.)\\nReg. paraded here liefore leaving, and received their colors from the ladies. I\\nam deputed by the ladies of Worcester to present to you this banner. Eighty-\\nfour years ago to-day there -was mustering in these streets the first regiment ever\\nraised in Worcester Co. for actual warfare, the 15th Reg. of the Mass. Line. What\\nhard-fought fields at Monmouth and Trenton, what sufferings at Valley Forge,\\nwhat glory and victory at Saratoga and Yorktown, have made that name famous\\nWhat they won for us, it is yours to preserve for us. Judge Hoar.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0179.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "130 Route ^1. BROOKFIELD.\\nAfter leaving Worcester the line soon passes Grovv-1 Hill (on the r.) and\\nreaches Rochdale (Union Hotel), 4 M. S. of Leicester, a beautiful ham-\\nlet on Strawberry Hill, in a farming town of 2,770 inhabitants, witli 8\\nch\\\\irches, a memorial hall, academj% and librarj Charlton is 3 M .N. of\\nCharlton Centre {BeUevue House), a lofty and far-viewing village, near\\nthe romantic Bay Path and under Muggett Hill, whence 19 villages and\\nparts of 4 States are seen. Spencer is 2 M. S. of Spencer Centre\\nSpencer Hotel), a large and pretty village with a library, paper, large\\ntown-hall, and 4 churches. Here w^as born Elias Howe, Jr., who invented\\nthe sewing-machine.\\nFrom E. Broul:Jield {E. Brookfield House; Lake-View) a branch runs\\nto N. Brookfield (Batcheller House), a large shoemaking village in a rich\\nfarming town. Daily stages 7 M. N. to Oakham (Coldbrook House).\\nBrookfield {Brookjidd House) is a well-to-do ahoemaking village.\\nThis town was settled on the Indian lands of Quaboag, by Ipswich men, in\\n1660. In lG7a a lart;e roree of Nipinucks advanced on the place. Envoys were\\nsent out to treat with the Indians, but six of them were killed, and the villajre\\n(the present W. Brooktiekl) was attacked. The inhabitants had gathered in a\\ngarrison-h.ouse, winch, after the rest of the village had been plundered and burnt,\\nwas attacked by the enemy. For three long days the house was defended with\\ndesperate bravery, though shot and flaming arrows were showered against it.\\nThen a cart full of blazing flax and straw was pushed against it, and the defence\\nwould have lieen ended, but for a sudden shower which extinguished the rising\\nflames. After this shower, which they held to be nuraculous, a brave partisan\\noflicer with a trooj) of light horse galloped in from Lancaster, after a forced\\nmarch of 30 M., and scattered the besiegers. In 1076, the evacuation of the\\ntown was ordered, as a military necessity, by the Legislature, and it remained\\ndesolate for VI vears. The Qual joag Pond is a large pond S. of the village, whose\\nwaters flow by the Sashaway River through the Poduuk Meadows, to the Chico-\\npee.\\nW. Brookfield Wirkahoag House) produces apples and boots. Lucy\\nStone and Austin Phelps were born here. Semi-daily stage, G M N. to\\nNiiw Brainiree (New-Braintree House). Stations, Warren Warren\\nHotel), a pretty manufacturing village, among rounded hills; W. Warren\\n(W. Warren House), with a large cotton-factory; W\\\\ Brimfield.\\nIn the Brimfield churchyard (5-6 M. to the S. E.) is buried Gen. William\\nEaton, some time an officer in the U. S. Army, and then Consul to Tunis. In\\n1805 he planned the restoration of Hamet, the rightful Bashaw of Trii)oli, and\\nmarched from Cairo, Egypt, Avith 400 Moslems and 100 Christians, across the\\ndesert. With reckless bravery he stormed tin; ranij arts of tlic Trii)olitan city of\\nDerne, garrisoned by a force larger than his own. The United states having con-\\ncliulcd a peace, with the reignmg Bashaw, Eaton was forced to abandon his\\nconquest, and he returned to Ariiei ica, where he died (at Brimfield) in 1811.\\nAt Palmer {Nassowauno Hovse) the Ware-River and New-London\\nNorthern Railroads meet the preseid route. To the S. is seen the State\\nPrimary School, in Monson. Station, Wilbraham {AUis House), 2 M.\\nfrom Wilbraham Centre, the seat of the great Wesleyan Academy. This\\ntown is famous for its beautiful scenery; and it has LG28 inhabitants,\\nG churches, and woollen and paper mills. I lom Indian-Orchard station\\nhorse-cars run N. W. lo the villag-e of the .^aaiL; name.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0180.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "SPRINGFIELD. Route 21. 131\\nHotels. *IIaynes Hotel, a large first class house at the centre of tl\u00c2\u00bbc city\\n2.50 f 3.50 a day) Massasoit House, alongside of the station .9 3 50 4 a day)\\nHotel Warwick, just N. of station (S^ 2 2 50 a d.sy) Cooley s Hotel {.i? 2 a day).\\nIleadinjj-rooms. City Library, State St. (with museum) Y. M. C. A., Main\\nSt. Amusements at the Oiiera House, Main St. Roller Skating-riuk, Bridge St.\\nRailroads. The Boston and Albany, to Boston 98 M., to Albany 104 M. the\\nNew York, New Haven, and Hartford, to Hartford 26 M., New Haven 62 M., New\\nYork 136 M. the Conn River, to Greenfield 36 M.. and to the North the Athol\\nBranch, to Athol in 48,\\\\ M. N. Y. N. E. R. R., to Hartford 31 M. These lines\\nmeet at the large central station. Horse-car.s nm on Main St., and to the\\nArmory and Water-Shops. Al.so, to Brightwood and Mill River (South End).\\nSpringfield was settled by a company under Wihiam Pyuchon, in 1636, whose\\ncompact bei^au as follows Article I. Wee intend, by God s grace, as soon a.s\\nwee can, with all convenient sx)eede, to procure some godly and faithful! minister,\\nwith wlKjnie wee propose to.joyne in church covenint to walk in all the ways of\\nChrist, .\\\\rticle II. Wee intend that our town shall be composed of fourty family s,\\nor if wee think meete after to change our purpose yet not to exceed the number\\nof fifty family s, rich anil poore. The town would have been abandoned at one\\ntime but for the oi ders of the Legislature, forbidding the evacuation of Mass.\\nsettlements, whereupon the people ei ected a strong palisade. Great suffering\\nwas experienced during the first winter, for the freezing of the river prevented\\nvessels ascending with supplies. Several persons started for Boston, and were\\nfrozen on the way. Pynclion, the magistrate of Springfield, wrote an anti-Calvin-\\nistic theological book hi 1650, which was condemned by the Legislature and burnt\\non Boston Common. He was deposed from his otfice, was forced, amid a storm\\nof clerical wrath, to retract, and soon returned to England to escape ])ersecntion.\\nIn 107 J, while the train-bands of Si)ringlield were guarding Lladley, tlie Indians\\nlaid a plot to destroy the place. Their plan was exposed by a friendly Indian\\nat Windsor, whence a rider was despatched, who reached Springfield at dead of\\nnight, and aroused the people. Just as they had gained the shelter of three gar-\\nrison-honses, 6)0 Indians entered the streets and burnt every other house in town.\\nThey successfully disputed the passage of the river against Major Treat s com-\\nmand, and only retired at the approach of Mijor Pynchon and 200 men from Had-\\nley, le.aviiig behind them a sad scene of ruin and destruction. During the Revo-\\nlution works for repairing muskets were established here, and also a caniton-\\nfoundry, at whicli were cast the guns of several of the batteries which were en-\\ngaged in the battles near Saratoga. Jan. 25, 1787, 1,200 of Shays rebels attacked\\nthe Arsenal, wliich was defended by 1,100 militia men. A few cannon-shot dis-\\npersed the assailants. During the present century Springfield has grown rapidly,\\nby reason of the establishment here of the U. S. Armory and numerous other\\nmanufactures, and by the convergence, at this point, of important railway systems.\\nSpringfield is a handsome city of over 35,000 inhahitauts, situated on\\nthe E. bank of the Connecticut River. Its principal thoroughfare is IMain\\nSt., a wide and level street, 3 M. long, adorned with many fine commer-\\ncial buildings. The principal object of interest in the city is the\\nUnited States Armory, which is established on a park of 72 acres on\\nArmory Ilill (E. of the station, and best reached byway of State St.).\\nThe buildings surround a great quadrangle called Armory Square, and 400\\nmen are constantly engaged making and repairing Springfield rifles and\\ncarbines, and experimental arms. The work is paid for by the piece, and\\nthe day of labor is 8 hrs. During the War of the Rebellion the works\\nwere run night and day for four years, and at one time over 3,000 men\\nwere employed. Nearls 800,000 guns were made daring that time, at an\\nexpense of 12,000,000. The Arsenal is a large building on the W. of\\nthe quadrangle, in which 175,000 stand of arms are stored, rivalling in\\ntheir symmetrical arrangement the similar collection in the Tower of\\nLondon.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0181.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "132 Route 21. BOSTON TO NEW YOKK.\\nThis is the Arsenal. From floo to ceilin?,\\nI ike a huge organ, rise tl\\\\e burnished arms\\nBut from their silent pipes no anthem pealing\\nStartles the villages with strange alarms.\\nAh! whnt a snnnd will rise how wild and dreary^\\nWhen tlio dentli-ansrel totiehes those swift keys!\\nW hat lond I-iment nnd disinil Miserere\\nWill mingle with their awful symi honies\\nJ.OXGFELLOW.\\nFrom tlie tower of the Arsenal is gained a fine view of the city and its\\nenvirons. Passes for a survey of the shops, c., may be obtained at the\\nArmory office. 1 M. S. E. are the Water-Shops.\\nState St. and the vicinity of Winchester Park, Maple St., and Crescent\\nHill furnish pleasant drives among elegant villas, and afford extensive\\nviews of the charming valley. On Maple St. is the main entrance to the\\nbeautiful Sprinijfitld 6 e/\u00c2\u00bbei;ery/, covering 40 acres; and by Holland s Bay\\nPath, the present Bay St., is reached tiie new Oak-Grove Cemetery of\\n90 acres, finely laid out. On Court Square is a heroic bronze statue of\\nMiles Morgan, one of the early Puritan settlers of S[ ringtield.\\nOn State St., between Main St. and the Armory grounds, are several tine\\nbuildings. The *Cllurch of the Unity (on the r.) is one of the noblest\\necclesiastical structures in the State, and, with its cloistei-ed jxirtico, broad\\nwindows, and lofty detai-hed tower and s})ire, it forms a strikingly beauti-\\nful object. Its archnecture is Gothic, and its nuderial is brown stone.\\nJust above the church is the uuiipie and graceful builduig of the High\\nSchool, and opposite the church is the *City Library, witli its handsome\\nbuilding. A library of 50,000 volumes is contained in a richlj- ornamented\\nand well-arranged hall, while on the tloor below is a Museum (open\\nWednesday and Saturday, 2-5 P. M.) containing 000 stuffed birds, J20\\nstuffed quadrupeds, and several thousand specimens of fossils, lish, reptiles.\\nand minerals. There are also cabinets of Indian antiquities, and many\\ninteresting historical relics. Just above the Library is the Roman Catholic\\nCathedral of St. Michael. Court Square is near the centre of the city,\\nand has on one side the City Kail, containing a hall which can contain\\n3,000 persons. S. of Court Square is the Court House of Hampden\\nCounty, a massive new structure of granite, costing ^200,000. It has a\\ntall tower, balconies, and other features drawn from Italian municipal\\npalaces. The 1st Congregational Church (society founded 1G37) fionts\\non this square. In 1-M from the City Hall, passing N. W. on the busy\\nand attractive Main St., one reaches Round Hill and the Memorial Church,\\nbuilt of granite in Gothic architecture. Hampden Park, near by, on the\\nbanks of the river, has line race-tracks, and is used for fairs.\\nChrist Church (Epis.) is a beautiful stone building in Norman-Gothic\\narchitecture, on hestr.ut St., W. of the City Library. The city contains\\n30 churches, 4 daily and 8 weekly pajjcrs, 9 banks and 4 savings-banks,\\nand 9 Masonic societies. Its valuation in 1883 was o5,000,879, and dur-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0182.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "WINDSOR. Runic 21. 133\\n1112^ the same 3-ear its merchants liad $20,000,000 worth of wholesale trade\\nfrom the valley-towns.\\nSprinp;field has S 000.000 investc.l in manufacturins:, employing 7.000 hands.\\nAmong the principal works aie tlio^^e of i^mitli and Wesson, where 600 men are\\nemployed in makini; iiistols. This roiiipany has made 150,000 revolvers for the\\nRussian government. At Brijrhtwood (N of the city) is the Wasou Car Manufac-\\ntory, whose buildings required 2,i)()0,0U0 bricks in their construction. These woiks\\nemploy 400 men, and turn out 100 passenger and 900-1,000 freight cars yearly,\\nbesides many tliousandcar-wheeis. The\\\\ have niaile most of the cars for the Pacific\\nRailroad and the New .iersey Centrrd, and also a superb car for the Egyptian Khe-\\ndive. Among the other ip.dustries are (he Ames M fg Co. (silver and bronzes), the\\nPowers Paper Co., the Morgan Envelope Co., large paper-collarworks, the Milton\\nBradley Co s games, whi])S, cigars, cloths, tools, buttons, jewelry, bricks, c.\\nThree-fourths of the fine paper made in the United States is turned out here and\\nat llolyoke.\\nStation, Longmeadow (the Indian Mas.sacsic), settled in 1614 on the\\nlong meadows by the Connecticut. It is a pretty village on a gentle\\nswell near tlie intervales, and produces hay, grain, tobacco, and freestone.\\nThe State of Conn, is now entered, and the train stojis at Thompson-\\nville (Globe Hotel), the seat of the largest carpet-works in the country.\\nSince 1828 this industry has been growing, until now it iises up 900 tons\\nof inii^orted wool each year, and turns out 1,800,000 yards of ingrain and\\nVenetian carpets, from 141 looms. 3-4 M. E. of this village is the large\\ncommunity of the Enfield Shakers. The village of Enfield (settled by\\nSalem men, in 16S1) is a short distance S. of Thompsonville.\\nStation, Wareliouse Point, where the line crosses the Conn. River by\\nthe Iron Truss Bridge, a noble piece of engineering, built i;i Manchester,\\nEngland, and set uf) here in 186G. The road-bed of 13 ft. wide is sus-\\ntaiiU d 47 ft. above the water by wrought-iron trusses, held up l)y 17\\ngranite piers. The bridge is 1,525 ft. long and cost 265,000.\\nAt Hazardvllle, a few miles N. E., are the powder- w^orks of Col. Hazard. These\\nare the largest iu En.^i ind or A;n jri-;a, and t. ie former country boaght y I,2.j0,00J\\nworth of Hazard s powder during the Crimean YV^ar, while vast amounts were\\nmade for the United IStates during the Secession War.\\nStation, Windsor Locks (Charter Oak House), with iron and paper\\nmills on the water-power afforded by a canal built before the era of rail-\\nroads to enable vessels to pass the Enfield Falls and gain the Upper Conn.\\nTourists were formerlv thus carried from Springfield to New Haven.\\nBranch R. R. 5 j\\\\I. to SiiJJicld, a lovely old rural hamlet. The line crosses\\nthe Farmington River by a tine seven-arched bridge of red sandstone.\\nStation, Windsor (Alford House), settled in 1633-6 by men of Dor-\\nchester, on the rich intervales of Mtittaneag.\\nIll addition to harassments from the ten Indian tribes with their 2,000 bo^vmen\\nWiio lived about Mattaneag, the Utile colony was early attacked by 70 Holland\\ntroops, sent by Gov. Van Twiller. The Dutch exi)edicion retired before the\\nfirm and fearless Puritans, and the Indians soon sold out. Rev. John Warliam,\\nthe pastor-chief, Vv ho led this nomadic Don^estrian Cliurch iu its 14 days march\\nthrough tlie wilderness, waathe first of the New Euglaiul clergy who used notes in\\npreaching. In lGi4 a road was built to Northampton, freight by sea to or from", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0183.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "134 Route 21. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nBoston costing at this time 33 per cent ad valorem. Matthew Grant came from\\nEnyiand to Dorchester in l J3(). and thence went to Windsor. The family lived\\nhei e for over a century, initii Noah Grant was killed in the battle of Lake George\\n(1755). This officer was the great-grandfatlier of President Grant. Roger Wol-\\ncott and his son Oliver, governors of Conn. 1751 -4, and 171)0-7, were born here.\\nOliver Ellsworth, U. S. Senator, 1789-95, and afterwards Chief Justice of the\\nU. S., was horn here in 1745. Another native of Windsor was Gen. Phelps, who,\\nwith his associates, bought of Mass. and Conn. 5,500,000 acres of the Western\\nwilderness, at a nominal price. These tracts were laid olf in townships and\\nranges, and sold to settlers. They now comprise the counties of Ontario and\\nbteuben (New York), and the Western Reserve of Ohio.\\nThere is a long, broad Green near the station, near which are the Wol-\\ncott and Moore mansions, and the new Episcopal Clmrch, and just over the\\nriver, is the old Cong. Clmrch and the Green which was the cradle of\\nWindsor, and is still called the Palisado. Tliis town grows much tobacco,\\nof which 5,830,000 pounds were raised in the county in 1870.\\nHartford.\\nHotels. Allj n House, a fine bro\\\\vnstone building near the station, ac-\\ncommodating 300 guests. .^4.00 a day; City Hotel, onMain tit., ii?3.00a day;\\nthe Unit d states and tlie American Hotels, on the old State House Square.\\nKailruacls. The present route to Springtield and Boston (124 M.), New\\nHaven and New York (109 JI.) the Hartford, Providence, and Pishkill, to ProNi-\\ndence on the E. (90 M.) and Waterbury on the W. (32 M.) the Conn. Valley R. R.\\nto Saybrook Point (44 jSI.) tlie Conn. Western, to Salisbury and .Millertim (09 M.).\\nSteamers. Daily to the river-landings and Sag Harbor (Long Island) in tlie\\nmorning daily, in tlie afiernoou, for the lower landings daily for the river-\\nlandings and New York City.\\nStages to Farmington, Broad Brook (14 M.), Wethersfleld, Rocky Hill, Crom-\\nwell, Marlboro (20 M.) to Bloomfield and Simsbury, N. Canton, and W. Hartlaud\\n(30 M.).\\nHorse-Cars rim along Main St. from Spring Grove Cemetery to Wethersfleld\\n(7 JNI.), al.-,i) iinui tlie New Yi; rk steamboat pier, at the font nf State St., tlivougli\\nState and Asylum Sts. 2 M., passing the R. R. Station and the Deaf and Dumb\\nAsylnm.\\nf arriages cost 50c. a course in the city, 75c. for 2 persons, and $1.00 for 3\\nporsuiis. Diiuble fares between 12 and at night. By tlie hour, \u00c2\u00a72.00.\\nAmusements and lectures freiiuently at Roberts Opera House (an elegant\\nauditorium), 395 Main St., or at Aliyn Hall, on Asylum St. near the Allyn House.\\nConnecticut was first explored by the Dutch, one of Avhose sturdy mariners,\\nAdrian Block, ascended the Conn. River as far as the Enhcld Falls in the 10-tou\\nyacht, (Jnrest (1(;14). In 1633 the Dutch built a 2-gun fort, called the llir.se\\nof Ciood Hope, on the present site of Hartford, an l lived peaceably, tilling the\\nground and trading with the Indians, until June, 163G, when Tlu)miis Hooker led\\nliis church from Newtown through the wilderness, and settled here. The Park\\nRiver atforded a water-jiower for a grist-mill, which was speedily utilized, and\\nWindsor and Wethersfleld, i)i eviou.sly more important, brought their grain here\\nto be ground. The colony was named for an okl Saxon town 21 M. N. of London,\\nderived from the Ford of Harts. Three wat 4t-towers were built, and the men\\nof the colony enrolled in train-bands, two thirds of whom had matchlocks,\\nbandoleers, and rests, while the other third were aruied with pikes 10 ft. long, and\\nguarded tlie standard. These train-bands stormed the breach in the Narragansett\\nFort light. Wahquimacut, sachem of the river tribes, deeded the laiuls to the\\nsettlers, and gave them a tribute of beaver-skins and corn, in return for their pro-\\ntection against Pekoath, king of the Pequots, and the dreaded Mohawks. Under\\nthe iulluence of stern Puritan pastors. New Haven enacted the Blue Laws, by", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0184.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "-fr *5\\ns\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nd-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0185.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nDut is being digitized, and will be inserted at a\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0186.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 21. 135\\nwhich the penalty of death was visited for the rrimes of idolatry nnchastitv\\nwitchcraft, blasphemy, murder, man-stealing, rebellion, smitini^ parents\\nwith savage laws against Sabbath-brealdng and the use of tobai-co. In 17G5 a\\nstamp-agency was established liere, but it was speedily liroken np by an irru])tiou\\nof 200 armed riders from Windham County. In 1790 -1800 the tov/u became an\\nimportant point on tlie great Atlantic sta-e-road, and 16 lines of sta-^es centred\\nhere. De Warville wrote here, In Conn. Nature and Art have displayed all tlieir\\ntreasures it is really the Paradise of the U. S. and among other products of\\ntlie 8tate, he speaks entliusiastically of the fair Conn, girls. In December,\\n1815, the famous Hartford Convention, comi)osed of 2tj delegates from the States\\nof New Englaiul, met liere, to deliberate on the course of the general gov-\\nernment in the war with England, to wliich Avar many of the people in tliis\\nsection were opposed. In 1799 Hartford had a valuation of S 751 533 and iu\\nISIS its population wis 0,500, at wliich time a writer predicts that it will con-\\ntinue to extend its size, its interests, and its consequence.\\nHartford, The Queen City of New England/ is the capital of the\\nState of Conu., and is finely situated on low hills at the Junction of the\\nI ark and Conn. Rivers. It is noted for its benevolent and educational\\ninstitutes, its extensive manufactures, and its powerful hisurance com-\\npanies. The population is about 50,000.\\nBushnell Park was named in honor of the late Rev. Dr. Horace\\nBushiiell, and is the most beautiful of its size (45 acres) in the country.\\nIt lies between the railioads and Main St., S. of the depot, and is in the\\ncentre of the city. Park PUver encircles it from S. W. ])y N. to S. E. A\\npleasant drive encircles the W. part, which contains the new State Capi-\\ntol, the colossal bronze statue of the Episcopal Bishop Brownell (founder\\nof Trinity College, and Bishop of Conn., 1S19-65), and a fine statue of\\nGen. Israel Putnam (by J. Q. A. Ward). Die E. part contains the foun-\\ntain, and a statue of Dr. Horace Wells, of Hartford, erected by tlie city\\nto his memory as tlie discoverer of aniesthesia. The Park abounds in\\ngraceful elms, and is kept iu a liigh state of cultivation. It is a popular\\nresort on pleasant afternoons.\\nThe Congreg-ational Theological Institute (founded 1834, and has\\ngraduated 400 men) occu])ies a haudsome new bnildiiig.\\nOf the 37 churches of the city, several are adorned with ivy of great\\nluxuriance. The 1st Presbyterian is a neat Romanesque building of Conn,\\ngranite and Ohio stone, and the folloAving are built of red-stone, in Gothic\\nforms: Christ, St. John s, Trinity, Incarnation, tlie 1st M. E., the South\\nBaptist (with a fine portico supported by Caen stone columns), the Pearl\\nSt. Cong, (with a spire 212 ft. high). The three Cong, churches on Main\\nSt., the 1st Church (organized in 1633), the South Church (organized iu\\n1GG9), and the 4th Church have fine buildings. The *Park Cong. Church\\nis of sandstone, in the early English Gothic style, with stone columns along\\nthe aisles, and a timber roof. Tlie Catholics have 2 large stone churches\\n(Sr. Peter s and the Cathedral of St. Patrick) and also a handsome cathe-\\ndral, of recent erection. The Church of the Good Shepherd (Episco-", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0187.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "13G Route 21. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\njial), l)uilt 1)Y Mrs. Colt as a memorial of her husbaml and children, is a\\ngem of Gothic areliitecture, built of Portland stone trimmed with Ohio\\nwhite stone, with a spire 150 ft. high, containnig a sweet chime of bells.\\nThe W. front has a grand memorial window, in the centre St. Joseph\\ncarrjdng the child Jesus, above which is an angel with 3 children on the\\n1. the angel of the resurrection, on the r. a singing angel. The clerestory\\nwindows are low and brilliant, while the chancel windows represent Christ\\nand the 12 Apostles. The chancel is separated from the organ (on the\\nr. and the baptistery (on the 1.) by cohunns of Scotch granite. The\\nbaptismal font is sustained by a group of marble cherubs.\\nOn Asylum St. (also near the R. R. station, with its Italian campaniles)\\nis the mansion long occupied by Mrs. Sigourney, the poetess. 1 M. from,\\nthe Park, on a hill adorned with many trees, is the picturesque and at-\\ntractive home of Mr. S. L. Clemens (Mark Twain), the genial humorist.\\nBack of the Cong. Cliurch, opposite the Athenaeum, is the ancient\\ngraveyard (entrance to the r. of the church). Here are many graves of\\nthe 17th and ISth century, with a massive sandstone monument to the\\nmemory of the first settlers. Two tables (on the r.) cover the remains of\\nTliomas Hooker, the renowned minister of Hartford and pillar of Conn.,\\nthe Light of the Western Churches (Mather) and of Samuel Stone, a\\ndivine who died here in 16G3, and whose epitaph begins,\\nNew England s glorj and her radiant crowne\\nWas he/\\\\vho now cin softest bed ofdowne,\\nTill glorious resurrection luoni iippoare.\\nDoth safel3% sweetly sleepe in Jesus here.\\nThe Deaf and Dumh Institute was founded by Dr. Gallaudet in 1817,\\nand is the oldest in America. The building (130 by 50 ft.) was erected\\nin 1820, and stands on an embowered hill near the R. R. station, on\\nAsylum St. It has 200 250 inmates. The Retreat for the Insane (es-\\ntablished 1824) is a stately building of sandstone covered with gray\\ncement, in the S. W. part of the city. From its great elevation, its\\nvicinity commands fine valley-views. It has received over 4,000 patients,\\nand has discharged 2,000 as cured. The City Hosjntal is near the Retreat,\\nand is a large, plain, and commodious building of sandstone. In the\\nopposite section of the city (Upper Main St.) is the State Arsenal, the\\nWidows Home, and the extensive North Cemetery.\\nThe old State House Square is in the heart of the city. Here stands\\nthe State House, an antiquated structure of brick, which dates from 1794.\\nIn its Senate chamber the Hartford Convention assembled in 1815. The\\nbuilding is now used as the (^ity Hall; and the National Government has\\nerected a spacious new Post-Olhce on the square, near by.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0188.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO NEW YORK. Route 21. 137\\nIn Oct. 16S7, Sir Edmund Andros, the royal governor of New England, entej-ed\\nHartl urd witii hi.s troo^js, and demanded the royal charter, the only safeguard of\\ntJie liberties of Coun. During a stormy evening-meeting the lights were suddenly\\nextinguisiied, and a bold colonial gentleman seized tiie cliarter and fled fortli.\\nHe hid it in a hollow iu an oak-tree, and there it stayed until Andros had left the\\ntown in great anger. The charter was ever after preserved, and the tree was held\\nin increasing veneration until 1S56, when it Wiis blown down iu a storm. Itti\\nplace is now marked witli a marble slab.\\nMark Twain asserts that in a late visit to Hartford he saw articles as follows\\nmade from this tree a walking-stick, dog-collar, needle-case, tliree-legged stool,\\nboot-jack, dinner-table, ten-pin alley, tooth-pick, and enough Charter Oak to\\nbuild a i)lank-road from Hartford to Great Salt Lake City.\\nOpposite State House Square is the superb gi^anite building of the\\nConn. Mutual Insurance Company, massively constructed at a cost of\\n7 800,000, A short distance belov/ this building is the fine granite\\nblock belonging to the Hartford Fire Ins. Co. On I\\\\Iain St. alongside of\\nthe AtheuEeum, is the lofty granite palace of the Cliarter Oak Insurance\\nCo., which cost above $700,000, The beautiful halls and offices within\\nshould be visited, and by ascending in the elevator to the observatory on the\\nroof (a courtesy granted by the company small fee to the conductor of\\nthe elevator), a fine view is obtained of the city and its environs. The\\nelegantly finished sandstone office of the Etna Ins. Co. is nestled alongside\\nof the Charter Oak building. There are 21 insurance companies in the\\ncity (9 Fire and 11 Life), having an aggregate capital amounting to scores\\nof millions.\\nWadsworth Athensum.\\nWliile Arnold was plotting at West Point (17S0), Washington and Rocharabeau\\nwere making plans and enjoying hospitable cheer at the mansion (in Hartford) of\\nCol. Wadsworth, Commissary-General of the Army. Wadsworth s son gave the\\nlan^l, after removing the mansion, for a public library, and tlie present building\\n(of Glastenbury gneiss, in castellated arcliitecture) was built from the proceed.?\\nof a popular subscription of 52,000. On the lower floor of the Athenceiim is\\ntlie Statuary Hall (fee 40 c), containing casts of Ganymede, Washington, Pan, the\\nShepherd Boy, tlie Truant, Genevieve, Calypso, and an allegorical figure of Com-\\nmerce, all hy Bartholomew ..who died at iSTaples, 185S). Casts, by the same de-\\nsigner, of Ruth and Naomi, Hagar and Ishmael, tlie. Morning Star, Belisarius at\\nthe Pinciau Gate. There are also casts of Schwantlialer s Bavaria, and small\\nbusts (German) of Schou, Murillo, Correggio, Vela.squez, Domenichino, Raphael,\\nAngelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Giiirlandaja, Fiesole, Mozart, Goethe, Andrea del\\nSarto, Bellini, Van Dyk, Rubens, Francia, Masaccio, Perugino, Claude Lorraine,\\nPoussin, Van Eyk, Hemling, Diirer, Holbein, and Titian. 17 of Rogers s statuettes\\noccupy one long shelf\\nBusts in marble) of President Fillmore, and Diana, by Bartholomew; Wads-\\nworth, Horace Bushnell, and C. H. Olmstead, by Ives.\\nStatues, Stella, and *Sapplio, Bartholomew, and an elaborate work, *Eve\\nRepentant, his masterpiece. She is sitting with head bowed and hands clasped\\nin contrition, while her long, luxuriant hair hangs down her back, and a serpent\\nis seen curling about her on the ground. Tlie statue is upon an octagonal pedes-\\ntal of marble, with the following well-designed bas-reliefs 1st Panel, Creation of\\nWomaii-, 2, the Temptation 3, the Fall 4, Hiding from God 5, the Expulsion\\nfrom Eden 0, Lameutatiou 7, Tilling Llic Ground 8, the First-Boru.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0189.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "138 Route 21. BOSTON TO NEW YORK.\\nOn the upper floor is the Picture Gallery. West Wall. 93, Quebec, by Church\\n94, View on the yus(]uehanua. Church; -IS, Ec( e Homo; li J, St. Jerome; 2,\\nVenice; 21, George ^Vashington, copy from Stuait, by Elhv:orth; 58, Feast at\\nLevi s House, after Paul Veronese; 134, Landscape, Lanman 120, St. Josepli and\\nJesus, after Paphuel 6 2, Marie Antoinette.\\nSouth Wall. 92, Hartford Puritans in tlie Wilderness, Church; Burning Ship\\nat Sea, Jewett; 4, Battle (.If tli century); Sam.son in Bonds 1, Death of Warren\\nat Bunkci Hill, Trumbull (tlie celebrated historical pic^tures by this artist have\\nexplanatory charts ap]iended); 5, Mrs. Sigourney, Trumbull; C2, Humboldt;\\n121, Wellington 80, Oliver Wolcott, Stuart; 2, Battle of Trenton, Trumbull; 87,\\nW. EUcry Chaiunng 113, Brutus 91, Christ in the Tem])le, Terry 49, Sea View\\nin Fog 50, Niglit-scene at Naples (the last two are bright restored jnctures,\\nsaid to be liy Vernet) 10, Battle of Princeton. Tru inhull 11, Death of Mont-\\ngomery at Quebec, Trumbull 30, Elevation of the Cr)ss, after Rubens; 12, Holy\\nFamily, Truutbull; SG, Joel Hawes, D. D. 90, Horace Bushnell, D. D.\\nEast Wall. Destruction of Jerusalem, a large picture, 22 x 14 ft., in poor light,\\nbut full of study (plans on the tables near), by Whichelo 27, Ruth and Boaz 95,\\nLandscape, Isham; 13, Death of Jane McCrea, Vanderlyn.\\nNorth Wall. 128, John in the Wilderness, Cole; 127, White Mountains, Cole;\\n123, Marine View, Come; 129, Cascade in the Catskills, Cole; 124, The Lady of\\nthe Lake, TrumhaU; 130, Lake Winnepesaukee, Cole; 131, View on Taleott Mt.,\\nCole; 34, View of Mt. Etna, at sunrise, from Taorniina, Cole; 15, Americus Ves-\\npuccius; 16, Columbus; Benjamin West, S i;- Thomas Lawrence; 39, Declaration\\nof Independence (small arti.st s coi)y), Trumbull; 89, Landscaije near New Haven\\n106, Milton s Descent of Satan; jjortraits of various celebrities of the State of\\nConn.\\nIn the N. wing of the Athenseum is the Young Men s Institute, v/ith a circulat-\\ning lil)rary of 25,000 volumes, and a reading-room (an introduction by a member\\nof the Institute entitles one to four weeks use).\\nThe Coiui. Historical Society has its rooms in the S. Wing (open daily\\nno lees). Besides a large library, many curiosities are kept here, among which\\nare, King Philip s club Putnam s battle-sword bows, an-ows, pikes, swords,\\nc., of six wars old Gennan missals dress-suits at French Court of Commissary\\nWadsworth and Commodore McDonough Turkish scimeter with coral and\\nivory hilt and silver scabbard, and inscrijitions in Arabic and Persian gold pen\\nworn out in the service of Washington Irving a link (3 ft. long) of the chain\\nstretched across the Hudson in 1770; a font-stove of 1740; Elder Brewster s\\nchest Standish s dinner-jiot Putnam s tavern-sign British shells thrown into\\nStonington a mortar captured in Mexico relics of Nathan Hale and Col. Led-\\nyard Bobbins Bible (1478) Farniington church drum mail-bag (A. D. 1775)\\nused between Hart.ord and New Haven, 6 x9 niches the lir.st telegraphic mes-\\nsage sent in America (from Washington to Baltimore), What wonders hath God\\nwrought 13 Russian medals Contir.ental money a jjistol from Colt Confed-\\nerate money a number of the Boston News Letter for April 17, 1704 (the lirst\\nnumber of the first newspaper in America it lasted 72 years) numerous jior-\\ntraits, MSS., and pieces ot Charter Oak; Arnold s watch; the chair in which\\nLee signed the capitulation of Appomattox several battle-tlags well used the\\nswords of Putnaiu of McDonough (victor in the battle of the fleets on Lake\\nChamplaiii); of apt. Ward, of tliC U. S. Navy (burn Hartford, 1806, killed in the\\nattack on Matthias Point, V\u00c2\u00a7., June 27, 1861) of Coiiniiander Rogers (killed hi\\nthe naval assault on Fort Sumter) of Col. Russell (of the 10th Conn., killed at\\nRoanoke, 1862) of Gen. Sedgwi(d (killed at Si ottsylvania, May 9, 1S()4) and of\\nGen. Nathaniel Lyon (commander of the U. S. Army in Missouri, killed at tlie\\nbattle of Wilson s Creek, Aug. 10, 1801). Adjoining this room is the hall contain-\\ning a large reference library, endowed with 1U0,(:00 by David Watkiuson, who\\ndied in 1857. It now contains 26,000 volumes.\\nThe ]irincipal manufactories of Hartford are the Colt Rifle and Pistol Factory,\\nwhich has ^1,0:)0,000 capital, and employs 800 hands. Since Col. Colt s death it\\nli.is been run by a company, of which Gen. Franklin is President. Its immense\\nbuildings are in the S. E. part of the city, near the river, Irom whose inundations\\nthey .lie; guarded by a dike (50 ft. broad at the top, ami 8,7**0 ft. long), which cost\\nt ;S(i,0li0. The Church of the Good Shepherd is nearby. The Sharps liille M.m-\\nufutory (now at Bridgeport) was here for many years, making arms for the\\nUiiited States, Great Britain, Germany, China, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Chili.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0190.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "HARTFORD. Route 21. 139\\nAmong tlip otiier companies now in operation are the Kellop^i: Bulkelev Litlio-\\nKraphuiy Co., the Pratt Whitney Macliine Co., the Warihbiiru Car-Wh oel fac-\\ntory, the Weed Kewmy-Machine Co., rheuix Inni Foundry, l liiiii.t(;n EnveL.i.e\\nCo.. Batterson s marble-works, etc. Hartlbrd i.s also an imiioi taut market 1 u-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wool and tobacco.\\nThe great snbscription-book pnblishini;-houses of Ilartfoi-d print many ti ou-\\nsands ot books yearly. The chief of tlit-se are the Amcriean i ubiishin- Co.\\nT!ie city has 17 banks, 9 Masonic lodges, 3 lodges of Odd Fellows, .3 of\\nf^uiights of Pythias, 1 Grand -Army Post, 9] temperance societies, and 7\\nQlits military companies, one of which, the Putnam Phalanx, is widely\\nfamed. Its members dress in antique uniforms, and tlie corps (12.5 men)\\nis said to represent .^11,000,000. Tlie city has more wealth in propor-\\ntion to its population than any other American city, and its society is of\\na high and cultivated order.\\nBy following Main St. to the S. beyond St. Peter s Church, Armsmear\\nis soon readied (on the 1.). This is the residence of the Colt family, with\\nspacious grounds adorned with groves, lakes, marble statuary, green-\\nhouses, and a deer-pai k. Near the mansion is a beautiful *copy (in\\nbrojize) of tlie Amazon and Tiger, at the Museum v.\\\\ Eerlin. About 3 M.\\nIvyoud is ancient Wethersfield, settled by men of Watertown, Mass., in\\nIGjj. At 1336, the first Conn, legislature convened here declared war\\nagainst the Pequots. The old Webb mansion, near the Cong. Church,\\nwas Washington s head-ciuarters, and here frequeiit and protracted councils\\nof the French and American officers prepared the plans which ended at\\nYork town. The towi has long been noted for its great crops of onions.\\nSince 1826, the State Prison has been established here.\\nAbout 3 M. S. W. of the city is Cedar Hill Cemetery, on a bare and\\nlofty hill commanding views of the Queen City and the valley of the\\nConn. The Beach Memorial is a beautiful work of Italian art. A high\\nbase, surrounded by elegant bas-reliefs, supports a vase, which is shelter (xL\\nby a tabernacle in red, yellow, and white marbles, supported by colmnns\\nof Scotch granite. The Clark Monument is surmounted by a colossal\\nbronze Angel of the Resurrection (cast in Munich). Tlie Russell J\\\\Ionu-\\nment is crowned by a life-size and life-like seated statue. The monimient\\nto Col. Samuel Colt (who invented the revolving pistol) consists of a lofty\\nEgjTptian colunm of Scotch granite, surmounted by a bronze angel, wldle\\non the pedestal is the family coat-of-arms (a colt rampant, witlwa broken\\nspear in his mouth).\\nThe new State Capitol stands on the hill S. of the W. division of\\nBnslmell Park, and is visible from the railroad station and from the track\\non the S. It occupies tlie foinier site of Trinity College, which was pur-\\nchased by the city in lb72 (subject to 5 years occupation), for 600,000,\\nand presented to the State. The building was designed by Ui)jolin, and\\ncost about \u00c2\u00a72,r.UO,000. It is of white", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0191.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "139 a. Route 9A. HARTFORD.\\nmarl)le, in secular Gotliic architecture, 300 ft. long, with its fronts broken\\nby frequent angles, columns, arches, galleries, and abundant commemora-\\ntive sculpture. Resting on the brow of the hill it commands a superb\\nview, and again in turn is thus visible from almost all points of the city.\\nThe Hnll of Representatives is in the centre of the S. front, and is lighted\\non three sides. The arcades are upheld by polished granite columns and\\nthe tympuni are filled -with sculy\u00c2\u00bbtures whose subjects were chosen from\\nthe history of Conn. The dome is 250 ft. high, curving from a dodecago-\\nnal base at whose angles are statues representing the 12 original States,\\nwith a statue of Connectic^it, holding her Charter, on the top.\\nTrinity College was founded in 1824 as Washington College, and re-\\nceived its present name in 1845. Its new site is on Rocky Hill, about 1^\\nM. from the Hartford stalion, by avenues leading through a delightful\\npart of the city and commands a superb view over the Connecticut and\\nPerk-River Valleys, with many handets on the peaceful plains and liold\\nmountain-ranges beyond. The buildings (now being slowly erected) are\\nof brownstone, in early French Gothic architecture, designed by William\\nBurges of London. They are to form three great quadrangles, harmonious\\nin design, and will be the best edifices in America for educational pur-\\nposes. The length of the front is 1,300 ft., the lengthwise buildings being\\nused as doi mitories and lecture-rooms, the N. transverse block the Thea-\\ntre and Observatory, the S. lilock the professors residences, and the trans-\\nverse blocks N. and S. of the Great Quad the Library and Museum,\\nChapel and Dining-Hall. The grounds cover 80 acres, and are being laid\\nout by F. Law Olmsted, with the statue of Bishop Brownell on the broad\\nterrace in front of the buildings. Trinity has about 100 students. Its\\nold Seabury, Brownell, and Jarvis Halls are being demolished to give\\nplace to the new Capitol.\\nThe Asylum-Hill Cong. Church has a spire 225 ft. high. St. Patrick s\\nCathedral has been rebuilt, and is on Church St., the Bishop s residence\\nand convent being on Farmington Ave. Cheney Bros., the silk manufac-\\nturers, have a new and imposing brownstone building on Main St.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0192.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "HARTFOr.D TO SPRINGFIELD. Route 21. 130 h.\\nTalcott Mt. is about M. W. The estate. Monte Video o tlie old faniilv\\noc vvado-.voi-t., IS on its suiniait, and the pretty Gothic villa is near a deep, col.i\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ii...allme la:e. on the brow of the nit. From a neiohboriiii; tower you have\\nXxtf^ view ot the surrounding country, and iirfco the adjoining States of\\nluxss. and iN. l. the wliole surrounded by an inipuriiled outline of nits TJie\\nLoim. IS seen sweeping onward like a king, through its fair domain, amid the\\nspires of numerous towns and villages, while, by tlie aid of a glass, the sails of\\ntlie vessels m the pert of Hartford, and the movements in the streets, are dis-\\ntmctly visiule. (Mrs. \u00c2\u00abinouRNEY.) The peculiarities of the beautiful and\\ngrand scenery of Jlonte Video make it quite witliout a parallel iu America, and\\nprobably with few in the world. (Prof. Silliman.)\\nRockiillill (7 M. S.) presents a remarkable .juiKition of trap-rock and sandstone\\n^roni this point is enjoyed a rich view over the river A allev, embracing Wethers-\\nheld and Its intervales, Glastenburyand the LymeMts., N. Hartford, and 40 M lo\\ntne the Mts. of Tom and Holyoke. The ride to Rocky Hill, by the river-road\\nIS a tavu-ite one witli the Hartford citizens.\\nOilier excursions are to Tumble-Down Brook (8 M. W.), to E. and W Hartford\\nto Glastenbury, and over Newington Mt. S. Winihor oU. lN!.)was a depot for\\nluisoners during the Revolution, and its numerous lines o elms were planted by\\nJiritish and Hessian captives, under the direction of Lafayette. Here was borii\\nJotui Fitch, inventor and builder of the first steamboat in America He ran a\\nsteamer-hne on the Delaware River from 17S(i to l7i 0, the boat making 8 M an\\nJiour. Fulton s steamers, the Clermont and the Car of Neptune, \\\\vere put\\non the Hudson m 1S07. 50 years ago more gin was made in E. Windsor than iu\\nany other town m America.\\nHartford to Springfield.\\nSpringfield Division of the N. Y. N. E R. R. The running time between\\nHartford and Springfield is about hrs. The distance is 81 M.\\nThe line cro-^ses the Connecticut Kiver on the bridge of the New York\\nand New Eiighind Railro il, and .soon reaches E. Hniiford, a pros-\\nperous rural village near the Hockaiium River. Its long and elm-lined\\nstreet is famous for antique dignity and beaut3\\\\ Several factories are\\nlocated in tliis vicinity. The train runs N., near the broad and fertile in-\\ntervales of the Connecticut, prolitic in rye and grain, where the ferocious\\nFodunk Indians anciently dwelt. The line soon diverges from the river,\\nand crosses long and level plains, with but little of interest visible. Af-\\nter crossing the Fodunk River, the hills of Vernon and Ellington appear\\non the r., and the hamlet of ,S^. Windsor is soon readied.\\nStation, East- Windsor Hill, where the Conn. Theological Institution\\nAvas long located. Near this place is the Scantic River. Beyond Osborn\\nstation is Broad Brook, the seat of the Broad-Brook Manufacturing Co.,\\nwliich producss cassimeres and other Avoollen goods. A short distance\\nW. is Warehouse Point, opposite Windsor Locks and near the great\\nhrilge of the N. Y., N. H. H. R. R. This locality formerly possessed\\nthe largest gin-distilleries in the United States. The riverward inter-\\nvales nov-r produce valuable crops of tobacco. The train now enters En-\\nfield, wliich belonged to Massachusetts until 1752, and w\\\\as settled in\\n1081 by immigrants from Salem in that Province. Beyond Melrose tlie", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0193.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "140 RcniUn. MEPJDEN.\\nline veaclips K-izardrMU, which is famous for its great gmipowdor-works.\\nHere tlie Scantic River is crossed, and the next stop is at Shaker Station,\\nAvhere tlie Shakers have built a handsome station building. Two families\\nof Shakers maintain large and admirably kept farms just to the E., still\\ncherishing their weird, theological ideas, living in celibacy, and showhig\\nthe most systematic and profitable agriculture in New England.\\nThe line now crosses the Massachusetts line, and reaches E. Lnng-\\nmendov), near valuaV)le quarries of freestone. Soon afterwards it passes\\nthe Water-Shops and the Armory, and enters Springfield on the rails of\\nt le Springfield, Athol k Northeastern R. R.\\nHartford to New Haven.\\nAfter leaving Hartford, the line runs S., leaving the river, past Newing-\\nton to Berlin, whence branch tracks diverge to Middletown, 10 M. on the\\nS. E., and New Britain, 2h M. on the N. (see Route 11). Berlin village\\n(S. E. of the station) was for scores of years the home of the peripatetic\\ntin-pedlers who traversed the country Ix tween Slobile and Quebec. The\\nmanufacture of tin-ware originated here about 1775, and is still carried\\non The heroic Major Hart was born here, who, at Gen. St. Clair s defeat\\non the Miami River (1791), led a battalion of the 2.1 U. S. Infantry (the\\nrear-guard) on a fearful charge, in whidi he and nine tenths of his men\\nwere killed. At E. Berlin are the works of the American Corrugated\\nIron Co. Percival, the poet, was born here in 1795.\\nStation, Meriden (Meriden House), a busy little city midway between\\nHartford and New Haven. Near the Town Hall (E. of the track) are sev-\\neral churches, and some neat villas cro^vn the heights beyond. The\\nspacious and imposing building of the State Reform School is passed by\\nthe train just before reaching the station. The highway to the N. passes\\nUt. Lamentation, and then runs through a narrow pass in the Blue Mts.\\ncalled the Cat Hole, 1 M. long. Ice is found near this deep glen through-\\nout the year. West Peak, 3 M. from the city, commands a view extend-\\ning from Hartford to New Haven, and over Long Island Sound.\\nThe Meriden Britannia Co. has 6 large buildings, one of which is .527x40 ft\\n1,000 hands are employed, 420 tons of nickel white metal and ^^e used\\nyearly, and $2,500,000 worth of wares are sent out every year to all paits ot the\\nwnrlfl f has Parker makes 4,000 tons of tin-ware annnallv the Men.len Cnt-\\nSJ Co (the firsUn America) employs 400 hands. The Parker Shot Gun Co., the\\nMiHeable Iron ci the Meriden Fliut Glass Co., the Wilcox Organ Co. arc located\\nhere Here a^soa^e made the Uall railway .iguals and the Bradley Hubbard\\n^of the great land route from Boston to New Haven Belcher b ilta fortified\\ntavern here in 16(50. Levi S. Ives, Epi.eopal Bishop ot North Carohna (1831-52\\nwho was received into the Roman Catholic Church at the city of Rome in 18o2,\\nwas a native of Meriden.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0194.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO ALBANY, c. RuliU22. 14-1\\nAfter Yalesrille conios Walliagford {Ingraliam House). Davenport\\npreached a sermon at the founding- of this town (in 1G69) from the\\ntext, My bc-loved hath a vineyard hi a very fruitful hill. On that\\nfruitful hill the village is built, with a neat town hall, a costly Episcopal\\nchurcli, and a fine modern school-house, besides several neat villas.\\nManuiactures of German-silver ware, Albata plate, c., are carried oa on\\nilie plain. The Hanging Hills form a lofty and picturesque scene to the\\nW. of the village. W. of the station (f M.) is a branch of the Oneida\\nComnamity, containing about 50 persons, on an estate of 2-300 acres.\\nThey believe in the power of the New Testament doctrines to render men\\nmorally perfect, and all their property is held in common. The object of\\nthis mission colony (which receives a^ibsidies from. Oneida) is to projiagate\\nthe Oneida tenets in New England.\\nThe line follows the Quinnipiac Valley to N. Haven. There is here a\\nGothic church (Episcopal) facing the Green, near which is the house where\\nDr. Truml)ull the historian lived for 50 years, and wrote 4,000 sermons\\nand several books. North Haven makes several million bricks yearly,\\nTlie train soon passes East Rock (on the r. crosses Mill lliver, and enters\\nNew Haven.\\nNew Haven to New York, see Route 8.\\n22. Boston to Albany, Saratoga, and the West.\\nVia tlie Boston and Albany Raih-oad, Rensselaer and Saratoga R. R., and New\\nYork Central R. R. Boston to Albany, 202 M. Fare, \u00c2\u00a74.60. Boston to Saratoga,\\n2-iO M.\\nThis is the favorite route running W. from Boston, and will long hold this posi-\\ntion, since the prnicipal inland cities of Massachusetts are on its line. Wiien its\\nconstrLK tion was first talked of, the Boston Courier derided the scheme, saybig\\nthat it eould 1)e built only at an expense little less tlian the market value of the\\nwhole territory of Massachusetts, and which, if practicable, every ])erson of com-\\nmon-sense Icnows would be as useless as a railroad fi om Boston to the moon.\\nYet the work went on, the road was completed to Worcester in lSo5, to Spring-\\nfield in 1839, and to Albany in 1842. Tiic. admirable appointments and organiza-\\ntion of this route, and its immunity from accidents, have given it a wide reputa-\\ntion and an extensive patronge.\\nThe station in Boston is on the corner of Kneeland and South Sts.\\nAfter emerging from the city, the line crosses the Pro\\\\-idence Railroad\\n(Route 8) on the Back Bay lands, and passes the junction of the Woon-\\nsocket Railroad (2 M. out). A fine panoramic view is gained by a back-\\nward glance from the wiridow\\\\s on the r. of the car, embracing the ancient\\nacademic city of Cambridge, with the heights of Somerviile and Cluuies-\\ntown, while much of Boston is visible to tlie rear.\\nFor the itinerary between Boston and Springfield, see Route 21.\\nThe line crosses the Connecticut River on a long bridge just alter leav-\\ning Springfield, and follows the valley of the Agawam River past W.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0195.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "142 Route 23. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nSpriiigfield Station (a maiiufactiiriiig village; Agawam Hotel) to West-\\nfield (Wilhiiarth House, Westtield House). The Indian domain of Woro-\\nnoco was settled by the English in 1660, and called Streamfield, from\\nthe abundance of its waters, but later, the Legislature named it Westfield,\\nas the most westerly of the settlements. Late in King Philip s War, the\\ncolonial council ordered that this, and all the other valley towns, should\\nbe evacuated, and that their inhabitants shoiild concentrate at Springfield\\nand Hadley. An angry refusal was returned, and the towns negotiated\\nfor union with Conn, until the obnoxious edict was repealed. Westfield\\nbuilt a fort and stood her groimd. At present it is a biisy village, where\\n32 firms make 2,500,000 whips a year, and 8-12,000,000 cigars are an-\\nnually made. IhQ State Normal School located here has 160-200 stu-\\ndents, and is of high reputation. Several chiirches front on the Green,\\nwhich is adorned by a monument by which Westfield honors the\\nmemory of her sons who have fallen in defence of Liberty, Union, and\\nIndependence, 1S61 to 1865. The pedestal bears the arms of the State\\nand of the Union, and a list of the slain, and is surmounted by a bi onze\\nsoldier, of heroic size. The village is situated in a beautiful valley by the\\nWestfield River, M. S. of the station. The New Haven and Nortli-\\nampton Railroad crosses the line at this point.\\nThe line noAv runs up the valley of the Westfield River, passing\\nPochassic Hill and Mt. Tekoa on the r., and stops at Russell (Riissell\\nHouse), in a mountainous toAvn. Station, Huntington and Chester, after\\nwhich the line passes into Berkshire County (see Route 23). Beyond the\\nborders of Berkshire and of Massaclnasetts the line enters New York State,\\nand connects at Chatham with the Hudson and Boston R. R. and the\\nHarlem R. R. From Chatham, it runs N. W., through Kinderhook and\\nSchodack, to Greenbush, and thence crossing the Hudson on a noble bridge,\\nenters the city of Albany.\\nConnections are here made with tlie New York Central R. R. for the West, and\\nwith other routes for New York, Saratoga Springs, c. Also with the Hudson\\nRiver boats. From Albany to Utica, 95 M. to Rome, 109 M. to Syracuse, 147\\nM. to Rochester, 25 J M. to Buffalo, 297 M. to Niagara Falls, 305 M. tu De-\\ntroit, 5o(! M. to Chicago, 820 M. These distances are calculated on the N. Y.\\nCentral R. R., and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern 11. R. (via Toledo and\\nClevekand), v/hich it meets at Buffalo. By tlie same route and the shortest lines\\nbeyond, the whole distance from Boston to Niagara Falls is 507 M. to Chicago,\\n1,022 M. to St. Louis, 1,302 M. to Omaha, 1,515 M. to San Francisco, 3,429 M.\\n23. The Berkshire Hills.\\nThis district will be considered in connection with its railway system, whose\\nvarious lines will be treated of indeiiendently of tlicir connections beyond the\\ncounty limits.\\nThe Berkshire Hills form a beautiful and jiicture.sque district of mountains and\\nlakes, abounding in charms for tlie l()\\\\cr of nature. Thousands of city people\\nflock hither every summer, and rest and rela.\\\\ amid scenes so peaceful and alirae-\\ntive. The best time for a visit here is in October, when the holiday h U-^ lift", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0196.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. Route 23. 143\\ntheir WTeathed and crowned heads in the resplendent days of autumn. Says\\nBeci lier of this season in Berkshire, Have the evening clouds, suttused with\\nsunset, dropjied down and bet orae fixed into solid forms? Have the i-ainbows\\nthat followed autumn storms faded upon the mts., and left their mantles there\\nWhat a mighty chorus of cohjrs do the trees roll down the valleys, up the hill-\\nsides, and over the mts.\\nFrom Salisbury to Wiiliamstown and then to Bennington in Vermont, there\\nstreti hes a county of valleys, lakes, and mts., that is yet to be as celebrated as\\ntiie lake-(listri(:t of England, or the liill-country of Palestine.\\nAnother writer says Berkshire is a region of hill and valley, nit. and lake,\\nbeautiful rivers and laughing brooks. the very Piedmont of America. Godfrey\\nGreylock naively writes Somebody has failed Berkshire the Piedmont of Amer-\\nica. I do not know how just the ap])ellation may be, but I do know that U\\nPiedmont can rightly be called the Berkshire of Europe, it must be a very de-\\nlightful region.\\nThe route i rom Boston to Central Berkshire is by the Boston and Albany R. R.\\nDistance to Pittsfield, 151 M. fare, 8 3.40.\\nThe route from New York to Berkshire is by the Housatonic R. R. Distance\\nto Pittsfield 16G M. Pittsfield is 53 M. from Springfield and 51 M. from Albany.\\nThat section of the Western R. R. which traverses the wild liills of\\nBerksliire is a v. ^ork of immense labor, and a v/onderful achievement of\\nart. After leaving the wide meadows of the Conn., basking in their rich\\ninheritance of alluvial soil and unimpeded sunshine, you wind through\\nthe narrow valleys of the Westfield River, with masses of mts. before\\nyon, and woodland heights crowding in upon you, so that at every puff\\nof the engine the passage visibly contracts. Tlie Alpine character of the\\nriver strikes you. At Chester you begin your ascent of 80 ft. in a mile\\nfor 13 M. The stream between you and the precipitous hillside, cramped\\ninto its rocky bed, is the Pontoosnc, Avhich leaps down precipices, runs\\nforth laughing in the dimpling sunshine, and then, shy as a mountain\\nuymph, it dodges behind a knotty copse of evergreen. In approaching\\nthe summit-level yoti travel bridges built a hundred feet above other\\nmountain streams, tearing along tlieir deep- worn beds and at the deep\\ncut your passage is hewn through solid rocks, whose mighty walls frown\\nover you.\\nWe have entered Berkshire by a road far superior to the Appian Way.\\nOn every side are rich valleys and smiling hillsides, and deep set in their\\nhollows lovely la] es sparkle like gems. (Miss Sedgwick.)\\nStaa:es run daily from Westfield to Granville {drnnvUJe House), 9 M. S. W.\\nTollaiu/, a hij^h placed liHnilet: and Mont(join r//, a rugged mountain-village, 7 .^T.\\nN. W. Also from Russell 4^ M. W. to Bland ford (Mountain House) and 8 M. to\\nN. Blavdford, in an ancient Scotch-Irish dairy-town. From Huntington .station\\n(I arks Hou-e), stages run thrice weekly N. to S- Worfliiuf/ton (9 M.) and Worth-\\ningtnn (Waverly House; 14.\\\\ M.) From Chester (Ch Ster House), stances thrice\\nweekly to Jh cktt cvtr,^, 5 M and Oti.s {Day s Hutd), \\\\U Si. From Middlefield\\ndaily 4 M. N. to Middleiicld.\\nFrom Tekoa Mt. to Washington Summit the track rises 1.211 ft. Eecket\\n(Cldjiin [louse) has several lakes, from one of which Hows Fannington River.\\n10 M. S. of Becket Station is Otis, with the island-studded Great Lake.\\nStation, Washin(/ton, among the hills which the Indians called Tukonick.\\nThe village is S. of the station in a pretty valley. Station, Hinsdale, in a", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0197.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "144 Routers. TEE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nlarge town (so named in lionor of its first pastor) Avliich is more pleasing\\nto tlie lover of fine mountain scenery, exhilarating breezes, and crystal\\nfountains, than to the farmer in quest of fortune. Tlie mts. here recede\\nfrom the line of the track, and the tall hills of Peru are seen on the E.\\n(i\\\\ Station, Dalton (Eagle Hotel), originally named Dale-town, Avhich\\nhas large paper-factories. From Dalton a highway leads to Windsor\\n(Cleveland House) 7 M. N. E., the Indian Ouschaukamaug, a loftily\\nsituated village in a town rich in Saxony and IMerino sheep, and noted\\nfor the longevity of its inhabitants. About 3 M. from Dalton, on the\\nWindsor road, are the Wahconah Falls, where a mt. stream falls in 3 leaps\\nover an SO-ft. cliff of gray marble, 5 M. beyond Dalton the train passes\\nSilver Lake, and stops at the costly and handsome station in Pittsfield.\\nHotels. American House, on North St., 120 guests, at $10-15 a week; Bur-\\nbaiik Ii(_u.^e, oppo.-^ite the station, $9- 12 a week. Spring.side,tbr summer-boarders,\\nlu 14 a week. Good restaurant in the station.\\nrittslitkl is a beautiful town of 15,000 inhabitants, and is the centre and\\ncapital of Berkshire County. It was settled about the middle of the last\\ncentury (1752) on the Indian domain of Pontoosuc, and in 1761 it re-\\nceived its present name, in honor of William Pitt, the English statesman\\nand friend of America.\\nIn 1844 the Berkshire Jubilee was hold here, calling in thousands of the sons of\\nthe comity from all parts of the Union and on Sept. 24, 1872, the lai-gesl multi-\\ntude ever seen in Berkshire gathered here at the dedication of tlie Soldiers\\nP.Jonumeiit. At sunrise the chureh-Lells rang, and 37 guns were fired, and tlie\\nproces- iou induded 8 hands of music, detaclnnents from 9 veteran regiments, the\\n2d Muss. Mihtia reg., and 2 Conmianderies of Knights Templar. G. W. Curtis\\nwas tlie orator of the day. The soldiers monuments of the late war, hai iiily\\narising in every town and in every village, with the beautiful rites of Decoration\\nDay, hallowing the memory of heroes, are like tlie spring of liberty, flowing\\nCA erj where in the land. The monument consists of a massive pedestal on which\\nis a bronze statue of a lithe young soldier in fatigue uniform, .standing at rest,\\nwith his left hand holding a flag-staff, and the I ight hand liigh up in the folds of\\nthe flog. This Color-Bearer was designed by Launt Thompson, and cast from\\nthe metal of 5 cannon given hy Congress for the imrp/ose. The })edestal contains\\nthe names of 5 officers and 90 men who died in the field, out of 1,250 who enlisted\\nat Pittsfield.\\nA voice from lips whereon the coal from Freedom s shrine hnth been.\\nThrilled, as Init yesterday, the hearts of Berkshire s Mountain men\\nThe echoes of that solemn voice are sadly lint cring still\\nIn all our sunny valleys, on every wind-swept hill.\\nAnd sandy Barnstable rose up, wet with the salt sea sprav\\nAnd Bristol sent her answcrin j shout down Narragar.sett Bay\\nAlonf, the broad Connccticnt old Ilnmpden felt the thrill.\\nAnd the cheer of Hampshire s woodmen swept down from Ilolyoke Hill.\\nNo ularr-hiint in oiir hnrdrrs no pirate on our sfrati/l\\nNo fetters in. the Hai/ Slate no slave upon our land\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0WniTTIER.\\nThe monument stands in the Park, a green in the midst of the city,\\nwhich is called the heart of Berkshire.\\nHere, in the centre of an elliptical line of trees, stood the Old Elm,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with its 90 ft. of smooth shaft, and concentric rings representing 34:0 years\\nof gro wiih. After being twice thunder-smitten, the Old Elm became un-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0198.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. Route \u00c2\u00a33. 145\\nsafe, ani v:as taken down in 1S64-, amid the mourning of tlie county. On\\none side of the Park is the Congregational Church (of stone), where Dr.\\nJohn Todd (a powerful and proiilic writer) preached, 1842-70. Next to\\nit is St. Stephen s Episcopal Church. At the end of the Park is the\\nelegant wliite marble Court House, which, together with the Jail (iii\\nanother street), cost 400,000. Near the Court House, and fronting the\\nPark, is the building of the Berkshire Athenaeum, contahiing a fine li Draiy\\nand collections of local curiosities. On tlte corner of North and \\\\Vest Sts.,\\nnear the Park, is the noble building of the Berkshire Life Insurance Co.\\nOn the main street are some fine busi;iess buildings, and beyond tlie\\nAmerican House is the small but handsome Cathedral of St.\\nJoseph. The French residents have, also, a Catholic Church for their\\nhundred families, and thei e is also a German Lutheran Cliurch. Beyond\\nSt. Josepii s is the MapleAvood Institute (for young ladies), whose grace-\\nful chapel, gymnasium, and half ivy-covered dwellings gieam white\\ntlirough groves and avenues of famed attractiveness. During the vacation,\\nthis building is used as a summer boarding-house ($10-15 a week). On\\nEast St. is the noble oKl Ajipleton mansion, once the liome of Longfellow s\\nwife, and ihe place of The Old Clock on the Stairs. Longfellow spent\\nmany summers here. At I ittslield Lord Coleridge said: England has\\nnothing more pleasingly picturesque than Berkshire. The Baptists have\\na handsome church ou Ni-rlh St.; and the Methodist Church is attractive.\\nThere are many beautiful villas on Wendell Avenue, Jubilee Hill, c.\\nThe town is situated on a plateau 1,000-1,200 ft. above the sea, and\\nsurrounded by lofty hills, the Taconics on the ^V and the Hoosacs on the\\nE. Beautiful villas abound in the subiu- oan streets, and extensive manu-\\nfactures of cotton and woollen cloths, knit goods, and boots, furnish employ-\\nment for the foreign population. The town is supplied with water f;-om\\nLake Ashley, a little romantic locli which lies upon the summit of Wash-\\nington Mt. (1,800 ft. high), 7 M. to the S. E. Pittstield has large manu-\\nfactures, beautiful alluvial environs, 9 churches, 3 papers, and 4 banks.\\nLake Onota (083 acres) is about 2 M. W. of Pittstield. From the hill\\nwhere Ashley s Fort stood, a fine view is enjoyed, but the best prospect is\\nfrom a long point running from the N. shore, to which locality belongs the\\nlegend of The White Deer of Onota.\\nPontoosuc Lake, the haunt of the winter deer (575 acres), is 2^ M.\\nN. of Pittstield, on the road to Williamstown (22 M.).\\nBerry Pond is to the N. W. in Hancock. Berry Pond does not derive its\\nname from tlie str.iwberries, blackberries, and raspberries, which by their abun-\\ndance ia the vichiity would JTistify the appellation, but from an obscure, stoat-\\nhearted man who once dwelt upon its border, and wrunjc subsistence for a fan:e\\nfamily of girls out of the unrein of its rocky cliafice. Nothing can exceed the\\nbeauty of this pond. Its margin is sometimes a beach of silvery sand, strewn\\nwith blocks of snov. y quartz and delicate, fibrous mica again grassy and green to\\nthe water s edge; and yet 9gaiu fringed \\\\s-itli long eyelashes of birch and hazel-\\ntrees, that dreamilv gaze at their re.lection in the mirror. (Taconic.)\\nSouth Mountain is S. of Pittstield. From its S. summit Greyloek\\n7", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0199.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "14:6 Route 23. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nis seen in tlie N., Mount Oceola and Perry s Peak in the W., the Lenox Mt. in the\\nS., and the Mts. of Washington in the E. The city is close at liand in the N. with\\nLake Onota at its side. Nearer is Melville Lake, or Lilly Bowl, near Lilly\\nOpe, so named from an old Meg Merrilies of a hermitess named Lilly, who once\\nlived in the valley.\\nIn the mts. N. W. of Pittslield, and distant several miles, are some romantic\\npoints. Below Mt. Honv/ee is the Promised Land, a name given with grim Kew\\nEngland humor to a tract of kind for Avhich grants were long promised f^nd\\nlonger delayed. On its W. summit is a i)retty lakelet whence Lulu Ope (or valley)\\nmay be descended to Lula Cascade, a foam-white colunm which finds its base in a\\ncircular pool of black and glossy surface, overhung by a gray old boulder, and l)y\\nmasses of tangled foliage. S. of the Promised Land is the Ope of Promise, the\\nnearest (though arduous) path to Berry Pond. Then comes Arbutus Hill ind\\nOpe, which are covered with arbutus in May, and beyond them is Old Tower llill.\\nS. of the Lebanon road (which nins through Lilly Ope) is Doll Mt., where the\\nShakers formerly worshipped, and which they called Mt. Zion. Silver Lake is in\\nthe E. environs, and Sylvan I^ake is 2-3 M.E. of the city. The larger lakes here-\\nabouts are ])rolific in pickerel, but the trout have been nearly exterminated.\\nO. Wendell Holmes long resided at a villa 2 M. from the city, on a small farm\\nremaining from 24,000 acres purchased by his grandfather in 1735. Near him\\nlived Herman Melville, the rover, and author of sea-novels. AVliite Jacket,\\nMoljy Dick, and other works were written here, where he resided 1850 -CO.\\nDaily stages run from l irt. field N. W 10 M to Hnncocl a lonelv Bapti-^t vi.iasre\\namong the mountain. also, N. 2k M. to Prnifon.vue. at the foot of Pontoosuc b:ike;\\nG M. to LnrtesJioro (Lanesboro House); 13 M. to A^c?r Ashford, under Snddlcback\\nMt. 17 M. to .S WiUiainstoicn (Sabin Hou.-e), under (ireylock and 22 M to\\nWi .liamstown (see page 156). Stages from Hinsdale to Windsor, Peru, Cumuniigton.\\nNear the station of Richmond are the remarknble geological phenomena of\\nRichmond Valley, consisting of seven parallel lines of Ixnilders, stretching jscmss\\nthe valley from Perry s Peak to Lenox Mt. in a S. E. direction. Ihis feature wns\\ncarefully studied by Sir Charles LyeU (in two visits), and is majipedand described\\nin his Antiquity of Man. Peri-y s I eak is famed for its superb over-view.\\nTo New Lebanon Springs is a favorite excursion from Pittslield. By\\nthe highway the distance is 12-15 M. the railroad route is circuitous,\\nbeing by the Albany line to Chatham, and thence up the Harlem Ex-\\ntension R. R.\\nHoteL \u00e2\u0080\u0094Columbia Hall, a fashionable and elegant summer-house.\\nThe thermal springs at New Lebanon have won an excellent reputation\\nfor their efhcacy in diseases of the skin and liver. The flow of the waters\\nis very large, and its temperature is about 73 Tliere are many flue\\ndrives and walks in this vicinity, the favorite of which is to the Shaker\\nVillage, about 2 M. distant.\\nThe Shakers originated from a French sect which came to England in 1706, and\\nAnn Lee, of Mancliester, the daughter of a blacksmith and the wife of a black-\\nsmith, joined them in 1758. In 1770, after emerging from a madhouse where she\\nwas confined for reviling matrimony, she announced, I am Ann, the Word, and\\nS(wn after came to America, and was made the Siiiritual Head of the sect. In\\n1780 she produced a revival at New Lebanon, and converted many to Sliakei-ism,\\ngoon after which the sect established its head-quarters there, and in 1795 accepted\\nthe commonwealth covenant. She claimed the power of working miracles, and\\nheld that Cln ist s coming was not the fulfilment of the desire of all nations, but\\nlliat the second Divine advent must naturally be n:anifested in that particular\\notiject, to wit, woman, which is eminently tiie desire of all nations. Motlier\\nAnn made New Lebanon the capital of the Shaker world, the rural Vatican\\nwliicli claims a more despotic sway over the nn nd of man than ever the Roman\\nPontiff a.ssumed. On her death a peculiar hierarchy assumed the government.\\nThe Fu st Elder, the successor of Mother Ann, aj^poiuts the second elder, and tlie", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0200.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "THE BERKSHIKE HILLS. Route 23. 147\\nfirst and second eldress. Tliese four, calleil the Holy Lead, remain secluded\\nill tlse chimih at Lebanon, ami apjioint subordinate clergy, in.-, ludin one elder ia\\neach family. Their Scriptures are contained in the Holy Laws and Order\\nB;)ok, which are claimed as works of inspiration, and as partly dictated by the\\nKecording Angel, althougn they may be ajnended or rescinded by the Holy Lead.\\nUnlike other sects, the Shakers claim that men may join their church after death,\\nand among other illustrious posthumou members, they count Washington,\\nLafayette, Napoleon, Tamerlane, and Poenliontas. By frugality and industry\\nthey give us many useful tilings, but they do not produce what the Republic most\\nneeds, men and women.\\nThe sect has been declining sin^e the ileath of its great head and her disciples,\\nbecause it has no ])ower^ of internal development. There are many Shalcer vil-\\nlages in the N. Atlantic States, but the community at New Lebanon has dwindled\\nto 2 30 members.\\n3 5L S. W. of Pittsfield (by R R is a Shaker village, near Richmond Pond,\\nand a little way to the N. of it is a mountain (in H in:o:. k) where the devotees jf\\ntills faitli formerly held their weird meeting. Their tradition states that here ou\\nMt. Sinai, tlie Shalvcrs hunted Satan throughout a long summer night, and finally\\nkUlod and buried him. Over his grave, to this d ly, Washington and Lafayette\\nkeep guard, mounted on white horses, and are seen on summer nights by the\\nfaithtiii who chance to pas.5 their ancient shrine.\\nFrom Pittsfield the Honsatnnic R. R. runs tlirongh Southern Berksliire.\\nOf all tlie railroads near New York none can compare, for ])eanty of\\nscenery, with the Honsatonic from Ne\\\\vtown to Pittsfield, but especially\\nfrom New Milfoixl to Lenox. (Beeciier.) Fredrika Bremer si)eaks of\\nthe wonderfully picturesque and sonietiniss splendidly gloomy scenery\\nalong the line of tliis railroad. By this route it is 8 M. to Lenox Station\\n(passing South Mt. on the r. from which stages ascend to the village in\\n2 M. By a fine carriage road it is G M. S. of Pittsfield.\\nHotels. Cnrtis s Hotel accommodates 140 guests at 8 4. 00 a day, with con-\\nsiderable reductions for a ii)ng stay. There are sevei-al k;rje summer ISoarding-\\nliouses here (Mrs. Flint s, I. J. Newton s, iSrc), more rjuiet and inexpensive than the\\nhotel, and some of them better situated.\\nL,eiiox, known for the singular purity and exhilarating effects of its air, and\\nfor the beauty of its mountain S enery. If one spends July or October in Lenox,\\nhe will liaidly seek another home for the summer. The church stands upon the\\nhighest point in the village, and if, i:i summer, one stands in the door and gazes\\nupon tlie vast panorama, he might, without half the Psalmist s devotion, prefer\\nto stand in the door of the Lord s house to a dwelling in tent, tabernacle, or man-\\nsion. So says Beecher, whose Star Pai^ers were written during his summer\\nvisits to Lenox, m a house which stood near the site now occupied by Gen. Rath-\\nbone s mansion.\\nFredrika Bremer wrote, The country around Lenox is romantically lovely,\\ninspired with wood-covered hills and tlie prettiest little lakes.\\nTliis gem among the mountains (Sillbian) was settled in 1750, and\\nreceived the family name of the Duke of Richmond. It is situated on a\\nhigh hill, and contains the old Court House (which now has a library and\\nreading-room) and numerous villas pertaining to gentlemen of Boston and\\nNew York. Fanny Kcmble (Butler) long resided here, and wished to be\\nburied in the graveyard on the hill, saying, I ^\\\\dll not rise to trouble\\nany one if they will let me sleep here. I will only ask to be permitted,\\nonce in a while, to raise my head and look out upon this glorious scene\\nMuch of the forcfroin.T account has heen condensed from Dwijjhfs Travels. The editor\\ndoes not know \u00e2\u0080\u00a2whether the government remains uow in the same form.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0201.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "148 Routers. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nand Beecher adds, IMay she behold one so much fairer that this scenic\\nbeauty shall f.de to a shadow. Lenox is 1,300 ft. high. It has AVaring s\\nsystem of sewerage, and a water-suppl} from mountain-springs. The\\nchurches are Cong., Meth., Epis., and Cath. There are 100 summer\\ncottages here. The Lenox Club has a well-fitted club-house.\\nBald Head is 2-3 jNI. from the village. From this point is seen tlie rich\\nStockbridge Valle}^, the Bowl (Lake Mahkeenac), and the wide Housa-\\ntonic valley on the S., with Laurel Lake and Rattlesnake Mt. on the S. E.\\nOn the N. and W. are Lenox and Oceola Mts., on the N. is South Mt., and\\non the E. are the tumultuous hills of Washington, a view wide, rich, and\\njoyous.\\nThe Stockbridge Boiol and Laurel Lake are S. W. and S. E. of Lenox,\\neach being 2| M. distant (see Stockbridge and Lee). A pretty view\\nof Laurel Lake is gained from the lirst hill S. of the village, with Lenox\\nFurnace near it on the 1.\\nPerry s Peak is 6-7 M. distant, passing Lenox Mt. and Richmond\\nValley. This lone summit, which stands on the frontier of New York, is\\n2,077 ft. high, and overlooks the Hudson, the Catskills, and the Green\\nMts. New Lebanon, the Shaker capital, and Gretna Green of Mass.,\\nis but 7 8 M. beyond the Peak.\\nAt Lenox Furnace, 2 M. S. E. of the village, on the R. R., are extensive glass-\\nwoi ks, where, among other varieties, the best quality of plate-glass is made, frum\\npure granulated quartz.\\nOther excursions are to the Ledge, the Pinnacle, and Richmond Hill. The sunset\\nview froui Church Hill is of great beauty, embracing Grey lock on the N., and the\\nDome on the S. Echo Lake is a beautiful loch near W. Stockbridge Mt.\\nLee {Morgan House N orton House) is 4| M. S. E. of Lenox by road,\\nand 5 M. bv railroad and stage.\\nLee was settled in 1760, and was named for one of the Virginian Lees,\\nwho were so distinguished in the Continental Army. Paper-making was\\nearly commenced here, and now the business has assumed vast propor-\\ntions. But the town is most widely known for its excellent white marble,\\nof which $1,000,000 worth was used in building the U. S. Capitol at\\nWashington. The (piarries are close to the village on the S., and lie be-\\ntAveen tlie railroad and the river. They are now supplying marble for the\\nNew- York Cathedral and the Philadelphia City Hall. Lee has good\\nchurches and schools, a newspaper {The Valley Gleaner), and an efficient\\nVillage-Improvement Association. Fern Cliff is E. of the village, and\\ngives noble views of the Housatonic and Hoosac Valleys, with Greylock\\nand other stately peaks.\\nLaurel Lake is a pretty sheet of water 1 M. N. of Lee, that should be\\nvisited in the late altcrr.oon to catch the delicate evening lights that\\nglance from its trancpiil surface.\\nDaily stages, 5 M. S. E. fand from S. Lee station, 3 M.) to the ancient Shaker\\nconimunirv of Tt/rlnt/hain, now extinct, and its buildings occupied by the sumiier-\\nresort of Fernsiclc {U)0 guests S 9-10 a week). It is in a Icvely secluded glen,\\n1 600 ft. above the sea. and under the Shakers Holy Hill. Stages also daily from\\nLee, 5 M to W. Decket and 10 M. to Otis {Daly s Hotel), where many summer-\\npilgrims rest.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0202.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "STOCKBRIDGE, Route 23. 149\\nStockbridga {Stoclchr ulge House, 70 80 guests, S 2 50 a day, 15 1 7.50\\na week), 6 M. from Lee by K. li., and 4 M. by the highway, is one of\\nthe fairest of what Gov. Andrew called the delicious surprises of Berk-\\nshire. It is tamed for its meadow-ehns, for the picturesque beauty\\nadjacent, for the quiet beauty of a village which sleeps along a level plain\\njust under the rim of the hills. (Bkkcher.) The hotel fronts on the\\nmain street; to its 1. is a marble fountain from Italy; and before it is the\\nnew memorial St. Paul s Episcopal Church, the gift of Mr. Cliarles E.\\nButler, in 1884, with its sweet and deep-toned bell. Near by stands a\\nbrown-stone shaft, inscribed To her sons, beloved and honored, who\\ndied for their country in the great war of the Rebellion, Stockbridge, in\\ngrateful remembrance, has raised this monument. To the W. is the\\nhouse (built 1737) where Edwards wrote The Freedom of the Will.\\nIt is now a summer boarding-house, known as Edwards Hall. In and near the\\nGreen, h M. W. of the hotel, are the old Cong. Church the Jonathan-Edwards\\nuioDument, of pohshed Scotch granite; the Bell-Tower, a picturesque stone cam-\\npanile containing a chime of ten bells, given to the town by David Dudley Field;\\nand the ancient Indiixn cemetery, with its rugged memorial monument. Aaron\\nBurr once lived in a house still standing, towards the station. Opposite Edwards\\nHail is tlie venerable Sedgwick mansion, h M. N. of the charcli is a park of 12\\nacres, given to the town by Cyrus VV. Field. Noble villas crown the adjaceut hills,\\nand surround Stockbridge Bowl.\\nOn the main st., E. of the hotel, is the Jackson Library, a neat little\\nstone building containing 8,000 volumes, a cabinet of minerals, certain\\nrelics of Edwards, and a marble tablet, on which are inscribed the names\\nof 134 officers and men who went from Stockbridge to the Secession War.\\nOn the street diverging from the Library is a small Catholic Church of\\nniarl)le. Beyond the Library is the old Academy with a long semicircle\\nof elms in front, a copy, in living trees, of the stone porticos before St.\\nPeter s Chnrch in Rome. Back of the Academy is Laurel Hill, Avith a\\nturf rostrum m a glen surrounded by trees and rocks. Here in late\\nAugust of each year meets the Laurel Hill Association, devoted to pre-\\nserving, protecting, and increasing the beauty of the village and its en-\\nvirons. On the heights above the village are the mansions of David Dud-\\nley Field (for 40 years a prominent N. Y. lawyer and jurist), H. M.\\nField, D. D. (author, and for many years editor of the Evangelist Ivi-\\nson (the publisher), Prof. Joy (of Columlna College), and the old Mission\\nHouse, built by the Great and General Court of His Majesty s Province\\nof Massachusetts Bay early in the last century. The view from these\\nheights, especially about sunset, is one of the most beautiful in nature\\n(it was pronoimced by Dr. McCosh equal to any in Scotland), embracing\\nthe rich valley of the Housatonic to the E. and W., with the valley of\\nKonkapot River stretching away in the S. to Monument Mt., Bear Mt.\\nrising close on the 1. and the tufted Evergreen Hill dividing the valley.\\nA great people crossed deep waters from a far-distant continent in the N. W.\\nand in^ircliL-d by many pil-riiaa:^^^ t.j C.c soa-.iliore and the valley of the Hudson.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0203.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "150 Route 23. TIII^ BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nHere they built cities and lived, until a great famine scattered them and verv\\nmany of them died. Wandering for years in quest of a iirecarious living, tlu y\\nlost their arts and manners, and a part of them settled by the Housatonic River.\\nSuch were traditions of the Muhhelcanew Indians told to President Dvvight. lu\\n1734 the colony established a mission, and sent John Sergeant to teach the Muh-\\nheiianews i)eople of the great moving waters at their village of Huussatonnue,\\nwhich was named Stockbridge. This tribe was ever friendly to tlie English, and\\ngladly received the Gospel, first from the teachings of iSergeant, who labored heie\\n1734-49, and translated the New Testament, and part of the Old, into tlieir\\nlanguage. In 15 years he baptized 129 Indians. He was succeeded by Jonathan\\nEdwards (preaching by interpreters, 1751-7), who in turn was succeeded by\\nytephen West. Many of the Indians erdisted in the Continental Army, and a\\ncompany of tliem won high distinction at tlie battle of Wliite Plains. In 1751\\nthere were 150 Indian families here, and but (J English families but by 178: the\\nbalance had changed, and John Sergeant s son, then their pastor, led the tribe to\\nNew Stockbridge, on land given by the Oneida tribe, in Western New Yoi-lc.\\nAbout 400 people were numbered in this emigration. They remained tliere 34\\nyears, and then moved to Wisconsin, where they stayed 17 years more, and ai)Out\\nthe year 1840 moved to the vicinity of Leavenworth, in Kansas. Where they have\\nbeen crowded to since, this record cannot tell.\\nIn 1669 the great Sachem Checkatabut, head of the Massachusetts Indians,\\nwith 700 warriors, marched from the sea to the Hudson on a campaign against\\nthe Mohawks. The latter, concentrating their forces at the great tribal fortress,\\nreitelled all assaults and made fierce sorties, until the men of Massachusetts, find-\\nhig their provisions failing, and the whole country rising about their ears, beat a\\nretreat. Their march was probably directed on StoL-kbridge, as being the seat of\\na rich, peaceful, and friendly tribe, where they could hope to get food and aid.\\nBut a powerful force of Mohawks, by a forced march, got ahead of them and laid\\nan ambush among the dense forests and rugged ravines of the Taconics (Tagh-\\nkanak, tlie wood place, or Forest Hills The retreating warriors 1 ell into\\nthe snare, and in the long and desperate confiict whicli ensued, Checkatabut and\\n58 of his sagamores were killed, together with a great portion of the men. Only\\na handful succeeded in reaching the coast again.\\nAt the close of King Philii) s War, the remnants of the insurgent confederation\\ntook refuge in the S. Berkshire Hills. But Talcott s Flying Army, from the\\nE., and the Moliawks, from the W. made such devastating inroads upon them\\ntliat they speedily made their submission.\\nAmong the natives of Stockbridge are H. M. Field, D. D., the editor; Cyrus\\nW. Field, the projector and organizer of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable E. Bacon,\\nthe jurist J. S. Hart, the author; and CatUeriiie M. Sedgwick, the pojmlar au-\\nthoress of Redwood, Plope Leslie, c. Also, the Kev, Dr. Mark Ibipkin.*.\\nJonathan Edwards, the greatest of American metaphysicians, was born in\\nConn., 1703, and a ter 30 years of reaching he settled at Stockbridge. Here he\\nwrote the remarkable treatise on The Freedom of the Will, in whose close and\\nsubtle iirgument he maintained tliat philosophic necessity was compatible with\\nfreedom of the will, rightly defined, and with human responsiV)ility. Tall and\\nslender in person, he had a high, broad, bold forehead, piercing and luminous\\neyes, and a countenance indicative of sincerity and benevolence. The great re-\\nligious awakening which convulsed the frozen churches of New England liefoi e\\nthe miildle of the last century was largely caused by his marvellous sermons, un-\\nevadable in their directness, incontrovertible in their logic, and terrific in their\\nlurid earnestness. Probably no preacher since Chrysostom has had such power\\nof striking convulsive terror into an audience and this he did siinitly by his\\nWords and by his intense earnestness, and without any of the graces or artifices\\nof oratory.\\nWhile President of New Jersey College, Edwards died (1758), leaving The\\nFreedom of the Will, The Religious Alfections, and The History of Re-\\ndemption, as his great monuments. Tliese, and his other writings, including\\nmany sermons, fill 10 octavo volumes.\\nTlu se Ihree, Augustine, Calvin, and Jonathan Edwards.\\n*Lake Malikeenac (Stockbridge Bowl) is 3-4 M. N. of the viUage by\\nadmirable roads. This is a beautiful, calm laka, surrounded by liilLs, and", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0204.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "THE BEEKSHIRE HILLS. Route 23. 151\\nvvitli the village and spire of Curtisville peering above the trees on the B.\\nThe best way is to go up by the road on the heights, leaving Mahkeenac\\non the 1. and passing around its N. end, return on a road W. of the Lake\\nthrough Curtisville. 5 niin. walk from tlie latter village is a beautiful\\nlittle tarn called Lake Averick, or 3lGvntain Mirror. Hawthorne lived\\nin a little red farmliouse near Mahkeenac for a year and a half (1850 51),\\nbut remembered the many-sounding sea on whose shores he was bom and\\nhad lived, and says but little about this mountain-water. But he found\\nrare pleasure in watching the mountains themselves. In its autumn\\nlines, IMonument Mt. looks like a headless sphinx wrapped in a rich Per-\\nsian shawl tliis A^alley in which I dwell seems like a vast basin filled\\nwith sunshine as with wdne; and the changes of the seasons on Monu-\\nment and Bald Mts., and the black-purple dome of Taconic, with the\\nwinter siinset which has a softness and delicacy wdiicli iniitart themselves\\nto a wdiite marble v/orld.\\nMonument Mt. is 3-4 I\\\\I. from Stockbridge. The Great Barrington\\nroad is followed to the top of the ridge, then a wood-road diverges to the\\nr. When M. from the N. sunmiit a path is taken which conducts to\\nPulpit Rock, the Profile (beyond the N. summit), cVc. On the E. side is\\na white quartz cliff of vast depth, detached from which is the Pulpit.\\nFrom the summit a noble *view is gained, embracing the Housatonic Valley\\nfor many leagues, with its fair villages and mountain-walls, while tlie\\nGreen Mt. and Greylock tow^er in the N. and the Catskills may be seen\\nin the W., if the day is clear.\\nTo the north a path\\nConducts j oii up the narrow battlements.\\nSteip is the western side, shiiggy nnd wild,\\nWith many trees and pinnacles of flint.\\nAnd manv a haughty crag. But to the east\\nSheer to the vale l-o down the bare old elifia,\\nHuge pillars that in middle Heaven uprear\\nTheir weather-beaten capitals here dark\\nWith the thick moss of centuries, and there\\nOf chalky whiteness, where the thunderbolt\\nHath smitten them. Bryant.\\nThe Mt. derives its. name from a cairn which was made of stones, to which\\neach passing Indian added a stoue. The legend states that it was raised over a\\nbeautiful nuiiden who passionately loved her cousin, and being forbidden by the\\nIndian laws to marry him, she threw herself from a lofty cliff and was daslied iu\\npieres.\\nIcy Glen is about 1\\\\ M. from Stockbridge, by the road crossing the R. R. just\\nto the 1. of the station, and leaving the road near some houses at the rat. loot,\\ngo into a romantic glen, with seats arranged about it. From this point a wihl\\nchaos of rocks, caverns, and trees ex ends through a long ravine, wliere ice is\\nfound ill July. This is the N. end of Bear Mt., on whose top an obserA atory has\\nbeen raised, commanding a neat view. It is gained by crossing the river on a\\nwire foot-bridge near the Main yt., and taking a pleasant forest-path up tlie slojie.\\nExcursions are made from Stockbridge to Lee, Lenox, Great Barrington, and\\nMt. Everett, also to the romantic and flesolate town of Monterey (11 M. S. E.).\\nIf you wish to be filled and satisfied with the serenest delight, ride to the\\nsummit of this encircling hill-ridge (above Stockbridge) iu a summer s afternoon,\\nwhile the sun is but an hour high. The Housatonic winds, in great circuits, all\\nthrough the valley, carrying willows aud alders with it wherever it goes. The", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0205.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "152 Route 23. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nhorizon on eA^ery side is piled and terraced with mountains. Abnipt and isolated\\nmoTiutaius bolt up here and there over the whole stretch of plain, covered with\\nevergreens. (Beecher.)\\nGreat Barrington is S. of Stockbriilge, 8 M. by R. R., Ih M. by liigli-\\nway. The Collins House is necar the village, and is for summer-guests\\n10-20 a week). The new town-hall is a handsome building, in front of\\nwhich is a beautiful bronze statue of Victory (cast in Paris), for the Sol-\\ndiers Monument. Berkshire Hotel, a roomy old stone buihling, -S 10-14 a\\nweek; Miller s Plotel. This is one of those places wliich one never en-\\nters without W ishing never to leave. It rests beneath the branches of\\ngreat numbers of the stateliest elms. (Beecher.) Fine macadamized\\nroads are built around the place, on which excursions are made to Monu-\\nment Mt (4 M.), Monterey (8 M.), and Sheffield (6-7 M.). In the vi-\\ncinity is a curious rock formation called Purgatory, while a path leads to\\nthe top of E. Mt. in 2 M. The Berkshire Soda Sjmngs (small hotel) are\\nabout 3 M. to the S. E. Several line villas are in the outskirts of the vil-\\nlage, and the Cong, and Epis. churches are handsome buildings.\\nDaily stages run 10 M. S. E. to New 3IarIbf)ro (summer-board in S. BerJr.ihire\\nInsflfnte), where there is a stalactite cave. On the way, 5 6 M. out, is Lake Liitl,\\na beautiful sheet of water, with groves, steamboat, c.\\nW. of New Marlboro is Sandisheld, with beyniour and Hanging Mts. and Spec-\\ntacle Ponds. Here was born Col. John Brown (1744), a brave partisan officer in\\nthe Revolutionary War, whose fearless and fanatical Puritan grandson. John\\nBrown, invaded the powerful State of Vii-ginia at the head of 20 men (Oct. 16,\\n1859), intending to become the liberator of the slaves of the South. The Virginian\\nmilitia gathered quickly, attacked him at Harper s Ferry, killed most of liis men\\n(including his two sons), and captured the woimded leader. He was hung, ac-\\ncording to the sentence of the law, in November, and met death with serene\\ncomposure.\\nA daily stage runs from Great Barrington to N. and S. Egremont.\\nThe Mt. Everett House, in S. Egremont, is a small and secluded summer-hotel,\\nsituated about 5 M. troni the lofty Mt. Everett, and. in a thinly settled town\\nabounding with lakes. The ascent of Mt. Everett is along a vast, unculti-\\nvated slope, to the height of nearly 2,0 0 ft., when you reach the broad valley\\nwhere the few inhabitants reside, in the centre of a vast pile of mts. The\\ntown has but 256 inhabitants. Dr. Hitchcock thus describes the view from Mt.\\nEverett: You feel yourself to be standing above everything around you, and\\npossess the proud consciousness of literally looking down upon all terrestrial\\nscenes. Before you on the E. the valley through which the Housatonic meanders\\nstretches far N. in Mass., and S. into Conn. sprinkled over with copse and glebe,\\nwith small sheets of water and beautiful villages. To the S. E. a large sheet of\\nwater a]ipears, of surpassing beauty. In the S. W. the gigantic ALander, Riga,\\nand other nits, nuu-e remote, seem to bear the blue heavens on their heads in\\ncalm majesty while stretching across the far distant W. the Catskills hang like\\nthe curtains of the sky. O what a glorious display of mts. all around you This\\nis certainly the grandest prospect in Mass., though others are more beautiful.\\nDaily stages run from Great Barrington to S. Egremont (4^ M .and N. Eirrcmnnt\\n(7.^ I also, froiu llills.lale, on the Iladeni U 11. (9A M). View from White s Hill.\\nMt. Wa.shh!;;t\u00c2\u00abn (Xonney s, and other boarding-housesl. reached from Co-\\npake, on the Harlem R. II is on a lofty plateau between AlaHder and Cedar Jl^s.,\\non the \\\\V. and Race Mt. and Mt. Everett, on the E. Rare views from Sunset llill,\\nthe Bush Lot, c. Near the hamlet is Sky Farm, the home of the poets, Dora and\\nElaine Goodale. Mt. Wasliington town was an appanage of the great Livingston\\nManor, of New York, and first settled by tlie Dutch. It was the first town named\\nfor the great Virginian, its name having been given by the State Legislature in 1776.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0206.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "THE BERKSHIRE HILLS. Route 23. 153\\nIn EgTemont 0(^curred the last engagement in Shays* rebellion, when the insur-\\ngents, after i/lmi.ieriug titockbridge, were attacked here by the Gre:it Earriugton\\nmilitia, and 40 -fy.* were killed and wounded.\\nBasli-Bi^li Falls (^see aalisLuuy, Conn.) are about 10 M. from the Mt. Everett\\nJloLise, by a r.i;iit lainning down througli Mt. Washington, and around Cedar Mt.\\nThe views of Mt. Everett, Elk, Alander, and Cedar Mts. are line.\\n6 M. S. of Great Barriugton is Sheffield (Miller Hotel, small), lull\\nof rural simplicity and beauty, riclily decorated with lovely valley and\\nmajestic mountain scenery, It is a quiet village, Avith a broad, shady\\nstreet, in a rich intervale of the Housatonic, and is chiefly noted for its\\nmarl/le, of which Girard College (Philadelphia), with its huge columns,\\nv,\\\\is built. Picturesque roads rmi S. into Salisbury, and N. W. into\\nEgremont.\\nBishop .Janes, of the Methodist Church D, D. Barnard, 8 years M. C. and\\nMinister to Prussia, 1849-53 F. A. P. Barnard, President of Columbia College\\nsince 13o4 H. D. and T. Sedgwiek, lawyers, the latter of whom was derided for\\nintroducing a bill in the Legi.siature, prrijecting a railroad from Boston to Albany\\n(1827); Chester Dewey, D. D., clergyman and botanist; Orviile Dewey, D. D., the\\nUnitarian divine and Judge Daniel Dewey, were natives of Sheffield.\\nNorthern Berkshire\\nis approached from Pittsfield by the Pittsfield and N. Adams Branch E,.\\nR. There is also a romantic road leading through the western valleys and\\nremote from the R. R., passing Pontoosuc Lake, and then through the\\nglens between the Saddle-Back Range and that line of mts. wdiich stretch\\nfrom Old Tower Hill to the tall peak of Berlin Mt. This road passes\\nthrough the villages of Lanesboro, New Ashford, and S. Williamstown.\\nTiie railroad crosses Laneshom (station, Berksiiire, near i^oiitoos.ic Lake),\\na t(Avn Avliich has beds of snow-whiie granular quartz, used here in the\\n111 xirafacture of superior cylinder-glass. Variegated marble also aljouuls\\nhere, with iron and lime.stone. Savage Mt. and Constitution Hill are })ic-\\ntnv sque and far-viewing heights. H. W. Shaw was born here in ISIS,\\nand has since 1863 attained a high reputation as a humorist, under the\\nnanre of Josh Billings. The line here enters the valley of the Hoosac\\nRiver, which it follows to N. Adams. Cheshire is the next town, in a\\nfertile alluvial valley surrounded by lofty hills. This town is famous lor\\nits dairies, and in 1 802 its people sent as a New Year s gift to President\\nJefferson a mammoth cheese weighing 1,450 pounds. Before reaching\\nChesliire Harbor the great Saddle-Back Range begins, on the W., about 2\\nM. from the track. A road leades from Cheshire Harbor E. into Savoy,\\na wild mt. town, with one small village called Savoy Hollov/ (Green Mt.\\nHouse), 7 M. from Adams (SHI inhabitants).\\nAdams (the birth])lace of Susan B. Anthony) is next reached. From\\nAdams is the shortest and easiest of the routes to the top of the ma-\\njestic Greylock Mt. which towers over the valley. This is the highest mt.\\nin Mass. and commands a view immense, and of amazing grandeur.\\n7*", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0207.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "154 Route 23. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nThe road runs W. and tlien N,, crossing a spur of the mt., from wliich\\npretty views of the valley of the Hoosac and its villages are gained. De-\\nscending- now over a very rough road, the Notch (sometimes called the\\nBellows Pipe, from the gusts which draw through it) is entered. The\\nmt. just crossed is called Mt. Hawks. At Walden s house the Notch\\nroad is left, and Mt. Williams is rounded on its N. side, then the clearing\\nbetween Mts. Williams and Prospect is passed the long W. slope of a\\nridge is ascended, and alter a southerly walk the summit is attained. A\\nstraighter and simpler, though less picturesque, way is right up the S.\\nslope from S. Adams.\\nThe summit of Greylock is partially cleared, and overlooks the valley of the\\nHoosac oil the N. with its villages, and the peaks of the Green Mts. beyond. N.\\nofE. and S. of E., nearly GO M. away, are Mts. Monadnock and Wachusett due\\nS. E., nearly 40 M. distant, are Mts. I oni and Holyoke. Southward are the many\\npeaks of the Berkshire Hills, hounded by Mt. Everett, with Tittsfield and its\\nlakes, and other villages and towns. S. W. are the Catskills, and it is thought that\\nthe Mts. in the N. W. are those which environ Lake George. Saddle Mt. and\\nSaddle BaU are clo.se to Greylock, and respectively N. and S. The paths to the\\nsummit of Greylock are difficult and easily lost, and the excursion will require a\\nlong day.\\nN. Adams Wilson Rouse,, expensive and first-class, with 100 rooms,\\nbuilt by Wilson, the sewing-macliiue inventor; Ballou Iluust) is a pros-\\nperous manufacturing village, on the Hoosac River. It has 20 cotton and\\nwoollen mills, and various other industries, employing 2,200 hands, and\\nturning out $4-5,000,000 worth of goods a year. Some neat villas and a\\nfine high-school house have been built, also a soldiers monument and\\nseveral churches (population, 12,000). Adams, on the S., has 0,000 in-\\nhabitants, and large mills for making paper and cotton and woollen goods.\\nAbout 1 M. from the village (to the E.) is the Xatural Bridge, on Hudson s\\nBrook, where the waters have worn a passage through the solid rock 30 rods long\\nand 15 ft. wide, leaving an arch of stained marble above it at a heigh.t of 30-00\\nft. This cavernous passage was a favorite resort of Hawthorne, who spent the\\nsummer of 1S3S at N. Adams, and often bathed in the waters of the brook. The\\ncave makes a fresh impression upon me every time I visit it, so deep, so irregular,\\nso gloomy, so stern part of its walls the pure white of the marble, others covered\\nwith a gray decomposition and with spots of moss, and with brake growing where\\nthere is a handful of earth. I stand and look uito its deptlis at various points,\\nand hear the roar of the stream re-echoing up. It is lil-e a heart that has been\\nrent asunder by a torrent of passion, Avhich has raged and foamed, and left its\\nineffaceable traces though now there is but a little rill of feeling at the bottom.\\nThe Cascade in Nolch Brook is about U M. from the h jtel, and has a fall of 3 ft.\\nIt is situated in a pretty glen.\\nFrom the hill E. of the village are various excellent views of mt.\\nscenery, far and near, with Greylock, appearing, Avith its two summits\\nand a long, ridge between, like a huge monster crouching down slumber-\\ning, with its head slightly elevated. Other fine prospects are gained\\nfrom the various hills which surroimd the village.\\nMain St. contains several good commercial buildings, and at its end is\\na group of handsome churches. Numerous Chinamen are engaged in the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0208.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "HOOSAC TUNNEL. Route 23. 155\\nshoe-shops of this town. The soil of Adams is rich and productive, and\\nflocks of merino sheep are pastured on the mountain-sloi^es. Daily-\\nstages run from N. Adams N, E. 5 M. to Stamford, Vt., and 11 M. to\\nHeartwellville also S. from Williamstown to S. Williamstown, 4 M.\\nNew Ashford, 8 M. and Lanesboro, 15 M. The mountain-towns in\\nthis region are lull of picturesfpie scenery, but are mournfully decadent,\\nhaving been drained by Western emigration.\\nThe W. end of the Hoosac Tunnel is Ih !\\\\I. S. E. of N. Adams, and\\nthe tuniniel is now traversed by trains. This stupendous work was 20\\nyears under process of excavation, and cost tlie State about 16,000,000.\\nIt is 4| M. long, and cuts through the Hoosac Mt., whose vast bulk run-\\nning N. and S. closed the way until the tunnel (in 1874) opened a new\\nroute, nearer by 9 M. than any other between Boston and the West, and\\nof easy grade. Tlie Nerthe Tunnel in S. France, and the Woodhead\\nTunnel, in England, are each nearly 3 ]\\\\L long and the Hoosac is sec-\\nond only to the i\\\\It.-Cenis Tunnel (7^ M. long). The cuttings from the\\nends (by power-drills and nitro-glycerine) were met by borings on grade\\nfrom tlie bottom of a great shaft sunk between the peaks of tlie Hoosac\\nMt. The mountain is mostly of mica slate, except near the W. end,\\nwliere great trouble was given by a soft and treacherous pudding-stone\\nthrough wliicli a tube of brick 900 ft. long was built.\\nStages often leave N. Adams for the passage of the great Hoosac\\nMt. to the E. end of the tunnel (8 ]\\\\I.). After a long, slow ascent by zig-\\nzag gradients, the W. crest of Hoosac is gained, with a view of Greylock\\nin the S. W. and the broad sweep of the Taconic Hills from the parent\\nrange in Vermont to the bhie and cloudlike southern peaks. S. Adams\\nis plainly visible, and the valley of the Hoosac stretching W., and the\\nbroad, central valley of Berkshire running S. Descending the slope to the\\nplateau, the buildings over the Central Shaft are seen. The lofty and\\nwinter- worn plateau is soon crossed and the E. summit is climbed.\\nA noble view is obtained from this point, above the romantic sjiorge of the\\nDeertiekl River to Wachusetfc Mt., an l beyond it the blue and indistinctive\\nscene extended to the E. and N. for at least GO M. Beyond the hills it looked\\nalmost as if the blue ocean might be seen. Monadnock was visible, like a sap-\\nphire cloud against the sky. The scenery on the E. side of the Green Mts. is in-\\ncomparably more striking than on the W. where the long swells and ridges hiive a\\nflatness of effect. But on the eastern part, peaks 1-2,000 ft. high rush u]) on\\neither bank of the river in ranges, thrusting out their shoulders side by side.\\nS )metimes the iirecipice rises Avith abruptness from the immediate side of the\\nriver sometimes there is a valley on either side cultivated long and with all\\nthe smoothness and antique rurality of a farm near cities, this gentle picture is\\nstrongly set off by the wild mt. frame around it. I have never driven thi ough\\nsuch romantic scenery, where there was such variety and ])oldness of mt. shapes\\nas this and though it was a sunny day, tlie mts. diversified the view with sun-\\nshine and shadow, and glory and gloom. (Hawthorne.)\\nFrom Hoosac-Tunnel Station, E. of the mt., daily stages run 10 M. N.\\nup the wild and lonely Deerlield valley, to Eeadsboro {BteijitU- Valhu\\nIIou. i:), in Vt.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0209.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "15G Routo23. THE BERKSHIRE HILLS.\\nAbout 1 M. W. of N. Adams, and beyond the small factory village of\\nBraytonville, the road to Williamstowu crosses the railroad and the Hoosac\\nRiver. Near this crossing a small elm is seen in a meadow about 20 rods\\nfrom the track. This elm stands on the site of old Fort Massachusetts,\\ni\\\\\\\\e Thermopylae of New England. (Everett.)\\nThis was built in 1744 as one of a cordon of forts to iirotect the frontiers. Fort\\nDummcr guarded the N. route do wai the Conn, valley, and this fort was to block\\nup tlie W. route through tlie Hudson, Hoosac, and Deerfield valleys. In 17-J6\\nCol. Vrilliams and many men marched hence to Albany to join the army fur in-\\nvading Canada, but meanwhile the enemy liad made a flank marcli, and the Chev-\\nalier de Yaudreuil attacked the fort at the head of 90(\u00c2\u00bb French and Indians. Ser-\\ngeant Hawks and 22 men held the place for 48 hours again.\u00c2\u00abt tliis overwhelming\\nforce, and only surrendered when every grain of ]Jov,der was exhausted. The\\nFranco-Indian force lost 47 men before the fort.\\nIh IM- from its railroad station is Williamstown {Mansion House, 200\\nguests; Kdlo(jg House, lb guests), a beautifid village situated in a fertile\\nvalley which is grandly- mountain-walled. Tlie reason of Williarastown s\\nbeing is William.s College, a flourishing institution, with 20 instructors and\\n275 students. INIorgan Hall, the largest dormitory, was built in 1883.\\nClark Hall is a fine new Norman-arched building, of granite. The Chapel\\ncontains the Garfielil memorial window, by Tiffany and Lafarge, and a\\nnoble window commemorating Prof. Albert Hopkins. Jackson Hall has\\nthe natural-history collections and Indian relics; Lawrence Hall (octago-\\nnal), the libraiy (;50,000 volumes), portraits of college professors and pa-\\ntrons, and Nineveh sculptures; Goodrich Hall (a fine stone structure), the\\nchemical rowans. Kellogg Hall, S., E., and W. Colleges, the ancient vine-\\ncovered observatory, the President s antique mansion, alongside tlie Cong.\\nChurch, should be noticed; also the monument to Williams-College alumni\\nwho died in the civil war.\\nCol. Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College, was born at Ne-\\\\vton,\\nMass., in 1715. He was lieut. -colonel of the Sth Massachusetts Reg. at the siege\\nof Louishourg, in 1745, and commanded the trans-Connecticut forts from 1748 to\\n1755. In 1755, with his regiment, he joined Gen. Johnson s army, and while at\\nAlbany he made a will leaving his estate for the erection of a school in a town to\\n1)6 located W. of Fort Mass. to be called Williamstown. Shortly after, while\\nmarchin.g with 1,200 men to engage Dieskan near Lake George, his command\\nwas ambushed and overiiowered, and Col. Williams was killed. The school was\\nestablished in 1790, in a hrick building (the iiresent W. College), and was char-\\ntered as Williams College in 1793. Its president-; have been Dr. E. Fitch (1793-\\n181 J), Dr. Z. S. Moore (1815 -21), Dr. E. D. Griffm (1821- 3G), Dr. Mark Hopldns,\\n(1836-72), Dr. Paul A. Chadbourne, and Frauklin Carter.\\nNear W. College is Mission Park, with a marble shaft surmounted by a\\nglobe, ^\\\\\u00e2\u0080\u00a2hich indicates the place whei-e Samuel J. Mills, the Father of\\nForeign Missions in America, and his companions, consecrated themselves\\nto the mission-cause (1807). Mills originated the A. B. C. F. M., and the\\nAmerican Bible Society, and died at sea (after exploring Liberia for a site\\nfor a colony of freedmcn) at the early age of 35.\\nAbout 2 M. N. of the village is the famous Sand Spring, with exteu-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0210.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. 157\\nsive bathing-houses. The abundant waters maintain a temperature of\\nabout 70\u00c2\u00b0, and are benelicial in cutaneous diseases. *Greylock Hall is a\\nlarge hotel at this point, commanding pleasant valley views.\\nWilliamstuwu has 4 cliurches, and its main street is 1^ M. long and\\n16 rods wide, with trees, lawns, and gravel walks. The view from the\\ncollege is grand, and includes the massive Berlin Mt. (2,814 ft.) on the\\nW., Dome and East Mts. on the N., Clarksburg Mt. on the N. \\\\V., and\\nMt. ILipkins and Prospect Mt. on tlie S. E.\\nGreylock, the highest Mass. mt., overlooks the valley from a height of\\n3,505 ft. (see page 15^3). Its N. peak, Mt. Williams, is reached by Slope\\nHawks, from Fort Mass. Slope Norton runs up to Mt. Prospect, the W.\\npeak of the Greylock range, whose chief summit is Sinionds Peak. N. of\\nthe valley is a stately range, crowned by the Dome (in Vt.). On the W.\\nis the Taconic range, separating Mass. from N. Y,, with rough roads cross-\\ning the Berlin, Petersburg, Kidder, and Johnson Passes. Mt. Hophins\\n(2,;~00 ft. high), between tlie Kidder and Berlin Passes, is often ascended\\nfor its views of Greylock and the Green Mts., and the Hoosac and Hudson\\nvalleys (ascend to the S. 1 M. from Berlin road, 5 M. from Williamstown).\\nThe wildest scenery of Massachusetts is in and around the Hopper, a\\ngorge surrounded by a vast amphitheatre of mts. (Bald, Prospect, Grey-\\nlock, .C.), striped with cascades. It is entered by a wood-road from the\\nhighway, 4 M. S. The Oblong Road, the Torrey- Woods Road, the Green-\\nKiver Road, the road to Pownal Pond, are among the pleasant drives of\\nthe town. 10 M. from the village is the Snow Glen. In Flora s Glen\\nBryant composed Thanatopsis, when an 18-year-old student.\\nS. Williamstown {Sahia House), 5 M. S., midway between Greylock\\nand Berlin Mt., is a beautiful rural hamlet, the seat of the famous Grej^-\\nlock Institute (bo3\\\\s school; founded 1842).\\nThe Troy and Boston R. R. runs to Troy, in New York, 4-1 M. from beautiful\\nWillianistown on her classic heights.\\n24. New York to Quebec.\\nAlso New Haven, Hartford, and Springfu ld to Montreal. Quebec, and the\\nFranconia Mts. Distances, New York t(j Qut hec, 526 M. to Lake Me.ini)hreina-\\ngog 365 M. New Haven to Quebec, 453 M. Hartford to Quebec, 417 M.\\nSpringfield to Quebec, 391 M Springfield to Lake Memphremagog, 229 M.\\nThe line between New York and Springfield is described in Route 21.\\nIn the station at Springfield the traveller leaves the New York and Bos-\\nton train, and gets into the cars of the Conn. River R. R. Time is usually\\nallowed for dinner (restaurant in station Massasoit House, close by).\\nStation, Chicopee (Cabot House), at the confluence of the Chicopee\\nand Conn. Rivers, with 12,000 inhabitants and a handsome town-hall,\\nadorned by a turreted clock-tower 150 ft. high. Here are the Dwiglit\\nCo. s and other cotton-mills, with 140,000 spindles and 1,600 operatives,\\nwoollen-mills, and smaller factories of various kinds. The Ames Manu-\\nfacturing Co. employs 4 500 men in making machinery, brass cannon,\\nfine swords, and bronze statuary. The equestrian statue of Wash-", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0211.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "158 Route 24. NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nington, at Boston, many soldiers monuments, and the superb bronze\\ndoors of the Senate at Washmgton were cast here. The doors of the\\nHouse of Representatives were cast at Munich, and those of the Senate\\nwere to have been made there, but the over-prudent Bavarians demanded\\nprepayment from the U. S. Government (it was the darkest year of the\\nSecession War). With a proper spirit this was refused, and the work\\nwas given to the Cliicopee Foundry, though but little was hoped from it.\\nTo the surprise of all, tlie doors were finished admirably, and challenge\\ncomparison with the best of Munich work. During the Rebellion, this\\nfoundry was worked night and day, and supplied the Republic with vast\\namounts of shot and shell, and over 1,000 cannon.\\nAt Cliicopee Falls, 2 M. E., are cotton-mills employing 1,000 hands,\\nbesides large factories which make farmers tools.\\nStation, Willimansett, about 2 M. above which is the manufacturing\\nvillage of S.-IIadley Falls (small hotel), opposite Holyoke and endowed\\nwith a great water-power. Mucli of the intervale land here and in\\nthe adjacent town of Hadley is used for the cultivation of tobacco, a\\nprofitable crop. After leaving Willimansett, the line crosses the\\nbroad Connecticut and- stops at Hoiyoke Windsor Hotel Samoset\\nHouse). This is a rapidly growing manufacturing city of (50,000 inhab-\\nitants, at Hadley Falls, which furnish the greatest water-power in New\\nEngland. Timothy Dwight speaks of the fantastic beauty, and sublime\\nmajesty of these Falls. Within 1^ M. the river falls 60 ft., and opposite\\nthe city a dam has been built 30 ft. high and over 1,000 ft. long, throwing\\nthe Avater into a canal SA stem 3 M. in jiggregate length, which can furnish\\npower enough to drive 1,000,000 spindles. The original dam of 184:7 was\\nburst away before the water had filled it, and the present one (1849) con-\\ntains 6,000,000 ft. of lumber, spiked to the ledges on the bottom of the\\nriver, and plated with boiler-iron. The leading product of Holyoke is\\npaper, made by 3,500 men in 2G factories (178 tons of paper are made\\ndaily). Holyoke is the chief paper-making city of the world. There are\\n2,800 operatives in the cotton-mills, 800 make thread, 450 make beavers\\nand cassimeres, 500 work on machiner} and others make alpacas, wire,\\ncutlery, rubber, screws, silks, c.\\nHolyoke is surrounded on three sides by the river, and has broad and\\npleasant streets, with 13 churches, 4 national and 3 savings banks, a daily\\npaper, and a public library. The handsome new *City Hall cost\\n$340,000, and is of rough-split granite, with a tower 215 ft. high, con-\\ntaining a memorial room with a richly stained window. The large inner\\nhall seats 1,300, and has elaborate stained windows. The Soldiers Monu-\\nment is a statue of the Goddess of Liberty holding a laurel wreath.\\nMt. St. Vincent (formerly Inf/leside), the Sisters of Charity orphana re, is\\nbeautifuUy situated and attracts m.-iny visitors. Mtt Nonotuek {Eyrie House)\\nis a notable view-poiut (see page 160).", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0212.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route U- 159\\nTlie railroad passes out in full view of the great dam, whose fine water-\\nfall has been removed by the necessity of building out an inclined plane,\\nto prevent the eating oiit of the ledges by the heavy perpendicular fall.\\nAfter leaving Holyoke the line runs N. between the river and the long\\nrange of Mt. Tom (on the 1.), while Mt. Holyoke is seen ahead on the r.\\nThe train now passes through the gap between these two mts., and Am-\\nherst and Mt. Warner are visible on the r. front, leagues away over the\\nrich valley, while Easthampton and Pomeroy s Mt. are seen on the 1.\\nThe line crosses the river to Ox Bow Island, which was a peninsula xmtil\\n1840, when a rush of the swollen river cut through its isthmus. After\\ncrossing the rich intervales bordering on the river, the train enters\\nNorthampton.\\nNonotuek was bought of its Indian o^\\\\mers, in 1653, for 100 fathoms of wampum,\\n10 coats, c., and was named Nortlia:iipton, since many of its settlers came from\\nthat Englisli town. Solomon Stoddaid was for 56 years pa.stor here, and was a\\nman of grave and majestic appearance. He rode once through an ambush in the\\nforest, and when the French soldiers were ahout to shoot liim, tlie awe-struck In-\\ndians stopped tlieni, saying, That is the Englishmen s God. The village was\\nsuri ounded T)y a jialisade and wall, which, however, was stormed in three jdaces\\nby King Philip s Indians (1676). Three veteran companies were defending the\\njtlace, and after a desperate conflict in the streets the assailants were driven out.\\nThe church was built in 1655, at a cost of 14, and was 2G ft. by 18. The i)resent\\nstone church i.s the fifth on that site. The Christians were called to meeting by\\nthe blasts of a trumpet\\nEach man equipped on Sunday morn, And looked in form, as all mns* prant.\\nWith psahn-book, shot, and powder-horn, Like th ancient true church militant.\\njNIcFingal.\\nIn the old cemetery are buried 4 Senators of the United States, Ashmun, Mills,\\nBates, and S-tmng, the latter of whom was for 11 years Gov. of Mass., and. oppos-\\ning the War of 1812, limited the exertions of the State to her own defence. Here\\nalso is buried David Brainerd, a heroic and itowerful missionary to the Indians,\\nauthor of Mirabilia Dei apud Indicos, and son-in-law of Jonathan Edwards.\\nEdwards was pastor here, 1727-50, and was dismissed for insisting on a higher\\nand purer standard of admission to the comnumion table. The Dwights, Aliens,\\nand Tappans were Northampton families prolific in able men, and W. D. Whit-\\nney, the leading American philologist [one of the finest Sanscrit scholars in the\\nworld) was born here in 1S27.\\nNorthampton {Mansion House) is the frontis})iece\\nof the book of beauty which Nature opens wide in the valley of the\\nConnecticut. An English tourist (Stuart, in 1833) calls it the\\nmost beautiful village in America. Its broad and shaded streets and\\nhandsome villas are placed in a rich tract of broad intervale and about 1\\nM. from the river. There are a number of stores and public buildings on\\nthe broad street near the spacious and comfortable Mansion House, and\\nin this vicinity is the brownstone building occupied by tlie Trustees of the\\nSmith Chanties.\\nOliver Smith, of Hatfield, died in 1S45, leaving $.370,000 for charitable o1)jects.\\nThe youths and maidens and widows of the eiglit adjacent towns receive, under\\ncertain conditions, loans, dowries, and small pensions from this fund. By skill-\\nful management on the part of the Trustees (who are chosen by electors from the\\neight towns), the funds had increased by 1866 to $854,000, and by the terms of", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0213.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "160 Routed//. MOUNT IIOLYOKE.\\nMr. Smith s will, a part of this is to by devoted to the establishment of an agricul-\\ntural school in ttiis town iu the year l!J05.\\nSiiiitli College is at Nortuampton, and was endowed in 1871 by Miss Sophia\\nSmita, fur the higher education of women. Its property is vaiuod at *o25,U!JU.\\nThe main building is surnninded by the houses of the students, Music Hall, tiie\\nGyuina.-ium, c. Tbe lliilyer Art Gallery contains many interesting paintings and\\ncasts, and a number of studios The handsome seculir-Gothic buildings are ad-\\nniirably placed, on a hill, behind a fringe i f elms. There are 260 students and 10\\ninstructors. Two large public libraries are near by.\\nOn the beautiful and far-viewing Hound Hill, W. of the city, among noble groves\\nand lawns, stand the buildings long occupied by the celebrated classical school,\\nthe Massachusetts Eton, founded ia 1S23 by George Bancroft, the historian, and\\nJ. G. Coggswell, the author. Tue views thence are very extensive and pleising.\\nOn the same hill is the Clarke Itisfitutionfor Mutes (endowed with 3U0,00U),\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2which teaches the system of articulation in place of the sign alphabet. It accom-\\nmodates 80-90 persons. 1 M. S. VV. of the city is the State Lunatic Asylum,\\nwith imposing buildings which accommodate 300 patients. These buildings are\\n512 ft. long, and have 4 acres of floors.\\nNorthampton became a city iu 1833. It has about 13,000 inhabitants, and a\\nvaluation of S 8,000,000. Its manufactures amount to S 3,000,000 a year, employ-\\ning 1,600 persons.\\nJFloi-eiice is 2.\\\\ M. W. of the city, and is the seat of several factories, the chief\\nof which is the Nuuotuck Shk Co employing 500 hands.\\nGoshen {Ilujhland House Lyman s) is a summer-frequented hill-town, 6 M.\\nby daily .stage from Williamsburg.\\nMt. Nonotuck, the E. peak of the Mt. Tom range, is ascended from Mt.-Tom\\nstation by a road and path, and has the Eyrie House (25 cts. entrance) on ifs far-\\nviewing summit. A stfeam-ferry crosses the Connecticut from Mt. Tom to Mt.\\nHolyoke.\\n*Mt. Holyoke, =the ^em of Mass. mts., is 2 M. S. E of North-\\nampton, A c;irriai,^e-road winds up from the ferry to the mountain rail-\\nAvay, up Avhich passengers are drawn in small cars b} a stationary engine\\n($1 up and down 50 cts. to walk). Upon the summit a small hotel was\\nbuilt in 1821, whose site is now occupied by the Prospect House. 3-4,000\\npersons ascend the mt. every season. The carriage road is 3 M. long, and\\nthe railway, in its GOO ft. of incline, rises 305 ft. perpendicular. Between\\nthe building of the railway in 1854 and its remodelling in 186G, 125,000\\npersons ascended on it. The summit is 1,120 ft. above the sea, and 8-iO ft.\\nai)ove the river, and is part of a greenstone ridge running from West IJock\\nat New Haven to Belchertown. The invincil)le trnp-ro -k of the mount\\nresisted the glaciers during their long grinding attacks, but the great lake\\nwhich, according to Indian tradition, filled the basin to the N., at last\\nbroke awav between Nonotuck and Holyoke, and became a river. West-\\nern Mass. is underlaid with gneiss, but the Conn, valley has a belt of\\ncoarse, new red sandstone 10-10 M. wide, of the Permian and Triassic\\nsj stems.\\nFrom this peak is the ri -hest view in New England, if not in the\\nU. S. It has often been called, by distinguished visitors, the finest view\\nin America.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0214.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. IGl\\nOn the S. are seen numerous villages in the valley, Springfield, the graceful\\nsinuosities of the broad river, the distant spires of Hartford (40 M.), the Blue and\\ntlie Lyme Mts., and East and West Rocks at New Haven (70 M.). S. W., beyond\\nMt. Tom, are glimpses of the valley of Westlield River, and on the W. Pom-\\neroy s Mt. and the high hills of Hampshire and Central Berkshire are seen. N.\\nW are 8,000 acres of garden-like meadows, with Northampton directly over them,\\nand above the village, 42 M. away, is Greylock. in dim and misty grandeur.\\nF.irther to the r. the hills of Franklin County are seen, dominated by Mts. Toby\\nand Sugar Loaf, while in the far N. the blue peaks of the Green Mis. overlook all.\\nThe great lacustrine basin of the Conn., 20 M. by 15, is nearer, in the N., with fair\\nHadley on its plaided meadows, in a bend of the river, and Hatlield just across\\nthe river and intervales, under the shadow of Mt. Warner (to the r.). M. N. E.\\nis Amherst with its colleges, and beyond, far in the N. E., rises in insulated\\ngrindeur the cloud-capped Monadnock (.^0 M.). In the E. Mt. Wachusett (35 M.\\naway) rises above tlie crowd of hills which fill the E. raid S. E. 3S towns are\\nseeii from this lofty peak, with parts of 4 States.\\nThere are good views from other peaks of the Holyoke Range (which is 9 M.\\nlong), and at its W. eu l are lofty cliffs of columnar basalt which have been named\\nthe Titan s Piers.\\nThe famous Mount Holyoke Seminary is at S. Hadley, which is reached\\nby dally stages in 4 M. from S. Hadley Falls, ()pposite Holyoke. It is a collegi-\\nate school for girls, with a 4-years course and series of lectures and has jire-\\njiared many missionary- women for their labors in heathendom. The Seminary\\nwas founded in 1836, by Mary Lyon and has 30 Instructors and about 200 stu-\\ndents. The main building is surrounded by trees, and commands a beautiful\\nview of the gorge between Mts. Tom and Holyoke, ami the Noiihami)ton iiitei\\nvales. The library is in a new fire-proof building. The Seminary is also ap-\\nproached from Northampton, by way of Smith s Ferry.\\nOld Hadley is 2^ M. N. E. of Northampton, over the river, and lie.s on\\nthe E. of a rich and level intervale, containing 2 3,000 acres, which is an-\\nnually overflowed by the river. The Connecticut here make.s a curve of\\n5 M. to accomplish 1 M. of direct course, and the neck of the pieniusula is\\ncrossed by the street of Hadley. West Street was laid out before the\\nsettlement as 1 M. long and 20 rods wide, but by the encroachments of\\nthe river and the inhabitants, it has been reduced to a length of 300 rods\\nand a width of about 16 rods. This wide, park-like street is adorned\\nwitli about 900 ancient elm-trees, 4 lines of whicli stretch from river to\\nriver, and is called the handsomest street by nature in New England.\\nMiddle and East Sts. are also wide and shaded avenues, running N.\\nand S. On the meadows near this charming rural village great quantities\\nof broom-corn are raised, which, with much of the same material im-\\nported from the West, is made into brooms and brushes. This industry\\nwas commenced in 1790. The hotel is the Elinwood House.\\nIn 1G50, fierce theological discussions were carried on at Hartford, and many of\\nits wealthier families left the place in search of peace and good-will, and settled\\non the Indian domain of Norwottock, which they named in honor of Hadleigh, in\\nSuffolk, England. In 1G64 Goffe and Whalley, two generals of the Army of\\nParliament, and judges of the court which put King Charles I. to death, came here\\nand lived for 15 years concealed in tlie pastor s house. They had been forced to\\nfly for their lives after the Restoration, and after 3.^ years of hiding about New\\nHaven they came to Hadley. Their presence iiere was only known of liy three\\ncitizens. On Sept. 1, 1675, while the people wei-e assembled in the church, iu\\nfasting and prayer, the town was attacked by swarms of Indians. After a .sharp\\nfight, the English gave way, when Gen. Gofte, an ancient man with hoary locks,\\nof a most venerable and dignified aspect, aftpeared suddenly, commanded and", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0215.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "1G2 Route 21 NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nled a fresh attack by the people, and scattered the dismayed Indians in all direc-\\ntions. He then disappeared to his hiding-place, and tlie astonislied villagers, for\\nmany years, attributed their deliverance tu the visit of a militant angel. Gen.\\nWhalley died here in ltJ79. Tlie foregoing is the chief local legend.\\nIn 1(376 700 Indians attacked the town just after the Falls Fight, but after a\\nlong and bitter stru-gle they were repelled with severe losses.\\nF; D. Huntingt()n Episcopal Bishop of Central New York, was a native of this\\nvillage. Joseph Hooker, Fighting Joe, was born at Hadley in 1S15. He was\\ndistinguished at the battles of Monterey and Chapultepec, in the Mexican War,\\nand bore high commands during the Secession War. At Antietam, he commanded\\nthe r. of the army, and afterwards, at the head of the Army of the Potomac, he\\nwas defeated in a long and terrible battle at Chancellorsville, Va., losing 16,000\\nmen. In lSo.3- 4 he did brilliant service in the battles resultant on the reoecu-\\npation of Georgia and Alabama by the National armies.\\nEasthampton (see page 110) is 4 M. S. W. of Northampton. Amherst (see pni^e\\n100) is 7^ M. N. E. (daily stages) by a road which crosses tlie river on a bridge\\n1,080 ft. long, and passes througli Old Hadley.\\nHatfield {Hatfield House) is a heautiful and historic village 1^ M. N.\\nof Haillej^, and 2J M. E. of Hatfield station (stages from trains). It lias\\nabont 1,200 inhabitants, and is famous for its fat cattle and tobacco-\\ncrops. The village is on the rich Connecticut intervales, with Horse Ut.\\non the W. and is connected with N. Hadley (under Mt. Warner) by a\\nferr^^ Hatfield is on the W. side of the river, and HatUey on the E.\\nIn 1675 Hatlield was attacked by 800 Indians, but the veteran companies of\\nMoseley and Pike fouglit desperately amid the bunung houses, ami held out till\\nrelief came. In 1676 600 Indians made a bold ami disastnms attack and in\\n1677 the palisade was stormed and 26 persons were killed and captured.\\nAfter leaving Northampton, the Conn. River Rfrilroad passes near the\\nGreat Bend of the Conn, in sight of Old Hadley (to the r. then diverges\\nfrom the river, which is not seen again for 30 M. Station, Hatfield, be-\\nyond which the track runs near the base-line of the State Trigonometrical\\nSurvey (39,009.73 ft. long), which is laid along the plains of Hatfield and\\nWliately (on the r.). Stations, N. Hatfield and Whately (Whately\\nHouse), whose village is seen in the W. Beyond the village is the far-\\nviewing Mt. Esther, and the picturesque Wliately Glen, with its cascades.\\nThe train passes Sugar Loaf Mt. and stops at S. Deerfield (small hotel).\\nA road leads from the village to the Mountain House, on the summit of\\nthe conical S. peak of Sugar Lnafi Mt., which rises sheer from the\\nmeadows and near the river. From this point is visible the broad, rich\\nvalley, with its villages of Amherst, Hadley, Hatfield, Northampton, and\\nseveral others, with Holyoke seen beyond the Titanic gateway between\\nNonotuck and Mt. Holyoke. Close at hand on the E. is Sunderland,\\nimder the shadow of Hi. Toby.\\nThe rich and peaceful valley seen from Sugar Loaf was the scene of the bloodiest\\ntragedies of King Pliilip s and tlie later Indian wars. King Philip directed tlie\\nmovements of tlie western Indians fromhis liead-qiarters on this peak, \u00e2\u0080\u0094so runs\\ntradition. Table Rock is a beeding cliff on the F. side, beneath which is a seat\\ncut in tlie rock, called King Philip s Chair (see Bristol, R. I.). A sharp skirmish\\ntook place just S. of the Mt., in August, 1675, when 26 Indians and 10 colonists\\nwere killed. t, t i\\nIn the N. part of S. Deerfield village is a monument on the Bloodii Brook battle-\\nfield. Sept. 18, 1675, Capt. Lathrop and 84 men were convoying a train of grain-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0216.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. 1G3\\nwagons from ruined Deerfield to Hadley, and as they i)assed over a small Ivrook,\\nthey stopped to rest and pick the wild grapes which liung in clusters over its\\nwaters. While thus diobaaJeJ, they were suddenly attaclced by 700 Indian\\nwarriors. Lathrop ordered liis men to talce refuge behind the trees and fire from\\ntheir shelter, but they were speedily enveloped by the enemy, and but 7 men es-\\ncai)ed the general massacre, which included the teamsters and reapers and 7G\\nsoldiers. Capt. Moseley, an old Jamaica buccaneer, marched rapidly to the\\nsound of the volleys, and charged and recharged Jn solid company front through\\nthe heathen swarms. Major Ti-eat and 100 Mohcgan and Pequot Indians (allies of\\nthe English) also marched up from Hadley, and 9(5 of the hostile warriors were\\nkilled on the field.\\nA rude monument was soon erected here, and in 183. i the iJeople of 5 towns as-\\nsembled and dedicated a fine marble monument, with an address by Edward\\nEverett.\\nIn the country, districts that nestle in the dells seem to have been there for\\nten centuries at least and it gives one a sho dc to light on such a place as Bloody\\nBrook, and to be told that only 200 years ago Capt. Lathrop was slain here by\\nRed Indians, wiih 80 youtli, the flower of Essex County, as the old Puritan\\nhistories say. (Sir Charles Dilke.)\\nAbout 5 M. N. passing (on tlie r. tlie monument, and then the long\\nridge of Deerfield Mt., the line jxpproaches the Deerfield River, and stops\\nat Old Deerfield. This place was settled by\\nmen of Dedhani in 1670, on the Indian domain of Pocomtuck, and was\\nnamed from the abundance of deer found in its forests.\\nSept. 1, 1675, the village was attaciked and burnt, and then abandoned. It was\\na ter harvesting its deserted fields that such disa.ster befell at Bloody Brook, a\\nchoice company of young men, the very flower of Essex County, none of whome\\nwere ashamed to sjieak with the enemy in the gate. In 1694 a fresh attack was\\nmade, but it was rei)ulsed by tlie ])eople, headed by their pastor. Rev. John Wil-\\nliams. Feb. 20, 1704, while the watch was sleeping, and the snow had drifted\\nover the palisades, 2 hours before daylight, the place was attacked by Major de\\nRouville, with 340 French and Indians. The walls were easily passed, and a ter-\\nrible scene of slaughter, pillage, and conflagration ensued, wliicli lasted for three\\nhours. But one house escaped, and its loopholes were guaixled by 7 bold colo-\\nnists, whose wives were casting bullets for their guns. 47 English were killed,\\nand 112 taken prisoners. A few escaped, and alarmed tiie lower towns, and Hat-\\nfield sent a force in pursuit, which overtook and was defeated by Ue Rouville on\\nthe same day. Mrs. Williams was murdered in the Leyden Gorge, and other\\nweakly captives soon shared her fate. On the first Sunday of their march north,\\nRev. John Williams preached fmm the text, My virgins and my young men\\nare gone into captivity. Arrived in Canada, the jn-isoners were forced to attend\\nRoman Catholic services, and Mr. Williams was off ered his freedom, a pension,\\nand his children, if he would join that church. He sternly refused, but 28 of his\\npeople chose to remain in Canada, and joined the Roman Church, whence kindred\\nblood now rattles bad French in Canada or sputters Indian in the N. and N. W.\\nThe captives were kindly treated l)y the French, and 00 of them were redeemed\\nin 17O0. The pastor s little daughter, Eunice (7 years ohl), who was kept by the\\nIndians, afterwards marrie l an Indian and became a Catholic, and often in after\\nyears made visits to Deerfield with her tribe. Not one iota of regard for the cus-\\ntoms of civilized life, or for the tenets of the Pm-it m Church, remained in her\\nheart. De Knuville attncl^ed Deerfield ajrain in 1701), but was handsomely re-\\npulsed. In ISOl 5 the town sent ut .H20 soldjcvs.\\nDaily st.Tjes run 2 M. S. E. to Sunderland, a quiet riverside hamlet near\\nthe foot of Mt. Toby, to whose summit a road lias been made, with a tower\\n(63 ft. high) and hnsiiiee on tn]). The view thence is one of the noblest in New\\nEngland. It is hard to tell which mt. view is fine.\u00c2\u00abt, from Ilolyoke, Tom, Sugar\\nLoaf, or Toby. If you add tlie wuuderlul view from the Springfield Armory tuw(a-,\\nand thiit from Taleott Mt., 3 ou have au array of mt. views uu. ^uri)ass(id between\\nthe Atlantic Ocean and the lloeky Mts. Daily stages also run W. 6 M. to Con-\\nway {L onwaij House), a prosperous farming-town and Aslifield (Aihjitld\\nHouse), the mountain-home of Geo. Wm. Curtis and Chas. Eliot Isortoa.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0217.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "164 Routed. BELLOWS FALLS.\\nDeerfieldhas 3,500 inhabitants, a soldiers monument, 4 libraries, and G churches.\\nTobacco, hay, and grain grow on the ricli meadows; and cutlery and brooms are\\nmade. Among its natives were llichard llildreth, the liistorian Edward Hitchcock,\\nthe geologist Bishop John AVilliams Gen. Kufus Saxton and George Fuller, the\\narfist. B W Champney, the celebrated artist, has his home at Beerfield and\\nElbridge Kingsley lives at Hatlield.\\nMemorial Hall is the old Deerfield Academy, built in the last century, remodelled,\\nand occupied by a fine museum of Kevolutionary and colonial relics, Indian weapons\\nand other curiosities, spinning-wheels, ancient furniture and utensils, the great\\ndoor chopped into by an Indian tomahawk in 1704, and a cannon brought iiere\\n(probably) by Gov. Belcher, in 1735.\\nOld Deerfield is the pleasautest part of the town. Here are the summer boarding-\\nhouses of Mrs. John Stebbias and Mrs. Christopher Stebbins.\\nJust beyoud Deerfield the railroad crosses the Deerfield River.\\nStation, Greenfield (see Route 25). From this place the line runs N.\\nE. to Bcrnardston, a small village under the shadow of West Mt. This\\ncold and lofty toivn was granted in 1736 to the veterans of the Falls\\nFight. A few min. after passing Bernardston the train comes in sight of\\nthe Conn. Eiver, and reaches the station-house at 8. Vernon, the terminus\\nof the Conn, River Line.\\nThe train now passes 07i the rails of the Central Vermont R. R. Sta-\\ntions, S. Vernon, Vernon, and Erattleboro, see Route 12. Beyond\\nBrattleboro are the stations, Dummerston, Putney, E. Putney, and West-\\nminster, which pertain to small hill-villages. In Putney are long slrata\\nof roofing-slate; and the rare mineral called fluor spar (of a rich emerald\\ngreen) is found in tlie E. of the town. In 1755 a strong timber fort was\\nbuilt on the Great Meadows in Putney, which protected the settlement\\nuntil the conquest of Canada rendered it unnecessary. All the inhabitants\\nlived in the fort in small houses.\\nAt Westminster occurred a sharp skirmish in the course of the contest be-\\ntween Puritan and Patroon (as the struggle of Vermont against the royal edict\\nwliich gave her to New York has been termed). Tlie royal New York judges were\\nto hold court here, but the citizens captured the Court-House, March 13, 1775,\\nand were only dislodged by an attack at midnight.\\nThe oldest church in Vermont is in this village (1 M. S. of the station). It was\\nbuilt in 1770, and has been secularized. Across the river from Westminster is the\\nold frontier town of Waljiole (see Route 26).\\nStation, Bellows Falls Island House). This was a favorite Indian\\nresort because of the great niimbers of salmon and shad near the rapids.\\n8 rods S. of the old bridge, on the W. baidc, Schoolcraft found Indian\\nhieroglyphs on the rocks, which he thinks are the records of some ancient\\nbattle. The village was named for Col. Bellows, the founder of Walp.ole,\\nand great-grandfather of Dr. H. W. Bellows. The river falls 42 ft.\\nwithin M. near the village, and forms white and impetuous rapids,\\ndashing betAveen and among the rocks which strew the river-bed. In\\nlow water the current is compressed into a channel of 16 ft. in width,\\nbetween two large rocks. A canal M. long has been built around the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0218.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "NEW YOEK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. 1G5\\nfalls, and on the water-power thus aiforded, several factories are located.\\nOpposite tlie falls is Mt. Kilhurn, a wooded eminence which gives a pretty\\nview of the river and village. The old name of this hill was Fall Mt.,\\nbut President Hitclicock and a large delegation of stiidents from Amherst\\nand Middlebury Colleges met here in 1856, and named it Mt. Kilhurn, in\\nhonor of a brave frontiersman. The Fall Mt. House is situated at the\\nfoot of tills eminence.\\nPleasant excursions are made by the suuuner visitors here, to Warren s Pond,\\nin Alstead, N. H. to tlie Abenaquis Mineral Hj^rln jn and to West ininstcr.\\nFrom 13 illows Frills the Chesliire R. R. nun IS. E. to Fitchhurg and Boston (114\\nM.\\\\ aud the Central Vt. R. R. Roes fo Burlinfjton (143 M. See p.ige 181). Daily\\nstages to Alsteail (3 M Marlow (13 M.), Acworth, Leinpster, Grafton, c.\\nThe train crosses the Conn. Eiver into the State of New Hampshire,\\nand runs through the long river-town of Charlcstown, with 3 pleasant\\nvillages and 3 inns.\\nThis town was settled under the authority and by the people of Massachusetts,\\nin 1740, and was numeil Number Four. A garrisoned fort was located here, and\\nbetween 1746 and 17G0 tlie enemy committed many depredations in the vicinity.\\nThe fort was formally besieged in August, 1746, and after a suecessful defence, the\\ngarrison and colonists abandoned the place. In 1747, Capt. IStevens reoccupied it\\nwith 30 men, under orders from the Mass. government. He was soon attacked by\\nDelieline, a skillul partisan, with 400 French and Indians, who besieged the Fort for\\nthree days, exhausting every appliance of craft and tactics. Debeline threatened\\nto massacre tlie garrison unless they surrendered, but they seut back a defiant\\nanswer, and a long and desperate attack followed. The heroic handful of pro-\\nvincials multiplied themselves and repelled the attacks on every side, until the\\nenemy withdrew and reti-eated to Canada. Capt. iStevens was highly honored by\\nthe people, and Commodore Sir Cliarles Knowles, whose ship then lay at Boston,\\nseut him an elegant sword. When the tract was resettled, it was called Charles-\\ntown, in honor of Sir Charles. During the later French wars tliis Avas the prin-\\ncipal station t)u the mditary road betv/een the New England coast and Ticonderoga\\nand Montreal. The remains of the Fort were plainly perceptible in 1810.\\nCharlestown village is situated between two broad, rich meadows, and\\nhas some neat buildings, on a long, wide, well-shaded street. Its se-\\ncluded loveliness is calculated to awaken the admiration of the traveller.\\nAcross the river is the town of Springfield {Sprintjjield House), on the\\nBlack River, which falls 110 ft. in 600 ft., with one sheer fall of 60 ft.\\nStages 4 times daily (8 M.).\\nStation, Claremcmt Junction, soon after leaving which the line crosses\\nSxujar River by a bridge 600 ft. long and 105 ft. above the water. The\\nrich intervales of the Conn, are now crossed, with Ascutney Mt. on the\\n1., and the train passes over the river on a bridge whose predecessor was\\ncarried away by ice in 1866. Station, I Fi^icZi-or (Windsor House), a pretty\\nvillage on highl.inds over the river and near the foot of Ascutney. It i.s\\na flourishing town, with some manufactures and a large country trade.\\nIt has 4 churches, a bank, 2 weekly papers, a line Government building\\nused for U. S. Courts and Post Office, and the Vermont State Prison\\n(which usually has 70 90 prisoners). At Y/indsor, during a fearful", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0219.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "1G6 Route 24. NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nthunder-storm J and with the appalling news of the fall of Fort Ticonde-\\nroga ringing in their ears, the deputies of the Vermont townis adopted the\\nco-istitution of the State, July 2, 1777.\\nAscutiiey Mt. lies S. W. of the village. A road has been constructed to the\\nsuniiuit (5 M.), and a small house has beeji built there tor a shelter. Horses and\\nguides from the Windsor House. A tine view is obtained trom this isolated\\npealc, which is :i,:J:iO It. above the sea. In the W. and X. Yv are Shrewsbury ai.id\\nKillington Peaks, near Rutland, while the Green Mt. chain runs off to the N. in\\na long line of rounded sunnnits. The hill towns of Windsor Co. are seen in the\\nN., and the Conn. River and valley close at hand in the E. stretch away to tlic\\nN. and S. through a ]jleasant farming country. Croydon, Sunapee, and Kearsarge\\nMts. are seen in the E., the latter being dimly outlined on the horizon. The In-\\ndiiin name Ascutney means Three LJrotlicrs, and is supjiosed to refer to three\\neingular valleys which run down the W. slope of the Mt. There are marks of\\nvolcanic action here, and the early settlers often saw a lurid light hanging over\\nthe sunnnit on whiter nights. Daily stages rmi to Cornish and Plamfield, N. H.\\nalso to W. Windsor, Reading (12 M.), and Proctorsville (22 M.).\\nSalmon P. Chase was born at Cornish iu 1S08. His uncle, Dudley Clia.se, was\\nU S. Senator, 1S13-17, and 1825-31 and iiis uncle, IMiil.inder Cha.sc, was Prot.-\\nEpis. Bishop of Ohio, P ly 31, and of lilinois in lS3. )-52. (These three, together\\nwith their brothers, Haruch and lleber Chase, were born at Cornish, and graduated\\nfmui Dirtmouth College.) He -settled iu Ohio about 183 J iu the practice of law, be-\\ncame a leader iu the anti-slaverj niovement, and was U. S. Senator, 184l -55, and\\nGovernor of Ohio, 1855-59. In 18G1 he liecame Secretary of the U 8. Treasury,\\nand rendered great service to the Union by his skilful financial poiicy during the\\nIlebellion. He resigned iu 1864, and was made Chief Justice of the United States.\\nMr. Chase died in 1873.\\nWm. M. Evarts s estate of Runnymede is near Windsor.\\nStations beyond Windsor, Ilariland, N. Hariland, and White River\\nJunction (see Route 29).\\nJust after leaving the Junction, the train crosses White River, and\\npasses to Noinvich, where a large military school called the Norwich\\nUniversity was established from 1834 to 1866, when its buildings v/ere\\nburnt and the school was removed to Northfield. The village Union\\nHouse) is about 1 M. W. of the station. Stages from Norwich station\\nrun to Hanover, about M. S. E., across the Connecticut River. Han-\\nover (Dartmouth House) is the seat of Dartmouth College, which ranks\\namong the first of American educational institutions.\\nThis college was founded here in 1770 by Rev. Eleazer W^heelock, as a school\\nfor missionaries to the Indians, and for Cliristian Indians, and had at first 2-i\\nstudents, domiciled in huts built of green logs, situated in the midst of a vast\\nwilderness. 44,000 acres of land were granted to it by the State, which also raised\\na building 150 by 50 ft. for its use, while money was sent to its aid by English\\nl)atro]is. The project of educating the Indians was rendered subordinate after a\\ncareful trial, several Masters of Arts having returned to savage life. The College\\n(named for the Earl of Dartmouth, President of its board of trustees) had 150\\nstudents iu the year 1790. Iu 1871 it had 27 instructors and 3S2 students. Between\\n1771 and 18G7 it graduated 3,550 men. 3 of whom have been U. S. Cabinet Ministers\\n15 have been U. S. Senators, and 61 Representatives 31 Judges of the U. S. and\\nState Supreme Courts 15 Governors 4 Ambassadors 25 Presidents of Colleges\\n104 Professors and 800 Clergymen. The degree of LL. D. has been conferred on\\n24 alumni, and that of D. D.on 106. Not to enlarge, with few exceptions, her\\n(Dartinoutli s) influence in religion has been cmpliatically conservative, and her\\nsympathies in a national point of view eminently jiatriotick. She has been the\\nnursery of sound divines, devoted missionaries, profound jurists, skilful iihysieians,\\nbrilliant statesmen, accomplished scholars, classical and learned writers. Such\\nare the worthies she has given to the Union, and on these rest her claims to a\\nnation s gratitude. (Chapman.)", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0220.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. 1G7\\nAmong the most distinguished alumni of Dartmouth were John Wheelock, its\\nsecond President, 1779-1815; Asa Burton; President Porter, of Andover Semi-\\nnary Heniaa Allen Gen. llipley, the hero of Niagara and Chippewa Alvan\\nHyde, D. D., LL. D. Amos Kendall iSenator Levi Woodbury; Daniel Poor, the\\nCeylon missionary Judge Joel Parker J. B. Felt, the annalist B. Greenleaf, the\\narithmetician; T. C. Upham, D. D., the metaphysician; Alpheus Crosby, the\\npliilologist Nathan Lord, D. D., tlie 0th President and Asa D. Smith, D. D.,\\nthe 7th President of Dartmouth J. H. Noyes, the founder of the\\nOneida Community C E. Potter, the autlior John Lord, the historical essayist\\nR. B. Kimb;dl, the author Gen. Sliepley G. P. Marsh, the pliilologist and diplo-\\nmatist Bisliops Chase aud Dorr George Ticknor, tlic historian of Spanisli\\nliterature Senator Rufus Choate, the lawyer and orator Salmon P. Chase, the\\nstatesman antl jurist and Daniel Webster.\\nTlie famous Dartmouth College case was opened early in th.e present century by\\nthe State of N. H. attempting to infringe on the vested riglits of the College.\\nAfter much litigation, the case was decided by tlie State Supreme Court against\\nthe College. It was then carried by api)eal to the Supreme Court of the United\\nStates, wliere, after long arguments by tlie leading lawyers of America, Daniel\\nWebster defending Dartmouth, the State judgment was reversed, and the College\\nwas restored to its ancient privileges and independence.\\nThe college fronts on a fine campus, in Hanover village, and on an up-\\nland plain. Dartmouth Hall is the long central building, and in line with\\nit are Wentworth and Thornton Halls. In front is Reed Hall, with the\\ncollege library of GO, 000 volumes. These buildings are old and plain, con-\\ntrasting with Culver Hall, a handsome new structure E. of tlie line, with\\na natural-history collection and the State museum of minerals. Bissell\\nHall is the gvninasium. N. W. is the Chandler Scientific School; while\\nthe Medical College and the observatory are in the vicinity. The beautiful\\nCollege I ark covers 34 acres. The scenery about this quiet academic vil-\\nlage is fine, embracing tall hills to the E. and S., Mt. Ascutney in the\\nS. \\\\V., and picturesque upland ])lains along the Conn. River.\\nS. C. Bartlett,, LL. D., the present President, was an alumnus of Dartmouth, as\\nwere also Thaddeus Stevens aud Gen. Sylvauus Thayer, the Father of West Point.\\nAfter leaving Norwich, the train crosses the Onipompanoosuc River, and\\nstops at PomjMnoosuc, whence large quantities of copperas are shipped\\naway, to be made into sulphuric acid. The mines are at Copperas Hill,\\n10 M. N. W., and the copperas is separated from other elements by a\\nlong and difficult process, and precipitated in green crystals. Nearly 400\\ntons a year are converted into vitriol in chemical Avorks near Boston,\\nwhile a great quantity of the copperas is used as a mordant in dye-\\nfactories.\\nDistant views of Moosilauke and Bald Mts. are obtained as the train\\napproaches Thetford (two small inns). Thetford village is 1 M. W. of\\nthe station, and on the E. is the large farming town of Lijine, N. H., to\\nwhich stages run 4 times daily.\\nDaily stages run N. W^ to W. Fairlee (9 M.) and Vershire (15 M.) with its ex-\\ntensive copper-mines, also to Chrhra, the shire-towu. Versliire had 1,054 inhabi-\\ntants in 1S60, o: whom 113 meu joined tlie Union army. Nearly 11 per cent of\\nher population was at the front.\\nStation JV. Thetford, whence much copper ore from Corinth is sent to", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0221.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "168 Route U. NEW YOKK TO QUELEC.\\nBaltimore (by water from Portsmouth) and smelted. Station, Fairlee\\nand Orford, the former being a liilly town abounding in lakes, one of\\nwhich is nearly 3 IM. long. Pickerel are found in these waters. Just\\nacross the river from Fairlee is the N. H. town of Orford (stage to Ehn\\nHouse), with a beautifully located village v/hich has become a favorite\\nsummer-home for lovers of tranquillity and rural life. Mt. Cuba and Mt.\\nSunday are near the centre of the town, and there are several large ponds.\\nMt. Cuba, on the W., is 2,927 ft. high, and has a chain of 5 lakes on its E.\\nside. Cube Falls and the perpendicular cliffs of gray granite on Saw-\\nyer s Mt. are worthy of notice.\\nStation, Bradford (Trotter House), a prosperous manufacturing village\\non Wait s Pdver. In the N, W. is Wright s Mt., where one Wright, who\\nclaimed to be a prophet, had a hermitage in a dismal rocky cleft, now\\ncalled the Devil s Den. The town has a scientific association, an academy,\\na weekly newspaper, and a savings-bank.\\nStages run to Corinth, Topsham (13 M. N. W.), E. Orange (17 M.), and W. Top-\\nsham aud to the N. II. farming town of Piermont, beyond the Conn. River.\\nStations, S. Neirbury and Newbury (small summer boarding-houses\\nof Doe, Farnham, and Bailey). This beautiful village stands on a\\nterrace above the rich Ox Bow intervales, where a great bend of llie\\nriver nearly insulates a tract of fertile alluvial meadow-land. Mt.\\nPulnsJci is near Newbury, and coinnmmls a noble view, embraeitig the\\nfruitful and carpet-like Ox Bow meadows, the vilhige of Haverhill, and\\nthe winding river, with Moosilauke in the S. E., and the Pemigewasset\\nand Franconia Mts. in the E. M, from the Hotel are the Newbury\\nSidjjhur Springs (l)ath-houses, c. in a little glen near the verge of tlie\\nintervale, and a charming twilight walk is that along the borders of these\\nlevel meadows, with the sombre mountains beyond.\\nThis town was founded about 1764 by Gen. Bailey, of Newbiuy, Mass. During\\nthe Revolution a detachment of British soldiers came here to take Bailey, but a\\nfriend went over to the held wliere he was ploughing and droi^ped in the t virrow a\\nnote saying, The Pliilistiues be upon thee, Samson On returning down the\\nlong furrow Baik y saw the note, took the hint, and fled to securer regions. The\\nmeadows of Coos about Newbury were the home of a large tribe of Indians, who\\ntilled the adjacent lands, caught salmon and trout in the rivers, and chased v/ild\\ngame through the mountains. These pleasant lands were abandoned m terror\\nafter Lovewell s battle in Pequawket.\\nThe beautiful scenery along the Passumpsic line changes to grandeur as\\nthe train runs N. Station, Wells River {Coosuck Uouse), where the\\nBoston, Concord, and Montreal and White Mts. R. R. touches this line on\\nits W. angle (20 M. to Littleton. See Route 30).\\nThe MontpeUer fC Wells-River E. R. runs thence N. W. 38 M. through a rugged\\nand tliinly settled country to Mnntpelier, the caj)ital of the State. Stages\\nnow run to Jlycjate, 5 M. N. W. (Blue Mountain House), a Presbyterian town\\nsettled in 1774 hy a colony of farmers from tlie Scottish shires of Renfrew and\\nLanark. Blue Mt. is a high granite ridge in the N. W. The road fol-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0222.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route U. IGO\\nlows up Wells River to Groton (small inn). In the N. W. part of Groton is Long\\nPond, 4 M. long and 1 M. wide,\\nwhich afibrds good facilities for boating and fishing. This pond is 1,100 ft. above\\ntlie sea, and near it is the pretty Little Pond, 1 M. by J M.\\nBeyond Wells River, the train stops at Mclndoe s Falls, with large\\nlumber-mills, Siwdi Barnet a Scotch Presbyterian town, settled in 1775.\\nStages run to Peacham. Soon after leaving Bamet, the line passes near\\ntlie month of the Passitnqjsic River, M^here Rogers Rangers, returning\\nfrom tlieir raid on the St. Francis Indians, failed to find an expected depot\\nof provisions. Many of the famishing men died there, while others made\\na cannibal feast on the flesh of a slain Indian. In his disastrous retreat\\nfrom St. Francis to Charlestown, Rogers lost nearly half of his command,\\nand it is said that 36 of his men died in 18 hours here on tlie Passumpsic\\nmeadows.\\nJust beyond Barnet (famed for its butter) begin the 15-Mile Falls on\\nthe Conn, River. Stations, Norrisville and Passumpsic, with falls on the\\nPassumpsic River, which here rolls between black, rocky banks. Station,\\nSt. Johnsbury {St. Johnsbary House, on the hill Avenue House, near\\nthe station), a busy town of nearly 6,000 inhabitants, with many neat\\nvillas and large manufactories. It was settled in 1786, and named in\\nhonor of St. John de Crevecceur, French Consul at New York, and a bene-\\nfactor \u00c2\u00a9f Vermont. The Court House of Caledonia County is a fine\\nbuilding, on the hill, directly in front of which is a Soldiers Monument,\\nconsisting of a statue of America (by Mead), on a pedestal inscribed with\\nthe names of 6 officers and 74 men from tliis town, who died in the Seces-\\nsion War. Near the monument is the AtheTiceum, with 9,000 volumes in\\na good library building. There is also a reading-room with papers and\\nmagazines, and an art-gallery, containing 75 fine paintings, among\\nwhich is Bierstadt s Domes of the Yosemite. The St. Johnsbury\\nAcademy is a well-attended scliool, with handsome buildings and the\\nvillas of the Fairbankses are large and stately. The village has 8 chui clies,\\n2 banks, and 2 weekly newspapers.\\nThere are manufactures of mowing and thresliing machines and other things,\\nbut the reason of being for St. Johnsbury is the extensive scale factory of E. T.\\nFairbanks Co. Tlie v/orks of this company are in a glen on Sleeper s River,\\nand occupy 10 acres of ground. 5 600 men are employed and .300 varieties of\\nscales are made, from the most delicate letter-scales to those huge macliines which\\nweigh loaded cars and canal-boats (500 tons capacity). In 1830, during the excite-\\nment about hemp culture, the Fairbanks brothers established a hemp-dressing\\nfactory, and Tliaddeus invented the ])latform scale. It was patented in America\\nand England, and up to 1801 the company sold 96,658 portable scales, 8,872 hay\\nand traeli scales, and 94,712 counter and even balances. Since 1861 the sales have\\nbeen much greater, proportionally, and in 1869 the yearly sales were stated as\\n50,000 small scales, and several hundred hay and platform scales. 125 men are\\nengaged in the Fairbanks service in other towns and cities wliile tlie v/orks con-\\nsume 18 tons of iron daily, in tlirce cupola furnaces. The scales which have been\\nmade in large (juaiitities for Oriental States are curious, being marked with\\nCliinese and Turkish numerals, according to their peculiar systems of weiglits.\\nThe St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain R. 11. here cro-sses the Passumpsic R. R.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0223.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "170 Route-U. WILLOUGHBY LAKE.\\nThe train runs N. by 67. Johnsbnry Ctntre. to Lijndon (Lyndon Ilouse;\\ndaily stages to S. Wbeelock, 5^ M. N. VV.) and Lyndonville {Union\\nHouse; daily stages to Wheeloek, 5 M. N. W., and Sheffield, 7 M.), the\\nheadquarters of the rassiimpsic K. R. In this rich and fertile town are\\nthe Great Falls of the Passunip*ic.\\nStation, W. Burke, before reaching which a fine view is afforded of\\nthe bold Burke Mt. Carriages may be taken hence for the celebrated\\nWilloughby Lake, 6 M. N. The road affords a continual view of the two\\n.singular mountains between which the lake is situated. The Willoughby-\\nLake House charges $5-12 a week (bowling, livery, boats, steamboat,\\niishing; no hay -fever). This lake is one of the most remarkable on the\\ncontinent, being situated between two immense mountains, whose bases\\nmeet far below its waters. The lake is 6 M. long, and in places 2 M. wide,\\nwhile its depth is very great, and not yet known, a line of 100 fathoms\\nhaving run out without finding bottom. The scenery here is wonderfully\\nvaried and sensational.\\nA carriage road along the E. shore, or a boat on the quiet waters, gives\\nopportunity to see the beaiities of the lake and the grandeur of its sur-\\nrounding v/alls. The mountain on the W. shore is called Mt. Her, and\\nis somev.diat more than 1,500 ft. above the water. The E. shore mountain\\nis called Mt. Willoughby, Pisgah, or Annanance, in different hooks and\\nmaps. As Mi\\\\ Eastman remarks, Annanance seems more appropriate,\\nsince that was the name of a brave chief of the St. Francis Indians who\\nonce lived here. A vast precipice of granite, 2 M. long and 600 ft. sheer\\ndown, runs along the side of Mount Annanance, while the long slope\\nbelow is rocky and steep. The peak is 2,633 ft. above the lake, and\\n3,800 ft, above the sea. From the hotel to the summit of Annanance\\nit is a very difficult walk of about 2 M. A vast view over the Conn.\\nvalley is obtained from this point, extending to the Franconia and\\nWhite Mts. on the S. E., and it is said that the hotels on Mt. Wash-\\nington may be seen with a strong glass. On the N. W. are Owl s\\nHead (in Canada) and Jay Peak, from which the stately line of the Green\\nMts. runs S., with the peaks of Mansfield, Camel s Hump, and Killint;-\\nton (near Rutland) all visible. From the verge of the cliffs on the W.\\nMt. Hot is seen close at hand. Geologists think that the chasm between\\nthese mountains was caused by the rush of a northern cnri^eut during the\\ndrift period, which eat away the decomposed limestone between the two\\ngranite peaks. Very rare plants and flowers are found on Mt. Anna-\\nnance, esi)ecially at the Flower Garden, at the foot of the cliffs, 600\\nft. above the Devil s Den, on the lakeside road. The Silver Cascade\\nand tlie Point of Rocks are found farther out on the same road. Trout", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0224.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route U. 171\\nand mnscalonge abound in the cool crystal waters of the lake. ExcTirsions\\nare made from the liotel to Burke Mt. (10 M. S.), Barton (11 M. W.),\\nPlunket Falls (12 M.), and Newark 6 M. S. E.)^ famed for its production\\nof sugar from vast forests of sugar-maj)les.\\nNear the flag station at S. Barton the summit is passed, and the water-\\nshed of the St. LaAvrence is entered. Jay Peak is seen in the N. W. Sta-\\ntion, Barton (Crystal Lake House), a manufacturing village in a town\\nnamed for its first proprietor, Gen, Barton. Crystal Lake (by which\\nthe track passes) is a pretty sheet of water containing about 2 square\\nmiles. About li M. distant on the E. is the Flume, where a Ijrook flows\\nthrough a natural passage in the granite rock, 140 ft. long, 10 ft. wide,\\nand 20 30 ft. deep. The granite walls are smooth aud perpendicular.\\nIn 1810, the people determmed to deepen Barton River by turning Long Pond\\n(the source of the LamoilltO into it. They had barely completed a cha .niel from\\nLong Pond to the pond-reservoir of the Barton River, when its Avaters burst\\nthrough with tremendous force, and swept down to Lake Memphremagog, wreck-\\ning evcrytliing in their path, and causing immense damage. The bed of Long\\nPond is now dry, and is called Runaway Pond.\\nBarton to Willoughby Lake, 6 M. Fine trout-ponds near village. Daily stages to\\nGlover, Albany, aud Craftsbury.\\nStation, Barton Landing (Valley House), which was much resorted to\\nbv smugglers in 1812-15. Stages run 4 M. W. to Jrasburgh (Irasbiirgh\\nHouse, large and good), a beautiful rural village, and the shire-town of\\nOrleans County.\\nStations, Coventry and Newport (*]Memphreniagog House, $3.00 a day,\\n$10-17 a -week, 300 guests, a large, flrst -class hotel on the lake shore;\\nBellevue House; many families take summer-boarders).\\nLake Memphremagog.\\nThe village of Newport is at the upper (S.) end of this lake, and is 365 M. from\\nNew York, 230 M. from Boston, and 164 M. from Quebec. It is built upon\\nPickerel Point, and from the edge of the village rises Prospect Hill, whence\\nfine lake views are gained, and the Mts. Owl s Head, Elephantis, Orford,\\nJay Peak, and Annanance are seen. Other excursions from Newport are to\\nClyde River Falls (2 M.), Mt. Morrill (2 M.), Bear Mt. (7 M.), and Bolton Springs\\n(in Canada, 1-t M.). Steamers leave every morning from the quay near the great\\nhotel, for Magog, returning in the evening.\\nThe original Indian name of this Inke w-as Memphremagog, or Memi)lowbowque\\n(names possibly used by different tribes), which is said to mean Beautibd Water.\\nSome see in it a resemblance to Loch Lomond, others to Lake George, while still\\nothers call it the Geneva of Canada. The lake is 30 M. long ;i.nd 2-4 M. wide,\\nai d two-thirds of it lies in Canada. The waters are cold and (dear, abounding in\\ntr.tut and muscalonge, the shores are romantically uneven and rock-bound, and\\nt;dl, wooded mountains nse on either hand. The voyage to Mago;^, at the N. end\\nof the lake, nsnallv takes 3-4 hours, nearly 50 M. being traversed. By leaving\\nMagog on the afternoon boat (about 4.30 P. M.), a fine sunset on the mountains\\nmay be seen.\\nTlie steamer passes out by Indian Point, on the E., and a distant view\\nof Stanstead village is soon obtained, between the evergreen-covered\\nislets kno-svn as the Twin Sisters (on the E. Soon after Province Island", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0225.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "172 Routed. NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nis passed, and the steamer crosses into Canada. The boundary is marked\\nby clearings in the forests on either side. Next, on the E., is tlie small,\\ncedar-covered Tea Table Island, and beyond it the Canadian village of\\nCedcLTville. Bear Mt. looms up on the W. shore, and the scattered farms\\nof the town of Potton, while Fitch s Bay stretches far in shore to the N.\\nE. The round summit of Owl s Head is now approached on the W.\\nMagoon s Point (on the E.) is near a large cavern, where the treasures of\\na cathedral are said to have been hidden. The legend is probably de-\\nrived from the fact that Rogers Rangers retreated down the E. shore of\\nLake Memphremagog, after sacking and destroying the church and village\\nof the St. Francis Indians. Besides the rich plate of the church, they\\nsecured two golden candlesticks, and a silver image weighing 10 pounds.\\nThe candlesticks were hidden near the lake (no mention is made of the\\ndisposal of the other articles), and were found in 1816. The steamer\\nstops at the Movntain Hoksp, 12 M. from Newport, in a sequestered posi-\\ntion at the foot of Owl s Head, and near the best fishing-groimds on the\\nlake.\\nThe mountain is ascended by a foot-path (in 2 hours) which passes through\\nforests and fields, and by numerous curious roek-formations. Tlie summit is\\n2,743 ft. above tlie lake, and commands a broad view, including the greater part\\nof the lake and its islands. On the S. is Newport village and jiart oif the Clyde\\nvalley, with tiie nearer summits of Bear Mt. and Hawk Mt., also Jay Peak and\\nl)art of the Missisquoi valley. In the W. are the tall foot-hills of the Green Mts.,\\nwhile Bronie Lake is seen in the N. W., and far beyond it the city of Montreal is\\nvisible on a clear day. Nearer, in the same direction, are the Hog s Back and\\nEle])hantis Mts. Orford Mt. looms at the head of the lalce on the N., and in the\\nN. W. are the pretty lakes of Little Magog and Massawippi. In the E. are several\\nvillages in Staiistead and Derby. Mt. Annanance is seen in the S. E. over Wil-\\nloughby Lake, and, far beyond, the dim blue peaks of tlie White Mts. rise on the\\nlioi-izon-line. The contrast between the rugged country towards Lake Cliamplain\\nand the vast plains to the N., traversed by the glittering rivers St. Lawrence and\\nS^. Francis, is very great, and an element of rare beauty is added by the exten-\\nFivf- view over the lake below. The path is, by wheel-measurement, l.^ M. and 30\\nrods long.\\nM. from the Mountain House is Round Island, which resembles\\nDome Island, on Lake George, or Ellen s Isle, on Loch Katrine. Farther\\nE. is Minnow Island, near which trout aljound. Skinner s Iskmd is also\\nE. of the hotel, and has on its N. W. side a cavern in the rock, 30 ft.\\nlong, 10 ft. wide (at the entrance), and 12-14 ft. high. The legend is\\nthat a celebrated smuggler named Skinner (in 1812) always eluded the\\nclosest pursuit of the customs officers, by disappearing near this point.\\nOne night, after a long chase, the officers foimd his boat on this island,\\nand turned it adrift on the lake. Some years afterward a fisherman,\\nlying under the lee of the island to escajie a squall, discovered the cave,\\nhidden under heavy foliage.\\nAnd what do you think the fisherman found?\\noithor a coldon nor a .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0silver prize.\\nBut a skull with sockets where once were eyes", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0226.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK TO QUEBEC. Route 24. 173\\nAlso some bones of arms and thighs.\\nAnd ii vertebral column of giant size\\nHow they got there, he could n t devise.\\nFor he d only been used to commonplace gravei.\\nAnd knew naught of organic remains in caves\\nOn matters like tliose his wits were dull,\\nSo he dropped the subject as well as the skull.\\nT is needless to say\\nIn this later day,\\nT was the smugglers bones iu the cave that lay\\nAll I ve to add is the bones in a grave\\nWere placed, and the cavern was called Skinner s Cave.\\nN. of this point is Long Island, with palisades on its N. W. side, and\\nan immense rcjcking-stone called Balance Rock on the S. shore. Near J/o(5-\\nson s Island, still farther N., is the mansion of a wealthy Montreal gentle-\\nman. On the W. shore, 1 M. above the hotel, are cliifs 700 It. high, and\\nas the steamer goes N. the sharper outlines of Owl s Head become prom-\\ninent. Mt. Elcphantis, or Sugar Loaf, is above Owl s Head on the W.\\nshore, and is thought to resemble an elephant s head and back. Far up\\non the W. slope of Elephantis is a beaiitiful moimtain tarn, 2 M. long by\\nM. wide, and abounding in trout. The steamer touches at Georgeville\\n(Camperdown House), a pretty village on the E. shore, where many\\nCanadians pass the summer. The lake is now crossed (3 M.) to Knoiol-\\nton s Landing (16 M. from Newport), at the moitth of Sergeant s Bay.\\nThis crossing has long been the main route to Montreal from the Eastern\\nTownships (Stanstead County), as stages run from Knowlton s to tlie rail-\\nroad station at Waterloo (20 M. Tlie steamer crosses the mouth of the\\nBay, passes the rocky Gibraltar Point on the 1., and leaves the more\\nmountainous part of the lake, heading towards Orford Mt., which is seen\\nin the N. A comparatively narrow strait is passed, and then the lake\\nwidens into a broad expanse, at the end of which is the village of Magog\\n(Parks House), a small Canadian settlement, with tine trout-hshing in the\\nrapids of Magog River. The latter stream Hows tli rough Little Magog\\nLake, and empties the Memphremagog waters into the St. Francis River,\\na noble tributary of the St. Lawrence. 5 M. from Magog (carriage-road\\nto the summit) is Orford Mt., the highest peak in the Eastern Townships.\\nIts view embraces Memphremagog and its mts. on the S., Sheiford Mt.\\non the W., much of the valley of the St. Francis on the N. E., and the\\nwaters of 18 lakes. A vast pine forest covers much of the country to the\\nN. and W., and Orford Lake, at the base of the mt., has a weirdly dark\\nand solitary appearance. Railroads run from Magog to Sherbrooke and\\nWaterloo.\\nThe Montreal and Boston Air Line.\\nA new and pleasant route between Boston and Montreal has been formed from\\nthe Boston. Lowell, and Nashua R. R. and the B. C. M. R. R. (see pai, es 188 199)\\nto Wells River; the Fas, umpsic R. R., thence to Newport (pages 166-172); and\\nthen, e by the Southeastern Railway 65 M. N. W. to W. rarnhani, whence it passes\\niu to Moutieal by St. John s. This hue runs through trains, with parlor-curs.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0227.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "1 74 Route 24. NEW YORK TO QUEBEC.\\nThe train crosses an arm of tlie lake after leaving Newport, ivml enters\\nthe rich farming town of Derby. Station, N. Derby (Derl)y Line Hotel),\\nsoon after passing wliich the Anglo-Canadian frontier is crossed. The\\nline now enters the Eastern Townships, of which the riverward parts\\nwere early settled by the French, while the forest-towns Avere occupied by\\npioneers from New England between 1790 and ISOO.\\nThe Canadian Hand-Book calls this as beautiful a tract of country as perhaps\\nany on the eontineut, both with regard to uiouiitaiu and lake scenery, beautiful\\nrivers, and fertile valleys. The mountains, wooded generally from base to sum-\\nii]it, repose in majesty and as the mists, with which their sunnnits are not un-\\nIreciueri ily crowned, withdraw themselves in folds along tlieir sides, they reveal still\\nmore of the beautiful and sublime. Chasms, ravines, and iirecipices are tliere,\\nami among their scditudes sublimity reigns. Beautiful lakes lie scattered over\\nthe surface of the country, bordered here by gentle slopes, there by precipitous\\nclilfs cultivated fields and wide-si3read pastures, with woods interspersed val-\\nleys aud plains adorned with farmhouses, single or in gi oups, and beautiful vil-\\nlages.\\nThe first Canadian station is Sianstead Junction, whence a short branch\\nline runs to Sianstead Plain (4 trains daily), a large and thriving village\\nsituated on fertile lowlands, 10 M. E. is Pinnacle Lake and Mountain,\\nthe latter being a remarkable precipitous peak which rises sheer from the\\nlake. After passing some minor stations, the train reaches Mn-^smvipjn, a\\nvillage in Hatley town, near which is tlie beautiful Lake Massawippi. Tliis\\nlake is 9 M. long by 1-1-^ M. wide, and swarms with many kinds of fish,\\namong which are muskallonge trout, I ike, pickerel, bass, and mullet.\\nBlackberry Mt. on the E. shore, abounds in blackberries durhig tlieir\\nseason. The train now follows the Massawi] pi River for 16 M. to its\\nconfluence with the St. Francis, at Lcnnoxville (two inns). This is the\\nseat of Bishops College, an institute of high reputation, under the care\\nof the Episcopal Churcli, with preparatory schools attached, and a staff of\\nable professors. This college has been called tlie Eton and the Oxford\\nof Young Canada. Productive copper and lead mines are worked in the\\nvicinity of Lcnnoxville.\\nStation, Sherbrooke {Shei-hrooke House; Magog House), a manufactur-\\ning village prettily sitiiated at the confluence of the Magog and St. Fran-\\ncis Rivers. There are long rapids in the St. Francis near the village, and\\nother fine scenery in the vicinity. Sherbrooke is the metropolis of the\\nEastern Townships, and is the most important station between Montreal\\nand Portland. It contains the Stanstead County buildings, which are\\nwell situated on a commanding site.\\nAt Sherbrooke the traveller changes cars, and proceeds by the Grand Tnuik\\nRailway to Quebec (121 M.), or to Montreal (101 M.). See Route 40.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0228.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "WALTIIAM. Route 25. 175\\n25. Boston to the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy.\\nVia Fitchburg, Vt., and Mass., and Troy and Greenfield Railroads, through the\\nHoosac Tunnel to Nortii Adams, 143 M., wbere coniiection is made with the Troy\\nand Boston, and Boston, Hoosae Tunnel and W estera Railroads, for Troy, Albany,\\nand Saratoga, making the shortest route from Boston,\\nThe train leaves the fine castellated granite station of the Fitchburg\\nRailroad on Causeway St., near tiie Warren Bridge to Charles-\\ntown, and soon crosses the tracks of the Boston and Maine, Eastern, and\\nBoston and Lowell Railroads, on their long trestles over Charles River,\\nCliarlestown Heights on the r. and the loiig hills of populous Boston on\\nthe 1. are in sight for a few minutes, then the train runs past the stations,\\nUnion Square, Somerville, Cambridge, Belmont, and Waverley. Near\\nthe latter station is the finest grove of oaks m New England (see Flagg s\\nWoods and By-ways\\nWaltham {Central House Prospect House) comes next, and is an active\\ntown of about 12,000 inhabitants. Here, in 1814, was erected the first large\\ncotton-mill in America, and extensive mills are still in operation here.\\nThe American Watch Company s works are the largest in the world en-\\ngaged in making watches upwards of 1,500,000 of these timekeepers have\\nbeen sold in America, their re^iutation being very high. Every part of\\nthese popular and justly-celebrated watches is made by machine-work,\\nwhile the works of Swiss watches are formed by hand. Tlie extensive\\nbuildings of this company are on the banks of the Charles River,\\nAt Waltliam, tlie track of the Watertown Branch rejoins the main line, after\\npassing several petty stations between Waltham and its divergent point at Brick-\\nyard Junction. Watertoiun is the most important of these points, while Mount\\nAiibiirn and Fresh Pond are also frequently visited by this route.\\nN. P. Banks was boru at Waltham in 1816. His parents were factory-hands,\\nand he himself was for some time a bobbin boy. Ai)plying himself to study,\\njournalism, law, and politics, he rose rapidly, and was Member of C(mgress in\\n1S5.3 72 and 1865 7, Governor of Mass. 1858-61. During the Secession War he\\nwas a Maj.-Geu., and was defeated by Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley,\\nafter which his army was only saved by its superior fleetness. While command-\\ning in Louisiana he took Opelousas and Alexandria, inflicting severe losses on the\\nenemy, and then, after a long siege, the Mississippi River fortress of Port Hudson\\nwas surrendered to his army. In 1864 he advanced far up the Red River, but\\nafter several sharp, sudden attacks by the Confederate General Dick Taylor, he\\nwas forced to make a rapid and disastrous retreat with his miwieldy expeditionary\\nforce. In the Presidential contest of 1872, he joined the Liberal party, and conse-\\nquently failed to secure a re-election to Congress in that year.\\nAfter leaving Waltham, Prospect Hill is seen on the r,, from whose sum-\\nmit (480 ft. high) a fine view is obtained of Boston and its westei-n suburbs.\\nThe line soon passes into the valley of Stony Brook, and beyond the\\nstation of that name, stops at Weston, 1 ]\\\\L N. from the bright upland\\nvillage of Weston. Lincoln is 1^ M. S. W. of the village in the centre of\\nthe town of Lincoln, near which are two large ponds well stocked with", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0229.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "176 Route 25. BOSTON TO THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.\\nfish. The train soon gains the W. border of the forest-surrouucled Walden\\nPond, on whose banks lived Thoreau (see page 28).\\nAt Concord Junction the new. State Prison is seen, on the right, and\\nthen the train passes the stations, S. Acton, W. Acton, and Littleton\\n(the Indian Nashoba). From S. Acton a branch road runs to Marlboro\\n(13 M. crossing tlie Pompascitticutt district of the Indians, and stopping\\nat Maynard, Rockbottom, and Hudson.\\nBeyond Littleton is Ayer Junction {Adams House; American), a\\nflourishing village and railroad centre.\\nThe Stony Brook Railroad runs to Lowell (13 M.) down the valley of the Stony\\nBrook, passing through the towns of Groton, Westford, and Chelmsford. Westford\\nhas a quiet village situated on far-viewing heights.\\nThePeterboro and Shirley Branch runs to Grtenville or Mason Village (N. H.),\\npassing through the towns of Groton, Townsend, and Mason. Towusend Harbor\\nis a village on the Scpumicook River, and Centre W. Townsend are small villages\\nof no importance. Mason Village was set off under the name of Greenville in\\nJuly, 1872, amid general .jubilations and a salute of 40 guns. It is a manufactur-\\ning place, situated on the Souhegan River, which has here a fall of 80 ft. in a\\ndistance of 80 rods.\\nThe Worcester aud Nashua Railroad crosses the present route at Ayer\\nJunction.\\nAfter leaving Ayer Junction, the Fitchburg Railroad crosses the towns\\nof Shirley, Lunenburg, and Leominster, with occasional views of Wachusett\\nto the 1. as the train approaches Fitchburg. Fitcllburg .1 merican House\\nRollstone) is a small city (incorporated 1S7 2) of about 13,000 inhabit-\\nants. It was known in the colonial days as Turkey Hills, from the great\\nnumber of wild turkeys found here. It is a busy, plain, wide-awake place,\\nwliich has quadrupled its population within 28 years by its encourage-\\nmc]it of manufactures and by its being a centre of railroads. The city is\\nbuilt along the Nashua River, wliich affords a fine water-power. Many\\n.small factories are ranged along this stream, which is the life of Fitchburg.\\n600 men are engaged in the manufacture of machinery and agricultural\\ntools; 300 men are in the chair-making business 3 paper-mills with 250\\nLands, turn out $1,000,000 worth of goods yearly; while two or three\\ncotton-mills are well worked and busy.\\nThe views from Rollstone Hill (the seat of large quarries) and Pearl Hill\\nare of interest. In memory of her soldiers who fell in the Secession War,\\nthe city has erected a fine monument from designs by Milmore. It repre-\\nsents the Goddess of Liberty, a soldier, and a sailor, all of heroic size, and\\ncast in bronze at Chicopee, in this State. These statues stand on a high,\\ninscribed pedestal.\\nIn 1793, Fitchburg maintained a semi-weekly stage to Boston. At present it\\nhas 7 trains a day running over 50 M. of track to Boston, by the Fitchburg Rail-\\nroad, aud 4 trains daily to Boston byway of S. Framiiigham (58 M.). The Cheshire\\nR. R. runs hence N. W. to Keene and Bellows Falls (see Route 26) the Vt. aud\\nMass. runs W. to Hoosac Tunnel and the Worcester and Fitchburg R. R. rims S.\\nto Worcestei", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0230.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO THE H003AC TUNXEL. Route 26. 177\\nBeyond Fitch burg and W. Fitchbnrg the line soon reaches Wacliusett,\\nwhence stages run 6 ^I. S. to Mt. Wachusett (see page 412;. Westminster\\nis 3 M. by stage from Westminster Centre (Westminster House), a lofty\\nhamlet near Me =sting- House Pond, with a library and two churches. Mt.\\nWachusett is 5 M. S. E. and there are broad views from Prospect Hill.\\nTliis toAvn has 1,712 inhabitants, and 225 farms. It was granted to the\\nNarragansett veterans, and settled in 1737, under guard of ten forts.\\nAt Aslibtirnl\\\\am the Cheshire R. R. diverges to the N. W. and a sliort branch\\nruns 3 M. N. E. to Ashhuriiliam {Central Hotel), a iiretty liighland luunlet near\\nNankeau- Pond nud Jirovvn Hill, with -J churches and several factories. 5-6 M.\\nN. is Mt. Watatic (1,S47 ft. high), vhich gives an immense view, including\\nWachusett, Muuadiiocn, the V/hite Mts., and hundreds of lal es and villages.\\nThe train runs S. among bold hills to Gardner, where it crosses the\\nBoston, Barre Gardner R. R. and at Baldioinsville it crosses the\\nWare-River R. R. Occasional views of Mt. ]Monadnock are gained on\\nthe N. From Royalstoii stages run N, W. 4 M. to Eoyalston Centre\\n(Moore s Ho*el), a pleasant hill-village in a farming town of 1,300 inhab-\\nitants. The line now follows Miller s River S. W. through the hills to the\\nbright village of Athol, wliere it meets the Springfield, Athol North-\\neastern R. R. (Route 76). Station, Orange (Putnam House), a prosper-\\nous and pretty village in a hill-girt glen, in a town of 2,497 inhabitants,\\nwith .5 churches and a soldiers monument. To the N. E., over the handet\\nof N. Orange, are the bluff Tully Mts. Stages run to WarwicTc.\\nStation, Wendell, whence daily stages run 4J M. S. W. to JVendell Centre, on a\\nridge in a farming town of .500 inliabitnnts also S^ M. S. W. to Lock s I Ul ige,\\niiea^r which are the Mt. Mineral Springs (suiin ner hotel), highly effitdeut in\\ndiseases of the lilood and nerves also .M. N. to jr\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0084\u00a2;(cA- (Warwick House), ;i\\npleasant old hill-town with churches, a li1)rary, and a soldiers monument (to 27\\ndead). Over it, on the N. W., is Mt. Grace (1.62S ft. high), which connaauds a\\nbroad and splendid view. It was nanu d for Grace Rowlaudsou, who was buried\\nhere, while the Indians were leading the Lancaster people into captivity, in 1676.\\nBeyond Ervinrj (Erving House), the train crosses Miller s River thrice;\\nand intersects the New-London N. R. R. Lake Pleasant {Lake-Pleasant\\nHouse) is a new summer-resort, patronized by Spiritualists, with steam-\\nboat, bath-houses, military bands, 200 cottages, c. Beyond Monta(jue,\\nthe train crosses the Conn, and Deerlield Rivers, amid romantic scenery.\\nGreenfield {Mansion House, American House) is a beautiful village\\nsituated on broad intervales near Green River, and not far from the union\\nof the Deerfield and Connecticut Rivers. It bears a pleasing air of rural\\nsimplicity, and is a favorite summer-resort on accotmt of its attractive\\nenvirons. Fronting the public Siptare is a handsome sandstone church,\\nthe Town Hall, Post Office, and Court House. The soldiers monument\\noccupies the centre of the Scpiare.\\nThe John Russell CrUlery Co. is at Turner s Falls (branch R. R.). Here 5 600\\nmen are employed in the manufacture of table-cutlery, which is sujierior to that\\nof Sheffield. The works turn out aniuially aljout 300,000 dozen talile-knivcs, and\\n100,000 dozen of miscellaneous cutlery, using up 500 tons of steel; ir.i) tons of\\ncocoa and granadilla wood 30 tons of ro.iewood 50 tons of ebony (from Mada-\\n8* L", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0231.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "178 Route 25. BOSTON TO THE HOOSAC TUNNEL.\\ngasear) 20 tons of elephunt s tusks 25 tons of emery (Irnni Smyrna) 200 tons\\nof grindstones (Nova Scotia) lo tons ot brass wire: 2,li00 tons of coal; 25,000\\nbushels of charcoal and tons of wax. Tlie admirable and ingenious mechan-\\nism used in these works is worthy of note. There are also manufactures of\\nwoollen goods, carpenters tools, c., in the town.\\nThe Bear s Den is a dark ravine with a small cave, a short distance S.\\nE. of tlie village, and at the S. end of Rocky Mt. The Poet s Seat is on\\nRocky Mt., and commands a pleasing view, embracing the villages of\\nGreenfield and Deerfield, the fair intervales of the tvro rivers, and a great\\ncircle of hills surrounding all. Arthur s S- at is a loftj- hill S. W. of the\\nvillage, commanding a view of the villages and rich intervales of Deerfield\\nand Greenfield.\\nDeerfield (see Route 24) is about 3 M. S. of Greenfield. The Coleraine\\nand Shelburne Gorges are mucli visited, and in Leyden there is a re-\\nmarkable water- v/orn cut in the slate-rock, 10 -15 ft. wide, and 30-50\\nft. deep, known as the Leyden Gorge. Pretty cascades are found near\\nthis place, and formidable hills tower over it. The Coleraine Gorge is a\\ndeep and roiuautic defile cut by tlie waters of the Green River. The\\nroad lo the S., over tlie level meadows of the Deerfield River,\\nand through the ancient village of Deerfield, is a popular and pleasant\\ndiive.\\n4-5 M. N. E. of Greenfield are Turner s Falls. At daybreak, on a May morning\\nof lG7(i, Ciiyt. Turner and ISO coloni;J soldiers, after a long forced march by\\nnight, attacl\\\\ed a jjowcrfid foree of King Pliilip s insurgent Indians, who were\\nencamping here and rioting on the sjioils of the captured English towns. Turner\\nsuri aised the enemy .sleeping in their wigwams, and in the ensuing panic 140 of\\nthem .^-.prang into tlieir canoes, and were carried over the P^alls and lost. 100\\nwere shot or cut to pieces on the shore, and then Turner, having lost but one\\nman, marched olf. But the dispersed Indians rallied in swarms and iunig on the\\nline of retreat, and a rumor s]iread through the raidvs of tlie colonials that King\\nPhilip and 1,CC0 men had reinforced the enemy. Tlie connnand now brolco \\\\i\\\\) in\\npanic, and C apt. Turner and 38 men Avere killed, besides many wounded and\\nstragglers who were cut off. The Rev. Hope Atherton, who M-as jn-esent in full\\ncanonicals, was made prisoner, but the Indians were struck with such awe at his\\npresence that they speedily let him go. Cajit. Holyoke led the renniant of the\\nforce back to Hatfield. After thisjDlow, says the old historian, the enemy went\\ndown the wind apace. Many years later the tovm of Bei nardston was granted\\nto the veterans of the Falls Fight.\\nIn 1792, a dam and canal (3 M. long) were built here, to aid m the navigation of\\nthe river. In 1S66, the Turner s Falls Co. bouglit TOO acres near tlie Falls, laid\\nout a city, and built a curved dam 1,000 ft. long. The fall is 3G ft., and a water-\\npower equal to 10,000 horse-power has Ijeen de\\\\ ploped by two canals. Several\\nmanufactories have already been started here, anil proiihccies are heard of a sec-\\nond Lowell. During high water the roar of Turner s P alls is heard from six to\\nten miles. Dr. Hitchcock calls this Fall a miniature Niagara. They arc by\\nfar the n)ost interesting waterfalls in this State, and I think I may safely say in\\nNew England.\\nDaily stages run N. E. from Greenfield 3^ M. to Factory Village, opposite Tur-\\nner s Fall-i aad t J[. to HU!. a suuiU higidand hamlet near the Couuecticut\\nRiver. .\\\\iso !0 M. N. (^tri-\\\\vco ,.ly) to Lcydtn., ui a laud of mountains and gorges.\\nAlso daily N. W. by cireeulicld Mt. to /i Siwlbunie ((3 M.) aud Coleraine (10 M.\\nGaines liotel), a lulty sheep-raising and dairy town. Stages run theuce W. (J^-12\\nM. to Heath and Itoive, aud N. W. 12 M. to WkUtiuykani, Vt.\\nAfter leaving Greenfield the railroad closely follows the Deerfield", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0232.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO THE HOOSAC TUNNEL. Route 25. 1 78 a.\\nRiver, running far S. to flank Arthur s seat, which looms up on the r.,\\nwhile the Deerfieid Hills and Pocomtuck Rock are across the valley, to\\nthe 1. Rising on higher grades noble views are given to the 1., including\\nthe peaceful valley, the dai k mountain-walls, and the white hamlet of\\nDeerfieid, about 1 M. from W. Deerfieid. The track soon enters and long\\ntraverses the remarkable Deerfieid Gorge, a picturesque defile whereof\\nDr. Hitchcock said It is so narrow that it is difficult, even on foot, to\\nfind a passage, though full of romantic and sublime objects to the man\\nwho has strength and courage to pass through it. At BardivelVs Ferry\\nthe river is crossed on a costly bridge, and the old route of the railroad,\\nnarrow and sinuous, is seen. Stages run 3 M. N. to Shelbnrne and 4 M.\\nS. to Comoay (Conwa} House), an upland hamlet in a rugged farming\\ntown of 1,400 inhabitants. The line now runs N. W. up the Gorge, and\\nsoon reaches Shelburne Falls iShclburnr- Falls House), a prosperous vil-\\nlage with over 1,200 inhabitants, 3 churches, a library, bank, high-school,\\nand soldiers monument. Locks, cutlery, gimlets, and bits are made\\nhere and the surrounding town raises sheep and maple-sugar.\\nHere the river, in a distance of a few hundred j aids, makes a descent of\\nabout 150 ft. over a prodigious bed of rock. The river roars through a channel\\nwhich it has worn in the stone, leaping in two or three distinct falls, ;ind rushes\\ndownward, as from flight to flight of a broken and irregular staircase the rocks\\nseem to have been hewn away, as when mortals make a road. (H.^wthorne.)\\nStages run daily from yiielburne Falls N. to Co/eraiHc (7 M.), and Whittinghmii,\\nVt. (19 M.) also S. to Ashfield, a mountain town which produces sheep, tobacco,\\nand wooden-wai-e. The next town on the S. is Goshen (Highland House), which\\nhas a mountain 1,700 ft. high.\\nThe train passes through beautiful scenery beyond Shelburne Falls,\\nwith the dashing Deerfieid River alongside, winding gracefully through\\nthe hills. Bald Mt. is passed on the r., and the train stops at BucMand,\\nwhose village is snugly hidden away in a romantic glen, 2 M. S. (Tay-\\nlor s Hotel). This sequestered plnce was the birthplace (in 1797) of\\nMary Lyon, the celebrated and devout teacher, who founded the Mount-\\nHolyoke Seminary. The pretty hamlet of E. Charlemont is seen on the\\nr., across the river, 2 M. N. of which is the massive Pocomtuck Mt.,\\n1,888 ft. high. The train next reaches Centre Charlemont (Dalrymple\\nHouse), a bright village between Bald Mt. on the N. E. and Mt. Peak on\\nthe S. W., the scene of the story, An Earnest Trifier.\\nThis town has about 1,000 inhabitants and 3 churches, and produces sheep,\\nmaple-sugar, hay, and tobacco. It was a strongly fortified frontier-post during\\nthe earlier i\u00c2\u00abart of the ISth century, and was attacked by the savages. 5 M. 8.\\nT/. is W. Hawley, in a rugged and icturesque inount;iin-town which produces\\nmaple-sugar and v.-ood. Tliis was the birtiiplace of Jonas King, the famous\\nmissionary to Athens. To the X. E. is the village of He(Uh, Avith 2 churches, sit-\\nuated on a high ridge, and commanding a broad view over the wilderness of hills.\\nFort Shirley was built here in 1744, to protect the border-settlements.\\nThe line crosses and recrosses the river, among savage and shaggy hills,\\nand reaches Zoar, whence daily stages run N. E. up the Pelham-Brook", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0233.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "178 6. Route 26. IIOOSAC TUNNEL TO THOY.\\nvalley (near the ruins of tlie ancient Fort Pelliani) to Rmre, a lofty and\\npicturesque farming town on tlie Vermont frontier. In its N. part Jll-\\nsvns Hill attains the heif^dit of 2,109 ft. Sweeping around through a\\nwild and desolate region, the line soon reaches the Hoosac-Tunnel sta-\\ntion, whence the old stage-road ascends the mountain. Tlie costly cut-\\nstone facade at the W. end of the tunnel is approached, and the train\\nadvances into the intense darkness under the Hoosac Mt. (see page 155).\\nSoon after emerging on the W. side the bright town of N. Adams appears,\\noverlooked by tlie massive i\u00c2\u00bbeaks of the Greylock chain.\\nN. Adams and Williamstown, see pages 154-157. Beyond N.\\nAdams the train runs down the Hoosac Valley, near the river, with bold\\nmountains on either side. Blackinton is a small factory-village, as is\\nalso Chadbourneville, which stands close to the Williamstown station\\n(whence the college is I2 M. distant, on the 1.). Greylock Hall is next\\nseen, on the r., near Dome ]\\\\It. and the Tine swings to the N. W. around\\nClarksburg Mt., with the massive Berlin Mt. on the 1., and enters the\\nState of Vermont.. Poional station is 2| M. S. of Pownal Centre\\n(Union Hotel). The line now bends around the Petersbuigh Mt., on the\\n1., and runs on to X. Poicnal (Eldred s Hotel), in an old mountahi-town\\nwhich was early settled by the Dutch, and in 1762 by the aggressive\\nNew-Englanders. Mt. Anthony is seen on ther., miles away.\\nAt Petersburgh the Harlem Extension 11. R. crosses the present route\\nand the train then runs through the long manufacturing district of Hcos-\\nick and Hoosick Falls, situated on the valual)le water-power of the river.\\nIn this town, near the Walloomsack River, .the Vermonters defeated the\\nHessian army in 1777 (see page 18G).\\nAt Hoosick Junction a branch line diverges to Bennington, Vt., 65 M. E. Eagle\\nBridge (Da?/o)i //ci(6g) is in the midst of jileasant scenery, inid here a biaiieh\\nrailroad diverges to Rutland. At Johnsonville another branch diverges, ruiniiiig\\n15 M. N. across (Cambridge and Easton to Greenwich, a prosperous factory-village\\non the Batten Kill.\\nBeyond the iiiaiiufacturing town of SchaiiJiticoke (3,125 inhabitants), the line\\nleaves the Hoosick Valley and crosses the water-shed to the S. W. Noble views\\nover the Hudson Valley are o1)tair.ed, with the Kayadorosseras Mts. on the N. W.\\nand the blue Hel lerbergs on tlie H. W. Laiigiuglmrg (.-l?/H r(C(((( //o\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab) is a\\nnianufactiu-ing town of G, 37*2 inhabitants, wiiere oilchiths, brushes, and many\\nother articles are made. Just acm.ss the Hudson is ll ater/oni, also occupied by\\nfactories.\\nThe train next runs dow^n through a populous district, traverses the\\nragged suburbs, and enters the city of Troy (see page 350).\\nThe Boston, Hoosac-Tunnel, and Western Railway runs from North\\nAdams over substantially the same route as the Troy and Boston line, as\\nfar as Eagle Bridge, making connections at Petersburg Junction with the\\nLebanon-Springs R. R.; at Hoosac Junction with the line from Albany\\nand Troy to Bennington and Rutland; and at Eagle Bridge with the route\\nfrom Troy to Castleton and Rutland. From Saratoga Junction a branch\\nruns to Saratoga Springs direct, by way of Stillwater and Saratoga Lake.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0234.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "MONADNOCK MT. Route 2G. 179\\nAt Mechanicsville the route crosses the D. and H. Canal Co. R. R, from\\nAlbany to Saratoga; and at Rotterdam Junction it meets the New York,\\nWest Shore, and Buffalo K. R. for the West.\\n26. Boston to Burlington and Montreal.\\nThe train leaves the Fitchbur*^ station, on Causeway Street, Boston.\\nBoston to Fitchburg, see Koute 25. The cars pass on to the rails of the\\nClieshire R. R. at Fitchburg, and run by the stations of W. Fitchburg^\\nWtstminsier, S. and N. Askburnham, and Winchendon (see page 413).\\nFitchburg to Peterboro.\\nFrom Winchendon the Monadnock R. R. runs N 17 M, to Peterboro,\\nN IL, passing across the lake-studded town of Rindge, the birthplace of\\nEdward Payson, D. D., and Marshall P. Wilder. Station, Jaffrey, in the\\ntown of the same name, which has an ancient church (now secularized)\\nwhose frame was raised on the day of the battle of Bunker Hill (1775).\\nThe workmen claimed to have heard the cannonading. In the N. W.\\npart of Jaffrey is Monadnock Mountain, with its high and rugged top\\nrising 3,186 ft. above the sea. (Stage from Troy daily, to the Mountain\\nHouse, 1.50 a day; 9 a week, round-trip tickets from Boston to Moun-\\ntain House and return, $4.50, a well-kept hotel, whence steep path to the\\nsummit, 1 M.) An extensive view is enjoyed from the summit, embracing\\nMts. Lafa^-ette, Washington, Moosilauke, Kiarsarge, Ossipee, Belknap,\\nWatatic, Wachusett, the Berkshire Hills, and the Green Mts. (see page\\n413). Troy is on the Cheshire R. R. Peterboro (see page 413).\\nThe train on the main line, after leaving Winchendon, passes State\\nLine, and enters New Hampshire, stopping at FitzioilUam {Monadnock-\\nMt. House; Cheshire House), a picturesque hill-town with many ponds,\\nnamed in 1773 for the Earl of Fitzwilliam. Its present industry is mainly\\ncentred on quarrying granite. Stations, Troy (Monadnock House), a\\nthinly settled upland town, with a stage-line in summer to Monadnock\\nMt.; Marlboro (Marlboro House), a rugged and unproductive town; and\\nKeene {Cheshire House Eagle; City). Keene is a pleasant city in the\\nalluvial valley of the Ashuelot River, with 7,000 inhabitants, 8 churches,\\n2 newspapers, 6 banks, the Cheshire-County buildings, a high-school, a\\npublic library, and a museum. The broad streets are shaded with trees,\\nand on Central Square (adorned by a soldiers monument) are numerous\\nstores, which are prospered by a large country trade. The manufactures", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0235.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "180 Route 26. LA.KE SPOFFORD.\\nof the city are valued at nearly 3,000,000 a year, including leather, furni-\\nture, flannel, sash and blinds, c. R. R. to Manchester.\\nNear S. Keene the R. R. passes over a fine granite viaduct 75 ft. wide\\nand 45 ft. high. The Beaver-Brook Falls are about 2 M. N. of the Square,\\nand are much visited. The brook falls over a stair-like succession of\\nledges 40 ft. into a deep basin which is a haunt of large trout.\\nKeene is a proud little spot, which was settled undt-r the name of Upper Ashue-\\nlot collection of tuauy waters about 1735. In 174G its fort was attacked by a\\nlarge Indian force, and the villagers who were outside were cut off by the enemy.\\nA reiuforccment from Swanzey drove off the assnilants. In 1753 the town was named\\nin honor of Sir Benjamin Keene, a friend of Governor Wentworth, and at that time\\nP-ritish minister to Spain. Tt was among the first to resist the British aggressions\\non the liberties of New England.\\nStages run to Chesterfield which has a lovely lake 8 M. in circumference to\\nSurry and Gil sum; to Sullivan and Marlow to Stoddard^ Iloxbury, and\\nNelson.\\nThe Ashuelot R. R. runs S. W. to S. Vernon. (See page 102.)\\nLake Spofford {Prosj^ect House), 10 M. from Keene (stages from Boston\\ntrains), is 2-3 M. around, with crystalline waters on a white sandy bot-\\ntom. It has a pretty island of 6 acres, much used by picnics. Visitors\\ncome here from all parts of the Union in summer. A steamer, sail-boats,\\nand row-boats ply on the lake, in whose waters black bass and pike are\\nfound.\\nThe hotel commands charniing views; and Prospect Hill gives a pros-\\npect of the Green Mts., Monadnock, Ascutney, c. Park Hill, the Ravine,\\nEcho Cove, and Picnic Point, are often visited. Cliesterfield Centre\\n(Chesterjield House), is an embowered village 1-2 M. from the lake.\\nBrattleboro is 7 M. S. W. (see also page 103).\\nPassing out of Keene, the Burlington train runs W. and N. 9 M. through\\na thinly settled country, ascending the long hills toward the Connecticut\\nRiver. Then comes E. Westmoreland, whence daily stages run 3^ M.\\nS. W. to Westmoreland (Bennett House), the chief village in a rich and\\nprosperous farming town, which has many summer-visitors. It was set-\\ntled in 1741, and suffered from several Indian forays. From Westmore-\\nland Depot daily stages run 2h M. S. to the hamlet of Park Hill.\\nThe train now runs down on the fertile intervales of the Connecticut,\\nand soon readies Walpole Wentworth House summer boarding-houses\\nof Crowell Richardson, Mrs. J. B. Dinsmore, and others), the chief vil-\\nlage in a charming river-town of 2,000 inhabitants, abounding in corn,\\ntobacco, and wool, and agreeably placed amid rugged Tyrolese scenery.\\nWalpole was settled in 1749-52 by .Tohn Kilburn and Col. Bellows. A strong fort\\nwas erected near Cold River, and iu 1755 the garrison of Kilburn was attiicked", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0236.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO BURLINGTON. Route 26. 181\\nby 400 Frenchmen and Indians. Prom noon till sunset the battle was carried on,\\nthe little liaudful of heroes within keeping up an im-essant fire. The women\\nloaded the guns, and run tlie bullets, and when ammuuition began to fail, picked\\nup the Indian shot wliicli had entered the house and melted them over for their\\nhusbands guns. Several attacks on the heavy outer doors were met by deadly\\nvolleys, and the enemy finally grew discouraged and retired to the N. It is\\nthought that the valley towns were saved by this brave defence.\\nHenry W. Bellows, D. D., the great-grandson of Col. Bellows, was bom at\\nWalpole in 1814. He has been pastor of All Souls Churcli (New York) for 35\\nyeai S, and is one of the foremost divines of the Unitarian Cliurch. He is an\\nelO(pient and powerful orator, and is a leader in social reforms and ijhilauthropic\\nmovements.\\nWalpole is a pleasant village near the foot of Mt. Kilbiim, and on the\\nverge of broad intervales. It has wide streets lined with trees, a neat\\nCommon, and several boarding-houses for summer guests, with whom this\\nis a favorite resort. Ravine Falls, Blanchard Falls, and the Abenaquis\\nSpring are near the village, while Derry Hill commands an extensive\\nview, including the Green Mts., Ascutney, Greyiock, Monadnock, and the\\nvalley of the Connecticut.\\nThe line now crosses the river, and stops at Bellows Falls (seepage 164),\\nwhere Route 29 crosses the present route. (Restaurant in the station.\\nBeyond Bellows Falls the Hue runs along Williams River valley, and soon\\nbegins the ascent, of the E. slope of the Green Mts. Stations, Rocking-\\nhayn, Barionsville, Chester (Central Hotel). From the latter station\\nstages run to Windham, 10 M. S. W. Londonderry (Green Mt. House),\\n15 M. S. W. Weston, 12 M. W. and Andover, 6 M. W.\\nStation, Gassetts, from which stages run to Baltimore (3 M. )and to\\nSpringfield (7M.), a village at Black River Falls. Stations, Cavendish,\\nand Proctorsville (Eagle Hotel), a neat village Avith two churches and a\\nbank. There are fine cascades on Black River (near Cavendish), and 1 M.\\nN. of the village is a valuable quarry of serpentine marble which is equal\\nto the best African stone, and is largely used for decorative purposes\\nin Boston and New York.\\nStation, Ludhno (Ludlow House), where the line passes over the Hog-\\nback, which is thought to have been an island in some primeval lake, long\\nsince drained by the break-down of the eastern sei pentine ridge. Daily\\nstage to Plymouth. The train now ascends heavy grades by Healdville\\nto Summit, the highest point on the line, beyond which the train starts on\\nailown grade which includes 1,000 ft. of descent in 18 M. Stations, Mt.\\nHolly, F. Wallingford, and Cutting sville (small inn), which is near\\nShrewsbury Peak, a tree-covered mt. 4,086 ft. high. Stations, Clarendon,\\nN. Clarendon, and Rutland Bates House, 175 rooms, and Bardwell\\nHouse, near station; each $2.50 per day), a finely situated and prosperous\\ntown of 12,000 inhabitants, with a large country- trade, marble-works, and\\nthe Howe Scale Works. There are some fine commercial buildings, others\\npertaining to the town, several churches, and an Opera House. St. Peter s", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0237.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "182 Route 26. BOSTON TO BURLINGTON.\\nCatholic Church is a fine new hnilding of stone, in the English Gothic\\nstyle, while the Episcopal Church is a solid and massive stone structure.\\nNear the twin spires wliich are seen on tlie hill is the handsome Court\\nHouse of Rutland County, opposite Avliich is a neat Government build-\\ning. The town has 2 daily and 2 weekly papers, 8 churches, 3 banks,\\nand numerous manufactories, prominent among which are the marble-\\nworks. The principal quarries and sawing-mills are at W. Rutland,\\nwhence immense quantities of white marble are shipped to all parts of\\nAmerica and Europe. It sells at the quarries for a higher price than does\\nItalian marble delivered in Nev/ York. Large gangs of saws (without\\nteeth, and ciitting by means of sand poured in from above) are constantly\\nrunning, to separate the marble into slabs.\\nRutland was settled about 1770, and fortified in 1775 as a station on the great\\nnorthern military road. In 1777, St. Clair s routed army retreated through the\\ntown.\\nNumerous pleasant excursions may be made from Rutland. Claren-\\ndon Springs are about 7 M. distant (stages connect with trains at W,\\nRutland station). These springs are of great efficacy, containing in one\\ngallon, or 235 inches, 46 cubic inches of carbonic acid gas, 9.63 cubic\\ninches of nitrogen gas, 3 grains of carbonate of lime, and traces of other\\nalkalies. In a sequestered location near the springs is a large hotel, which\\nhas been a favorite resort for many years (75 guests; $2.50 a day, $10 a\\nweeli). The drives in this vicinity are very pleasant.\\nKiliington Peak {KiUington Jlouse, 3 3 a day, 10-15 a week) is 9 M.\\nE. of Rutland (daily stages; $2 for round trip). The road traverses the\\nloft} and sterile town of Mendon. From the peak (\u00e2\u0080\u00a21,380 ft. high) a niag-\\nnilicent *view is gained over S. Vermont, Lake Champlain, Ascutney,\\nMansfield, the White Mts., and the nearer Pico and Shrewsbury, besides\\nscores of white villages and azure lakes. The hotel was opened in 1879,\\nand is visited by thousands of guests, from all parts of the Union. It is\\n3 M. by an easy road from the base, and a flight of stone steps leads to\\nthe rocky summit, 300 ft. above. This locality is a point of total exemp-\\ntion from hay-fever and malaria; and the pure waters of two adjacent\\nsprings are said to relieve dyspepsia and rheumatism.\\nAt Sutherland Falls, 6 M. N. of Rutland, was one of the prettiest water-\\nfalls in Vermont, now ruined by marble quarries.\\nAfter leaving Rutland, the main line runs N. by Sutherland Falls to\\nPittsford. The village (Otter Creek House) is prettily situated, M. E.\\nof the station, near fertile intervales on Otter Creek. There are marble\\nquarries in the vicinity. Station, Brandon {Brandon House, Douglass\\nHouse), a prosperous manufacturing village on the Neshobe River, with\\n3,571 inhabitants, 5 churches, and 2 banks. In this and the village of\\nForestdale are 4 mineral paint companies, producing large quantities of\\npaint from kaolin, which is mined in the vicinity. There are also marble", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0238.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO BURLINGTON. Route 26. 183\\nquarries, producing common and fine statuary marble and lime. Vast\\nquantities of bog iron ore are found, wliicli is easily melted, and yields 45\\nper cent of soft gray iron, adapted for cannon, car-wliecls, and other cast-\\nings requiring great strength. 200 tons of manganese are sent hence to\\nmarket, principally to Europe. In view of this mineral wealth, and also\\nof the rich crops on the intervales and the abundant timber on the hills,\\nSir Charles Lyell said of Brandon, I have yet to see, either in Europe\\nor America, a sfjot containing such a variety of unique and valuable sub-\\nstances placed by nature in juxtaposition.\\nTwo curious caves are in the limestone ledges 1 J M. E. of the\\nvillage.\\nStephen A. Douglas was born at Brandon, April 23, 1813. He became a lawyer\\nin the State of Illinois, and arose rapidly t higli honors. He was a Congressman,\\n184.3-7, and from 1847 until his death hi 18U1 he was a U. S. Senator. He was\\ncandidate of the Democratic party Tor the Presidency in ISoO, and was defeated,\\nthough receiving a large pojuilar vote. He was the author of the Popular\\nSovereignty doctrine (that tlie people of the Territories shoiUd decide as to the\\nadmission of negro slavery, without tlie interference of Congress). He favoi ed\\nthe peaceable annexation of Texas and Cuba, was actively conservative in the\\nslaveiy question, and supjiorted tlie Government against the rebellion of the\\nSouthern States.\\nStages run from Brandon to Siulhnry, 8 M. W., and to Lal:e Dnnmore, 9 M. N.\\nFrom Leicester Junction a braii /h i-.i lroad raiis V/. am oss the fn^ming towns of\\nWhiting, Shoreham, and Orwell to Ticoiitleroga (17 M), Crdvii Point, and\\nPort Henry (see Route 53). This road ero.sses Lai^e Champlain on a long bridge\\nnear Fort Ticonderoga.\\nStation, Sfdisbury, 3-4 M. W. of which is the beautiful Lake Dun-\\nmore, which is about 5 M. long and is environed by hills. Its clear waters\\nare 60 ft. deep, and abound in fish. Moosalamoo Peak towers on its\\nslioi-e to a height of nearly 2,000 ft. and overlooks the lake and the sur-\\nrounding country, while there are rich lake-views from Rattlesnake Point.\\nWarner s Cave {on Moosalamoo) and the Lana Cascade, E. of the lake,\\nare often visited. Loixl Dnnmore visited this lake (about the year 1770)\\nand, wading into its crystal waters, poured a libation of wine into it, saying,\\nEver after, this body of water shall be called Lake Dunmore, in honor\\nof the Earl of Dunmore. The scenes of the romance, The Green\\n]\\\\Iountain Boa s, are laid in this vicinity. On the W. shore is the *LaTce-\\nDunmore House, which accommodates 100 guests (5- 8 15 a week).\\nMiddlebury {Addison Ho^ise, 80 guests, .$10.00-12.00 a week) is a\\nhandsome village, situated near a considerable fall in Otter Creek. It\\nhas some manufactures, biit its princiral product is marble, of fine quality.\\nI he Portland (Me.) Post Office is built of this marble. Besides 4 churches\\nand a bank, the village contains the Addison County Court House, and is\\nthe seat of Middlebury College. This institution was incorporated in\\n1800, and had, in 1871, 7 instructors, 65 students, and a library of 11,000\\nvolumes. It has three large stone buildings on an eminence near the\\nvillage, and is under the care of the Congregational Church.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0239.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "184 Route 27. VERGENNES.\\nMiildlebury has admirahle schools, and is the business-centre of a rich farming\\ncountry. The favorite drives are to Belden s Falls, 2 M Lake Dunuiore, 8 M.\\nGrand-View Mt., 9 M. and Bristol, 12 M.\\nStages run W. to Cornwall (6 M), Bridport (8 M.), nnd Weybridffe (-i M Also\\nto the Bread-L.oaf Inn, 8 M. E., 1,500 ft. high on the Green Mts., and accom-\\nmodating 150 guests.\\nStations, Brookville and New Haven (New Haven Hotel), near New\\nHaven River and large marble quarries. Stages run to Bristol (good inn),\\n6 M. E., a pretty little hamlet on a high plateau, from which the Adiron-\\ndacks and Green Mts. are seen. Stages also to Lincoln, among the mts.\\nStation, Vergennes {Stevens House Franklin House) the smallest city\\nin the Union (1,800 inhabitants). The site was chosen by Etlian Allen,\\nand is on a hill at the head of navigation on Otter Creek, 8 M. from the\\nlake. It received its city charter in 1788, and was named in honor of the\\nCotuit de Vergennes, French minister of foreign affairs, 1774-83. Otter\\nCreek has deep water, and is navigable for 300 ton vessels to the Falls at\\nVergennes, which have a descent of 37 ft., and are improved for water-\\npower. The country in the vicinity is ricli and productive, and commands\\nviews of the great mountain-chains on the E. and W., a scene of grand-\\neur and sublimity rarely paralleled on this side of the Atlantic. The\\n(Jhamplaiti Arsenal was located here, covering 28 acres of ground. INIore\\nrecently the Vermont Reform School has been established at this jilace.\\nConiniodore ivIacDonough s fleet, which won the naval victory off Platts-\\nburg, was litted out at Vergennes in 1814.\\nStages run to AckUson, M. S., a famous old border-town, in whose S. W.\\ncomer is Chimney Point, op|)osite Crown Point (see Route 5.3). It is now an\\nagricultural town, widely known for its fine hordes. The road to Addison passes\\nthrough Briclport, a broad, quiet fanuing town. About 3 M. S. of Verjcnnes are\\nfine cascades in Otter Creek, near which is the Elxi in .Sprin;/, coniaining sulphates\\nof magnesia, iron, and soda, and carbonates of soda and liiiie. Daily steamboat in\\nsummer from Vergennes to Westport, N. Y., near the Adirouducks.\\nBe3^ond Vergennes the line passes through Ftrrishurfjli, Cliarlotte, and\\nShelburne, to Burlington. These are quiet farming towns with frequent\\nglimpses of Lake Chaniplaiii and tlie Adirondacks on the W., and the\\nGreen Mts. on the E. Stages run from N. Ferrisburgh to Moukton, which\\nhas two pretty lakes.\\nBurlington, see page 3G5.\\n27. Rutland to BeiiniKgton,\\nVia the Bennington and Rutland R. R., 57 M., in 2 hrs. (express).\\nTrains run from N. Bennington by State Line to Hoosac Junction, on the Troy\\nand Boston II. 11. A new i-ailway route is being pushed eastward from Beuuington\\ninto the Green Mts., through (Jlasteubury.\\nStation, Clarendun, wliich is separated from the Clarendon Springs val-\\nle} by a mountain. The hue then crosses the town of WaUhnjford (2", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0240.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "RUTLAND TO BENNINGTON. Route 27. 135\\nstations) near the lofty ridge called the White Eocks. Station, Mt. Ta-\\nbor and Danby, between two rugged hill-towns, so-named, the former of\\nwhich has less than 500 inhabitants on 23,376 acres of land, much of\\nwhich is on the summits of the Green Mts.\\nStations, N. Dorset (JVushinfjton House), E. Dorset (Wilson House).\\nThe line runs through a valkn between the Green Mts. on the E. and the\\nmarble hills of the Taconic system on the W. Mt. ^olus, the highest\\npeak of the latter chain, has large marble quarries on its E. slope.\\nMarble was tirst quarried here in 1785, and now there are 62 gangs of saws nm-\\nnhig here and in Mancliester, sawing 750,000 ft. yearly. Over 300 quarrymen are\\nemployed, and the Dorset marble is sent to every part of tlie U. y. and Canada.\\nOne quarry produces the Italian marble, so called from its resemblance to that of\\nCarrara. The supply is inexhaustible, and the stone is found in parallel strata\\n1-6 ft. thick, sepai ated by thin seams of other rock. Sometimes 29 of these\\nstrata are found, one above the other. On the S. of Mt. iEolus (formerly called Dor-\\nset Mt.) is a remarkable cave containing 5 chambers and several long passages in\\ntlie rock. Its innermost room is 50 ft. high, and has many stalactites.\\nThe line now follows the valley of the Battenkill to Manchester\\n^Equinox House, open June to Dec, a large and first-class hotel Elm\\nHouse; Taconic Hotel). Tliis is a quiet and beautiful village at the\\nbase of Mormt Equinox, and is much visited in summer on account of its\\npure air, picturesque environs, and fine fishing. The village sidewalks\\nare of marble from the inexhaustible quarries on the mts., and the prin-\\ncipal buildings are Burr Seminary and the Bennington County Court\\nHouse. Mt. Junius is .5 IM. N. aiul Stratton Mt. lies to the S. E., near\\nwhich is Stratton Gap, a romantic pass which has been reproduced in one\\nof Durand s best paintings. A road has been constructed to the house on\\nthe summit of Mt. Equinox, which is 3,706 ft. above the sea. From this\\npeak a view is gained, which includes Greylock, chief of the Berk-\\nshire Hills, on the S., and the remote Catskills on the S. W. On the S.\\nW. is Saratoga, with parts of the Hudson Valley running N. to Lakes\\nGeorge and Champlain, long reaches of which are visible. Mt. zEolus,\\nKillington and Shrewsbury Pealvs loom up in the N. Ascntney is in\\nthe N. W., and far beyond Stratton Mt. (S. of E. is the dim blue\\ncone of Monadnock. Skinner Hollov is a deep ampiiitheatrical gulf on\\nthe S. of Equinox Mt., which has a profound cave. Equinox is a corruption\\nof the Indian name, Ekwanok. The Battenkill was the Indian Ondawa.\\nThe first meeting of the Vermont Council of Safety took jdace at Manchester,\\nJuly 15, 1777, and ordered the assembly of the militia to meet Burgoyne, who was\\nmarching on Albany. 1,400 men gatliered here under Stark and Warner, and\\nencamped until the Hessians advanced on Bennington, when they marched down\\nand beat tlieni. (Among the best New Englaiul historical romances are The\\nOreen Mountain Boys and The Rangers, by Hon. D. P. Thompson. Their\\nscenes are laid in tliis part of tlie State during tlie Revolutionary era.)\\nStages rvin E. to the mountain-towns of Peru and IVinhall.\\nStation, Arlinr/trm (two iims), a diversified town in which are AVest and\\nRed IMts., several small caves, and a blowing spring. The State seal of", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0241.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "183 nouic27. RUTLAND TO BENNINGTON.\\nVermont had its origin here. A yonng English lieutenant was courting\\nan Arlington girl, and one day, while there, he engraved on one ot Gov,\\nChittenden s horn-cups a picture of a cov/ and pine-tree and harvested\\ngrain, being a view from the W. window of the Governor s house. Ira\\nAllen saw this engraving, and adopted the device for the seal of the\\nState.\\n7 M. N. of Arlington is Sanclgata Notch, a reniarkahle passage through the solid\\nrock, 30 ft. high, 800 ft. long, and less than 12 ft. wide. This pass is used by a\\nhighway. Stages run from Arlington to Saudgate.\\nStations, Shaftsburi/, S. Shaftshury (stages to Glastenbury), N. Ben-\\nniiKjton, and Bennington {Stark House Gates Hntel), a pretty village\\nin a glen 800 ft. above the sea. It has 4 churches, the county buildings,\\na bank, 2 weekly papers, and fine graded schools. The town has 6.500\\ninhaltitants, and is the chief manufacturing place in the State, making\\ncotton goods, repellents, and knit underclotliing. Old Benninf/tnn Cen-\\ntre, of Revolutionary lame, is 1 M. distant, and is a (piiet handet contain-\\ning the Mt. -Anthony Seminary.\\nHere stood the old Calamount Tavern (burned in 1871), whosp sign was a stnfTed\\nwild-cat on a pole, griuuiug tiercely towards New York. The Vermont Council of\\nSafety used to mt et liere and make plans to defend the State against tlie (daims\\nof New York and tlie armies of the king. Ethan Allen s house adjoined the\\ntavern.\\nMount Anthony is 2 M. by foot-path from Bennington {U M. byroad).\\nFrom the tower on its suninut a beautiful view is afforded, including\\nmost of S. \\\\V. Vermont, ]\\\\Its. Equinox and /Eolus, Greylock in Berk-\\nshire, the broad Walloomsack Valley, several prominent Adirondack\\npeaks, the Kayaderosseras Mts., the Helderberg range, and the remote\\ncrests of the Catskills. Prospect Mt. is often visited.\\nStages run on the great southern highway across the State to Brattleboro.\\nBenningd;on Avas .settled in 1761 by Mass. people, and was named in honor of\\nBenning Wentworth, Governor of N. H. For (50 years it was the most populous\\nplace in Vermont, of which it noAV is the fifth town. Soon after its settlement\\nthe territory now occupied by Vermont was transferred, by royal edict, from the\\njurisdiction of New Hampshire to that of New York. Tlie titles of the settlers\\nto their lands were rendered null and void, and it became evident that they must\\neither repundiase, abandon, or defend them against New York and the king. The\\nsturdy pioneers determined on the latter course, and their well-organized resist-\\nance left the territory in a state of anarchy until the outbreak of the Revolution.\\nThe headquarters of the anti-New- York party was at Bennington, and here, in\\n1777, was established a depot of military sujiplies. Fort Ticonderoga was taken\\nby an expedition from this jilace (1775), and when Burgoyne s royal army was\\nmarching on Albany, he sent Col. Baume witli the Brunswick Dragoons and a\\nmotley swarm of Canadians, Tories, and Indians, to capture Bennington. This\\nforce (about GOO men) met Lieut.-Col. Gregg and 200 Vermonters, and drove them\\nback until Gen. Stark s brigade moved up from Bennington (5 M. distant). Baume\\nnow halted and threw up entrenchments on a commanding hill, and Stark en-\\ncamped near by. After two days skirmisliing. Stark was joined by a regiment\\nfrom Berkshire, which, witli tlie i N. H. regiments and Herrick s Rangers, gave\\nhim a force of 1,800 men. On the day before the battle, Parson Allen, of Berk-\\nshire, said to Stark, General, the peopLe have been too often called out to no\\nI urpose. If you don t give them a chance to fight now, they II never tuiui out\\nagain. You would n t tm-n out now while it s dark and rainy, would you?", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0242.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "RUTLAND TO ALBANY. Route 2S. 187\\nsaid Stark. Well, no, not jnst now, answered the Parson. Well, answered\\nStark, if the Loid should once more give us sunshine, if I don t give you flght-\\ning enough, I 11 never ask you to turn out again. On the morning of Aug. 16,\\n1777, tlie Aniei-ican militia were tlravvn out, and three detachments were sent to\\nattack the Hessiau riglit, and right and left rear. See there, nieu there are\\nthe red-coats. Before night they are ours, or Molly Stark will he a widow,\\ncried Stark, as he led his men to the attack. The Indians fled lietween the con-\\nverging columns, and the Tories sooii gave way, but the German soldiers fought\\nwith their sAvords when their ammunition liad given out, and oidy surrendered\\nwhen enveloped by superior numbers. The action lasted ibr two hours, like one\\nconiinue l clap of thunder, and scarcely had the victors begun to rest when Col.\\nBreymau came near the field witli a large reinforcement for Baunic. Fortunately\\nWarner s Vermont regiment had just arrived on tlie field, and the valiant Warner\\n(wlio had been among the foremost in the battle) led tliem agai nst the enemy.\\nTlie other cor/y.s were soon hurried to their support, and Breyman retreated at\\nsunset. 237 of the enemy were killed and wounded, 700 were made prisoners,\\nand 4 cannon were taken. The Americans lost about 200 (or, according to Stark s\\nreport, 70 killed and wounded). Tlie 16th of August has been observed as a holi-\\nday at Benningt.oii ever since tlie battle.\\nFrom Bi imington to New York, tlie trains run in 9-12 hours, by Lebanon\\nSprings (see Route 23), Ciiatliam Four Corners, Croton Falls, and White Plains-\\nTrains to Albany in 4;j-6 hours.\\n28. Rutland to Albany.\\nVia the Rensselaer and Saratoga R. R. in 101 M. Fare, $3.65.\\nStations, Centre Rutland (near which the river is ci ossed at Gookin s\\nFalls), and W. Rutland, with its great marble- works. Stages run hence\\nto Clarendon Springs (see page 182) in 4 M. fare, 75 c. Station, Castleton\\n{Bnniosecn House), a prett,y village on a ])lain near Castleton River, which\\nhas a State Noimal School and five churches. There are marble and slate\\nquarries in this vicinity, also works for preparing marbleized slate, an ex-\\ncellent imitation of marble. 100 men are engaged here in making white\\nsoapstone slate-pencils, 300,000,000 of which ai e made yearly. At W.\\nCastleton, 1,000 billiard beds and 2,000 mantels of slate are made yearly.\\nExcursions may be made from Castleton to Lake Bomoseen, 4 I\\\\L N.\\nW. This Lake is 8 M. long and 1 2^ M. wide, and is lined on its W.\\nshore with marble-mills and slate-quarries.\\n7 M. N. of Castleton is Huhhardton, where, near the Baptist church, is an obe-\\nlisk near a flagstaff, which marics the battle-field of July 7, 1777. As soon as the\\nBritish knew tli:it St. Clair had evacuated Ticonderoga, Gen. Frazer was sent in\\nl ursuit of him with a small force of light infantry. The American rear-guard\\nwas composed of 3 thin regiments, one of which retreated as soon as the action\\ncommenced. Frazer attacked the regiments of Warner and Francis with 700 men.\\nThe numbers were about equal, and tlie tight was long and desperate. At last\\nthe Baron Riedesel arrived on the field with his Brunswickers, and the American\\nlines were broken. They lost 324 men, including Col. Francis, who fell at the\\nhead of his regiment, while the British loss was 183. The bones of the slain\\nbleached on the battle-field in the deserted town for 7 years, when they were\\nburied near the site of the monument.\\nRutland and Washington Line.\\nPonltney {PnuUn,cii House Beanums) is 7 M. S. of Castleton, on the\\nRutland and Washington Railroad. The line passes through a region", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0243.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "188 Route 20. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nabounding in slate-quarries, roultney is a handsome village, where Horace\\nGreeley learned the printer s trade and Jared Sparks mastered the carj*en-\\nter s trade. Here also George Jones, of the N. Y. Times, was born. The\\ntine ol l buihling of the Kipley Female College is situated in pleasant\\ngrounds, and is now used b\\\\ the Troy Conference Seminary (Methodist),\\nfor both sexes. Anujng the ])rjuci|)al points frequented l)y visitors are the\\nGorge, the Bowl, Carter s Falls, and Lake Bomoseen. Lake St. Catherine\\n(name from an old Jesuit mission here) is a loveh sheet of water, 6 M.\\nby Ij M., surrounded by high hills and mountains. 3 M. from Poultney,\\nat its head, is the Lake- Vieio House, in a line june grove, and commanding\\na view clear down the lake. The Lake St. Catherine Iloiist is at the toot\\ni the lake, on a pleasant i)romontory, near the Haystack, Moosehorn, and\\nSt. Catherine Mts.\\nMiddletown Springs are 8 M. E. of Poidtney (stages daily, 75 c.).\\nThese springs are mainly impregnated with iron, and have become a pojiu-\\nlar resort. The Mont\\\\ert Hotel acconuuodates 100 guests; $2.50 a day,\\n10 a week. The Valley House is a smaller hotel in the vicinity.\\nBeyond Poultney tlie Rutland and Washini^toii Division runs along the border to\\nEasj;le l^ridge and Troy, 68 M. from Poukney, stopping at the Vermont stations of\\nPawlet and Jiupert.\\nBeyond (\\\\istleton the next main line station is at [lydtriUe (Russell\\nHouse), at the foot of Lake Bomoseen. Station, Fairhaven (Park Vieto\\nJlouse), with a neat oval park, from wdiich the streets raduite. Vast amounts\\nof slate for rooling and other purposes are quarried in this town.\\nDaily stages run N. to the farming towns of Westhaven and Benson (10\\njSL), on the shore of Lake Champlain. Beyond Fairhaven the line reaches\\nWhitehall (N. Y.), whence the Champlain Railroad starts for Ticonderoga,\\nBurlington, and Rouse s Point. For a description of the lake, and of the\\nrailroad from Albany to Whitehall, see Route 53.\\n29. Bcston to Lowell, Concord, and Montreal.\\nVia tlie Boston and Lowell, Northern, and Vermont Central Riilroads. Distance,\\nto i- nvell. 20 M. to Concord, 75 M. to Montreal, 334 M.\\n(The other routes to ]\\\\Iontreal are (1) by way of Fifchburs and Rutland, 3i4 M.\\ni l) l)y way of Portland and the Grand Trunk Railway, 4u5 M. and (3) by the\\nSouthpastern Railway\\nBy the Lowell route. Pullman and passenger cars run through to Montreal,\\nwithout change, in 10-12 liours. Through express trains usually leave tlie Boston\\nand Lowell depot, in Boston, ar, 8 30 o clock A. M.,and 7 P. M., arriving in Montreal,\\nrespectively at about 8.30 o clock in the evening, and 8.25 in the morning. The line\\npasses through the populous cities of Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, and Concord,\\nand then runs N. W. through the pleasing rural scenery of New Hampshire and\\nVermont.\\nThe train leaves the superb Lowell Depot, in Boston, and crosses Charles\\nRiver, with Charlestown resting on hills to the r. Over College Hill is\\nTufts College, a famous Uuiversalist school (founded, 1852), with 15", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0244.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "MIDDLESEX FELLS. Route 29. 189\\ninstructors and 70 students, a lil)rary of 20,000 volumes, and the Goddard\\nChapel, a low blue-stone edifice, with memorial stained windows, and the\\nonly true Lombardic tower in America. The Middlesex Fells, an unin-\\nhabited tract of far-viewing stony hills, cliffs, gorji^es, ravines, and tarns,\\n*of wonderful pieturesqueness and wild and rugged beauty, cover the\\nN. ]iart of jMedford, and are crossed by ancient grassy cartways and dim\\npaths. Spot Pond (see below) is its centre, over which rises Bnir Hill,\\nwhose steep N. face is Cheese Rock, so named b} Gov. Vv intiirop.\\nI ine Hill and Taylor Mt. are in the Western Fell. S. E. of Winchester.\\nThe Mnldtn Cascade (100 ft. high) is near tlie Lynde mansion (built\\nin IfJ-iO). The Fells may be entered from Melrose or Stoneham; or bj\\nSummer St., fi-om Maiden; or by Forest St., from iNIedford. The nearest\\nwa} is by the Boston and Maine R. R. to Stoneham Centre, whence horse-\\ncars to Marble St., near Cheese Rock. Tlie tract covers six square miles,\\nThe White Mts. in miniature, and may become a State park.\\nTiie railroad passes along Mystic Pond, near which lived Nanepashemet,\\nthe Moon God, an early sachem of the Mass. Indians. He was killed\\nin battle, about 1010. and buried in his fortress here. Winchester, with\\nIts i)retty villas, is in a town of 5,000 inhabitants, with manufactures\\n(chieily of leather) reaching over iS 2,000,000 a year. A branch line leads\\nthence to Woburn (Central Hotcse), a town of 12,000 inhabitants, with\\nannual manufactures of 6,000,000 (leather, shoes, glue, c.), a tine sol-\\ndiers monument, a very handsome library, and 7 churches. From E.\\nWubuni a branch runs 1 M, E. to Stoneham (Central House), with 6,000\\ninhabitants, and $2,500,000 worth of manufactures (shoes and leather)\\nannually. On the S. is the romantic Spot Pond, surrounded by hills, and\\n143 ft. above the sea, studded with islands, and covering 28-J acres. It\\nwas found and named by Gov. Winthrop, in 1632.\\nStations, N. Woburn, Wilmiivjton, Billerica. The latter slation is in\\nan extensive farming town. Teioksbury, 2 M. N. of the station, is the\\nseat of a large institution for the State s paupers. Sliortly after leaving\\nN. Billerica the line crosses the Concord River and enters Lowell.\\nLowell.\\nHotels. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Merrimar, American, and Washington Houses are the chief\\nhoicU.\\nPawtucket Falls was a favorite fishing-place of the Indians until their\\nextinction, and was often visited by Eliot and Gookin. In lti26 a town\\nwas set off here, and named Lowell, in honor of a Newburyport gentle-\\nman who introduced the cotton-manufacture into the United States.\\nThe Pawtucket Canal extends from the head of the Falls to the Concord\\nRiver below the city, and furnishes an immense water-power, having a\\nfall of 33 ft. To obviate the trouble caused by an occasional decrease of\\nwater in the Merrimac River, a large dam has been built at the outlet\\nof Lake Winnepesaukee (commenced in IS 10). Tlie Pawtucket Canal", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0245.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "100 Route 29. LOWELL.\\nwas cut late in tlie last century, for purposes of navigation, Lut did not\\npay, and was bought in 1821 by Bostonians, who established a factory\\nhere. There were then 12 houses here, and in 1828 the population had\\nrisen to 3,532. The Merrimack Mills were started in 1823, and turn out\\n50,000,000 yards of cotton cloth yearly. Their chimney is 283 ft. high.\\nBeginning up-stream, the first line of factories belongs to the Lawrence\\nMills Co., while on the canal are the Tremont and Suffolk Mills. Beh)w\\nthe Lawrence Mills are the immense Merrimack Mills and Print Works\\n(foot of Prince St.), which are succeeded ak)ng the river-front by the Boott\\nand the Massachusetts Mills. The Middlesex, Prescott, Appleton, Hamil-\\nton, and Lowell Carpet Mills are on the canal, S. of Merrimack St.\\nIn 1884 there were in Lowell 170 factory-buildings, with a capitil of \u00c2\u00a718,000,000,\\nrunning 900,000 spindles and 24,000 looms, and employing 13,000 women and\\n14,000 men. They use annually 105,000 tons of coal, 15,000 bushels of charcoal,\\n133,000 gallons of oil, 1,800 tons of starch, 38,000 tons of cotton, and 8,000 tons of\\nwool. Thev produce annually 240,000.000 yards of cotton cloth, 10,000,000 yards\\nof woollens, 8,500,000 yards of carpeting, 120,000 shawls, 16,500,000 pairs of hose and\\n100,000,000 yards of cloth are dyed and printed. There are, also, manufactories of\\ncassimeres, patent-medicines, cartridges, flannels, wire-goods, bolts, and the only\\nbunting-factories in the country. 316 engines furnish 27,700 horse-power, and\\n23,000 horse-power is derived from the canals. The city water-works (finished in\\n1872) cost 1,820,569. The City Library has 28,000 volumes, and the Mechanics\\nLibrary has 14,000.\\nThe raili-oads which converse at Lowell are the Boston and Lowell, Lowell and\\nNashua, Stony Brook, Lowell and Lawrence, Frarningham and Lowell, and Lowell and\\nAudover. Horse-railroads traverse the city streets, enabling visitors to reach the\\nchief points of interest with ease and comparative comfort.\\nWlien the factory system was first inaugurated, the operatives were\\nmostly Americans, but now the mills are worked almost entirely by Irish,\\nNova Scotians, and French Canadians. So, with the 27,000 operatives,\\nmostly foreign, Lowell possesses but little of the aspect of a Ncav England\\ncitv. The French have a large church (Catholic). The great Church of\\nthe Lnmaculate Conception is in Belvidere, near the hospital of St. John.\\nThe city has 65,000 inhabitants, with 31 churches, 91 schools, about 9,000\\ndwi lliiig-houses, 10 lodges of ^Masons, and 4 of Odd Fellows.\\nMerrimack St. is the main thoroughfare of the city, and contains long\\nlines of shops. On this street is the Post-Otfice, City Hall, and a vener-\\nable-looking Episcopal Church and rei:t()r3\\\\ On S. Common is the Eliot\\nChurch, also the buildings of Middlesex County (which was organized in\\n1643, together with Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk Counties). On Merrimack\\nSt. is the City Library; and the Y. ]\\\\r. Christian Association has pleasant\\nreading-rooms, corner of Merrimack and Central Sts.\\nLowell has been visited by Presidents Jaoks(Ui, Tyler, Polk, Pierce, and\\nGrant. Sir Charles Lyell came here, also Charles Dickens, who devoted\\na chapter .\\\\iiicrica!i otcs) to it, and Frcdrii^a breuici-, Wuo speaks of the\\nglorious view imm Drewcrnlfs Hill on a cold winter evi iiinu of the manufuc-\\ntories uf Lowell lying below in a half-circle, glittering with a thousand lights, like\\na magic castle on the snow-covered earth.\\nBy going to the upper end of Merrimac St., and turning to the 1., one\\ncomes to the bridge over the Merrinuic, from which a view of Pawtucket", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0246.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Route 29. 191\\nFalls and tlie canal entrance may be gained. On a little enrailed green\\non Merrimac St. the city has erected a monument to two of her young\\nmen, Ladd and Whitney, who belonged to the 6th Mass. Militia Reg.,\\nand were killed during the murderous attack on that corps by the roiighs\\nof Baltimore^ April 19, 1861. Near this monument is a bronze statue\\nof Victory, by the celebrated German sculptor. Ranch, which has been\\nerected as a memorial to the men of Lowell who fell in fighting against\\nthe Rebellion.\\nAl ter leaving Lowell, the line follows the Merrimac River to Concord.\\nA seat on the r. is preferable. Stations, Middlesex, and N. Chelmsford.\\nMiddlesex is at the N. end of the old Middlesex Canal, running from this\\npoint to Boston, 27 M. It was completed in 1808, at a cost of 528,000,\\nand had 20 locks in a fall of 136 ft., but since the era of railroads began,\\nit has been neglected, and is not used. At X. Chelmsford the Stony\\nBrook Railroad comes in from Groton (Ayer) Junction. The line soon\\nregains the banks of the Merrimac near Wicassic Falls, and stops at\\nTyngsbi/ro soon after wliich it crosses the State line and enters New\\nHampshire..\\nNashua.\\nHotels, Indian Head, corner Main and Pearl Sts. Tremont.\\nThe town of Dunstable (in which Nashua was included) was settled\\nbefore King Philip s War, and was bravely defended throxigh that and\\nthe succeeding conflicts. So late as 1803, the present site of the city was\\na sandy plain covered with pine-trees. The Niishua Manufacturing Co.\\nwas chartered, in 1823, and factories were erected along the canals, wlule\\nthe new village grew in importance, until in 1853 it became a city.\\nNashua is a pleasant city (14,000 inhabitants), situated on hilly ground\\nat the confluence of the Merrimac and Nashua Rivers. It has 11 churches,\\n6 bodies of Masons, 3 of Odd Fellows, and 2 daily and 3 weekly news-\\npapers. The streets are broad and well-lighted, and lined with trees,\\nwhile some of the churches and private residences are of pleasing ap|)ear-\\nance. By the wondrous alcliemy of skill and enterprise, out of the\\nwaters of the Nashua and the sands of this pine plain, frojn some half\\na dozen dwellings have been raised up these thronged and beautiful\\nvillages,\\nThe water-power is taken from Mine Falls on the Nashua River, from\\nwhich a canal has been cut 3 M. long, 60 ft. wide, and 8 ft. deep, witli a\\nhead and fall of 36 ft. The Nashua Manufacturing Co. and other cotton\\nmills have over 2,000 operatives. 110 men are engaged in making cards\\nand glazed paper 150 men make locks; 75 make fans; 40 make sus-\\npenders; 70 are engaged on soapstone work; and 160 make shuttles and\\nboTjbhis. Tlie Underbill Edge Tool Co. uses 100 tons of iron and steel", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0247.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "192 Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nammally; the Vale Mills consume 500 bales of cotton; an l the immense\\nNashua Iron Works consume 3,000 tons of iron, 800 tons of steel, and\\n4,000 tons of coal each year. Besides the goods already mentioned,\\nNashua produces yearly 30,000 yards of ingrain carpets.\\nNashua is the terniinns of the Boston, Lowell Nashua, Concord, Wilton\\nBranch, Nashua, Acton Boston, Nashua Rochester, and Wor. Nashua R. Rs.\\nNasluia to Wilton.\\nFrom the latter station the Wilton Branch R. R. runs 16 M. N. W. to Wilton.\\nThis line jiasses through a pleasant and retired liill-country, much frei]uenled by\\nt\\\\ty peo])le in summer.\\nStations, .S Mcrriiimc and Amherst. The main village of Amherst town is some\\ndistance N. of the station, and the po]iular Amherst iSpring (good hotel) is about\\n3 M. from the station (stages to the village and si)rings). The village is on a high\\nX lain, M. square, and abounds in shade-trees.\\nThis town was granted to Essex Co. veterans of the Narragansett War, and\\nwas Uiinicd in 17(iO, in honor of Gen. Amherst, the commander i)i the Conquest\\nof Canada. It sent 120 men to the Continental Army, although its jiopulation in\\n1775 was larger than in 1S70. In a small farmhouse, 5 M. from Amherst village,\\nHorace Greeley was born, Feb. y, ISll. He learned the printer s trade in Poult-\\niiey, Vt., between his 15tli and 19th year, and soon after went to New Yorlv, where\\nhe started several ]iapers (the Morning Post, New-Yorker, Jeffcrsonian, Log-Cabin).\\nIn 1841 he founded the New York Tribune, which became one of the most\\npowerful and siurited of the New York newspapers, and advocated the abolition\\nof slaverj^ the elevation of the laboring classes, and the protection (by tarifl\\nof American manufactures. Mr. Greeley generally supported the measures of\\nthe Repul lican party from its origin until 1872 altliough favoring a more\\nextended anniesty for the Southern States. In 1872 he joined the Liberal party,\\nwliich seceded from the Republicans on account of dissatisfaction with President\\nGrant s administration. He was nominated as candidate for the Presidency by\\nthe Liberal Convention at Cincinnati, and by the Democratic Convention at Bal-\\ntimore. After a long and bitter campaign, Grant was re-elected, and soon after,\\nworn out by toil, Mr. Greeley died iu ar New York. He was eccentric in many of his\\nways, and loved a quiet, rural life, while his powerful and jumgent editorials made\\nhim the leading journalist in America.\\nStation, iSlxJj ord {Xjwion House), a manufacturing -sil-\\nlage on the broad meadows of the Souhegan River. Stages run daily to Mount\\nVernor^, %ith its beautiful prospect of tov/ns and villages in the Merrimac and\\nBouhegan valleys. Sunrise in summer brings to view a vast expanse, including\\nthe beautiful villages of Massachusetts while from the spire of the church can\\nbe seen the snow-white sails upon the distant ocean. The name is a tit emblem\\nof the spot for, clustering around this eminence, are numerous farms, in the mild\\nseasons clad in the ricliest verdure. The McCollom Institute is an ellicR-nt\\nacademy at Mt. Vernon, wlucli has also a desk-factory. The town is frequented\\nVtysununer visitors. Milford has 2.000 iidiabitants, 2 banks, a handsome town-\\nhall, a puldic libraiy, and 2 I liurclies. (!0 of its soldiers died in the Civil War.\\nThe town produces fruit and milk, and matmfactui es cotton cloth, yarn, etc.\\nStation, Wilton (Everett House), a manufacturing village in a glen on the\\nSouhegan River. 2,000 gallons of milk, besides other dairy jmiducts, are sent to\\nBoston daily from this town. This is a po])ular sun)mer resort (2^ hours from\\nBoston), lieing rich in hill-scenery and falling waters. Barnes Cascade, Pack\\nMonudnock Mt., and Lyndeborougli are often visited. (?ee page 415).\\nK ashua to Concord. 35 M.\\nStations (on the main line), Thornton s Ferry, Merriinac, Reed s Ferry,\\nGoJ s Falls, and JIcDichestcr.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0248.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "MANCHESTER. Route 29. 193\\nManchester.\\nHotels. Hotel Windsor, Manchester St., S2.50; Manchester House, Elm St.;\\nCity Hotel, Elm St Aiuo.skeaj^ Hotel Merriiuac House.\\nThis city was settled early iu the last ceutuiy by conflicting colonies of Scotch\\nPresbytc^rians and Massachiisetts Puritans. For 75 years from its settleuieut, Derry-\\nfield (as it was then called) had neither a minister nor a lawyer, nor did it send any\\nof its yoTith to college. The large lisheries at the Falls attracted the settlers here.\\nIn iSol there were less than TOO residents Here, but at that time the Amoskeag\\nManufacturing Co. bought the laud E. of the falls, and laid the foundations of a\\ngreat city, which numbers over 40,000 inhabitants, with a valuation of about\\n20,000,^00.\\nManchester (40,000 inhabitants) is the most populous city in New Hamp-\\nshire, and is built on a broad plain near the Merrimac River. Elm Street\\nis its principal thorouglifare, and is ]00 ft. wide and over a mile long.\\nPublic squares, with ponds enclosed in their limits, have been laid out in\\ndifferent parts of the city, and among the churches may be noticed the\\nUnitarian, on Beech St., the Catholic and the Ei)iscopal on Lowell St., and\\nthe Convent and Church of St. Ann, on Merrimac St. The City Library\\ncontains about 20,000 volumes, and there are 2 daily and 4 weekly news-\\npapers. The compact lines of tenement-houses, near the factories, were\\nbuilt for the operatives. The best streets are out of sight from tlie rail-\\nroad, in the E. and N. of the city, and have many tine residences and\\npublic houses. A grand view is given from Shirley Hill, G M. out, and a\\nsummer-resort.\\nThe water-power of Manchester is furnished by the Blodgett Canal, built\\nin 181G around the Amoskeag Falls on the Merrimac River. These Falls\\nhave a descent of 47 feet, with rapids above, and in high water they afford,\\neven now, a grand sight. The Amoskeag. Stark, Amory, and Langdon\\nMills, and the Manchester Print Works are located along the canal. Tlie\\nAmoskeag Co. has 10 mills, with 171,000 spindles, employing 5,000 hands;\\nand 38-40,000 bales of cotton are consumed yearly in tlie factories of the\\ncity. Manchester has 18 churches, 45 schools (with 6,600 pupils), 4 banks\\nand 4 savings-banks, and several halls (Smythe s and Music Halls are the\\nbest). A line opera-house was built in 18S0.\\nThe Print Works employ 2,400 persons, and produce nearly 2,000,000 yards of\\ncloth yearly the Stark Mills employ 1,300 hands, 11,000,000 yards yearly, valued\\nat 2,000,000 the Langdon Mills, 500 hands, 5,000,000 yards yearly the Namaske\\nMills, 2,000,000 yards the Manchester Locomotive Woi ks, .325 men, 1561o(;omo-\\nti\\\\es yeai ly hosiery mills, 140,000 dozen pair yearly and there are manufac-\\ntories of axes, liles, paper, castings, carriages, etc.\\nLake Massabesic Massahesic House, 100 guests, 2.50 a day, 10.00\\na week) is 4 M. E. from the city, on the Candia road. The Portsmouth\\nRailroad has a station near the hotel. The Lake is 4 M. long, and is\\nvery irregular in ovxtline, having 31 M. of shore, with some beaches of\\nwhile sand, while nnmerous picturesque islets dot its surface. The Fairy\\nGrotto and a curious sulphur cave (Devil s Den) are often visited.\\n9 M", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0249.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "194 Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nThe Maneliester and N. Weare R. R. runs N. W. 19 M., passing the stations\\nBedford, Gotl stown, Parker s, Oil Mills, Raymond, and E. Weare, to N. Weare\\nin a busy manufacturing town. The Concord and Portsniouth R. R. runs from\\nManchester to Portsmouth and a raikoad runs S. E. to Lawrence in\\n26 M.\\nAfter leaving Manchester, ou the main line, the train passes Martin s\\nFerry, and stops at Kook^cXti.Ayer House Stearns House). Just he-\\nfore reaching tlie station, the Merrimac is crossed by a bridge 550 ft. long.\\nThis village is the seat of cotton factories and extensive brickyards (mak-\\ning 10,000,000 bricks a year), and derives considerable water-power from\\n16 ft. falls in the river. In the W. of the town is a lofty and ragged\\npile of rocks called Pinnacle Mt., from whose summit a good vieAv of\\nthe valley is gained. At its base is a deep, clear pond which has no\\nvisible outlet. This town is on the reservation given by Massachusetts to\\nPassaconoway, the great Sachem of the Pennacooks. His son and suc-\\ncessor, Wonnolancet, was converted by the apostle Eliot, and when King\\nPhilip s ardent eloquence had persuaded the Pennacooks to enter the\\nanti-English Confederation, he resigned the sachemdom, and went to\\nCanada with his family. Branch railroads diverge from Hooksett to Sun-\\ncook and Concord, and to Allenstowu and Pittstield (see page 417). The\\nmain line passes along the W. bank of tlie Merrimac, through the an-\\ncient town of Bow, to\\nConcord-\\nHotels. Eagle Hotel, opposite the State House, 83-3.50 a day; *Phenix\\nHntcl. Main St., ip3 a day Elm House and several smaller hotels.\\nribraries. The State Library (1.3,000 volumes); the City Library (9,000 vol-\\numes), School St. N. IL Historical Society (7,000 volumes). ]\\\\iain St.\\nKailroa\u00c2\u00ab!s. To Bostou, 75 M. I ort-mouth, .59 M. Ciarcmont. 54^ M. White-\\nRiver .1 unction, 69 ]M. Ilillsl oroui;h Bridge. 27 M. Lancaster, 135 MT\\nStaifes daily to London Ridge, 15 M. N. E. Ilopkinton. 7i W. and Dunbar-\\nton (Prospect House i, 10 M. S., a lofty summer-resort village, overlooking 37 towns.\\nThe territory now covered l)y Concord was granted by Massachusetts in 1725,\\nand occupied soon after, the Pennacook Indians giving way. It was named Rum-\\nford in 1733. and 8 years later was confirmed as a part of New Hampshire, to the\\ngreat regret of the settlers, who petitioned the king to gdve the territory back to\\nMass. At the breaking out of war with France, seven timber forts were built,\\nin which the 06 men of the town, Avith their families, lived in state of siege.\\nSeveral of the townsmen were killed or captured. For numy years a litigation\\nwas carried on l)etweeii the itrojirictors of the town of Row and the Rumfoiditcs,\\nthe former claiming that the grant from Mass. under which Rumford was si ttlcd\\nwas illegal and void. Tlie N. II. courts decided that the Mass. grant was value-\\nless, and then the vexed colonists sent two commissioners with an appeal to the\\nIving. He decided in faM)r of the Rumford peoide, and by an order in council\\nconfirmed theui in their rights. As late as 1772, negroes were bt)ught and sold\\nhere, and bears and wolves were very ti-(mblesome to the farmers. The name\\nConcord was adopted m 1765, and in 1816 the town was made the State capital.\\nConcord, the capital of the State of New Hampshire, is a handsome\\ncity of 14,000 inhabitants, situated on the W. side of the Mcrrinuic Kiver,\\nequally distant from the ocean and from the Connecticut liiver. Main\\nand State Streets run parallel with the river, and are broad and pleasant\\navenues. The abundance of shade-trees on these and the cross-streets", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0250.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Route 29. 105\\ngives fhe city a pleasant embowered appearance. The State Capitol is a\\nline structure, fronting across a small park on Main St. It is built of\\nConcord granite, and the projecting portico is sustained by eight pairs of\\ncoupled cohmms. The State liilirary is in a hall opening off the first\\nlobby, which is richly decorated with the colors of the N. H. regiments in\\nthe Secession War. The halls of the Senate and House of Representa-\\ntives are neat and commodious. The building is surmounted by a lofty\\nand graceful dome, from which a pleasant view is obtained.\\nThe City Hall and Court House is on Main St., N. of the Capitol, and\\nis a neat brick building, surmounted by a round dome.\\nConcord has 3 banks and -i savings-banks, a large mercantile trade, and\\na vahiatiou of 14,500,0U0. There arc 5 papers, and 12 churclit-s. 1 lie\\nwater supply is from Penacook Lake, 3 M. N. W. The city has 4 bridges\\nacross the Merrimac. 7 M. of hort^e-raiiway run to Wc Concord and\\nPenacook. U. S. Government building on State St.\\nThe Slate Asylum for the Insane has tine buildings in the W. part of\\nthe city. It was founded in 1812, since wliich it lias treated over 3,500\\npatients. Its present capacity is 260 patients, and many are discharged\\nyearly as cured. Tlie State Prison is on Main St.\\nBenjamin Thompson, Count Rum ford, born at Woburn, Mass., 1753, was lon.s a\\nresident of Concord (then called Rumfurdl At the time of the Revolntkin\\n(being- then a school-teacher at Rumford), he was unjustly suspected of disloyalty\\nto the American cause, and was annoyed until he took refuge in the British lines.\\nHe became an under-seeretary in Lord Gerniaine s cabinet at London, and after-\\nwards raised the King s American Dragoons in New York, with which he\\nsurprised and dispersed Marion s men (1782). He was knighted by King George,\\nand in 178-4 became chamberlain and aid-de-cam]) to the Elector of Bavaria.\\nHere he reorganized the army, suppre;ssed l)eggary, made the Park at Munich,\\nand kept the Electorate neutral during the Franco-Austrian War. He was made\\nState councillor, lieut-gen., minister of war, count (taking tlie title from his old\\nhome), and head of the regency. He founded the Royal Institution at London,\\nmaiTied the widow of Lavoisier, and became one of the leading scientists of\\nEurope. He discovered that heat is only a mode of motion, and wrote exten-\\nsively on light, heat, and other scientific subjects. He endowed a professorship\\nin Harvard University, and passed the last 16 years of his life in scientific ex-\\nperiments. His daugliter, the Countess of Rumford, lived in Concord until her\\ndeath, in 1852. A line bronze statue of the Count has been erected in one of the\\nprincipal promenades of Munich (near the Hotel des Quatre Saisons).\\nAbbot, Downing, Co. s coach and exiu-ess-wagon works at Concord are the\\nlargest in the world, and their wagons are sent to Japan, Australia, and California,\\nbesides being in high repute throughout the Atlantic States. Hill s harnesses\\n(75 men in the works) are also sent to all parts of the world. The Prescott Melo-\\nd(ions have been made here since 1837, and a furniture com]\u00c2\u00bbany uses 1,000,000\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0worth of lumber yearly. At Pc7iacoo/,; are large furniture-factories. Inexhaustible\\nquarries of fine granite are worked on Rattlesnake Hill, 1 M. N. W.\\nSt. Favil s School (Episcopal 220 boys) has .stately buildings, 2 M. W. i M.\\ndistant is a moniunent to soldiers slain here by Indians in 174tJ.\\nThe Birchdale-Syrings Hotel, 4.1 M. out, is a large and modern summer-\\nhotel, for loo guests, with the Concord and Granite Springs (fur dy.--pcp.--ia, lung\\ntroubles, and diseases of the skin and blood j, among beautiful groves, on high, dry,\\nand sandy hills in a rich farming country. Noble views from Evlin Jli/f.\\nA beautiful ante-colonial tradition of this locality is prescuwed by Whittier iu\\nThe Bridal of Peuuacook, picturing the Merrimac valley ceuluries ago, wheu", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0251.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "19G Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nIn their sheltered repose, looking out from the wood\\nThe hark-builded wigwiiiiis of Pennacook stood.\\nThere glided the corn-diince, the council-fire thone.\\nAnd against the red war-post the hatchet was tlirown.\\nThere the old smoked in silence their pipes, and the young\\nTo the pike and tlie white perch tlicir bidtcd lines fluug\\nThere the bfty sliaped his arrow, and there the shy maid\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Wove her many-hued baskets and briglit wami)uin braid.\\nConcord and Claremont R. R., 5G\u00c2\u00a7 3f. Fare, \u00c2\u00a712.\\nPassing the high-placed Penitentiary and the W.-Concord granite-quar-\\nries, and crossing the Contoocook, the train reaches Contoocook, whence a\\nbranch runs to Henniker Ci^oyea House), a beautiful old villige; Hills-\\nborough Valley Jloust), the birthplace of President Pierce; Antrim\\n(Carter House); Be?inin(,Um (Dodge Farm, in summer) Hancock Junction,\\ncrossing the Mancliester and Keene R. R. and Peterboro (see page 413).\\nBeyond Contoocook is Warner Warner and Kearsarye-Mt. Hotel, $6-\\n10 a week), a pleasant summer-resort, with 2 churches, a large high-school,\\na bank, and a library. The streets are shaded with rock-maples, and are\\nneat and quiet. A road runs thence u M. N. to Mt. Kearsarge. There\\nare many pleasant drives in the vicinity, through a ))icUires(|ue region.\\nBradford (Bradford ILiusv Raymond) is a charming village near the\\nisland-strewn Bradford Pond, nuuli frequented by sunuuer-visitors. Love-\\nwell s and Sunapee Mts. are near; and Mt. Kearsarge is M, N. E.\\nStages run 5 M. S. W. to the Bradford Mineral Springs {Bradfcrd-\\nSprings Hotel, regular board 1 a day), 1 M. from E. Washington. Tiiey\\nwere used by the Indians; and in 1840 the Hermilage hotel was built\\nhere. The waters are beneficial in scrofula, and diseases of the kiduej-s,\\nstomach, and skin. The hotel has recently been doubled in size. There\\nis tine lake ai;d mountain scenery in the vicinity. Stages run daily from\\nBradford to New London (13 M N.). Between Bradford and Sunapee,\\nthe railroad traverses a cutting through 400 ft. of hard slag-like rock.\\nSunapee Lake is a beautifid sheet of water, 9 J\\\\L long, and 1^-3 M.\\nwide, in the midst of roiuantic scenery, and abounding in (ish. A steam-\\nboat runs thrice dailv from Newburv station, 8 M. to Blodgett s Landing,\\nGreat Island, Lake View, Liberty Island, Pine Cliff, Sunapee Harbor\\n{RunaU Hmise, S 5-9 a week), and George s Mills. The lake is sur-\\nrounded by picture.-que higblands, ami has wooded shores and ]iretty\\nislands. In its limpid waters dwell black bass, trout, salmon, pickerel, and\\nperch. Summer-l)oarders visit Garnet Ilill, Indian Cave, Newpor (G ]\\\\L),\\nMr. Sunapee (3i INL), and other points. Wm. C Sturoc, a native of\\nArbroath, Scotland, who lives near the Harbor, is known as The Bard of\\nSunapee. N. P. Rogers called this lake the Loch Katrine of America.\\nThe Lake-View House, 4 M. from Newbury, has telegraph, billiards, and\\nbowling (^7- 10 a week). From the lake are seen Kearsarge, Cardigan,\\nCroydon, and other stately peaks. Within ten years Sunapee has become\\na faVorite summer-resort, with tents, cottages, and good hotels.\\nStation, Newjwrt (Newport House; Phenix House), the shire-town of\\nSullivan Co., a pleasant village enwalled by hills, and situated on the\\nSugar River. Several small mountains are situated in this town, and there\\nare romantic glens along the Sugar River and its branches. Sunapee\\nLake is 6 M. distant, and Croydon ]\\\\It., the highest summit in the county,", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0252.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Roidc 29. 197\\nis 9 10 M. N. in the bleak and granite-strewn highland town of Croydon.\\nBeyond Ne%vport the line follows the impetuous Sugar River through its\\nglens and gorges to Claremont {Belmont House SidUvan House). This\\ntown was settled in 1767 hy Connecticut men, and was named for Lord\\ndive s summer juansion. Tliere is mucli rich alluvial land in the town,\\nand the valley is hounded by a great range of hills. Claremont village is\\nat the rapids on Sugar River, where a fall of 150 ft. in less than a mile\\ngives a great water-power. The Monadnock Mills, the Sugar River Paper\\nMills, the Claremont Manufacturing Co., the Sullivan Machine Co., and\\nother corporations have their works here. Immense quantities of rags are\\nconsumed in the manufacture of paper, 500 tons of which are turned out\\nyearly. Over 3,500,000 yards of cotton cloths, 70,000 yards of doeskins,\\n70,000 yards of ilannels, are made liere yearly, Claremont village has 6\\nchurches and a fine liigh school, which was endowed by Paran Stevens,\\ntlie Amei ican hotel-king. Flat Rock, Twist Back, and Bible Hill are\\nvisited by those who summer here, v/hile from Green Mt. a fine view of\\nthe Conn, valley is enjoyed. Ascutney is 10 M. N.\\n2 M. from Olfiremont the ruilroad connects witli the Central Vermont. Daily\\nstajjes fnini Newport to Grantham, Croydon, Goshen, Wasiiiugton, Jiili.^boio, K.\\nUnity, and Lempster and from Chiremont to Cornish Flat, Merideu, and Lebauou.\\nConcord to White-Hirer Junction and Montreal\\nThe INIontreal train passes at Concord on to the rails of the Northern\\n(N. H.) R. R., and runs N. from Concord on the r. bank of the Merriinac.\\nJust after passing the manufacturing village of Fisherville, at the con-\\nfluence of the Merrimac and Contoocook Rivers, the train crosses a bridge\\nto Duston s Island, and thence by another bridge to the shore. On this\\nisland Mrs. Duston, of Haverhill, killed her Indian captors and escaped.\\nThe line now runs along the broad intervales of Boscmoen (two stations).\\nA monument was erected here in 1874, consistinf:^ of a massive granite pedestal,\\non wliicli is a statue of the heroine {1\\\\ ft. hi-h), witli a tomahawk in one liaud\\nand a buucli of scaljis in tlie other. Fisherville (Fcumiajok House) lias 4\\nchurches, an academy, library, bank, and l^ iO houses, and manufactures yearly\\n$1,;:!00,000 worth of cotton and woollen ^oods. Hour, lumber, etc., by the water-\\n]K)wer of the Contoocook River. Bosca ^veii Plain {AmhroseHolel)\\\\s \\\\en-\\nerable old hamlet on the Merrimac, with a broad, straight, and shady street.\\nThe town contains 1,C37 inhabitants. tStages run W. to the lofty liandet of Web-\\nster, on Courser Hill. Boscowen was the l)irthi lace of C. G. Greene, founder of\\nthe Boston Post Senator W. P. Fessenden, and Gen. John A. Dix.\\nStations, Webster Place and FranMin (Webster House Franklin\\nHouse). 2 M. S. W. of Franklin village Daniel Webster was born, in\\n17S2. The family moved to a new liome near Webster Place, and\\nhe afterwards bought this hitter estate, and used to retire there to rest.\\nFranklin village is near the confluence of the Winnepesaukee and Pemi-\\ngewasset Rivers, which form the Merrimac. It is a thriving mechani-\\ncal village of 2.000 inhabitants, with 4 churches, a paper, librarj acad-\\nemy, and b;ud and manufactories of paper, flannels, socks, needles, etc.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0253.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "198 Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nA branch runs from Franklin up tlie Pemigewasset valley 13 M., passing\\nHill Village {Ladd s Hotel), with Periwig Mt. on the 1., to Bristol {Bristol\\nIluust), a pretty village at the continence of the Newfonnd and Pemige-\\nwasset. 2 M. N. is the beautiful Newfound Lake, 7 M. lung and 2-3 M.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wide. Sugar-Loaf Mt. is on the W. shore, and Crosby Mt. is on the E.\\nA daily stage runs from Bi istol, on a road Avhich gives frequent glimpses of\\nthe lake, to Hebron (Union House), near its N. end. The Lake-View\\nHouse is 5 M. from Bristol (150 guests 5 10 a week).\\nAfter leaving Franklin, the main line passes Webster Poiul and the\\nbleak and precipitous range of Ragged Mt. on the r and t^tops at the\\nquiet little village of Andover (Lake House), near its long, bright lake.\\nAndover {Proctor House, billiards, steam-he;it, livery-stable, etc.), is sur-\\nrounded by noble scenery. The next station is Po/i er P/ace (Ivearsarge\\nHouse), named for the magician Putter. St:igcs run from this station to\\nMount Kearsarge (4 M. S.), an isolated peak, with a rocky summit 2,-401\\nft. above the sea. It affords a noble* view in a clear day, including, on\\nthe W., Sunapee and Lovewell s Mt., and the blue Sunapeo Lake, ami\\nCroydon and Ascutuey, with the vast range of the Green Mts. closing t!ie\\nhorizon behind them. In the N. is Cardigan Mt., with the Pemigewasset\\nMts. in the distance, and swinging around to the r. are the Fraiiconla and\\nthe White Mts., with Lake Winnepesaukee in the N. E. In the nearer E.\\nis the thronged and prosperous valley of the Merrimac, while countless\\nvillages dot the landscape on every side. Far up on the sloping side of the\\nMt. is the Winslow House, a far-viewing summer-hotel.\\nThe splendid and comniandin j; grauite peaks of Mt. CartlifjaJi Te to tho X.,\\nin Alexandria (daily stages froui Bristol, in 4 M.). Stages run ;\u00c2\u00bb.V M. S. W. IVoiu\\nPotter I laee, tiirough ilulot Flat, to ISoav l.oudoii {Seaman s Hotel), tlicseat\\nof the laiuou-^ New-Londou Lit(^-ar_y and Scieutifjc lustitutiou.\\nStations, W. Andover, S. Danbury, and Grafton (Grafton House).\\nGrafton is S. of Cardigan Mt., and at Glass Hill great quantities of mica\\nare mined. The Pinnacle, on this hill, has a sharp precipice 350 ft. high\\non its N. side. Beyond Graf/on Centre the line passes Isinglass Mt. and\\nTewksbury Pond on the 1., iuid stops at Canaan (two small inns in the\\ntown). In the 43 M. between Concord and Grafton the railway has as-\\ncended over 800 ft. It now takes a slight down grade, following the\\nvalley of the iMascomy to the Conn. River. The pretty village of Canaan\\nStreet lies on the shore of Heart Pond.\\nThe Pinnacle Hnnso (25 guests), Cardir/an Hnufte, and Crystal-Lalv House\\nare near (Jaiiaan, amid olioice scenery. There arc several summer boardiiig-hou-es\\nill Enfield, and the steamer Helena runs on MaTomy Lake. Lebanon has the\\nililmn-Sprhxi House (40 guests) at the foot of Chiron Mt.. and .several firm\\nboarding-houses (A. P. llowe, A. 13. Smith, etc.). Soathico7 th s Hotel is at W.\\nLebanon.\\nThe line now enters Enfield, and skirts Mascomy Lahe (or Enfield\\nPond), a beautiful sheet of water 4 M. long, on Avhose S. W. shore is a\\ncommunity of Shakers. These industrious jieople furnish much line wool", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0254.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO :JONT?tEAL. Route 20. 190\\nto the market, also wooden-ware and garden seeds. In this town are tlie\\nGranite State and Monnt Cahn Hotels, with some quiet and romantic\\nscenery around Crystal Lake and Mount Calm.\\nStations, E. Lebanon and Lebanon (Sayre Hotel), a manufacturing\\nvillage on an elevated plain near the Falls on the Mascomy (Nov-Anglice\\nfor the Indian Mascoma). Elastic sponge, scythes, flour, and machines\\nare made here. Station, IF. Lebanon (small hotel), the seat of Tildeu\\nLadies Seminary, whose fine buildings are seen on a commanding hill to\\ntlie 1. The line now crosses the Connecticut River on an oysn bridge,\\natfoi-diiig good views up and down stream, and stops at White River\\nJunction {Junction House, good). This is an important point in the\\nnortliern railway systems, the roads which converge here being the\\nNorthern (N. H.) R. R., the southern and central divisions of the Cen-\\nti al Vermont R. R., and the Connecticut Passumpsic and Massawippi\\nValley R. R. By the nearest routes this Junction is distant from Boston\\nU-2 M. from New York, 260 M. from Concord, GO M. from Spring-\\nl. .Id, 124 M. from Burlington, Vt., 104 M. from Montreal, 184 M.;\\nfrom Quebec, 266 M. (These figures are from the Official Guide, pub-\\nli ;h;jd at Philadelphia. Of the seven other books which allude to the\\ny abject no two agree.)\\nThere is a good restaurant in the station, and trains usually stop long\\nenough for a dinner to be obtained. The train passes now on to the rails\\nof the Central Vermont R. R., which runs throv.gh a pleasant rural dis-\\ntrict, and achieves the passage of the Green Mts. by some fine engineer-\\ning works. The picturesque Wliite River is followe;! for 25 Id. Stations,\\nWhite-River Village, and Woodstock. The Woodstock R. R. runs from\\nWhite-Biver Junction to Woodstock village, 10 M. S.W. u])the picturesque\\nOtta Quechee River. WoodstockVillage (Eagle Hotel), the sliire town of\\nWindsor Co., is on this road, 10 M. from the main line, and is a beautiful\\nrural hamlet with an elm-adorned park in the valley of the Otta Quechee.\\nFrom ]\\\\It. Tom (near the village) a pleasing view is obtained down the\\nlong valley of the river. The village has two weekly journals, a bank,\\nand a large country trade, besides some manufactures.\\nGeorge P. Marsh, U. S. Minister to Turkey, 1849-53, and to Italv, 1861 -73,\\nwas born here in 1801. He is distinguished as a philologist, in connection with\\nthe Norse language. Hiram Powers was born here in 1805. He was a farmer s\\nson, and after many vicissitudes he learned the art of modelling in plastei and\\nojiened a studio in Florence about 1837. .Since tlien he has executed some of tiie\\ntinest sculptures of modern times. His Eve was highly commended by\\nThorwaldsen, and the Greek Slave was a noble work, of which copies have\\nbeen multiplied. II Penseroso, California, America, Proserpine,\\nand nnmei-ous other renowned works, including portrait-statues, have given him\\nthe highest rank among sculptors.\\nBeyond Woodstock station the line crosses the crystal-clear river, and\\npasses through the pretty scenery about W. Hartford to Sharon station.\\nThe village is seen high up on the opposite shore.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0255.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "200 R(mie29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nIn 1805, Joseph Smith, the fonnder of Mormonism, was bom at Sharon. In\\nISoO he puhliblied (at PahrnTa, N. Y.) the Book of Slnrinon, which he claimed to\\nhave translated from nietallic plates found by him while under the guidance of\\nangels. He went West mih his converts, and founded Nauvoo, in Illinois, where\\nhe exercised despotic authority until 1S44, when the wr;ith of tlie Gentiles in\\nthe neighboring towns was aroused by his un,just acts. He was imprisoned at\\nCarthage, and soon after the jail was stormed by a moli, and he was killed. Brig-\\nliam Young succeeded him as President of the Church, and still maintains the\\ntitle. (Rev. Solomon Spalding, of Conn., wrote a romance, Tlie Manuscript\\nFound (in ISOU). He allowed Sidney Rigdon and others to read his IVlS., which\\nwas soon after stolen from his widoAv, and tliose who hnd read the romance after-\\nward declared that the Mormon Bible was but a corrupt veision of it. Rigdon\\nbecame a prominent Monuon).\\nStation, S. Royalton (S. Roj-alton House, good), with the station on\\none side of its main square, on which front the hotel, church, and stores.\\nThe river is now crossed by a bridge 600 ft. long, and the train stops at\\nItoyalton, wdiere occurred, in October, 1780, the last Indian attack on\\nNew England. The attack was made by 210 Indians, who plundered and\\nburnt the village (and also Sharon), killing and capturing 27 of its\\npeople.\\nDaity stages S .to Chelsea (Orange Co. Hoiise), the shire-town of Orange County,\\npassing through Tunbridge (13 M.). Also N. W. through E. Bethel and E. Ran-\\ndolph, to E. Brooktield (16 M.). The Chelsea stages run from S. Royalton.\\nStation, Bethel (Bascom House), a busy manufacturing village, in a glen\\namong high hills. Daily stages to Barnard (Silver Lake House), 8 M.\\ndistant, and to Woodstock. Also to Stockbridge (10 M.), Pittsfield (13\\nM.), Roche.ster (17 M. and Hancock, four thinly populated towns (with\\nsmall inns), under the shadow of tlie Green Mts.\\nStation, Bandolj^h {Cottage House; Randolph House), a busy village\\non the third branch of White River, which the railroad follows from\\nBethel to Roxbury. Stages run to Chelsea, Brookfield, and Randolph\\nCentre (3 M. N. E.). The country now grows wilder and more thinly\\ninhabited. Station, Braintree, a I ude village surrounded by rugged hills.\\nTo the W. is Granville, v/ith a road crossing the mountain-pass, 2,340 ft.\\nabove the sea. A.t Roxbury atatiow (Summit House), the train reaches\\nthe summit of the pass, 1,000 ft. above the sea. Near the village are\\ninexhaustible quarries of the best verd-antique marble. Crossing a\\nbridge 400 ft. long and 70 ft. high, the train passes on to Xorthjield\\n(Northfield Ho\\\\ise), in a populous town wliich has several (piarries of\\ndark blue slate. Lewis College is situated here, in large buildings on a\\nhill to the r. of the track.\\n10 M. from Nortlitield is Montpelier Junction, whence a short branch\\nroad diverges to Montpelier i* Pavilion Hotel, opposite the station, $3 a\\nday, 10 15 a week Amtrican Union Binhop). Montpelier, the capital\\nof the State of Vermont, is a beautiful village of about 4,000 inhab-\\nitants. It is situated on a jtlain near the Winooski River, and is sur-\\nrounded by a highly cullivaicd hill-couuiry. 10 M. to the S. W. is the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0256.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Route 29. 201\\ngeograjjhical centre of tlie State. Tlie village is compactly built, and\\nluis 3 banks, 3 insurance cos. (tlie Vt. Mutual lias 41,000,000 of\\nrisks), 5 weekly newspapers, and 6 cliurclies, one of which is a noble\\n]\u00c2\u00bbiece of architecture. There are several Hour-mills, lumber-mills, and\\ntanneries, besides which the village has an extensive country trade.\\nThe State House is a noble edifice of light-colore l granite, on the\\nsite of the old State House, which was burnt in 1357. It stands on a\\nsliglit eminence approached from a verdant Coniiuou by granite steps in\\nterraces. Tlie portico is supported by six massive fluted Doric columns,\\nand under it stands a fine statue in Vermont marble of Vermont s liero,\\n]i. nan Allen. It was executed by Larkiu G. Mead, of Brattleboro (now\\nliving in Italy).\\nEtliau Allen was bom at Litchfield, Conn., in 1737. He moved to Vermont\\nin 1760, and was outlawed l)y Now i urk foj- liis bold and dcliant action in the\\nl)order feuds. In 1775 he took Fort Ticoudeioya from tlie British. Later in the\\nyear he attacked Montreal with 110 men, and Avas captured, with his whole com-\\nmand. He was confined in Pendennis Castle, in England, for a short time, Imt\\nwas exciianged in 1778, and took command of tlie Vermont militia. A royal de-\\ncree of 1704 had constituted the Connei ticut River the E. boundary of New\\nYork (N. of Mass.), and Mass. and N. H. also claimed parts of its territory. But a\\nCDiivention at Westminster, in 1777, declared Vermont a free tttate. The Conti-\\nnental Congress would not ratify this voice of the people, and all its troojis were\\nwithdrawn from the territory. Vermont, thus left alone, was unaijle to resist at-\\ntacks from the British in the N., and Alien skilfully conducted feigned negotia-\\ntions with the royal generals, looking towards annexation to Canada, and secur-\\ning neutrality for his State. It was only in 1791, after 26 years of controversy,\\nthat Vermont was admitted into the Union, to offset Kentucky. After an\\neventful life, Ethan Allen died at Burlington in 1789.\\nUnder the portico of tlie State House are kept two cannon taken from\\nBreyraan s Hessians at the battle of Bennington (1777), after a desperate\\nstruggle. The British got them back when Gen. Hull surrendered the\\nArmy of the N. W. at Detroit (August, 1812), and they were again taken\\nby the Americans during the Canada campaign, Tliey were sent to\\nWaslungton, and afterwards were presented by Congress to the State of\\nVermont. The main building of the State House is 72 ft, long, and each\\nof the wings is 52 ft., making a total length of 176 ft. The dome is\\n124 ft. higli, and is surmounted by a graceful statue of Ceres, the goddess\\nof agriculture. Tlie marble-paved lower floor is devoted to committee-\\nrooms, and a small collection of historical and mineral curiosities. In\\nlarge niches at the ends of the neat lobby on the second floor are pre-\\nserved the battle-flags and pennons of the Vermont regiments in the\\nSecession War. What with storm, forest-march, and many battles, these\\nveteran standards have lost their pristine brightness and wholeness, and\\nwitli the names of the battles in which they were borne written on them\\nin golden letters, tliey are carefully kept behind plate-glass. The gallery\\nof the Senate is entered from the third floor. The halls of the Senate and\\nHouse are well worth visiting, being graceful in form and well ornamented.\\nFour substantial bridges cross the Winooski River in Montpelier, and", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0257.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "202 Route 20. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nDie cov.ntry about the village affords many pleasant objective points for\\na summer clay s lide or ramble.\\nDaily stages to Worcester, 9 M. N. (Worcester House), and Elmore,\\n21 M. N. Daily stages to Hardwick, 20 M. N. E., on the Portland and Ogdenslmrg\\nR. R., passing through Calais 10 M. and U ooilbury, thinly\\npopulated towns with scores of small lakes abounding in trout and other lish.\\nDaily stages to Marslijield, 15 M. N. E. on the Great Falls of the Winooski, where\\nthat stream falls 500 ft. in 30 rods. R. 1?. to Pluinjidd, 9 M. E. (Plainfield House),\\nwith a medicinal spring (Spring House) of some repute to Washington (Vv as)iing-\\nton House, i;ake House), 15 iM. 8. E. to Orange, 13 M S. E. to Williaynstown.\\nRailroads to Barre and Wells River.\\nBeyond Montpelier Junction the main line passes on to Middlesex\\n(Washington House), near which (on the 1.) the Winooski River passes\\nthrough the Middlesex Narrows, a cutting in the rock, 30 ft. deep, 60 ft.\\nwide, and 1,300 ft. long, whicli has been worn by the action of the water.\\nStages run S. to Moretovm, (7 M. Waitsfield (12 M. and Warren. Beyond\\nMiddlesex the train readies Waterbury Waterljury House), a highland\\ntown abounding in pleasant rambles and rides, with frequent glimpses of\\nCamel s Hump (in the S. W.). Camel s Hump ML is 8 M. distant, and\\nBolton Falls are but 3 M. to the N. W., and both are approached by\\ngood roads. N. E. of Waterbury, 10 M. (serai-daily stage in summer) is\\nthe rich fanning town of Stowe (*J/^^ .]ransjicl.d House, opens June 1, for\\n500 guests, $3-4 a day, ;ii; 15-20 a week; billiards, cr()(|uct, bowling,\\ntheatre, etc. 100 hoi ses are kept in llie stables). Stowe, llie Saratoga\\nof Vermont, is charniiugly situated in a (juiet valk}- in full sight of lofty\\nmountains, and when Idled with summer guests it presents a lively ap-\\njxarance. Stowe is unrivalled in the beauty, picturesqueness, and luxu-\\nant magnificence of its mountain scenery. From Sunset Hill, near the\\nhotel, a fine view of the village is obtained, and also of Mt. Mansfield and\\nCamel s Hump. 3-4 M. N. E. of Stowe, on the slope of Worcester Mt.,\\nare the Moss (Jlen Falls, in a narrow, rock-walled ravine which contains\\nthree picturesque basins. This bit of Tyrolese scenery has been greatly\\ndamaged by the erection of a saw-mill, for whose benefit the falls are\\ndammed above. The Smugglers^ Notch is a romantic pass between the Chin\\nPeak of Mt. Mansfield and Sterling Mt. (3,500 ft. high). It is 9 M. from\\nStowT, andagoodroad leads to a small liotel in the Notch, near the great\\nspring which is the source of the Waterbury River. A horse-path beyond\\ntliQ hotel leads in M. to Berton s Rock, a boulder weighing about 100\\ntons, which fell from the abrupt cliffs that tower on each side to the\\nheight of 1,000 ft. A little way beyond, the path begins to descend to\\nthe plains of Cambridge. This pass was used during the War of 1S12 for\\nsmuggling goods between Central Vermont and Canada. A few miles N.\\nis Daniel s Notch, between Sterling Mt. and the lofty White Face. Bing-\\nham s Falls, 5 M. from Stowe, Morrisville Falls, 8 M., West Hill, 2 M.,\\nand Gold Bi ook, 3 M., are often visited.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0258.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTHEAL. Route 29. 203\\nMount Mansfield.\\nThis is the loftiest of tlie Green Mts., aud its highest peak is 4,348 ft.\\nabove the sea. As seen from above Stow it presents the appearance of\\nthe profile of a human face, the S. peak being the forehead, the middle\\npeak the nose, and the N. peak the chin.\\nAfter leaving Stowe, the highway is followed for 5 M., and then a\\nmountain road turns to the 1., ascending tlirough the forest, 2^ M., to the\\nHalf- Way House, from which a pretty valley view is gained. Here\\nbegins the long and arduous ascent to the Summit House. The forest\\ndwindles away until tlie road reaches the Nose.\\nThe Sam.mit House\\nis a commodious hotel (for 100 guests S 3.50 a day) situated at the base\\nof the Nose,^ wliich is climbed by a steep path on itsAV. slope (2-300 ft.\\nhigh). On tlie E. side of this peak is the rock-iirofile called the Old\\nMan of the Mt. Alwut 2 M. of steady, though not fatiguing a.scent\\nleads from the house to the Chin, passing over ledges marked by long\\nscratches once received from rocks fixed in drifting icebergs, which passed\\nover the silent waves of some shoreless primeval sea. The Chin is 340 ft.\\nhigher than the Nose, and is 3,800 ft. above Stow, and 4,34S ft. above\\nthe sea. This peak offers a more extensive northern view than that from\\nthe Nose (with an impressive view down the Notch), and is easily visited,\\nalthough parties who go out to it usually stop over night at the Summit\\nHouse, thereby gaining the superb eftects of sunset aud sunrise.\\nThe view from the Nnse is very similar to that fmin the Chin, and is, iierhaps,\\nthe noblest (though not the most extensive) in New Eughxnd. On the S. arc seen\\nCamel s Hump (15 M.) and Killington Peidv (fiu M.), with a great number of name-\\nless peaks and ridges of the Green Mts. Tlie great Lake Champlain litis the\\nhorizon from S. W. to N. W., being visible through tlie greater part of its extent,\\nwith the ancient blue Adirondacks lifting their ciouddike summits beyond. The\\napparently level lowlands of the Champlain valley are spread out like a map\\nbelow, dotted with numerous white villages (beyond which is Burlington), and\\ncrossed by many streams. The great grazing district of the Lamoille valley\\nstretches away to the N. W. and glimpses of the sparkling rivers, tlie Lamoille\\nand the Winooski, are caught through the forests and foot-hills of the Green Mts.\\nFar in the N. is the St. Lawrence River, with its valley dotted with Norman\\nvillages, and on the N. W., with a powerful glass and on a clear day, it is said that\\nvisitors have seen Mount Royal and tlie shining tin roofs of Montreal. E. of N.,\\nJay Peak and Owl s Head Mts. are seen, the latter rising from Lake Mem-\\nphremagog, while still farther to the E. are Hor and Annanance, tlie mountains\\nabout Willoughliy Lake. Fnrthev to the r. are the Percy Peaks, and a little S. of\\nE. the Francouia and White Mts. are seen low-lying on the horizon, 60 M.\\ndistant.\\n4 i\\\\[. beyond Waterbury, on the main line, is N. Duxhury ($7 a week),\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0whence a road runs to Camel s Hump, G .M. S. The road has been built\\n3 M. up the mountain, and the i-emainder of tlie ascent is by a vague path.\\nTlie best path is fnmi Huntington (8 M. Ijy ttage from Richmond). Tliere\\nis a small house for shelter 1 M. from the suinniit. The mountain is 4,083\\nft. high, and from its isolated position commands an extensive view, whose", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0259.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "204 Route 29. ST. ALBANS.\\ngeneral features are much like those of the prospect from Mt. Mansfield.\\nTlie name Camel s Hump is clei ived from a supposed resemblance of tiie\\noutline of the mountain to that of the back of a camel. The peak is visible\\nfrom scores of miles away.\\nNear N. Duxburj seen from the track (to the N.), are the BuUon Falls,\\namiil some wild rock-scenery in a deep ravine on the Winooski River.\\nThe line now follows the picturesque valley ot the Wiuooski by Bultun\\n(Bishop House, $7 a Aveek) to Juncsville, whence stages run to N. Bol-\\nton (under Mt. Mansfield). Station, Jiichmund (Richmond House), a\\nbright village in the widenings of the Winooski valley, with an extensive\\ntrade in butter and cheese. The mountain-ravines open out here on the\\nChamplain valley, and the country becomes more thickly settled. A\\nbridge, tiOO ft. long, over the Winooski, is now passed, and the train\\nenters the farming town of Williston. For several miles, running N. W.\\nfrom this station, fine views are afforded from the train, the Green Mts.\\nwith their two loftiest peaks looming up boldly on the r., while the distant\\nAdirondacks are seen on the 1. Essex Junction is soon reached, whence\\ntrains run to Burlington (see Route 53) in 8 M., passing the remarkable\\ngorges on the Winooski River.\\n5 M. N. of Essex is Colchester, to the W. of which is a tall-spired\\nvillage (Mallet s Bay Hotel), and still farther W. is IMaUet s Bay, which is\\nnearly land-locked, has numerous islets, and aft ords good bass and pike\\nfishing. Frequent views of Lake Champlain, the Adirondacks, and the\\nGreen Mts. are obtained from the cars as they pass N. to Milton {Elm-\\nTree House Austin). This village is near the Great Falls of the Lamoille,\\n7 M. from the river s mouth. The river descends here 150 ft. in SOO ft.,\\nand affords a water-power for the Milton lumber-mills. The train crosses\\nthe Lamoille River on a high bridge 450 ft. long, and stops at the station,\\nGeorgia and Fairfax. Georgia village (Franklin House), is 3^ M. from\\nthe station, and Fairfax (Fairfax House) is 4 M. E. of the station, to\\nwhich it has a tri-daily stage. A small Baptist Theological School is\\nlocated at Fairfax.\\nSt. Albans Wellen House, first-class, S 3 a day, -S 10 15 a week Amer-\\nican House) is a pretty village of about 7,000 inhabitants, situated on an\\nelevated plain 3 M. from Lake Champlain. Main Street is the principal\\nthoroughfare, and has several good commercial buildings. There is a\\nneat park of 4 acres in the centre of the village, on whose sides are the\\nhotels, the Franklin County buildings, the High School, and several\\nchm ches, the best of which is a Norman-towered Episcopal Church built\\nof red sandstone. Back of this is the large Catholic Church and the\\nConvent of Notre Dame. The offices of the Central Vermont R. R.\\noccupy the spacious and imposing building at the station. In this\\nvicinity are the immense repair and car-sliops of the Central Vermont,", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0260.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Route 29. 205\\noccupying over half a mile of buildingSj and employing several hundred\\nskilful workmen. These works are the largest of the Icind in New\\nEngland, and have turned out many locomotives and cars. The village\\nhas 3 banks, a daily and 2 weekly newspapers, 6 cliurchcs, and an\\nadmirable scliool-syslem. Tuesday is its maiket-day, when the farm-\\ners from Fraidvliu Co. congregate in the streets, and great quantities\\nof dairy products are sold. The quotations of butter and cheese at St.\\nAlbans affect the market throughout the Eastern States, and vast quanti-\\nties of these products are shipped in ice-cars to the N. Atlantic cities\\n(mostly to Boston). Between 1850 and 1865 St. Albans sent away\\n33,603,041 pounds of butter, and 16,628,097 pounds of cheese, having a\\nvalue of nearly .$12,000,000. N. of St. Albans are quarries of calico-\\nstone and variegated marble, while a good sulphur-sprhig (appertahiing\\nto the Welden House) is in the environs.\\nSt. Albans is a place in the midst of greater variety of scenic beauty\\nthan any other tliat I remember in America. (Beecher. Bellevice Bill,\\n2 M. S. W. from the station, and Aldis Hill, 1 M. N. E. of the village,\\nare easy of ascent, and command lovely views. Bellevue is 1,300 ft.\\nabove the lake, and a good road leads to the summit. It overlooks the\\nvillage and the rich plains of Franklin Co., strewn with villages, while a\\nbroad expanse of Lake Champlain is spread out in the W., the view ex-\\ntending over Grand Isle to the New York shore. In the S. W. the\\nAdirondacks rise, not in chains or single peaks, but in vast broods, a\\npromiscuous multitude of forest-clothed mountains. In the N. is scooped\\nout, in mighty lines, the valley of St. Lawrence and in clear days, the\\neye may spy the faint glimmer of Montreal. (H. W. Beecher.) The\\nMissisquoi valley is near, in the N., and Jay Peak lies to the E., from\\nw]iich the great line of the Green Mts. stretches away to the S., and\\nMount Mansfield is plainly visible. To the S. is the fertile Lamoille\\nvalley, running through Fairfax and Milton. Aldis Hill is only 500 ft.\\nhigh, and is easily ascended. Its view, tliough less extensive than that\\nfrom Bellevue, is of rare beauty. Prospect Hill also gives a fine view.\\nStages run E. to Fairfield (8 M.) and Bakcrsfidd (14i M.).\\nSt. Albans was the scene of great excitement during the Canadian rebellion iu\\n1837, and several raiding parties (of refugees) crossed tlie border from this vicinity.\\nIn October, 1864, several strangers boarded at tlie hotels for a few days, and\\nlearned the habits of tlie people. When the bells rang at 3 o clock, on the lUth\\nof Oct., these men entered the banks in parties, and robbed them of their funds,\\nAvhile others of the liand arrested every citizen on the street. The robbers were\\n22 in number, dressed in plain clothing and armed with revolvers, and, having\\nS3cured what money they could, they stole a number of liorses and fled, closely\\npursued by the citizens. During the firing which toolc place in the streets, one\\ncitizen was killed and several wounded. The plundering jiarty (which was com-\\nposed of escaped rebel i)risoners) reached Canada with $20S,00() in money, 80,000\\nof which was returned to the banks by the British government. Iu June, 18(j6,", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0261.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "206 Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\n1,200 Fenians from the cities of the coast marched from this place into Canada,\\nand plundered a village. The provisions of this party soon gave out, and thej\\nreturned to St. Albaiis, where they were disarmed by 1,000 U. S. troops, who\\nwere encani])ed on the village Park for 2 weeks. Anotlier fruitless raid was made\\nin 1S70, wlien the Fenians were repulsed at the frontier by embattled Canadian\\nfarmeis.\\nTlie scenery at St. Albans Bay is very attractive, and sportsmen catch great\\nquantities of bass and jiickerel aViout its picturesque islands ami points. Good\\ntrout-fishing is found in the brooks near the village, and water-fowl are shot\\nabout the Bay. The Welden House charges 3 a day, and 10 -15 a week.\\nSt. Albans to Rkhforcl. The Missisquoi Railroad runs N. E. to Rich-\\nford in 2 hrs. Near Sheldon Springs station {Congress Hall, 125 guests;\\n2.50 a day, 10 15 a week) is the famous Missisquoi Spring, which has\\nno distinctive taste, but is alkaline in character, and is efficacious in cutane-\\nous diseases. Several other mineral springs rise near by, one of which is\\ncathartic, and is used for dyspepsia and liver complaints. The great hotel\\nhei e was burned in 1870, since which the springs have been less visited,\\nthough large quantities of the water are exported. The Sheldon Spring\\nis I M. S. \\\\V. the Vermont Spring is 2 M. above; and the Central Spring\\nis 2 M. distant.\\nThe Vermont Spring waters are niostlj^ bottled and sent away, for the\\ncure of diseases of the skin, cancer, c. It is about 2 M. from the Mis-\\nsisqnoi, and there are nnmeroxis other mineral springs, differing in their\\nproperties, about the village. The Continental, Central, and Excelsior\\nare among the most noted, while Sheldon Spring, near the Missisquoi\\nFalls, has long been visited. The Congress Hall Hotel, located near\\nthe latter spring, is a large and first-class house. The water flows at the\\nrate of 14,000 gallons a day, and contains a large amount of carbonate of\\nsoda with potash. It is a very unusual alkaline, saline water, con-\\ntaining more silicic acid in solution than any on record. The presence of\\nso much crenic acid is also remarkable, and, with the iron and magnesia,\\nadds to the valuable constituents. (Dr. Hayes.) The hot and cold\\nbaths (in convenient bath-houses) w^ork wonderful cures in cases of rheu-\\nmatism, erysipelas and skin diseases, cancers and chronic ailments. From\\nDunton s Bill (1 M. from Congress Hall) a vast panoramic view of the\\nGreen Mts. is obtained, while the silver w aters of Lake Champlain, in tlie\\nW., are overlooked by the blue Adironacks. Considerable tracts of\\nLower Canada are included in this view, which is terminated on the N.\\nby the spires of Montreal. The Missisquoi River falls 119 ft. near Shel-\\ndon Spring. At Sheldon village (Portland House), 4^ M. E., there are\\nother hotels and boarding-houses. Here is the Central Spring, which,\\nbesides carbonates of lime, magnesia, iron, soda, and potassa, and sulphate\\nof lime, contains the valuable element of phosphoric acid. It cures\\ncutaneous and pulmonary affections, dyspepsia, rheumatism, kc.\\nAt Sheldon this line is crossed by the St. Johnsbury and Lake-Cham-\\nplain R. R., running to Maquam Bay.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0262.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO MONTREAL. Route 29. 207\\nThe line follows the ricli valley through several farming and dairy\\ntowns, passing the stations, E. Franklin, Enosburg Falls, Eoioshurg, and\\nE. Berkshire, to Eiohford (American House), a thinly populated towii,\\non whose S. E. corner Jay Peak rises to an altitude of over 4,000 ft.\\nThe Soiith-Eastern Railway passes through Rinhford, and is a part of the Mon-\\ntreal Boston Air Line. It runs N. and N. W. 3;3,V M. to W. Farnhani (in the\\nProvince of Quebec), whenre it is 40 M. by nil to Montreal. Toward the E. it\\nreaches Newport, on Lake Mempliremagog, in 31^ M.\\nSoon after leaving St. Albans, the main line passes Swanton Junction,\\nwhere a railroad diverges to Rouse s Point and Ogdensburg.\\nThis line passes tlirough Swanton (Central House), a prettj village with a\\nSoldiers Monument on its Green, consisting of a statue (in Vermont marble) of\\nthe Goddess of Liberty on a pedestal of gray Isle La Motte marble. Swanton\\nwas settled by tlie French in 1750, but tliey wei-e crowded oat within a half-cen-\\ntury. Much marble, black, wliite, and red variegated, is quarried in this town.\\nAfter crossing Missisquoi ISay on a trestle-i)ridge, the train stops at Albiirgli\\nSprings (*Alburgh Springs House), whose mineral waters are much used for\\ncutaneous complaints. The drives on the lake sliore are very pleasant, and fisli-\\ning and lioating are favorite summer amusements. The i eninsuIaof Alhurgh was\\ngranted by tlie King of France, as a feudal seigniory, to Councillor Foucault, un-\\nder whose orders it was settled in 1731. It was occu]iied by loyalist refugees late\\nin the Revolutionary Era, and in 1837 was one of the frontier towns from which\\nthe insurgents in the Pati iot War made tlieir raids into Canada.\\nPassing tlie stations, Alhurgh and W. Alburgli, the line (U osses Lake Champlain\\nat its N. end on a long trestle-bridge. Fort 3Iont{joinery is seen on the r., com-\\nmanding the Richelieu River. After the works on this fort liad gone on for some\\ntime, it was discovered to be in British territory, but a generous cliauge of boun-\\ndary gave the land to the United States, and the work was completed. On the 1.\\nIsle La Moite may be seen far down the lake.\\nRouse s Point (New York) is now readied. From this point the line runs\\nW. tlnxuigh the Cluiteaugay Woods, passing Malone and Potsdam, to Ogdens ourg,\\n406 M. from Boston and 141 M. froin St. Albans. Anotiier railroad rims N. on\\nthe 1. bank of the Riclielieu River, to St John s (23 M.).\\nAfter passing Swanton Junction and E. Swanton, the train on the main\\nline stops at Ilighgate Springs Franklin House). The hotel is on one\\nside of the track, and the spring-house on the other. The spring is alka-\\nline, containing chloride of sodium, carbonate of soda, and sulphate of\\nsoda. E. of the Spiings is the broad and beautiful Missisquoi Bay (Missi\\nKisco much water-fowl), which is nearly land-locked, and abounds in\\nfish. The Franklin House accommodates IGO (^2.b0 a day $;10-15 a week).\\n2-3 M. S. E. is a consideralde village at ITiylujate Falls, on the Missis-\\nquoi River. The alkaline Champlain Spring is located here (Champlain\\nHouse, Green Mt. House, both fronting on the village park), and is con-\\nsidered a specific for dyspepsia, cutaneous eruptions, cancer, and con-\\nsumption. Alburgli Springs on the W. and Missisquoi Springs on the S.\\nE., are within easy distance of Highgate. Highgate was the birthplace", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0263.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "208 Route 29. BOSTON TO MONTREAL.\\nof John G. Saxe, whose poems of humor and pathos are widely known\\nand read.\\nAbout 3 M. beyond Highgate, the train leaves the United States, and\\nenters Missisquoi County, in the Anglo-Canadian Province of Quebec.\\nStations, St. Armand, Moore s, and Stanhridge, on the plains of the Rich-\\nelieu River. Stanbridge is a neat village, from which stages run to E.\\nStanbridge (3 M.) and Bradford. As the line passes farther out on the\\nplains, the great isolated mountains of Rougemont and Belceil are seen on\\nthe r. On Bekeil the Bishop of Nancy had an immense cross erected in\\n1843, which was visible for many leagues. It was demolished by a storm\\nin 1847. Stations, Des Rivieres, St. Alexandre, beyond wliich the train\\npasses the junction of the Stanstead, Shefford, and Chambly Railroad,\\nrunning from St. Johns E. to Waterloo, 43 M. Stages from Waterloo to\\nLake Memphremagog in 20 M. The line now crosses the Richelieu River\\nto St. Johns, a quaint, old-fashioned, Norman-French village near the\\nhead of the Chambly Rapids. The town is situated on a level plain, and\\nis connected Avith the suburb of St. Athanase by a fine bridge over the\\nRichelieu. There is good fishmg by boat near St. Johns, and the few visi-\\ntors who stop at this quiet old town usually ride to Chambly, a pleasant\\nvillage near the confluence of the Richelieu and Montreal Rivers, It is\\n12 M. N. of St. Johns by the river-road, and is on a lake-like expansion\\nof the river, called Chambly Basin. The Richelieu flows toward the N.\\nE. almost parallel with the St. Lawrence which it joins at Lake St. Peter,\\n70 M. distant.\\nChambly was fortified by tlie French in 1711, and in 1775 it had a strong stone\\nfort Iniilt by the British, vvitli massive towers at its angles. Large supplies were\\nstored here but the commander was so careless that the fort was easily taken by\\nthe Americans in October, 1775. It was abandoned on the advance of Burgoyne,\\nhaving first been stripped of its stores, and has since served (until the English\\nmilitary evacuation of Canada) as an exerci.sing-ground for the Montreal garrison.\\nIn the erypt of the Catholic Cliurch is buried De Salaberry, Seigneur of Chambly,\\nwho connnanded the Canadians in the battle of Chateaugay (War of 1812), when\\na large invading force of Americans was resisted with such valor and success that\\nUe Salaberry ever after bore the title of tlie Canadian Leonidas. 12 M. Ironi\\nChambly is Belceil Mt.\\nOther excursions from St. Johns are to Scotch Mt. (6 M. over a good road), which\\ncommands a fine view of the Green Mts. and the border Townships and to the\\nClmmhly FMpids on the Richelieu.\\nThe Marquis of Montcalm built a fort at St. Johns, which was strengthened by\\nGov. Carleton. Benedict Arnold s American fleet was repulsed in an attack in\\n1775, but tlie fort was besieged by Gen. Montgomery in Seiitember of the same\\nyear, antl, after six weeks of blockade and cannonade, it surrendered, with COO\\nBritish regulars and 4S heavy cannon. The American garrison evacuated the post\\non the advance of Gen. Burgoyne.\\nAt St. Johns the train moves on to the rails of the Grand Tnmk Rail-\\nway (Montreal and Rouse s Point Division), and passes through the fair\\nand fertile plains of the Parish of La Prairie to St. Lambert, opposite\\nMontreal. The St. Lawrence River is crossed by the wonderful Victoria\\nBridge, and the train stops at Montreal (see Route 54),", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0264.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "WEIRS. Route 30. 209\\n30. Boston to the Franconia Mts.\\nBy the Boston and Lowell and Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroads. Parlor\\ncars run from Boston without change. Boston to Plymouth (123 M.)iu 5 hrs.\\nto the Twin Mt. House (20o M in abuut 8 hrs. The branch road from Wing Road\\nto Bethlehem runs to the Fabyan llou.^e and the base of Mt. Wasliiiigton. i rom\\nBethlehem Junction narrow-gauge lines to Bethlehem and Profile llou.se.\\nThe train leaves the Lowell station at 8, or 8.30 A.M., and passes to\\nConcord by Route 29, through Lowell and Manchester.\\nAfter leaving Concord, the line crosses the Merrimac, and passes E.\\nConcord, iV._ Concord, Canterbury (stages to Shaker village, 1 h M-)i North-\\nfield, and Tiltow {Dexter J/oii^e), the .seat of the N. II. Seminary and Fe-\\nmale College. On the hill aljove is a huge Roman memorial arch, 55 ft.\\nhigh, of granite, erected in 1882-83, to commemorate the lilton family.\\nDaily stages run from Tilton tlu-ough Gaza to New Hampton, 13^ M. N., the\\npicturesque location of a Free-Wiil Baptist school; to Franl:lin Falls, 3 M. W.\\nand to Giliiiaiitoii {Prospect H^iusc), a far-viewing hill-village, lU .\\\\i. E.,the\\nseat of Oilman ton Academ3^ John L. Stoddard lives here, and says: Perched on\\nthe spur of a long range of mts., the situation of CHlmanton is unique. I can limk\\noff on an unbroken panorama of distant peaks cutting tlie horizon through a circuit\\nof ISO degrees or, from Mt. Washington in the N. to Mt. Monaduuck in the S.\\nNear Tilton was the largest Indian fortress in New England, lines of iutreuchments\\nlaced with stone, and once palisaded. Some remnants remain.\\nThe line now passes along the shores of Wiiinepesaukee River, Little\\nBay, and Great Bay. Stations, Union Village and Laconia (Willard\\nHotel), whose factories turn out yearly 1,500,000 yards of fancy cloths,\\n275,000 dozen hose, and 3-400 railroad cars. From this point an inter-\\nesting excursion may be made to the summit of Mt. Belknap (S^ M. dis-\\ntant), on the shore of the lake. From this commanding peak the lake\\nmay be seen tliroughout nearly its entire extent, and views af the mts.\\nbeyond and of the pretty village of Wolflioro are obtained. Laconia is\\non the shore of Lake Winnesquam (Great Bay), a picturesque sheet of\\nwater on the 1. of the line. After leaving Laconia, the line passes along\\nSanbornton Bay to Lake Village (Mt. -Belknap House), Avhich has small\\nhosiery factories, a needle-factory, and the railroad repair-shops. The\\nquiet waters of Long Bay are now skirted, on the r. bank, with the\\npeaks of Mt. Belknap beyond. Weirs (see p. 216) has a fine view out over\\nLake Winnepesardcee, Steamers leave this point for the villages on the\\nlake (see Route 32), and N. Conway may be reached by ci ossing to Wolf-\\nboro, and taking the cars on Route 31. Near Weirs, on the N. shore of\\nthe outlet, is the Eiidicott Rock, which is about 20 ft. around, and is\\ncarved with the initials of the chiefs of the colonial survey of 1G52, and\\nwith the words, John Endicut, Gov. The train passes N., with the\\nlake on the r., to Meredith (Elm House). The great summer- resort at\\nCentre Harbor is 5 M. from Meredith, by a good road and the pictu-\\nresf^ue Meredith Neck is near by, on the S. E.\\nThe train now passes Waukawan Lake, on the r., which is 4 M. long", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0265.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "210 Route 30. PLYMOUTH.\\nand 1-2 M. broad. Waukawan is a name given to this lake by the\\nIndians, and now useil by summer visitors, though the rustics wlio\\nlive in the vicinity call it Measley Pond. Long Pond is now passed,\\nand the train stops at Ashland (Squam Lake House), a small factory-\\nvillage near the confluence of the Squam and Pemigewasset Rivers, and 4\\nM. from the lovely Squam Lake (see Pv-oute 32). This is in the ancient\\nEpiscopal town of Holderness, and the road along Squam Lake exhibits\\nsome of the richest scenery in the country. The Pemigewasset is now\\ncrossed near BiiJgewater station, and its valley is followed to Plymouth\\nPemigewasset House, 150 rooms, a first-class summer hotel, where the\\nmidday trains stop 30 minutes for passengers to dine: Little s Hotel).\\nPlymouth, the shire-town of Grafton County, is a beautiful village in the\\nmidst of attractive scenery, near the confluence of the Pemigewasset and\\nBaker s Rivers. It has a lai ge country trade, and is noted for its manufac-\\nture of fine buckskin gloves. Walker s Hill overlooks the village and valley,\\nwhile Mt. Prospect (4 M. N. E. carriage-road to the summit) commands\\nan extensive prospect. On the S. is the valley of the Pemigewasset\\nPlace of crooked pines with its broad, rich intervales, while numer-\\nous well-known peaks extend between Monadnock in the S. W. and\\nMoosilauke in the N. W. The N. is filled with the lofty summits of the\\nFranconia and the White Mts., prominent among which is Mt. Lafayette.\\nOsceola and White Face are in the N. E., and just below the Squam\\nRange in the E. is the beautiful, island-dotted Squam Lake. To the S.\\nE. are the bright waters of Winnepesaukee, with Mt. Belknap looking\\nover them. Mt. Prospect is 2,072 ft. above the sea, and possesses several\\nother objects of interest, the Miser s Cave, the Avalanche, and the Cold\\nand Boiling Springs.\\nThe drive around Plymouth Mt. is a favorite excursion, and the view\\nfrom its summit is pleasant, embracing many of the features of tlie view\\nfrom Mt. Prospect, tliough heavy forests cover most of it. 2 M. N. of\\nPlymouth are the L wermare Falls. From Plymouth to Squam Lake it\\nis 7 M. to Newfound Lake, 9 to Centre Harbor, 14 M.\\nCapfc. Baker, of Newbury, -with a comprxny of Mass. Kangers, attackeil an Indmn\\nvillage near the couIluonLe of the river which now bears his name with the P( inipre-\\nwasset River. After killini;; many of the villagers, the Rangers plundered the place,\\nand theii retreated, being vainly attacked afterwards on the plains of Bridgewater.\\nPlymouth was settled in iTfii. The house still stands here (now a library) in which\\nDaniel ^Vebster made bis first plea before a jury. Nathaniel Hawthorne died in this\\nTillage Mny 19, IS^il.\\n1 M. out is the Holderness School for Bovs, a famous Episcop-.l School, beautifully\\nsituated, on an estate of 15 acres. About 5 M. from IMyiuouth (stage fron\\\\ Ashland,\\n4 M.) is the Asquani House, a summei -hotel on the crest of the far-viewing\\nShepard Hill, over Squam Lake.\\nThe new Pemigeirnsset- J^aUejf R. R runs N. from Plymouth to Liv-rmore. 2 M.\\nCampton. 4 r Ciimpton Village, 7^ Thornton, 9; W Thornton. 13A Woodstock,\\n16J and N. Woodstock, 20^. Stages for the sunnner hoarding-houses connect at\\nthe stations; !ind from the N. terminus run to the Flume and Profile Houses.\\nThis route supplants the favorite old staging route up the valley, famous for its\\nnoble views.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0266.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "MOOSILAUKE MT. Route 30. 211\\nAfter leaving Plymouth, the railroad follows tlie valley of Baker s\\nRiver for 20 M. Station, Rmnney (Slinson House), S. of Stinson s Mt.\\nand Pond, Avliich were named in memory of a hunter who was killed here\\nl)y the Indians. The village is nearly 1 M. from the station. Saw-mills,\\ntanneiies, and charcoal-works abound in the town. Stations, W. Rur/i-\\nneij and Wentwurth (Union Hotel), a village on fair intervales, and sur-\\nrounded by high hills. Carr s Mt. is on the E., and Mt. Cuba on the W.\\nWarren {Langdun House) is a glen village, from whicli a very good\\nroad leads in 10 M. to the top of Moosilauke Mountain (Tip-Top House\\ncomfortable, $3 a day; fare by stage, up and back, S3). On the slope\\nof the nit., 5 M. frum Warren, is the Mountuiii House (.15 7 -10 a week)\\n1,681 ft. high, and free from hay-fever. This is one of the iioblest trips in\\nNew England, to the tup of Mousiluuke.\\nFrom its isolated positiuu and great height (4,811 ft.), this peak\\ncommands a grand and unique view. In the S. are the hill towns of\\nGrafton County, with nnmerous prominent and well-known peaks rising\\nover them. Beyond Owl s Head, on tlie W., considerable portions of the\\nGreen Mis. may be seen on a clear day. In the N. W. is part of the\\nConnecticut valley, and one or two Canadian peaks are seen in tlie\\nremote N., while nearer at liand are the Pemigewasset Mts. A noble\\npanorama of mts. extends from Sugar Loaf (W. of N.) to the white peak\\nof Cliocoriia (S. of E.), embracing the chief summits of the White aivl\\nFranconia Ranges. On the S. E. is the shining surface of Lake Yv^inne-\\npesaukee, and in the same direction some portion of the State of Maine is\\nvisible.\\nFrom Peaked Hill, near the village hotel, a good view of Moosilauke is\\nobtained. Carr s IVIt., Webster s Slide, and Owl s Head are also in War-\\nren, while on Hurricane Brook are numerous picturesque cascades, known\\nas Fairy, Roeky, Oak, Wolf s-Head, Waternomee, and llui-ricane Falls.\\nDiana s Wash-Bowl is a sequestered basin on the same ci\\\\H k.\\nStation, E. Haverhill, beyond which the line traverses the glen of the\\nOliverian Brook, with Webster s Slide Mt. on the 1. and the precipitous sides\\nof OavI s Head on the r. Station, Haverhill (Exchange House), a pretty\\nvillage on a hill near the trade, with the Grafton County buildings. Just\\nacross tlie river is the village of Newbury (see Route 24), which may be\\nseen irom the as the train skirts the rich intervales, and passes to N.\\nHaverhill, a small village near the Ox Bow Bend of the river.\\nAt Woodsville [Mt-Gardner House, ^-2 a day) the train crosses the\\nConnecticut, and connects with the Passiimpsic and Wells-liiver Railroads\\nat Wells River (Coosuck House), afterwards returning across the bridge,\\nand ascending the Ammonoosuc Valley to Bath, a fine old farming villa^^ge\\nin a picturesque glen. Lisbon (Bri(jham s Hotel) is a gold-mining vil-\\nlage, with daily stages to Lyman (4^ M.) and Sugar Hill (7 M.).", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0267.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "212 Route 30. LANCASTER.\\nLittleton {Thayer s UnU:}, SlO-18 a week; Onlc-U dl House, on far-\\nviewing heights, .t^S-H a week; Mountain Hume, $6-10 a week; and\\niiiaiiy summer boarding-houses near by) is a pretty and prosperous vil-\\nlage, with 3,500 inhabitants, 6 churehes, 2 papers, high-school, bank,\\n30-40 stores, 4 large glove-factories, and Kilburn s stereoscopic-view es-\\ntablishment, the largest in the world. It was incorporated in 1764, under\\nthe name of Chiswick and borders 15 M. on the Conn. River. The\\nvillage is on the Ammonoosuc. From the hills in the vicinity, tine pano-\\nramic views of the White and Fraaconia Mts. may be obtained.\\nStations, Wing Road, where trains connect for Bethlehem, Profile\\nHouse, Fabyan House, and the base of Mt. Washington Whitefield.\\n(Cai letun House), wlience branch line to Jefl erson and Dalton, near the\\nCoiniectieut. Stations, S. Lancastti (stage to Lunenburg, 2 M.), and\\nLancaster Lancaster House, 120-130 guests, at $^2-3.00 a day),\\na beautiful village on a broad plain near the river. It has about\\n2,500 inhabitants, 2 weekly papers, and 6 churches. This is a favorite\\nsummer-resort, and in the combined charm, for vwalks or rides, of\\nmeadow and river, the charm, not of wildness, but of cheerful bright-\\nness and beneficence, Lancaster is unrivalled. (Starr King. Steb-\\nhms Hill, near the village, commands an extensive view while the drive\\naround Mt. Prospect {2- 2 \\\\\\\\v?..) in much esteemed. The rapids on the\\nConnecticut are reached by a fine road over the intervales (6 M.). The\\nriverw^ard roads are level and smooth, revealing fine distant views, the\\nbest of which is obtained from the Lunenburg Hills, beyond the river in\\nVermont. To the E. and N. E. of Lancaster are the dark and unexj)lored\\nPilot Mts., whose main peak is sometimes ascended by a path leading\\nfrom the hamlet of Lost Nation, yielding a broad view over the upper\\nCoos country and the mountain-walls to the S. and S. E. Israel s River\\nunites vd\\\\\\\\\\\\ the Connecticut near the village, after flowing down a pictur-\\nesque valley from its source near Mt. Madison. Sir Charles Dilke says\\nthat the world can show few scenes more winning than Israel s River\\nvalley, in the White Mts. of N. H., or N. Conway, in the S. slopes of the\\nsame chain. The stream is named for an old hunter who was one of the\\npioneers of the Coos country, but tiie melodious Indian name is preferable,\\nSingrawack, the foaming stream of the white rock. Grand combi-\\nnations of the river and its meadows v/ith the Franconia Range and the vast\\nWhite Mt. wall are to be had in short drives beyond the river, upon the\\nLunenburg Hills. A new hotel has recently been built on the top of\\nMt. Prospect ($21 a week). 7 M. from Lancaster is Jefferson Hill, famous\\nf(\u00c2\u00bbr its grand mountain-views.\\nBeyond Lancaster the railroad follows the Connecticut River for 10 M.,\\nand connects with the Grand Trunk Railway (Route 40) at Groveton.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0268.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "ROCHESTER. Route 31. 213\\n31. Boston to the White Monntains.\\nBy the Eastern Railmad to N. Conway (137 M.) in 5 his., fare, \u00c2\u00a75.00 to the\\nCrawford House (102 M.) in 12 hrs., tare S8.6i) to the Glen House (157 M.) in\\n11 hrs., fere \u00c2\u00a77.00. This is tlie quickest and nearest route to the White Mts., and\\nrims two Pullman express trains daily in summer.\\nThe train leaves the Eastern station in Boston (on Causeway, at tlie foot\\nof Friend St.), and passes out over the Charles River. Boston to Comvay\\nJunction, see Route 37 (the j^rincipal stations ai e Chelsea, Lynn^ Salem,\\nIpswich, Newbm-yport, Hampton, and Portsmouth). Beyond Conway\\nJunction the train passes the stations, S. Berioick, Salmon Falls, and\\nGreat Falls. At the latter village are extensive cottou-factories, employ-\\nirg 3,000 hands, and consuming 7,700 bales of cotton yearly. Station,\\nEochester {Dodge s Hotel Mansion House)., a village on Norway Plains,\\nwith several factories near the falls on the Cocheco River. The town has\\n3 banks, 8 chiirches, and over 6,000 inhabitants. Over 2,000,000 yards\\nof flannel are made here yearly, with 400,000 pairs of shoes, 100,000 pairs\\nof blankets, and 2,000,000 bricks. Rochester was settled in 1728, and its\\npeople kept constant vigil for nearly half a century, being often attacked\\nby the Indians. John P. Hale, a prominent leader in the antislavery\\nmovement, and U. S. Senator for 16 years, was born here in 1806.\\nTlic Portland and Rocliester Railroad runs from this village across the centre of\\nYork County to Portland (52 M. fare, 551.55). Stations, E. Eochester, E. Leba-\\nnon, and Springvale, a village in Sanford, wliich was bought of the Sagamore\\nFluellen in 16G1. Stages run from Springvale to Shai leigh, and to NeVfleld,\\nwhere tlie Mt. Eagle Tripoli is made, and large carriage-factories are located.\\nStation, Alfred {Central House; County House), a pleasant village on a level\\nplain, containing the York County huildings, and named in honor of King Alfred\\nof I*;ngland. The line next crosses the towns of Waterborough and HoUis, and\\nthe Saco River. Station, Buxton (Berry s Hotel), tlie old Narragansett, No. 1,\\nwhich was named in compliment to Paul Coffin, its pastor for 40 years, whose\\nancestors came from Buxton in England. Tliis town Avas one of tlie 7 granted by\\nMass. to the victorious soldiers of King Philip s War, and 9 more were granted\\nto tlie veterans of the Canada War of 1095. The soldiers were thus compensated\\nfor their labors, and at the same time the distressed and war-swept settlements\\non the Maine coast were shielded by a double tier of towns inhabited by hardy\\nand fearless veterans. Buxton has 4 villages, with extensive lumber-mills. Stages\\nrun to Cornish and Liniington. Station, Gorhani (Clement House), the 7th town\\ngranted to the veterans of 1675, and named for Caiit. Gorham, whose company\\nlost 36 killed and 41 wounded at the Narragansett Fort Figlit. Station, Sacarappa,\\na manufacturing village which for 50 years sent vast amounts of lumber to Port-\\nland and Havana. The Cumberland Mills turn out \u00c2\u00a7l,00i),0()0 worth of paper\\nannually. After running across the populous town of Westbrook, the train ap-\\nproaches Bramhall Hill, and passes into the terminal station at Portland.\\nAfter leaving Rochester, the White-^It. train passes Hayes, and stops\\nat Milton {Glendale House; Tri-Mountaln House), a (piiet farming\\ntown near the Sidmon-Falls River. Mt. Teneriffe, seen on the 1., is as-\\ncended from Milton. Station, Union (Union House), beyond which Cop[)le-\\nCrown Mt. appears in the W.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0269.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "214 Route 31. CONWAY.\\nFrom ^Volfboro Junction a branch railroad runs (in 12 M.) to Wolflioro, on\\nLake Wiimeitesuukfc fc Ko^ae 32), in tlie Litter part of its course skirting\\nSmith s Pond, and stopping near tlie wharf of the Lake steamers.\\nStations, Wakefield, E. Wakefield, and N. Wakefield, to the E. of\\nwhich is Lake Newicliawaniiock (East Pond), which is 3 M. long and 1\\nM. wide. Stations, Ossipee and Ossipee Centre (two inns), the shire-\\ntown of Cari oll County. A glimpse of Ossipee Lake is gained on the r.\\nbej ond this station, with Green Mt. on its farther shore. Ruuniiig N.\\nwith Ossipee Mt. on the 1., the train reaches W. Ossipee,\\nfrom which fine excursions may be made to Ossipee Lake, Sandwich\\nNotch, and Mt. Chocorua (see page 220). Madison Plains are next\\ntraversed, with the broad sheet of Six Mile Pond glittering among the\\nforests on the r. and Legion Mt. far beyond. On the 1. is the weird peak\\nof Chocorua, to whicii Starr King has applied the adjectives, gallant,\\nhauglity, rugged, torn, proud-peaked, desolate, proud and lonely, tired.\\nStations, Madison and Comony Conway liouse; Pequawket House;\\nGrove House). This village is situated on rich level land, and has many\\ncharming rural scenes along the winding Saco. From its air of tran-\\nqiiillity and pastoral seclusion, this handet of Chatauqiie is j^referred to\\nN. Conway by those who seek quiet and rest, and are regardless of bril-\\nliant society. Excursions are made from tills point to Chocorua Lake,\\n8-9 M. distant, under the mt. of the same name; to Conway Centre and\\nFryel;urg (see Route 39), in the N. E. to Chatham, by the long, strag-\\ngling village of Conway Street, between the Green Hills and the Maine\\nborder; to Champney s Falls, ascending the Sv/ift River valley to the W.\\nand to the Cathedral, Echo Lake, and Diana s Bath. Tlie last-named\\nplaces are as near to Chatauque as to N. Conway, and the fording of the\\nriver is avoided. There are fine views of the White Mts. from this vil-\\nlage, with the Moat ]\\\\rt. looming in the N. W. Beyond Conway the\\ntrain runs N. for 5 M., much of the way being over embankments and\\ntrestles on the Saco intervales. Moat Mt. is now approached on the 1.,\\nand Kiarsarge appears on the r. Soon after crossing the Saco, a white\\nvillage is seen on the hillside, the tower of the Kiarsarge House is ap-\\nproached on the r., and the train stops at N. Conway (see Route 33).\\nThe chief stage-connections on this route are: Daily from Rochester to Strafford\\nCorner (4 M.) and Barnstead (16 M.) Union Yilbige to Middleton (3 M.), and\\nsemi-daily to Milt\u00c2\u00ab u Mills {Central House), 5 M., where blankets and felting\\nare made; daily from Wolfeboro Junction, 2i M. N W. to J.roolfield daily from\\nE Wakefield to N. Shai leigh (9 M.), W. Newfield ,5 M. and N. Farsonsfield (15 M.),\\nand Eiiiugham (17 M. N.); tri-weekly from Ofisipee to Wolfeboro (lU JI.), and Tuf-\\ntonboro (6 M.); daily from Centre Ossipee to Moultouville (1 M.), Ernnglnm Fails\\n(6 M.), and Fi-eeilom (S M.) daily from W. Ossipee to Tamworth (4 M.), Tamworth\\nIron Works (4 M.), N Sandwich (10 M.), Sandwich (16 M.), Moultonboro (,19 M,),\\nand Centre Harbor (24 M); from Madison, daily, to E. Madison (^6 M.) from Con-\\nway, daily, to Eaton Centre (6 M.) and Centre Conway (.2i- M.).", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0270.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "LAKE WINNEPE3AUKEE. Route 32. 215\\n32 Lake Winnepesaukee and the Sandwich Mountains.\\nFrom Boston to the Lake (a) By Routes 29 and 30, through Lowell and Con-\\ncord to Weirs, whence the steamer Lady of the Lake runs to Centre Harbor\\nand Woltljoro. Boston to Weirs, 105 M.\\n(b) By Route 38, through Lawrence and Dover to Alton Bay, whence the\\nsteamer Ml. \\\\*aslungtou runs to WulfDoro and Centre Harbor. Jioston to\\nAlton Bay, 90 M.\\n(f) By Routes 31 and 37, throui^^h Salem and Portsmouth to Wolflioro, where\\nboth the steamers touch, and from wliich all the lake-villages maybe visited. Bos-\\nton to Wolfboro, 106 M. (in 4^ hrs. by the Pullman express train in the morning).\\nLake Winnepesaukee is in tlie counties of Carroll and Belknap, in tlie\\nState of N. H., and is 25 M. long by 1-7 M. wide, containing G9 square\\nmiles. It is 472 ft. above the sea, and its waters of crystalline purity re-\\nflect the shadows of several bold mountains, and surround nearly 300\\nislands, great and small. 8 towns rest aroimd it, having an\\naggregate population of 14,000 on about 200 square nules of territory;\\nand Ijut few and small are the villages along the curiously indented shores.\\nThe waters of tiie lake are discharged by tlie Winnepesaukee River,\\nwhich unites with the Pemigewasset to form the Merriniac, and passes\\ninto the ocean at Nev/buryport. Winnepesaukee is an ancient Lidian\\nword wliicli is popiilarly supposed to mean The Smile of the Great\\nSpirit, although some inter^Dret it as Pleasant Water in a High Place.\\nTlicre may be lakes in Tyrol and Switzerland which, in i articular respects,\\nexceed tlie charms of any in the Western world. But in th.-it wedding of the\\nland with the water, in Avliieh one is perpetually approaching and retreating from\\nthe other, and each transforms itself into a thousand figures for an endless dance\\no, grace and beauty, till a countless multitude of shapes are arranged into perfect\\nease and freedom, of almost nuisical motion, nothing can be held to surpass, if to\\nmatch, our W^innepesaukee. (Bartol.)\\nI have been something of a traveller hi our own country, though far less\\nthan I could wi.sh, and in Europe have seen all that is most attractive, from\\nthe Highlands of Scotland to the Golden Horn of Constantinople, from the sum-\\nmit of the Hartz Mountains to the Fountain of Vaucluse but my eye has yet to\\nrest on a lovelier scene than that which smiles around you as you sail from Weirs\\nLanding to Centre Harbor. (Edward Everett.)\\nLooking up to the broken sides of the Ossipee Mts. that are rooted in the\\nlake, over which huge shadows loiter or back to the twin Belknap hills, which\\nappeal to softer sensibilities with their verdured symmetry or farther down,\\nupon the charming succession of momids that hem the shores near Wolfboro or\\nnorthward, where distant Chocorua lifts his bleached head, so tenderly touched\\nnow with gray and gold, to defy the hottest sunlight, as he has defied for ages\\nthe lightning and the storm, does it not seem as though the passage of the\\nPsalms is fulfilled before our eyes, Out of the perfection of beauty God hath\\nshined (Thomas Starr King).\\nThe poetry of Percival and of Whittier has often been inspired by Winnepe-\\nsaukee. (See Whittier s poems, The Lake-side, Summer by the Lake, and\\nothers.)\\nThe steamer runs E. from Weirs, with Meredith Bay opening to the N.\\nMount Belknap is seen to tlie S., and Ossipee Mt. looms up across the\\nlake in front. After passing Governor s Island on the S., the boat turns\\nto the N, through a strait between Bear Island (3 M from Weirs) and the", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0271.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "21 G Route 32. CENTRE HARBOR.\\nmainland. Just after passing this island, and when within 3 M. of\\nCentre Harbor, the finest view on the lake is obtained. The whole line\\nof the Sandwich Mts. is seen in the N., between Ossipee on the r. and\\nRed Hill on the 1., with Whiteface looming foremost, and the haughty\\nChoconia leagues away to the N. E.\\nTVesrs (Hotel JFeir.s, 150 guests; irt/,-e.sir7e, 200 guests JFinnecoeffe, ^7 -10\\na w(iek; Endicott Maplt Cottaije), where the ntih-uad touches the lake, has\\nwithin ten years become a famous summer rendezvous for temperauce men, war-\\nveterans, Unitarian grove-meetiiigs, Universalists, Metliodists, Grangers, c. and\\nhas miles of avenues, cottages, and pavilions and a tall observatory.\\nSteamboats run hence several times daily (in the season) to Lake Village, whence\\nhorse-cars to Lacnnia.\\nCentre Harbor {*S(r.nter House. $3 a day, 12-20 a week MoultoJi House,\\n$8-12 a week; and many hoarding-houses) is 10 M. from Weirs, and has steam-\\nboats leaving several times daily for \\\\Vo!feboro, Weirs, AUon Rav, Long Island, c.\\nand daily stages for Moultonboro, Sandwich, W. Ossipee, and Ossipee Park.\\nCentre Harbor is a small hamlet at the head of one of the 3 northeni\\nbays of the lake. It was settled l)y Col. Senter in 1757, and was named\\nin his honor, Init the improvement of the town has been slow, and in\\n1870 it had only 446 iuhal)itants. There are pleasant drives from this\\nvillage to Moultonboro, to Sandwich, and around the ring, the latter\\nbeing by a series of roads 4 M. long, passing by Red Hill and within sight\\nof Squam Lake, and returning to the village. Centre Harbor Hill, 1 M,\\nfrom the hotels, affords a fine lake prospect, recommended for its sunset\\nviews. But the main attraction of the place is the ascent of Red Hill\\n(2,000 ft. high). By the highway it is 4 M. to the foot of the hill, from\\nwhich a bridle-path nearly 2 M. long reaches the summit. A road 2 M.\\nshorter is available to the pedestrian, by passing out on the Sandwich\\nroad, taking the first farm-lane to the r. beyond the cemetery and cross-\\nroads, and crossing straight to Red Hill by means of quiet, rural field-\\nroads. The mountain-path soon turns to the r. from the highway (wliich\\nis followed to the 1. after it is gained). Tlie hill is ascended to the first\\ncottage, around whose upper corner the path bears sharply to the 1. The\\nreddish sieuite ledges of the summit are gained liy a long climb through\\nthe forest, and here is seen the luxuriant uva ursce, wliose flame-red\\nautumnal tints probably gave name to the mountain. The view from\\nthe sunmiit vies in beauty with that from Mount Holyoke, though of far\\ndiifei-ent character and devoid of historic charm. Lake Winnepesaukee is\\noutstretched in the S. with leagues of bright waters and hundreds of\\nislets, while the twin summits of IMt. Belknap are seen o^ er Centre\\nHarbor, about 15 M. away. In the S. W. is Mt. Kearsai ge, full 30 M.\\ndistant, while it is claimed that Monadnock (70 M. S. W. maybe seen in a\\nclear day. In the W. is the lovely Scjuam Lake, winding like Winder-\\nmere, among the hills, with numerous islands and white, sandy beaches,\\nwhile beyond are the Squam Mts. and Mt. Prospect, near Plymouth.\\nThe Mt. Washington range is not visible, being barred from sight by the dark", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0272.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted a1\\nfuture date.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0273.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nout is being digitized, and will be inserted at c\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0274.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "CENTRE HARBOR. Route 32. 217\\nSandwich Range, which in the afternoon, untouched by the liglit, wears a sava-e\\nfrown that contrasts most effectively with the placid beauty of the lake Ih-Iow\\nHere is tlie place to study its borders, to admire tiie fleet of islands tliat ride at anl\\nchoron Its bosom, froni little sliallops to grand three-deckers, and to eni.,v the\\nexquisite iiies by which its bays are infolded, iu which its coves retreat, an lwith\\nwhich Its low capes cut the azure water, and hang over it an emerald fringe\\nFar to the south\\ni ny slumbcnnrr wators floated, ohl Ion? sheet\\nOf hunnshed gold, between ih\\\\ nuarer shoreg\\nhoftly enil)raced, and melting (iistaiitly\\nInto a yellow liaze, embosomed low\\nMid shadowy hiPs and misty moutitains, all\\nCovered with showerv light, as with a veil\\nOf airy gauze. I kucival.\\n_ In the N. E tlie weird peak of Cliocorua is seen, and nearer at hand in the E\\nWh f T^ Q^ T^^ O^^iyee. The central peak of tlie Sandwich Range is\\nWhite Pace, Sandwich Dome holds tlie left, and the right extends from pSssa-\\nc^nawaytoChocoma. The white village in the plain below is -Sandwich, wliHe\\nthe Bear Camp and Red Hill Pon.ls are seen in its vicinity. Whoever ndsses\\ntlie view from Red Hill loses the most fascinatingand thoroughly enjoyable vievv\\nfrom a moderate mountain-height, that can be gained from any eininence thatS\\nnear the tourist s path. The afternoon is the best time for the excursion.\\n*Squam Lake is 3-4 M. from Centre Harbor, and slioukl be visited\\nfor the sake of its sequestered h)veliness, its romantic islets, and its white\\nstrand. The Asquam House is a charming summer-hotel, 4 M. from Ashland.\\nPlymouth is 14 M. N. W. of Centre Harbor, and is approached by a\\nsmooth but hilly road, passing through the romantically beautiful district\\nformerly inhabited by the Squamscott Indians. This road skirts tha\\nshores of Squam and Little Squani Lakes, and at about 5 M. from Centre\\nHarbor, has a superb view of Chocorua, 15 M. away, over the broadest\\npart of Squam Lake. The road passes across the broad, ricli intervales\\nof Holderiiess and Plymouth, with the Squam Mts. and Mt. Prospect on\\nthe r.\\nOn leaving Centre Harbor for Wolfboro, the steamer keeps a S. E.\\ncourse, witli Ossipee Mt. on the E. over the low shores of Moultonboro\\nNeck. A great archipelago of islands is passed, islands which shall\\nhere be naineless, they being worse than nameless in the poverty of their\\nliomely Saxon titles. About midway of the lake the unmistakable\\nmajesty of Washington is revealed. There he rises, 40 M. away, tower-\\ning from a plateau built for his throne, dim green in the distance, except\\ntlie dome that is crowned with winter, and the strange figures that are\\nscrawled around his waist in snow. Fredrika Bremer sp eaks of the\\nOlympian majesty of Mt. Washington from this point. Farther on,\\nthe summit of Chocorua is seen moving swiftly over lower ranges, and\\nsoon the whole mountain sweeps into view, startling you with its ghost-\\nlike pallor and haggnrd crest. On Long Island, nearly half-way down\\nthe lake, are the Island Home (60 guests), Long-Island House and Tip-\\nTop House, much visited in summer. The Tip-Top is small, but commands\\na glorious view. The mountains iu the N. change their relative positions", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0275.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "218 Route o2. WOLFEBOKO.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2svitli kaleidoscopic rapidity, and the imposing peaks of Mt. Belknap\\n(whence is obtained tlie tinest lake-view) loom np ahead. After passing;\\nthese peaks the steamer rounds into Wolfeboro Bay, with Copple-Crowu\\nMt. on the r. 20 M. from Centre Harbor is the village of Wolfeboro.\\nHotels. PavUion, 250 guests, 9? 10 17 a week Glemlon, 150 guests, ^9-15\\na wetk JJe/lerut\\\\ !i?8-12 a week; Lake House. There are also many pleasaut\\nand retired boardiug-houses in and near tlic village.\\nSteaiiit i-s leave for Alton Bay, Centre Harbor, and Weirs, several times daily.\\nIvailroad to N. Conway, I ortsuiouth, and Boston.\\nStages run tri-weekly to Tti/tonboro, a stock-raising town 6 M. N.\\nWolfeboro was settled in 1770, and was the site of the line mansion of\\nGov. Sir Jolm Wentwortli. It is now a pleasaut village in a thriving\\ntown of about 2,200 inhabitants, with 2 banks and 3 churches. Its situ-\\natio n on two long hills near the lake is very beautiful, and fine views are\\nenjoyed of the Belknap Mts. across the water. Good lake-views may be\\nhad from the hills about the village, and also from Tumble-Do^vn Dick, a\\nhigh eminence near the large Smith s Pond, E. of Wolfboro. But the\\nbest excursion is to C o^J jjZe Croum 3ft., about 7 M. S. E., by a road passing\\nto S. Wolfboro. The carriage-road runs nearly to the summit (fare, 2.00\\nfrom the hotel for each person of a party). Copple Crown is 2,100 ft.\\nhigh, and furnishes from its summit a view of nearly the whole length of\\nthe lake, with Mt. Belknap near at hand in the N. W., and the heavy\\nrange of Sandwich looming above the head of the lake. Chocorua and\\nOssipee are close togetlier, a little W. of N., and on a clear day Mt.\\nWashington may be seen beyond all, while tlie ocean is visible in tli(\\nopposite direction. 30 lakes and ponds are seen from Copple Cro\\\\\\\\ai, of\\nwhich Ossipee, in tlie N., is one of the finest.\\nThe Wolfboro Branch of the Eastern Railroad runs to the N. Conway main line\\nin 12 M. Two express trains leave for Boston daily, making the distance (106\\nM.) in 4-5 hrs.\\nAfter leavhig Wolflooro the steamer follows a southerly course to Fort\\nPoint, where it turns by Little Mark Island into Alton Bay. This is a\\nnarrow estuary, 4-5 M. long, and bordered by high wooded hills of\\nTrosach-like boldness. The steamer follows the sinuosities of this curi-\\nous inlet, and sometimes seems to be walled in, as neither way of ingress\\nnor egress is seen. Mt. Major is ])asfied on the W. shore, and after many\\nturns and bendings the last bluff is passed, and the hotel and station at\\nthe S. extremity of the lake are reached. Here is situated the Winnijn-\\nseoyee House, an old and decadent sun)mer-hoteI, near good fishing-\\ngrounds and pretty scenery.\\nAlton Bay was formerly called Merry-Meeting Bay, since it was a famous gath-\\nering-]ilaee Jor the Indians. Several Indian raids on the N. H. coast passed down\\ntiiis bay, and in 172 2 tlie province liuilt a military road to it, and commenced for-\\ntiiications. The cost was found to be too henvy for the little colony, and tlie\\nposition was given up. Atkinson s regiment, which was covering the frontiers\\nduring the French war, built a fort and encamped here through the \u00e2\u0096\u00a0winter of\\n174G-7.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0276.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "CENTRE HARBOR TO CONWAY. Route 32. 219\\nThe hotel is aliout 30 M. from Centre Harbor. Mt. Major and Pros-\\npect Hill are in the vicinity, and command beautiful lake-views, while\\nthe ocean may be seen (in clear weather) from the top of Prospect.\\nSheep Mt. also gives a broad lake view.\\nAmong the longer excui sions is that to Lougee Pond, near a cluster of\\nlakelets from which flows the Suncook River. Gilmanton Iron Works\\nvillage is a little way S. of these ponds, which are about 6 M. from Al-\\nton Bay. 6-8 M. to the eastward lies Merrymeeting Lalvc, an irregular,\\npicturesque, and sequestered pond 10 M. in circumference, N. of which\\nis Copple-Crowm Mt. The favorite excursion from Alton Bay is to ]\\\\It.\\nBelknap, 14 M. N. W. on the shores of, and overlooking, Lake Winne-\\npesaukee. Seats in the carriage which rims to the mt. whenever a party\\nis formed cost $1.50 each, and the noble view of lakes and mts. more\\nthan repays for the time and trouble of the journey.\\nThree trains daily (during the season) leave Alton Bay for Boston.\\nDistance, 96 M. time about 4 hrs. (see Route 38.)\\nCentre Harbor to W. Ossipee.\\nA railroad line has been surveyed from Meredith through Centre Har-\\nbor to W. Ossipee. Daily stages now pass last named between these\\n])oiiits. After leaving the Harbor, Red Hill is approached and passed,\\nand Monltojiboro Corner is reached in 5 M. from the Senter House.\\nMoultonboro has a small inn and two or three boarding-honses, and\\nabounds in pleasant scenery which is rarely visited. Red Hill is here,\\nanil Ossipee Mt., also the long and sequestered Moultonboro Bay with its\\ngreat archipelago of picturesque islets, and with plenty of fish in its\\nwaters.\\nThe Ossipee Indians had their home near this bay, and many relics of them\\nhave beftii found, chie; among wliich is a great monumental mound at the mouth\\nof Melvin River.\\nWhere the Great I^ake s sunny smiles Over lowlands forcst-ffrown\\nDimple round its hundred isles, Over waters island-strown,\\nAnd the inountiiin s granite ledge Over silver-sanded lieach.\\nCleaves the water like a wedge, Leaf-locked hay and misty reacli,\\nRinsed about with smooth, pray stones, Melvin stream and burinl-heap.\\nBest the giant s mighty bones. Watch and ward the mountains keep.\\nClose beside, in shade and gleam. Who that Titan cromlech fills\\nLaushs and ripples Melvin stream, Forest-kaiser, lord n tlic hills\\nMelvin water, mounrain-born. Knight who on the hircheii tvee\\nAll tV.ir flowers its banks adi)rn Carted his savage heraldry-\\nAll the woodland s voices meet. Priest o the pine wood temoles dim.\\nMingling with its murmurs sweet. Prophet, sage, or wizard grim t\\nSee Whittier s poem, The Grave by the Lake.\\nOssipee Park is a patrician snmmer-resort high up on the Ossipee Range, near\\nlovely cascades, and overlooking Wiunepesaukee. Stage.s from Centix- Harbor (9 M.)\\nat 2 P. M. dai y Near by is Mi. Slcaw, tlie highest of the Ostiipee peaks (2,9ou f(.),\\nwith a tower tummaudiug a noble view.\\n4i M. N. of IMoultunboro Corner is the pretty village of Centre Sand-\\nwich (boarding-huusfs of Beede, BurUiyh, [Viygin, and others),", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0277.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "220 Route 32. SANDWICH.\\nwhich is in a narrow valley nearly snrrounded by monntaiiis. The scenery\\nis noble, embracing Ossipee on the S. E., Red Hill, the Squani Mts. on the\\nW., and the dark and storm-worn Sandwich Range on the N. Squam\\nLake is on the S. W. border of the town, and a charming road leads from\\nthe village to Plymouth, passing for several miles along the N. and W.\\nshores of the lake, with the Squam Mts. on the r. Another road (sorae-\\nAvhat arduous) leads across a high mountain-pass to Thnrnton, in the\\nPemigewasset Valley, while a bridle-path leads by Flat-Mt. Pond to\\nWaterville. Beyond .S. Tamworth the stage passes near Bearcamp Pond,\\nand follows the Bearcamp River down to the lowlands of Tamworth and\\nOssipee towns.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Wliitticr s poem, Among the Hills, has its scene laid in this vicinity where\\nThrouch Sandwich notch the west-wind sang Above his broad lake Ossipee\\nGood morrow to the cotter Once more the .siinsliinc wearing,\\nAnd once again C hoeorua s horn Stooped, tracing on that silver sliield\\nOf shadow pierced the water. His grim armorial bearing.\\nAnd many are the weary ones who still come here\\nTo drink the wine of mountain air\\nBeside the Bearcamp Water.\\nWHtiteface (4,007 ft. high) is the most imposing of the Sandwich I\\\\Its.,\\nand is sometimes ascended from Sandwich, although the excursion is\\narduous and fatiguing. The view is magnificent, embracing\\nWinnepesaukee on the S. with the loftier peaks of the White Mts. on the\\nN. On the N. E. is Passaconaway, a noble peak, 4,200 ft. high, which\\nwas named after the great sagamore of Pennacook, the most powerful\\nIndian prince in northern New England, early in the 17th century. He\\ngoverned a large confederacy of tribes from his seat at Pennacook (Con-\\ncord), and altliough he strove to annihilate the English by necromantic\\narts, he never put his warriors in arms against them (see page 222).\\nCltocorua and Ossipee.\\nThe road soon pa^^ses out to W. Ossipee station, on the Eastern R. R.\\n(Route 31). It is 18 M. fnmi Centre Harbor, by way of Sandwich Pleas-\\nant excursions are made along Bearcamp River and into Sandwich town.\\nOssipee INIt. is close to the station, and the iiighest peak is but 2-3 M. dis-\\ntant. A grand view is obtained from this point, while Chocorua looms up\\nin the N. and Ossipee Lake is in the S. W.\\nThe by-road 2 M. beyond the Chocorua-Lake House leads to the Ham-\\nmond farm, in M., whence a plain and easy path leads up for lA hr.\\nthrough the woods, and then for 1 lir. over the ledges to the far-viewing\\nsharp crest of Mt. Chocorua.\\nOssipee Lake is about 4 M. S. E. The road follows down the P.oar-\\ncanip vallev to the vicinity of the lake. In the field near Daniel Smith s\\nfarm-house (1. of the road) is an Indian mound, nearly 50 ft, in diam-\\neter, from wliich several skeletons and other relics have been taken.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0278.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "MOUNT CHOCORUA. Route S3. 221\\nIn the same field and nearer the lake are the remains of Lovewell s fort,\\nbuilt in the spring of 1725, and abandoned after the battle at Pequawket\\n(Fryeburg). Just beyond this point are the shores of Ossipee Lake, a\\nsequestered sheet of water embracing about 10 square miles, with Green\\nMt. rising boldly on the further sliore.\\n*Mt. Chocorua (3,540 ft. high) is visited from W. Ossipee. Tt is 8 M.\\nto the foot, and 6-7 M. on the way the beautiful Cliocorua Lake\\n{Lake House, finely situated) is passed. From this point the summits of\\nthe mountain are seen, of which one is a rocky, desolate, craggy-peaked\\nsubstance, crouching in shape not unlike a monstrous walrus (though the\\nsummit suggests more the half-turned head and beak of an eagle on the\\nwatch against some danger) the other is the wraith of the proud and\\nlonely shape above. The ascent requires 4 M. froni the foot of the\\nmountain, and is very arduous, tlie patli being rugged and steep.\\nHow rich and sonorous that word Chocorua is Does not its rhythm suggest\\nthe wildness and loneUness ot tlie great liills? To our ears it always brings witli\\nit the sigh of the winds through mountain-pines. It is invested with traditional\\nand poetic interest. In form it is massive and synnnetrical. Tlie forests of its\\nlower slopes are crowned with rock that is sculptured into a peak with lines fid!\\nof haughty ener^^y, in whose gorges huge shadows are entrapped, and whose cliffs\\nblaze with morning gold. On one side of its jagged peak a charming lowland\\nprospect stretches E. and S. of the Handwich Range, indented by the emerald\\nshores of Winncpesaukee, which lies in queenly beauty u]ion tlie soft, far-stretch-\\ning landscapes. Pass around a huge rock to the other side of the steep pyramid,\\nand you have turned to another chapter in the book of nature. Nothing but\\nmountains running in long parallels, or bending, ridge behind ridge, are visible,\\nhere brilliant in sunlight, there gloomy with, shadow, and all related to the tower-\\ning mass of the imperial Washington There is no summit from which the\\nprecipices are so sheer, and sweep down with such cycloidal curves. It is so\\nrelated to the plains on one side and the mountain-gorges on the other, that no\\ngrander watch-tower, except Mt. Washington, can be scaled to study and enjoy\\ncloud scenery. (Starr King.)\\nChocorua, the blameless prophet-chief of the Sokokis Indians, was pursued to this\\nlofty peak 1)y a white hunter, who was determineil to kill him for tlie sake of the\\nscalp-money (tlie colonies gave large bounties for Indian scalps). The chief\\npleaded for quarter, speaking of his quiet life in whicli he had never harmed\\nthe colonists but when his pursuer refuse l to hear, and drew near to put him to\\ndeath, the noble Chocoi ua cast one long, lin;jering look over the fair lands of his\\nhunted people, and lifting up his arms invoked a solemn and terrible curse upon\\nthe country in which the English were swarming. He then leaped boldly over\\nthe tremendous jirecipice, and was dashed in pieces on the rocks below. Malig-\\nnant and fatal di.seases among the cattle, and otlier fell signs long troubled the\\ntowns about the mountain, while strange legends arose, and the baleful effects\\nwere for many years attributed to the merited curse of Chocorua.\\n33. The White Mountains and North Conway.\\nNew York to the White Mta. (a) By Route 24, through New Haven, Spring-\\nfield, aud Wells River, to Littleton, Bt-fhleheni, the Profile House, the Fnbyan\\nHou.\u00c2\u00abe (344 M.), tlie Crawford House (348 M,), and the base of Mt. Washington\\n(350 M.).\\n(b.) ]}y steamer to New London, thence by Route 12 to Amherst, Brattleboro,\\nand Wells River, thence to the Mts. as in (a).\\n(c.) By New London, Norwich, Wori/ester, and Nashua (Route lo), to Concord,\\nand thence by Route 30. Or by the preceding way as far as VVeir.s, whence Ltike", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0279.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "222 Route 33. THE WHITE MOUNTAINS AND N. CONWAY,\\nWiniiepesaukee (Route 32) is crossed to Wolfljoro and Route 1 is followed to\\nN. Conway. Many tourists prefer to take the niglit train or boat to Boston, and\\nmake their way thence to the White JNIts. by a morning train.\\nBoston to the IVhite Mts. (d.) By route 81, through Lynn, iSalem, Newburyjiort.,\\nand Portsmouth, to N. Conway. By this route the distance from Boston to n!\\nConway is Vol M. to the Crawford House, 1G2 M. to the Glen House, 157 M.\\n(e.) By Routes 29 and 30, through Lowell, Nashua, Manchester, and Concord,\\nto Weirs, Plymouth, and the Fabyan House. Or by crossing Lake Winnepesan-\\nkee frnin Weirs to Wolfboro, reach N. Conway by Route 31 (or by tiie stage-route\\nfrom Centre Harbor).\\nBy Route 31 to Wolfboro, thence crossing Lake Winnepesaukee to W^eirs,\\nand following Route 30 to Plymouth, Littleton, and the Franconia Mts., or to the\\nFabyan and Crawford Houses.\\n{g.) By Route 33 to Alton Bay, and thence by steamer to Wolfboro and Route\\n31 to N. Conway or to Centre Harbor and Route 32 {ad Jinem) or to Weirs, and\\nthence by Route 30, as in\\nPortland and the F.ast to the White Mts. (h.) By Route 3P to N. Conway (60 M.),\\nand thence by rail to the Crawford House (or by stage to the Glen\\\\\\n(i.) By Route 40, to the village of Gorham (91 M.) and thence by stage to the\\nGlen House and Crawford House.\\nMontreal and Quebec to the Uniite Mts. (j.) By Route 40 (Grand Trunk Railway)\\nto Gorliam, 206 M. from Montreal, and 226 M. from Quebec.\\nAlbany and Saratoga to the White Mts. (k.) By Rtuites .53 and 28 to Rutland,\\nthence by Route 26 to Bellows Falls, and thence by White River Junction and\\nWells River to Littleton and tlie Fabyan House. Or via Magnani Bay.\\nPedestrianism has never obtained much favor in America, but when the\\npresent joost bellum era of prodigality and pretence has passed away, we may hope\\nto see these mountain peaks and gorges enlivened by parties of summer ramblers\\nwho will gain health and strength from inspiring walks in the pure, sweet air.\\nThe gentry of Old England, with their ladies, are fond of i)assing thus tlirough the\\nSwiss Alps or the Scottish Highlands, and when the people here shall adox t this\\nmode of summer travel, the physical culture of New England will reach a higher\\nstandard. Many admirable i)edestrian routes may be made througli the Wliite\\nMts., but the tourist should havc] leHty of time, and be well and liglitly equipped\\n(see Introduction, IV.) A good lield-giass will be found of essential service.\\nTlie White Mts. were called Agiochook Mts. of the Snowy Forehead and\\nHome of the Great Sjurit J by some of the Indian tribes, and Kan Ran Vugarty\\nthe continued likeness of a gull by others. The Algonquins called them\\nAVauml)ek (White Rock) or Wauml)eket-Methna, and the natives had the utmost\\nreverence for these mts., believing them to be the home and throne of the Great\\nSpirit. But rarely did the Indians ascend the higher peaks, since it was reported\\nanioug the tribes that no intruder upon these sacred heights was ever known to\\nreturn to his people. There was a legend that the Great Spirit once licu e a blame-\\nless chief and his wife in a mighty whirlwind to the summit of Agiochook, while\\nthe world below was oversi)read by a flood which destroyed all the i eople. A\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wilder and more recent tradition is to the effect that the great Passacoiiaway, the\\nwizard-king of the wide-spread Pennacook confederation (who ruled from al)out\\n1620 to 1660). was wont to commune with celestial messengers on the summit of\\nAgiochook, whence he was finally borne to heaven in a flaming chariot. Some\\nauthorities claim that a party of Englishmen visited these mts. in 1631-2, but the\\nlatest historians credit their discovery to Darby Field, who came up from tlie\\ncoast in 1642. The Indian villagers at Pequawket(Fryeburg) earnestly endeavored\\nto dissuade him from the ascent, telling him that he would never return alive.\\nBut he pressed on with his two sea-shore Indians, passing through cloud-banks\\nand storms until he reached the last peak, whence he saw the sea by Saco, the\\ngidf of Canada, and the great lake Canada River came out of. He found many\\ncrystals here, which he tliought were diamonds, and from which the chain long\\nbo rc the name of the Chrystall Hills. Tradition says that in 1765 a pjirty i f 9\\nof Rogers Rangers, retreating from St. Francis, were led up Israel s River into\\nthese defiles by a treacherous Indian guide, ami all of them died excei t one, wlio\\nreached the settlements with his knapsack filled with human licsh. It was said", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0280.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "NORTH CONWAY. R mle 33. 223\\nthat this party bore the great silver image taken from tlie church at St. Francis,\\nand several of the early hunters made earnest quest after this sacred relic. A\\nshort legendary era followed, and then the pioneer colonists he:nan to move into\\nthe outlying glens. In 1771 the Notch was discovered in 1792 Ahel Crawford\\nlived on the Giant s Grave in 1803 a small tavern was l)uilt there and in July,\\n1820, a party of seven gentlemen slej^t on the summit of Mt. Washington, and\\ngave the names which the princiiial peaks still bear. In 1S19 the first bri lle-path\\nto the summit was cut, and a small stone hut was erected near that ]ioint. The\\nSummit House was built in 1S52, and the Tip-Toj) House was completed shortly\\nafter. In September, 1S55, a small party started one afternoon to walk to the\\nsummit, and being without a guide became bewildered and lost, and one young\\nlady died at midnight from cold and weariness. In the next August, a Delaware\\ngentleman started from the Glen without a guide, in the afternoon, and died near\\nthe summit from exi)asure to a cold night storm. Late in October, 1851, a young\\nEnglish gentleman ascended alone from Crawford s to the summit, and fell from a\\ngreat precipice into the Ammonoosuc Valley, where his mangled corpse was found.\\nFor some years the summit has been occupied during the winter as a station of\\nthe meteorological department of the U. S. Army, and the men on duty have ex-\\nperienced the most intense cold and watched terrific storms. The thermometer\\n(Fahrenheit) has descended to 59 below zero, and the winds have attained a ve-\\nlocity of 100 M. an hour.\\nthe geological features of Mt. Washington possess but little interest. The\\nrocks in place consist of a coarse variety of mica slate, passing into gneiss, which\\ncontains a few crystals of black tourmaline and cpiartz. The cone is covered with\\nblocks of mica slate. The flora of the upper region is nearly identical with tliat\\nof Labrador and Lapland. The period when the White Mts. ceased to be a group\\nof islands, or when, by the emergence of the surrounding low land, they first be-\\ncame connected with the continent, is of very modern date, geologically speaking.\\n(Sir Charles Lyell.) Below the lu okeu and distorted stratum of mica slate, the\\nvast mass of the mountains is of granite.\\nNorth Conway.\\nHotels. Kearsarge House, 300 guests, S 10 21 a week, a fine structure, with a\\nbroad view from tiic central tower Sunset Paviliou, oi)i)osite the Episcopal cfiurcb,\\n7 14 a week .McMulun Uou.-;e, S. of the village Easrm.ui House, Sr 7 10 a week\\nN. Conway ilcu.-e, in the village; Intervale House, about 2 M. N., near Mt. Kiar-\\npa;ge. There tire over 20 large summer boardiag-hou=es in siud around N. Conway,\\nmost of which are couilortabie and quiet. Their prices range from $7.00 to s? 12.00\\na week.\\nKailroatls. The Eastern Railroad fsee lioute ,31) runs two express trains each,\\nway daily (turough the summer) between Boston and N. Conwa\\\\ in 5 hours. Dis.\\ntance 137 M. fare, S5.00. The trains are provided with Pullman parlor-cars.\\nThe Portland and Ogdensbtirg Railroad runs three trains daily each way (througii\\nthe summer) between Portland and N. Conway. Distance 60 M., time 2.^ -3 hours\\n(see Route oOV This line connects at Portland with steamers for Boston, and trains\\nrun W. from N. Conway to the Crawford and Fahyan Houses and the Conuecticut-\\nRivcL- Valley, traversing the White-Mountain Notch.\\nStaples from Glen Station every morning and also about niid-nfternoon for the\\nGlon House. Publif conveyances run frequently (but irregularly) to the points of\\ninterest in the vicinity.\\nPost-Office and telegraph focihties are found in the village carriages may be\\nobtained at various livery-stables; there are several stores where most articles may\\nbe obtained and there are four churches, Bapt., Cong., Meth., and Epis.\\nNorth Conway is a pretty village, largely composed of hotels and sum-\\nmer boarding-houses, situated on a natural terrace 30 ft. above the inter-\\nvales of the Saco River, which is about f M. distant. On tlie W., the\\nlong and noble Moat Mt. guards it on the E., the rough, less lofty, and\\nbending Rattlesnake Ridge helps to wall it in, uuatti-active enough in the", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0281.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "224 Route 33. NORTH CONWAY.\\nordinary daylight, but a f^reat favorite of the setting sun, which delights to\\nglorify it with Tyrian drapery. On the S. W., Chocorua manages to get\\na peep of its lovely meadows. Almost the Avhole line of the White Mts.\\nproper, crowned in the centre by the dome of Mt. Washington, closes the\\nview on the N, W. and N., only 12 or 15 M. distant by the air. Mt.\\nWashington does not seem so much to stand up, as to lie out at ease along\\nthe North. The leonine grandeur is there, but it is the lion not erect, but\\ncouchant, a little sleepy, stretching out his paws and enjoying the sun.\\nThe distinction of N. Conway is, that it is a large natural poem irr\\nlandscape, a quotation from Arcadia, or a suburb of Paradise. And\\nthen the sunsets of N. Conway Coleridge asked Mont Blanc if he\\nhad a charm to stay the morning star in his steep course. It is time for\\nsome poet to put the question to those bewitching, elm-sprinkled acres\\nthat border the Saco, by what sorcery they evoke, evening after evening,\\nupon the heavens that watch them, such lavish and Italian bloom. Nay,\\nit is not Italian, for the basis of its beauty is pure blue, and the skies of\\nItaly are not nearly so blue as those of New England. One sees more\\nclear sky in eight summer weeks in Conway, probably, than in the com-\\npass of an Italian year. (Starr King.)\\nMount Kiarsarge, or Pequawket, is 3 M. from the village, and attains\\na height of 3,251 ft. above the sea. A bridle-path (horses 2.00 and guides\\n$2.00 each) has been made to the summit (hotel here blown down in 188:^).\\nThe view from this point embraces the village and the valley of the\\nSaco, with the great range of the Moat Mt. beyond, its wooded wall\\nupreared as if for the walk of some angel sentinel. In the N. and W.\\nis a vast throng of mountains, grouped in relation to the two great\\ncentres, the notched summit of Lafayette and the noble dome of Wash-\\nington. Lafayette is N. of W., 28-30 M. distant, and is the loftiest of\\nthe Franconia Mts. The view of Mt. Washington from Kiarsarge is one\\nof the best attainable, while in the opposite direction, 100 M. S. W. tlie\\ntilmy outline of Monadnock gleams like a sail just fading out upon a vast\\nsea. Sebago Lake, Fryeburg village, and Lovewell s Pond are seen in\\nthe S. E. and E. Kiarsarge Village, at the foot of the mt.. has summer\\nhouses, Merrill House, SunumT House (60 guests), c. ($6-10 a week).\\nAt Intervale are the Intervale House, Bellcvue, Tasker s, and others.\\nThe Ledges are 3 M. from the village, beyond the Saco, wliere Moat Mt.\\nterminates in clilfs ranging from 100 to 960 ft. in height, and extending\\nnearly 5 M. The river is shallow, and is crossed by a covered bridge,\\nnear beautiful view-points. A curious formation of white rock (look-\\ning like a horse dashing up) which was once visible on the cliffs (parts\\nof it are still seen from N. Convv-ay), has caused the name of White Horse\\nLedge to be applied to a part of these cliffs. The Cathedral is a\\nsingular cavity in the rock (100 ft. above the river and easily reached) 20", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0282.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0283.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0284.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "NORTH CONWAY. Route 33. 225\\nft. wide, 40 ft. long, and 60 ft. high, where the ledge bends over in an\\narch above, and several tall trees form the outer wall. And truly the\\nwaters, frosts, and storms that scooped and grooved its curves and niches,\\nseem to have combined in frolic mimicry of Gothic art. The whole front\\nof the recess is shaded by trees, which kindly stand apart just enough to\\nframe off Kiarsarge in lovely symmetry, so that a more romantic rest-\\ning-place for an hour or two in a warm afternoon can hardly ha imagined.\\nBelow the White-Horse is Echo Lake, a beautiful little loch under the\\nshadow of the cliffs, which throw back an echo over ifs tranquil waters.\\nA little way N. of the Cathedral is a fine double fall, above and below\\nwhich are several deep basins in the solid rock, filled with sparkling\\nwater, one of which is known as Diana s Bath.\\nThe Artists Falls are in the forest 1^- M. E. of the village, and, though\\ninsignificant in themselves, are in combination with beautiful grouj\\nings of rock and woodland scenery. The Artists Ledge is some distance\\nS. of these falls, and commands noble views of the village and valley\\nwith Mt. Washington looming far above and beyond them, Chocorua is\\nseen in the S. E. across the level and luxuriant valley. The White-Mt.\\nMineral Spring is 4 M. S.; and Conway Corner is 1 M. beyond.\\nExcursions are made from N. Conway to Tliorn Hill, 9 INL Dundee,\\n12 M. Jockey Cap, and l^ovewell s Pond, in Fryeburg, 11 13 M. Mount\\nChocorua, 18 IM. Jackson Falls, G -9 M. Around the Square, a favorite\\ndrive near Mt. Kiarsarge, 5 M. and up the narrow western valley to Swift-\\nRiver Falls, 18 M., with Chocorua on tlie 1. CIiampney\\\\9 Falls are visited\\nby this road, and are very beautiful in high water. Good paths lead to\\nthe tops of Moat Mt., 6^ M.; Peaked Mt., 2.^ M. and Middle Mt., 3 M.\\nN. Conway to the Olen House and Gorham.\\nSoon after leaving the village, the Cathedral Woods and Mr. Bigelow s\\nelegant cottage are quickly passed, and tine views are afforded of tlie up-\\nper intervales, undisfigured by railway trestles and embankments. Mt.\\nKiarsarge, on the r., appears in constantly changing forms, as the Inter-\\nvale and Pequawket Houses are passed, and ojipositethe East Branch House\\nis a foot-path by which this charming pyramid is sometimes ascended.\\nAfter the road crosses the East Branch of the Saco it bends to the W.\\nand affords a comprehensive view of the Conway valley. Shortly after\\npassing Stilphen s (under Cedar Mt.) a fine retrospective view of Kiar-\\nsarge is afforded. Thorn Mt. is now seen on the r. and Iron Mt. on the\\n1. (in advance), and the road passes over Goodrich Falls, Avhich may be\\nviewed from the rocks on the r. bank, or, better still, frora the shore\\nbelow (short but steep path). These falls are on the Ellis River, and have\\nbeen ruined by a mill-dam. As the stage now passes along the Ellis River\\nfiequent glimpses of the mts. appear, and Jackson City is soon reached.\\n10* O", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0285.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "226 Route 33. JACKSON. GLEN HOUSE.\\nJackson. TJwm-Mt. House and IVentworth J7 iU, 200 guests,\\nS 10.50-21 a week; Juvkson-Fulls Houst, $9-14; Glf-n-Ellis House,\\n$8-15; C. E. Gale, S. W. Gray, J. L Towie, W. E. Llkins ($6-0).\\nThe Jai;kson people becaiiie rtiscontented during the Secession War, on acconnt\\nof crushing taxes, and after some acts of violence on their part, it was found\\nnecessaiy to occupy the place with U. S. troojjs, who were quartered in the church.\\nThe town was settled in 1778, and in 1790 came Capt. Pinkham and five families\\non snow-shoes and sledges. Shortly after, Daniel Pinkham built a rude road\\nthrough the notch which still bears his name, and the little settlement was called\\nNew Madbury. In ISOO this name was changed to Adams, and in 1829, wlien\\nAdams and Jackson were candidates for the Presidency, and the latter received\\nevery vote (except one) in the town, it took the name of Jackson.\\nMany rare minerals are found here, and tin-mines Lave been worked on\\none of the hills. This central plaza in the city of hills is mnch I reqiiented\\nin summer by artists, ti oiit -fishers, and lovers of quiet and sequestered\\nscenery. The Jackson Falls are close to the village (seen from tlie bridge\\nover Wildcat Brook on the r.), and are very beautiful in higli water. Iron\\nMt. is 2,900 ft. high and looms up on the 1., wliile Tin Mt. is on the r.\\nEagle Mt. on tlie N. is rounded on the r. after leaving tlie viHage, The\\nroad now ascends tlirough the thiclvening forest with the Ellis River on\\ntlie 1., while occasional glimpses of Carter Dome are obtained on the r.\\nNo houses are seen in this desolate pass, and 7 M. beyond Jackson the\\npath to the Glen Ellis Fall is seen on the r. 4-5 M. beyond (with occa-\\nsional glimpses of Tuckerman s Kavine and the slopes of Mt. Washing-\\nton), the spacious Glen House is reached. This hotel accommodates\\n500 guests 4.50 a day), keeps a band of music through the summer, and\\nhas a parlor and dining-room, each of which is 100 by 45 ft. in dimensions.\\nThe Glen House is at the very base of the monarch, and Adams, Jelfer-\\nson. Clay, and Madison bend around towards the E. with no lower hills\\nto obstruct the impression of their height. The Glen is 1,632 ft. al)Ove\\nthe sea, and 820 ft. above Gorham, and is Avatered by Peabody River and\\nsurrounded by lofty peaks. On the E. is the long dark ridge of the\\nforest-covered Carter Mt., and on the W. is the noble brotherhood of the\\nfive chief peaks of New England. Mt. Madison (5,365 ft.) is 4 M. N. W.\\nin an air-line, and next in the majestic group conies the sharp and sym-\\nmetrical pyramid of Mt. Adams (5,794 ft.). The massive crest of Mt.\\nJefi erson (5,714 ft.) comes next, then Mt. Clay (5,553 ft.), and S. E. of\\nthe hotel the summit of Mt. Washington (6,293 ft.) is seen peering over\\nlofty spurs and secondary peaks. MAJ. Clay Washington is a for-\\nmula which fixes in the mind the order of these mountains. A better view\\nis obtained by ascending for a few hundred feet the mt. behind the hotel.\\nThompson s Falls are about 2 ]\\\\I. S. W. of the Glen House, and a\\nguide-board on the 1. shows the point where the N. ConAvay road is\\nquitted, and a forest-path is entered. The falls are M. from the road.,\\nand the brook may be followed up for a considerable distance, the walk\\nalfording grand retrospective views of Mt. Washington and Tuckarman s", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0286.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "GOPJIAM. Route 33. 227\\nRavine, Not far from these falls is the quiet and secluded basin called\\nthe Emerald Pool.\\nThe Crystal Cascade is gained by a path leading from the road into\\nthe forest to ther., about 1 M. beyond Thompson s Falls. There is about\\nM. of continuous ascent to the fall, which is near tlie mouth of Tuck-\\nerman s Ravine, and is best seen from a high and moss-covered ledge\\nopposite.\\nDown it comes, leaping, slidin?, tripping, widening its pure tide, and then\\ngathering its thin sheet to gusli tlirough a narrowing pass in tlie rocks, all the\\nway thus, frc)m under the sheer wails of Tuclcernian s Ravine, some miles above,\\ntill it reaches the curve opposite the point on which Vvc stand, and winding\\naround it, sweeps down the bending stairway, shattering its substance into ex-\\nquisite crystal, but semling off enough water to the right side of its path to slip\\nand trickle over tlie lovely, dark-green mosses that cling to the gray and purple\\nrocks. We never look at the Crystal Cascade without revering and nyoicing over\\nthe poetry with which nature invests the birth of so connnon a thing as water.\\nAlong and difficult ascent along tlie brook-bank leads into Tuckerman s Ravine.\\nThe Cascade falls about SO ft.\\nThe Glen Ellis Fall is about 4 M. from the Glen Houso, and is\\ngained by a plank-walk turning to the 1. from the N. Conway road into\\nthe forest. This is the finest fall in the mts., and the Ellis River hero\\nplunges down 70 ft. in one thick white mass, half sunk in a deep channel\\nwhich it has cut in the cliff. The steep fall of 70 ft. is prefaced by a\\ndescent of 20 ft. at a sharp angle. From the top of the cliff one sees\\nthe slide and foam of the narrow and concentrated cataract to where it\\nspla.shes into the dark green pool, 100 ft. below. A better view of this\\nheart of mt. wildness is gained by descending a long series of rude\\nsteps to the edge of the pool below the fall. It is feminine and maid-\\nenly grace that is illustrated by the Ci-ystal Cascade it is masculine\\nyouth, the spirit of heroic adventure, tliat is suggested by this stream.\\nThe Garnet Pools are 1 M. N. of the Glen House, near the Gorliam\\nroad, and show some curious rock-carving in the bed of the Peabody\\nRiver. About 1^ M. beyond, by crossing the bridge to the 1., the point\\nis reached (near a farmhouse) where the singular appearance of a dis-\\ntorted human face is seen on a peak of Imp Mt. Gorham is 8 M. N. E.\\nof the Glen House, v/ith which it is connected by semi-daily stages (fare,\\n1.50) runnhi^ down the valley of the Peabudy River. It is li M. from\\nGlen Station, by daily stages, to the Glen House.\\nGorham.\\nHotels. Alpine House, a first class hotel, with livery-stable, etc. the Lary\\nHcruse, 1 M. out.\\nStages to the Glen House twice daily. Mountain-wagons run irregularly to\\nthe ]Vlt -Wasliingtou Summit House, and over the Cherry-Mountain road.\\nIRailroad. The Grand Trunk Railway runs to Portland (91 M.) in -J^-S hours.\\nBy taking the train to Northumberland M. N. W a connection is made v. i h\\nthe B. C. (St M. and White Mts. R. R., ruuuiug to Lancaster and Littleton (Route\\n30).", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0287.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "228 Route 33. GOEHAM.\\nGorham is a thriving village at the continence of the Peabody and An-\\ndroscoggin Rivers, on tlie N. side of the White Mts. and 812 ft. ahove\\nthe sea. It has been almost entirely created by the Grand Trnnk Rail-\\nway, which has its repair-shops here. For river scenery combined with\\nimpressive mt. forms, the immediate vicinity of Gorham surpasses all the\\nother districts from which the highest peaks are visible.\\n*Mt. Hayes is just N, E. of Gorham, and attains a height of 2,500 ft.\\nThe Androscoggin is crossed near the hotels by a suspension foot-bridge,\\n225 ft. long, remarkable as the work of one man (a hard-working villager),\\nwho conceived the work and executed it alone. He has also made a palh\\nto the summit of the mt. (the ascent requires 2 hours). The view is thus\\ndescribed\\nTlie rich upland of Eandnlpli, over Avhioh the ridges of Madison and Ad. iins\\nheave towards the S., first liolds the eye. Next tlie singular curve in the blue\\nAndroscoggin around the Larj- farm, arching like a bow drawn taut. Down the\\nA-alley Shelburne, Gilead, W. Bethel, and Bethel, were laid into the landsea]ie witli\\nrich mosaics of grove and grass and ripening grain, needing a brush dipp( (l iu\\njuolten opal to paint their wavy, trenuilous beauty. Directly opposite, seemingly\\nonly an arrow-shot s distance, were the russet ravines of Moriah and the shadow-\\ncooled stairways of Carter. Mt. Washington is seen to best advantage from this\\npoint, Mt. Hayes is the chair set by the Creator at the proper distance and\\nangle to appreciate and enjoy his kingly prominence.\\nMt. Surprise is a peak of Moriah about 1,200 ft. above Gorham,\\nlying S. E. of tlu- village, with a vague path leading through a fine forest\\nto its summit (2i M. from the hotels). Horses cannot be obtained, but\\ngood walkers can make the ascent on foot in two hours. Tliis peak\\nsustains the same relation to the Pinkham Notch as Mt. Willard does to\\nthe Crawford Notch. Looking up the pass, Mt, Carter is seen on the 1.\\nand the five presidential peaks on the r., with Madison, the Apollo of\\nthe highlands, boldly advanced. On the N., in strongest contrast, are\\nthe sweet and fertile lowlands of the Androscoggin, with their peacefid\\nfarms and pastoral beauty. An almost obliterated old bridle-path leads\\nfrom this crest to the summit of Mt. Moriah, 4,653 ft. above the sea.\\nThis peak is rarely visited, but is said to command a noble view.\\nRandolph Hill is 5 M. W. of the village, and its summit is gained by a\\nroad (Mt. -Crescent House, opened 1884). From the road and the hill-top\\nare gained the noblest prospects of the northern slopes, lines, and peaks\\nof the Presidential group, especially of Madison and Adams.\\nGilead is 10-12 M. from Gorham, and the drive thither is very\\npleasant, being alongside the river, with ever-changing hill-scenery on\\neither hand. The Lead-Mine Bridge is 4-^ M. E. of Gorham, near an\\nabandoned mine, and is celebrated for its afternoon and sunset views.\\nThis point should be visited between 5 and 7 P. M. Madison, Adams,\\nand Washington at that hour become volcano-pictures, while the nearer\\nsummits of Moriah, Hayes, and Baldcap form their heavily outlined\\nframework.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0288.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "JEFFERSON HILL. Route 33. 229\\nBerlin Falls n,re 6 M. N. of Gorham by a pleasar.t river-road (or by\\nthe railway). Tiie Androscoggin River here pours the waters of tlie\\ndistant Umbagog and Rangeley Lakes in a clean and powerful tide\\nthrougii a narroAv granite pass, descending nearly 200 ft. in tJie course of a\\nmile. We do not think that iu New England there is any passage of river\\npassion that v/ill compare with the Berlin Fails. How madly it huids\\ntlie deep ti ansparent and^er doAvu the pass and over the boulders, flying\\nand roaring like a drove of young lions, crowding each other in furious\\nrush after prey in sight. Tlie best view i3 from the rocks near the stream\\nbelow the falls, while the cataract is seen in mid-career from a bridge over\\nthe gorge. Near this point is the Mt.-Forist House.\\nFrom Gorham to the Notch,\\nby way of the Waimibek House, is 32-34 M., and the road is richer in\\nscenery than ariy other in the mts. No stages run on this route, but\\nAvagons and drivers can be obtained at Gorham. The vast and uncon-\\ncealed ranges of the five great mts. are seen for mile after mile in their\\nmost imposing forms. First Madison and Adams come into view, and\\nwe drive dii ectly by their base and under their summits in passing over\\nRandolph Hill. Beyond the deep ravine in the side of Adams the castel-\\nlated peak of Jefferson is seen, and soon after Mts. Pleasant, Franklin,\\nand Monroe come into view. From Martin s, 13 M. from Gorham, Mt.\\nClay is visible, an l just beyond is the majestic head of Washington.\\nNear a little school-house in this vicinity, George L. Brown painted\\nhis masterpiece, The Crown of New England, now owned by the\\nPrince of Wales. 16 18 M. from Gorham is Jefferson Hdl, the ultivia\\nthule of grandeur in an artist s pilgrimage among the N. il. Mts., for at\\nno other point can be seen the White Mts. in such array and force. The\\nWaumbek House is situated here, and commands superb views of the\\ngreat peaks in the S. E. For grandeur and for opportunities of study-\\ning the wildness and majesty of the sovereign range, the Cherry Mountain\\nroute is without a rival in New Hampshire, said Thomas Starr King, the\\ngifted Unitarian divine, who wrote the adnurable book called The White\\nHills. Jefferson Hill has recently become a favorite summer-resort, the\\nchief hotels being the Waumbek, the Plaisted House (100 guests;\\n8 12 a week), the Jeff erson Hill and the Starr-King (70 guests eacli\\nS 8-12 a week). It is 3 M. from the nearest railroad, 8 M. from Lancas-\\nter 6 M. from the far-viewing Bray Hill 5 M. from the Mt.-Adams\\nHouse 12 M. from the Fabyan House and 17 M. from Goiliam. The\\nfavorite excursions are the ascent of Mt. Starr King (path 2?^ M. long), to\\nStag Hollow, Bray Hill, and the Valley Road. The view from Jefferson\\nHill is probably the grandest from any of the mountain-handets.\\nThe road to the Notch (16 M. distant) runs S. from the Waumbek", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0289.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "230 Route 33. UPPER BARTLETT.\\nHouse, and for 5 M. from this point over the Jefferson meadows, in\\ntravelling towards the Notch, we ride in full view of every summit of the\\nchain, seeing Washington in the centre dominant over all. The passage\\nof Cherry INIt. is effected hy a rough and tedious road, and the White ML\\nHouse is reached, after which the great Fabyan House is passed, the\\nAmraouoosuc River is crossed, and the carriage reaches the Crawford\\nHouse.\\nThere is a shorter road than this, between Gorham and the Notch, and\\ntravellers who wish to go by Jefferson Hill should have the fact imder-\\nstood. This route can be taken from the Glen House, without going to\\nGoi ham, by turning to the 1. from the Gorham road about 2^ M. N. of\\nthe Glen House, passing around the base of Madison, and entering the\\nCherry Mt. road near Randolph Hill.\\nN. Conway to the Notch.\\nThe route is the same as that to the Glen House as far as Bartlett\\nCorner, where the P. O.K. R. diverges to the W., and crosses in succes-\\nsion the Ellis River, the Rocky Branch, and the Saco River. The latter\\nstream is followed up to its birthplace, leading, at first, through a glen\\nbetween the Moat Mt. on the 1. and Stanton Mt. on the r. After cross-\\ning the Rocky Branch, the White Ledge is rounded on the r. at the E.\\nend of Stanton Mt. Mt. Carrigain looms up far ahead with its triple peaks\\n(the highest of which rises 4,800 ft.), and the road passes over narrow\\nintervales, with a fine retrospect of Kiarsarge. Tlie Chapel of the Hills\\n(a neat little church dedicated in 18.54) is passed on the 1., and then the\\nUpper Bartlett House, where passengers by the morning stages took\\ndinner. This rude glen was settled in 1777, and in 1790 was named in\\nhonor of Josiali Bartlett, a si- uer of the Declaration of Independence, and\\nat that time President of N. H. The Portland Ogdensburg Rail-\\nroad has a station here, and large lumber-nulls are in the vicinity.\\nMt. Carrigain is iisually attacked from this point, by way of the\\nSawyer s- River glen and the other favorite excvirsions are the ascents\\nof Mts. Langdon and Tremont. Many trout are found in the adjacent\\nbrooks.\\nA solitary hunter named Nash, while chasing a moose on Cherry Mt., saw the\\nNotch opening through the mts., and entered and explored it. He conceived tiuit\\na road could lie made through this pass to connect the upper Coos country with\\nthe coast, witli which its communication was lli( n made by a long detour around\\nthe mts. He reported his discovery to Gov. Wentwortii (ia 1773), wlio told liim\\nthat if he would got a horse thiough the pass, he would give him a large grant of\\nland. Nash then secured the aid of another luniter named Sawyer, and they\\nhauled a hor.se through, lowering him over cliffs and driving him tlu ough the\\nriver, until they f merged here. Then Sawyer drained tiie rum from his bottle,\\nand broke it against the ledge, which he named Sawyer s Rock. A road was\\nbuilt with tlie neat lu oceeds of a ccnfiscated estate, and the first article of\\nCoos produce sent ilown tlirougli the Notch was a bai rel of tobacco, while the\\nfirst merchandise scut up from the coast was a banel of rum.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0290.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "THE NOTCH. Route S3. 231\\nI^ounding TIarfs Ledge the road now turns to the N. and crosses\\nSawyer s River, up whose valley a branch railroad runs to Livertnore,\\nnear the foot of Mt. Carrigain. Soon after, Nancy^s Brooh is crossed by a\\nbridge thrown over a remarkable ravine 200 ft. long, 20 ft. wide, and 35\\nft. deep. This pretty brook ri.ses in a lonely mountain tarn about 2^ M.\\nfrom the road, and is named for a luckless maiden who walked one cold\\nafternoon or night from Lancaster to tliis point in pursuit of a faithless lover.\\nWet, chilled, and deathly weary, she sat down by a tree near this brook,\\nand was there found frozen to death. Just beyond this place, on the 1.,\\nis seen the grave of Abel Crawford, the patriarch of the momitains, a\\npioneer and monntain-guide of many years ago. After passing the Mt.\\nCraivford Hgusc, Mts. Crawford and Resolution and the Giant s Stairs\\nare seen on the r., the latter towering in broken masses to the height of\\n5,500 ft. The forest now closes in on the road, which crosses the Saco\\nnear the foot of the Giant s Stairs, and recrosses it about a mile beyond,\\nWitli a fine view up the long, deep gorge to the r. Turning now to the\\nN. W. the road enters the Notch., with the vast mass of Mt. Webster on\\nthe r., tovi^ering to a height of 4,000 ft., and Willey Mt. on the 1. Passing\\nover the tree-grown fragments of the mt. which have fallen in long-past\\navalanches, tlie Willey House is reached.\\nThe great amount of travel through the Notch in whiter, caused by the Coos\\nfarmers carrying their produce to the eastern towns, rendered a hotel here very\\ndesirable. So tliis house was built about 1820 (Spaukliug says in 1793), and was\\noccupied ni 1825 by Mr. Willey. In Augvrst, 1826, after a long drought the mts. were\\nassailed by a furious storm, which caused the river to rise rapidly, and during the\\nnight an enormous mass of earth, rocks, and trees slid from Mt. Willey into the\\nvalley. This avalanche was split by a sharp ledge back of the house, and flowed\\non both .sides without harming it. But the family had left the house (probably\\nfearing the swelling torrent of the Saco), and, being somewhere in the track of the\\nslide, every person was killed. Mr. and Mrs. Willey and their 5 children, with 2\\nhired men, died on that fatal night, and 6 of the bodies were found, sadly muti-\\nlate i. Tlie house has been occupied since 1827, and is shown to visitors for a\\nemail fee. During storms rocks are sometimes seen phniging down from the\\nopposite cliffs of Mt. Webster. In 1746, when a party of Rangers were marching\\nthrough a valley near the more southerly of the V/hite Mts. they were alarmed l)y\\nounds like volleys of musketry among the defiles. Skirmishing parties of scouts\\nWere sent in, who discovered that the noise was caused by falling rocks.\\nAfter leaving the Willey House, the road ascends slowly for 3 M.,\\npasses through the naiTow Gate of the Notch, and stoi:)s at the Crawford.\\nHouse. This is a large and elegant summer hotel, with accommodations\\nfor 350 guests, at 4.50 a day. It is situated on a plateau 1,920 ft. above\\nthe sea, and faces the Notch. Near the house are two springs within\\nstone s-throw of each other, the waters of one of which pass to the sea liy\\nthe Connecticut River, while the other empties into the Saco, and reaches\\nthe ocean on the coast of Maine. Tliere is a pretty lakelet near the Gate\\nof tlie Notch, whence Hows the yonng Saco River.\\nMt. Willard is easily ascended from this point by a cariiage-r jail 2 ]\\\\I.\\nlong, and the walk upward through this forest avenue is full of pleasure.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0291.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "232 Route 3S. CRAWFORD HOUSE.\\nThe view down the Notch is wonderful, embracing two Titanic mt,\\nwalls, beginning with Webster on the 1. and Willeyon the r., and running\\nS. for leagues, with haughty Chocorua, 18-20 M. away, closing the vista.\\nThe highway down tliis wild pass is marked by a slender line througli the\\nforest, and the Willey House is a mere dot on its ruin-swept lowlands.\\nBayard Taylor says of this view, As a simple picture of a mountain-\\npass, seen from above, it cannot be surpassed in all Switzerland. Look-\\ning oif to the N. E., the great peaks of the Mt. Washington group are\\nseen, with Clinton first and nearest, and Jackson on the upper end of Mt.\\nWebster. And let us again advise visitors to ascend Mt. Willard, if\\npossible, late in tlie afternoon. They will then see one long wall of the\\nNotch in shadow, and can watch it move slowly up the curves of the\\nopposite side, displacing the yellow splendor, while the dim green dome\\nof Washington is gilded by the sinking sun with heavenly alchemy.\\n(Starr King.\\nThe Flume Cascade is 2 M. from the Crawford House, on the 1. of\\nthe Notch road, and is about 250 ft. in aggregate height. It derives its\\nname from a singular trench through which the stream flows near the\\nbridge. The Silver Cascade is about M. beyond the Flume, on the\\n1. of the Notch road, and is one of the most beautiful falls in the moun-\\ntains, es.pecially after heavy rains. It descends 1,000 ft. in 1 M. of its\\ncourse, the portion seen from the road being 300 ft. higli. Mt. Web-\\nster has been ascended by ascending the course of this plunging tor-\\nrent. Tlie Hitchcock Flume is a singular chasm, wliich is reached by a\\npath from the Mt. -Willard road.\\nThe splendid Kipley Falls are 6 7 M. from the hotel, and are gnined\\nby following up Avalanche Brook (the second which the road crosses S.\\nof the Willey House). About 2 M. from the road, in a granite-walled\\nravine, the brook falls 25 30 ft. in 4 leaps, and then forms a cascade 108\\nft. long, slipping over inclined ledges of granite into a deep pool below.\\nAbout 1 M. higher is the Sparkling Cascade. These falls were discovered\\nin 1858.\\nGibbs s Falls are near the hotel, and are found by following up the\\nMt. -Washington bridle-path, and then the brook to Avhich it leads.\\n10 15 minutes walk up stream brings one to a ])retty fall of about 30\\nft., with pleasing forest accessories.\\nBeecher s Falls are on the .slope of Mt. Field, to the r. of the hotel,\\nand are gained by a good forest-path. The Falls extend for a long dis-\\ntance up the brook, and from the uppeiTnost of them a fine view of Mt.\\nWashington is disclosed. The DeviVs Den is a dark i;avern seen from the\\nNotch road, near the summit of Mt. Willard. Pulpit Rock is on the r.\\nof the road, near the Gate of the Notch, and several rock-proliles have\\nbeen seen on the adjacent cliffs.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0292.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "FABYAN HOUSE. Route 33. 233\\nThe Arethusa Falls are on Bemis Brook, wliich is 2 M. N. of Bemis\\nStation, and 6^ M. S. of the Crawford House, and are 1 M. from the rail-\\nroad. The brook makes a magnificent white plunge of 176 ft., over black\\ncliffs, and amid ancient forest scenery.\\nThe P. 0. R. R. runs N. from the Crawford House to the Fahyan House, con-\\nnec .tin,:^ tlicre with the railroad routes to the surninit of Mt. Wasliiiiyion, the\\nTwin-Mountain House, Bethlehem, and Littleton (stage tlienee to the I rolile\\nHonse). Trains also run several times daily througli the Notch to N. Conway\\n(24 M. li-l\\\\ hrs.), one of the graudest railroad routes in America.\\nThe *Fabyan House is 4 M. N. of the Notch. and accommodates\\n500 guests. It was built in 1872, and is 4 stones high, witli a frontage\\nof 320 ft. This structure stands on the site of the Giant s Gfrave, a tall\\nmound near the Ammonoosuc River. According to tradition, an Indian\\nonce stood here at night, and swinging a torch lit from a lightnuig-\\nstruck tree, cried, No pale-face shall take deep root here this the\\nG]eat Spirit whispered in my ear. A tavern was opened here about\\n1803, and in 1819 it was burnt, while the same fate befell another erected\\non its site, and Fabyan s large hotel, at the foot of the mound, was also\\nburnt. The new hotel is larger, stronger, and better j-rotected than its\\npredecessors, and will probably remain. Ethan Allen Crawford, Ethan\\nof the Hills, a gigantic hunter and guide, lived on the Giant s Grave\\nmany years ago, and waged war on the wolves, wild-cats, bears, sables,\\nand otters that dwelt among the surrounding hills and brooks.\\nThe view from this point is very fine, and embraces all the presidential\\npeaks save one, the summit of Mt. Washington being 7^ M. distant in an\\nair-line. The other summits stretch toward the hotel in a long and rugged\\nchain. From this point the ascent of Mt. Washington by rail is easily\\nmade. The Upper Ammonoosuc Falls are 3 4 M. from the hotel, by the\\nroad to Marshfield, and exhibit a beautiful scene, where white waters\\ndash down between gray granite walls, and the vast mts. tower beyond.\\nThe Lmoer Ammonoosuc Falls are somewhat ftiore than 1 M. distant, on\\nthe Bethlehem road. The river descends here in full stream over 30 ft.\\nof step-like ledges, but the natural beauty of the scene has been marred\\nby the intrusion of a large lumber-mill.\\nThe rates at the Fabyan are $4.50 a day, or $21-25 a week. In the vicinity is\\ntlie new Mt. -Pleasant House 3.50 a day), and the antiquated WhUe-Moanialn\\nHouse. The Portland Ogdens])nrg R. R. crosses the Mt.-Washington Branch\\nof the B., C. M. R. R. in front of the Fabyan. The former runs to the Craw-\\nford House, N. Conway, Fryeburg, and Portland, and to Whitelield, Dalton, and\\nthe Greeu Mts. of Vermont. The latter runs to the bu-^e of Mt. Washington\\n(6 M.), and to the Twin-Mountain House, Betldehem, and Littleton.\\nThe Twin Mt. House is 5 M. westward from the Fabyan House, and\\nis a favorite old hotel, under the care of the Messrs. BaiTon, pjroprietors\\nof the iNIount Pleasant and Crawford Houses. It is pleasantly", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0293.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "234 Route 33. BETHLEHEM.\\nsituated on the heights above the Aminoiioosuc River, and looks across\\nthe valley to Mt. Hale and the North Twin jNIt. 300 guests can be ac-\\ncommodated, at $4.50 a day; and the locality is famous as affording ex-\\nemption from the attaclvs of hay-fever. The hotel is near the railroad-\\nstation; and i.s 13 M. fi om Jefferson Hill, 8 M. from Whitefield, and 5 M.\\nfrom the Fabyan House. The Twin Mts. are rarely ascended, and tlien\\nonl}-- with great ditlicult3% A new path was made in 1883.\\nEethlehem.\\nHotels and Boarding-Houses. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Sinclair House (Durgin Fox), at\\nthe intersection of the roads to the White and Franconia Mts., is a large and finely\\nappointed hotel, accommodating 350 guests {^3 a day; $15-25 a week). The\\nBe/levue (GO guests) is on the plateau, with broad views towards Littleton and\\nLancaster and the White-Mountain range (3 7 -10 a week). The Mount- A(jassi:i\\nHouse is on the Franconia road, near the Sinclair, and enjoys fine distant views\\n($8-14 a week). The S/ravhcrri/-Hlll House, Arenue House, III!, side Home,\\nJJethlehem House, Cenfennial, Turner, Mt-Wiishiugtoa, Sunset, Howard, Alpine,\\nRanlett s, Blanden s, Simpson s, Faissell s, and Giimore-s Mountain- View House, are\\nalso in or near the village. Their rates are 7-10 a week, or ^2 a day for transient\\nvisitors. The Prospect House (G. W. Phillips $7-10 a week) is on the lowlands,\\nM. N. of the street, and looks out on the White Mts. There are also several\\nsmaller boarding-houses, where from 8 to 20 guests may be acconmiodated, at vary-\\ning rates, depending mainly on the location of I ooms and the number of occupants.\\nDistances. Bethlehem to the summit of Mt. Washington, 22 M.; Crawford\\nHouse, 17; N. Conway, 42; Bethlehem station, 3; Littleton, 5; Whitefield, 8;\\nLancaster, 16 Jefferson Hill, 15; Gorhnm, 32; Profile House, 10; Plymouth (by\\nst.ige), 39 Cruft s Ledge, 2 Wallace Hill, 3^ Kimball Hill, 5 Sugar Hill, 7i.\\nKoutes. The usual way for passengers from the S. is by the Boston, Concord,\\nand Montreal R. R. and its Mt.-Washington Branch, to Bethlehem Junction, where\\nthe narrow-gauge line is taken for Maplewood and Bethlehem. The morning trains\\nfrom Boston, Springfield, etc., reach this point after mid-aftornoon. Passengers\\nfrom N. Conway to Bethlehem station go through on t!ie Portland and Ogdeusburg\\nR. R by the Notch and the Crawford and Fabyan House.\\nOf late years the hamlet of Bethlehem has become the summer-capital\\nof the White Mts., and is annually visited by thousands of tourists. It\\nhas a capital summer newspaper. The White-Mountain Echo; Cong.,\\nEpis., and Meth. churches; an efficient system of water-works; several\\ninteresting summer-shop^; a library; and other conveniences.\\nThe town of Bethlehem eontaius 9I\u00c2\u00bb8 inhabitants, who are settled in\\nthree neighborhoods, the Street (or Heights), the Bridge, and the Hollow.\\nAlong the course of the Ammonoosuc there are large lumber-mills, and\\nthe farms produce good crop- of grain, potatoes, and hay. The village of\\nBethlehem Street is on a high iateau, 1,450 ft. above the sea, and 2G3 ft.\\nabove the adjacent Ammonoosuc Valley. The Street is composed of a", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0294.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "FRANCONIA. Route S3. 234 a\\nchurch, several shops, and a large cluster of boarding-houses and hotels,\\nbuilt on the N. side of an elevated ridge which rises higher on the S. and\\nliides the Franconia Mts. It looks out to the N. and W. for many leagues,\\nviewing the mountains of Lancaster, the Percy Peaks, the Pilot Mts., and\\nthe great Presidential Kange, whose majestic summits are finely seen.\\nThe view of the White Mts. is broader and in some respects more impos-\\ning than that from N. Conway; though tlie beautiful environs of the latter\\nvillage give it an advantage. Tlie superior altitude of this ridge and its\\ncxjiosure to the N. renders it a very cool place during the summer, even\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wlien the other mountain-resorts are visited by intense heats. For tlie same\\nreason people who are afflicted with hay-fever or rose-cold tind imuiunity\\nfrom their attacks in this high pure air.\\nMaplewood.\\nThe 3Iapleicood, 400 guests, 4 a day, S? 17.50 25 a week Maplewood Hall,\\n150 guests, S 12 -18 a week; Ma2)lewood Cottage, $9-14 a week.\\nThis great cluster of summer-hotels and cottages was founded by Mr.\\nIsaac T. Cruft of Boston, at the eastern end of the high uplifted terrace\\nof Bethlehem, 1^ M. from Bethlehem Street, and the same distance from\\nBethlehem Junction. It commands a magnificent view of Mt. Washing-\\nton and the adjacent peaks, as well as of the great valley opening aAvay\\ntoward Canada. The hotels are the most sumptuous of tiieir kind, and\\nattract every summer large companies of boarders, Cruft s Ledge, the\\nobservatory, and other view-points are much visited.\\nFranconia.\\nForest \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ilills Hotel, 12.50-20 a week, a nobly situated and very com-\\nmodious new summer-house on Pine Hill, for 150 guests; Lafayette House,\\n60 guests; House of Seven Gables; and several boarding-houses. This\\nlong-drawn village, with its ancient and abandoned iron-works, is at the\\nbottom of the glen under Mt. Lafayette, 4 M. from the Flume House, 5 M.\\nfrom Bethlehem, and 5 M. from Littleton (stages). It is in the most pic-\\nturesque location, with dainty bits of meadow, broad forests, and unri-\\nvalled mountain-views, and j^early attracts thousands of summer-guests.\\nIt is on the main highway from the Prolile House to Bethlehem and\\nLittleton.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0295.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "234 5 Route 33. MOUNT WASHINGTON.\\nSugar Hill.\\nHotels. Goodnow TIoxi.se, 200 guests, 12 -15 a week Sunset-Hill House,\\n200 guests, 12 15 ti week Phillips House, 75 guests, S 7 10 Elm Cottaye, Fair\\nVieiv, Echo Farm, M(xpleside, Vedar Cotta/je, 25 guests e;icb, $7 a week each.\\nDistances. Lisbon, 7 M. Bethlehem, 7^ Profile House, 8 i lume, 13;\\n\u00c2\u00a5niiicoiji.i (to Gooiliiow), 1 ijittletou, 8.\\nStages from Lisbou to the Sunset-llill House and from Littleton to the Good-\\nnow House.\\nTlie high rulge of Sugar Hill commands perhaps the most complete\\nview ill the White-Mt. region, including both the Presidential and ran-\\nconia Ranges. It towers over the deep glen in which nestles Franeonia\\nvillage, and is happily exposed to coo! breezes. There are many pleasant\\nrambles and drives in the vicinity; and within a few years Sugar Hill\\nhas become one of the foi emost of the White-Mt. summer-resorts. The\\nGoodnow House and Phillips House are 1 M. from Franconia Iron Works;\\nand li M. beyond, on the crest of the long ridge, is the Sunset-Hill House,\\ncommanding very impressive vicAvs of the White and Franconia ranges,\\non the E., and the long line of the Green Mts. (of Vermont) on the VV.\\nSugar Hill is exempt from hay -fever, being more than 1,500 ft. above the\\nsea. There are many beautiful drives and rambles in this region.\\nMount WasMngton.\\nTravellers who design to ascend this nit. should be carpful to carry sufficient\\nwarm clothing (shawls, overcoats, c.), for the air on the suiinnit is often ex-\\ntremely cold, even in August. Daniel Wel)ster said here, Mt. Washington, I\\nliave come a long distance, luive toiled hard to anive at your summit, and now\\nyou seem to give me a cold reception. There are many who will echo tliese\\nwords. If the ascent from the Crawford House or from Randolph Hill is under-\\ntaken, a reliable guide must be secured, and an early start sliould be made. The\\nview from the summit cannot be contidently counted upon, since the mt. is ol ten\\nenveloped in suddenly rising fogs, and the days when the remote points of view\\nare visible are very few. A powerful field-glass wDl be found of material assist-\\nance.\\nHotel. The Mt. -Washington Summit Ho2(se accommodates 150-200 guests,\\ncharging \u00c2\u00a71.50 for each meal $5 a day, $25 a week. It is a strong three-story\\nIniilding, heated by steam, and with telegriiph and i ost otiict*.\\nThe Itailway. The lower station is 1,500 ft. below the old Aminonoosuc or\\nMarshlield station, or 6 1-10 M. from the sunnuit. At the same point is the ter-\\nminus of the Mt.- \\\\r\\\\ ashington Branch R. R., from the Fabyan House and all\\nXioints beyond Morning and afternoon trains on this line i-onnect here with the\\nmountain-trains. The fare for the ascent or descent of Mt. Washington is 3\\nfor the ascent and return, on the same train, ^i.\\nThere are two trains daily each way during the season, with occasional\\nextras. Over 7,000 persons ascended by tliis route in 1875. The engine stops to\\ntake water four times. The road and stock cost over \u00c2\u00a7150,000.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0296.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "MOUNT WASHINGTON. Route 33. 235\\nThis railway was built in 186G-9, on the plans of Sylvester Marsh,\\nand a .similar road has since been made up Mount Rhigi, by the Lake of\\nLucerne. Amnionoosuc Station is 2,668 ft. above the sea, and the track\\nascends 3,625 ft. in 3 M., with an average grade of 1 ft. in 4^, and a\\nmaximum grade of 1 ft. in 2j, or 1,980 ft. to the M. The chief peculiarity\\nof the track is a heavy notched iron centre-rail, into which plays a centre\\ncog-wheel on the locomotive. The steam-power is not used during the\\ndescent, but the powerful atmospheric brakes regulate the speed of the\\ntrain. The cars are very comfortable, and the ascent is made in 90\\nminutes, during which time it is pleasant to think that, though these\\ntrains have been running for 7 years, not a single passenger has been\\ninjured. As the train slowly ascends over the trestles, pushed by the\\ngrotesque little engine, the retrospect becomes more and more beautiful,\\nand a profound and gloomy chasm is passed on the r. The ridge between\\nClay and Washington is now neared, and an immense mt. amphitheatre\\nis passed on the 1., soon after which the train crawls up Jacob s Ladder,\\nand stops at the new station and hotel on the summit of Mt. Washington.\\nThe Ascent from the Glen House. Mountain carriages leave tlie Glen\\nHouiie niorniny aud alternuon lur the summit, which is 8 M. distant. The tare\\n(including tolls) is v 5.00, and the tikie of ascent 3 hrs., wliile the descent is made\\nin 1^ hrs. The road (built 1855-61) is a noble iiiece of engineering, winding on\\ngalleries and long curves, with an average grade of 12 ft. in 100.\\nMost of the route to the Ledge (4 M. up) is enclosed by forests, but\\nbeyond this point the road passes along the verge of the profound hollow\\ncalled the Great Gulf. From this point the view is superb, embracing\\nthe Peabody Glen, with the hotel lying like a snow-flake at the base of\\nthe heavy green mass of Carter Mt. Yet the glory of the view is, after\\nall, the four highest companion mts. of the range. Clay, Jefferson, Adams,\\nand Madison, that show themselves in a bending line beyond the tremen-\\ndous gorge, and are visible from their roots to their siimmits. With one\\nexception there is no such view to be had, east of the Mississippi, of\\nmountain architecture and sublimity. The road now passes along the\\nverge of the Great Gulf, with the lofty gray peaks on the r., Avinds and\\ntwists over dreary slopes covered with the skeletons of dead trees and\\nthe flora of Labrador, surmounts shoulder after shoulder of the storm-\\neaten mt., climbs the sharp, steep, supreme cone, and then the panting\\nhorses stop on the main-top of New England.\\nThe Ascsnt from the Crawford House. (To Mt. Clinton, 3 M. Mt.\\nPleasant, 4^ Mt. Franklin, 5^ Mt. Monroe, 6f Mt. -Washington Sum-\\nmit House, 8|.) This route is peculiarly attractive, since it passes over\\nseveral noble summits, revealing immense views. Tlie path is well-worn,\\nand is perfcjctly safe, except in cloudy or misty weather.\\nUpon leaving the hotel the ascent of Mt. Clinton is commenced, and\\nafter passing over a rude forest-path for nearly 3 M. the mossy summit is", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0297.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "238 Route 33. MOUNT WASHINGTON.\\nreached (4,320 ft. above the pea). A great expanse of blue peaks is seen\\nfrom this poiut, Avitli bright lakes on the S. E., and Kiarsarge, the\\nqueenly nit., lifting its pyramidal cone in the same direction. The path\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0winds along the crest-line of a higli, bare, and ledgy ridge, and then\\npasses around the S. side of the dome-like peak of Mt. Pleasant. A\\npath diverges to the summit (4,764 ft. high), whence the old and disused\\nFabyan trail leads doAvn to the Ammonoosuc valley. The round and\\ngrassy summit of Pleasant overlooks the whole extent of the valley. The\\ntracks of formidable slides are seen as the path descends to another\\nplateau, and, passing Bed Pond, clambers up Mt. Franklin. The summit\\n(4,900 ft. high) is near the path, and commands a vast prospect,terminated\\nby Chocorua, almost due S. and 20 M. distant. Between Franklin and\\nMonroe the path passes over a narrow ridge which is the water-shed of\\nthe Connecticut and Saco Rivers. There are one or two dangerous places\\non this tliin and lofty escarpment, and on the r, is the deep and terrible\\nchasm of Oakes Gulf, while the Ammonoosuc valley stretches away on\\nthe other hand. This is one of the most remarkable points of view in the\\nmts. Monroe is now rounded on the S. side, and the rough scramble to its\\nE. peak (5,384 ft. high) is rewarded by another vast prospect. Mt.\\nWashington now looms ahead as the path descends to the plateau on\\nwhich are the Lake of the Clouds and Star Lake, two deep and crystalline\\ntarns where the Ammonoosuc is born. 1^ M. from the lakes is the bleak\\ncrest of Washington, and from the E. verge of the plateau is afforded a\\nremarkalde view down Tuckerman s Ravine. There remains a sharp\\nascent among the rocks on the S. W. side of the peak, with a rise equal to\\n1,200 ft. per] endicular, and then the summit is gained.\\nThe Route over tlie Northern Peaks is only practicable for strong\\npedestrians, who should be also efficiently guided, and should arrange to\\nencamp for one night, since the journey is too long for a single day. The\\nonly path is that opened in 1876 by Chas. E. Lowe (who is a reliable\\nguide), which ascends Mt. Adams from a point 8 M. W. of Gorham, on\\nthe road to Jefferson Hill. It runs 2 M. tJirough great woods, M.\\nthrough thickets, and 1| M. over bare and rocky ridges. Mt. Madi-\\nson may be ascended from Hoinker s, on the N. E., but there is no\\npath (4| M. to the summit). The Gordon path has disappeared, and the\\nold Gorham guides seek the hills no moi e. The passage of King s Ra-\\nvine is too arduous to be enjoyable. Loioe s path is the best route to\\nthe northern peaks, and in its course the noble pyramid of Adams is\\ncrossed, opening a striking view. On the N. the mts. of Kilkenny,\\nRandolph, and Gorham, with the long valley of the Androscoggin, and in\\nthe remote distance the lakes of Umbagog and Rangeley. The Glen and\\nthe green wall of Carter Mt. are on the E., while the vast dome of Wash-\\nington is uplifted in the S. Crossing now the bending ridge to Mt. Jeflfer-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0298.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "MOUNT WASHINGTON. Route 33. 237\\nson, a continual front view of Washington is afforded, and after passing\\nover Jeflerson the Great Gulf is seen bending around on the 1. Mt. Clay\\nis now ascended, and, after a short descent, the long slope of Washington\\nis climbed to the summit.\\nThe Fabyau path from the Giant s Grave to the top of Mt. Pleasant,\\nand thence over Franklin and Monroe to Mt. Washington, is now dis-\\nused while the old bridle-path from the W. slope, and the Davis path\\nfrom the Mt. Crawford House, are but rarely traversed. The railway\\nand carriage routes are tlie favorites, the iirst being easier and cheaper,\\nand the last being richer in scenery.\\nThe view from Mt. Washington is the most grand and extensive in\\nNew England. In the S. is the Giant Stairs Mt. and the round top of\\nMt. Crawford, with Chocorua farther away, and Ossipee near the gleam\\nof Lake Winnepesaukee, 3.5 M. distant. S. of W. is Mt. Carrigain, and\\nthe noble peaks of the Sandwich Range are beyond, while 100 M. away\\nis Monaduock, a filmy angle in the base of the sky. To the S. W. the\\npeaks of Monroe, Franklin, Pleasant, and Clinton stretch off in a straight\\nline, while the dark crests of Franconia fill the W., overlooked by the\\nbald cone of Lafayette. Across the Connecticut are remote blue sum-\\nmits of the Green Mts., with Mt. Mansfield and the Camel s Hump, 70\\nM. away. Stretching toward the N. W., only a few miles distant, are\\nCherry Mt., Mt. Starr King, and the hills of Kilkenny, over which the\\ngraceful Percy Peaks (Stratford) are seen, as near alike in size and\\nshape as two Dromios. Clay, Jefferson, Adams, and Madison loom\\nacross the Great Gulf in the N. and N. W. Glimpses of the Androscoggin\\nare next obtained, and 35 50 M. W. of N. Lake Umbagog and the\\nRangeley Lakes are seen, with the dim Canadian highlands far to the N.\\nA vast area of the State of Maine is outsjiread in the E., and it is claimed\\nthat Mt. Katahdin may be seen ^looming out of the central wilderness\\nof Maine, cutting the yellowish horizon with the hue of Damascus steel.\\nBut Katahdin is 150 M. distant. Mts. Hayes, Moriah, and Carter are\\nseen more surely in the N. E. The lofty hills over Chatham fill the\\nnearer E., and the eye follows down Pinkliam Notch to N. Conway on its\\nfair meadows, with Kiarsarge impending above. Beyond are seen Love-\\nwell s Pond, by Fryeburg, and the bright Sebago Lake, while the ocean is\\nsometimes visible in the remote S. E., merging with the weary horizon.\\n*Tuckernian s Ravine is visited from the summit, and is 14 M. dis-\\ntant by a route marked by splashes of white paint on the rocks. The\\nAppalachian Mountain Club has had a good path made from the Crystal\\nCascade (see page 227) into the ravine. Another path leaves the moun-\\ntain road 2 M. from the Glen, and runs in for 2| M. The lofty curving\\nprecipice-walls reach an altitude of 1,000 ft. or more. Immense massc s\\nof snow are piled up here, and renuiiu until August. The Crystal", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0299.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "238 Route 34. THE FEANCONIA MOUNTAINS.\\nStream flows down under this incipient glacier and cuts a long arch under\\nthe hardened snow, through which one can walk for hundreds of feet.\\nTlie cliffs back of the ravine are striped, after rains, with fallmg waters,\\ncalled the Fall of a Thousand Streams. After exploring this wonder-\\nful abyss, parties sometimes pass to the Glen House by following the\\nCrystal Stream, with its many cascades, to the N. Conway road.\\n34. The Franc onia Mountains and Pemigewasset Valley.\\nFrom Nexo York to Franconia by Hartford, Sprinp,field, Wells River, and Litlle-\\ntoii by Albany, Rutland, Bellows Falls, and Littleton by yprinyfield, Nashua,\\nami C(jn( ord or by boat to New London, and thence to Brattleboi o, Wells River,\\nand Littleton. The connections are frequently changed, and the tourist should\\nget a late time-table and railway-guide before choosing his route.\\nFrom Boston to Francnnla by Routes 29 and 30, to Wells River, Littleton, and\\nWing Road thence to Bethlehem Junction thence, by narrow-gauge railroad\\nacross the wild Gale-River gleu and around the rugged slopes of Mt. Lafayette to\\nthe Profile House. This is the easiest route to the Franconia Notch.\\nOr, leave the B., C, M. R. R, at Plymouth {see page 210), and take the Pemi-\\ngewasset-Valley train by Campton Village, Thornton, and W. Thornton to N.\\nWoodstock, whence stages to the Flume House (4 M.) and Profile House (9 M.).\\nThe Profile House (1,974 ft. above the sea) accommodates 5 600\\nguests, and is one of the best of the mt. hotels. Its corridors are crowded\\nduring the summer with visitors from the coast-cities, and its dining-hall\\nis said to be the finest in New England. This hotel is open from June 1st\\nuntil the middle of October; its tenns are \u00c2\u00a74.50 a day, with reductions\\nfor a long sojourn.\\nThe* Franconia Notch is about 5 M. long, and less than M. wide,\\nand is on the western verge of the Franconia Range proper. The\\nnarrow district thus enclosed contains more objects of interest to the\\nmass of travellers than any other region of equal extent within the com-\\npass of the usual White Mt. tour. In the way of rock-sculpture and\\nwaterfalls it is a huge museum of curiosities. (Starr King.) The\\nscenery of Franconia is more fantastic and beautiful than Dalecarlia or\\nNorshmd. (Fredrika Bremer.)\\nEcho Lake is a short distance N. of the hotel, on the r. of the Little-\\nton road, and is a calm, deep, and lovely sheet of transparent water,\\nencircled by rare scenery. During the day it reflects vividly the sur-\\nrounding objects, but the later hours of the afternoon are the pleasantest,\\nwhen the visitor can be transported over the quiet waters and see the\\nforest-shores and mts. in the flush of evening. Remarkable echoes are\\nawakened here by the bugle, voice, or cannon-shots. Franconia is more\\nfortunate in its little tarn tliat is rimmed l)y the undisturbed wilderness,\\nand watched by the grizzled peak of Lafayette, than in the Old Ston^\\nFace from which it has gained so mucli celebrity.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0300.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "THE FRANCONIA MOUNTAINS. Route 34. 239\\nBald Mt. is ascended by a neglected carriage-road, vvliich diverges to\\nthe r. from tlie road al)ont 1 M. N. of the hotel. The view from the\\nsummit is pleasing, especially just before sunset, when, besides the noble\\nhills to the N. and the huge, conical Haystack Mt. to the E., a fine south-\\nerly prospect is given, embracing the narrow notch, with Lafayette tower-\\ning on the 1. and Mt. Profile on the r. Echo Lake is seen in the nearer\\nforeground.\\nProfile Mt., or Mt. Cannon, is ascended by a steep foot-path S. of the\\nhotel, in 2-3 hrs. The* view is of great beauty, including the Bethle-\\nhem heights on the N., with Haystack, Lafayette, and the Mt. Washing-\\nton group on the E. and N. E. On the S., between Mts. Pemigewasset\\nand Liberty, stretches far into the distance the fair and fruitful valley of\\nthe Pemigewasset Piiver. On the sunmiit is a rock which is supposed to\\nresemble a cannon, and visitors often descend thence to the vicinity of\\nthe ledges which form the Profile. On the slope of this mt. (and reached\\nby following the aqueduct into the woods back of the old Lafayette\\nHouse) is a lively brook Vi-hich exhibits some fine cascades after heavy\\nrains. Good views of Echo Lake and Eagle Clitf, with the highland val-\\nleys to the N., may be obtained from the brookside.\\nThe Profile is best seen from a point by the roadside (marked by a\\nguide-board) a few rods S. of the hotel. 1,200 ft. above the road, three\\nenormous masses of rock project from the side of the mt., in the exact\\nresemblance of the profile of an old man s face, with firmly dra^vn chin,\\nlips slightly parted, and a well-proportioned nose surmounted by a mas-\\nsive brow. It is 2L moimtain which breaks into human expression, a\\npiece of scnlptiTre older than the Sphinx, an intimation of the human\\ncountenance, which is the crowii of all beauty, that was pushed out from\\nthe coarse strata of New England thousands of years before Adam.\\nThe legend of The Great Stone Face, as told by Hawthorne, belongs\\nto this place. Directly below the Profile (which is 40 ft. long) and near\\nthe road, is the crystal tarn called Profile Lake, or the Old Man s Wash-\\nbowl, a sequestered and beautiful sheet of water, from whose bosom is\\nobtained a pleasing sunset view of the majestic Eagle Cliff. This is the\\nbest point from which to see that lofty and remarkable cliff (1,500 ft.\\nhigh) which projects from the mt. opposite the Profile House. Near\\nProfile Lake is the Trout-house, containing many tame breeding-trout.\\nMt. Lafayette, the Duke of Western Coos, is 5,259 ft. high, and is\\nascended \\\\)y a bridle-path diverging to the 1. from the road, close by\\nthe Profile House, and rounding Eagle Clifl (3| M. long). The path is\\nsteep and arduous, but tlie ascent may easily be accomj)lished in 3- 4 hrs.,\\nwith horses and guides from the Profile House. After a long ascent\\nthrough the dense forest which covers the lower slopes, the path emerges\\n(near the briglit waters of the Eagle Lakes) upon a bare and rugged tract", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0301.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "240 Route 34. THE FRxiNCONIA MOUNTAINS.\\nwhich affords an extensive off-look. The *view from the summit ig\\nbroad and beautiful, with the Peniigewasset valley as its most pleasing\\nfeature, stretching S. to Pljnuouth (20 M. distant). The clustering\\nPemigewasset Mts. are seen in the S. W. but the lowlands are the\\nglory of the spectacle which Lafayette shows his guests. The valleys of\\nthe Connecticut and Merrimac are spread W. and S. W. and S. With\\nwhat pomp of color are their growing harvests inlaid upon the floor of\\nNew England! Mts. Monadnock (90 M.) and Kearsarge (over 50 M.)\\nare W. of S. while certain peaks of the Green ]Mts. of Vermont are in\\nthe distant W. In the N. W. and N. are the bright villages of Littleton\\nand Lancaster, with the rural districts of upper Coos, while the Profile\\nand Echo Lakes are close below in the glen over which Profile Mt. towers.\\nThe Percy Peaks are nearly due N. beyond the blue Pilot Mts., and\\nHaystack Mt. lifts its huge mass close at hand in the N. E. E. and N.\\nE., 15-20 M, distant, is the great presidential group, with Mt. Wash-\\nington nobly overlooking the rest.\\nThe Flume House (.S14-21 a week) is a neat and well-conducted\\nhotel, 5 M. S. of the Profile House (frequent stages). Mt. Liberty is oppo-\\nsite the house, and Mt. Pemigewasset is behind it, while the rich southern\\nvalley is seen for leagues from this position. The last-named mt. is often\\nascended for a few hundred ft., toward the sunset hour, when the spurs\\nand hollows of Lafayette and his associates are lighted up by the splendor\\nthat pours into them from the west. About 2 M. N. of the Flume\\nHouse a succession of pretty cascades may be found by ascending the\\ncourse of a brook Avhich crosses the road. l^M. N. of the house, by the\\nroadside, is the Basin, a granite bowl 60 ft. in circumference and 10 ft.\\ndeep, filled with clear water. The best way to enjoy the beauty of the\\nBasin is to ascend to the highest of the cascades that slide along a mile\\nof the mountain at the W. Then follow do^vn by their j)athways, as\\nthey make the rocks now white witli foam, now glassy with thin, smootli,\\ntransparent sheets, till they mingle tlieir water witli the Pemigewasset at\\nthe foot, and, pouring their common treasury around the groove worn in\\nthe rocky roof, fall with musical s^Dlash into the shadowed reservoir be-\\nneath.\\nThe Pool is gained in 20 minutes by a path leading into the forest op-\\nposite the house. It is a basin cut in the solid rock, 150 ft. wide and\\nover 100 ft. below the level of the path, with 40 ft. depth of dark, cold\\nwater. Visitors can descend to the level of the Avater, where an eccentric\\nhermit dwells in a rude boat. The old patli to the Flume is no longer\\navailable.\\nThe Flume is reached by a road diverging to the 1. a short distance\\nS. of the hotel, which runs to the foot of the lower cascade. From that\\npoint a path ascends by the smooth ledges over which the cascades glide", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0302.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "THE PROFILE HOUSE TO PLYMOUTH. Route 34. 241\\nmusically to the enti-ance of the Flume. After passiug the miserable hut\\nwhich stands at the mouth of this wonderful ravine, the full power of\\nthe scene is felt. A substantial plank-walk has been built along the\\ncourse of the stream, which it often crosses. The ravine is about 700 ft.\\nlong, and its precipitous rock-walls are 60-70 ft. high. The walls are\\nabout 20 ft. apart for most of the distance, but approach each other more\\nclosely near the upper end, where the gorge is narrowed to 10 ft. The\\nhuge boulder which long hung suspended here was swept away in 1883,\\nwhen a formidable slide from the mountain above rushed through the\\nFlume. By clambering along the musical cascade to the upper end of\\nthe ravine, one can reach the edge of the cliffs above and look down into\\nthe Flume.\\nGeorgeanna (or Harvard) Falls are S. W. of the hotel, and are reached\\nby a forest-path that leaves the Plymoutli road 1 M. S. of the hotel (giiide\\nat the farmhouse). After a long ascent which follows the stream through\\nthe forest, the falls are seen, making two leaps of 80 ft. each, one im-\\nmediately after the other, which, as we climb towards them, gleam as one\\nsplendid line of light through the trees and shrubbery that fringe the\\nlofty cleft. From the ledge above these falls is gained the stalwartest\\nprospect in all Franconia.\\nThe Profile House to Phftnouth.\\n(Stages leave two or three times a day for N. Woodstock, where the\\ntrain is taken.) The road leads through the narroAv glen for 5 M., passes\\nthe Flume House, between Mts. Pemigewasset and Liberty, and then de-\\nscends to a more open country. The front view is line, so soft and\\ndelicate are the general features of the outlook over the widening Pemige-\\nwasset valley, so rich the gradation of the lights over the miles of gently\\nsloping forest that sweep down towards Campton! 4 M. beyond the\\nFlume House the rugged town of Lincoln is left, with its 32,456 acres of\\nland barely supporting a resident population of 71 persons. Woothiock is\\nnow traversed, with Black, Blue, and Cushman s Mts. on the W., and\\nWanosha on the E., beyond which are glimpses of the peaks toward the\\nWhite-Mt. Notch. This town has 8 or 10 boarding-houses, whose prices\\nrange from $7.00 to 10.00 a week.\\nBeyond Woodstock a fine retrospect is affoixled, where the arrange-\\nment of the principal Franconia Mts. in half-sexagon so that we get a\\nstrong impression of their mass, and yet see their separate steelj edges,\\ngleaming with ditferent lights, ruiming down to the valley is one of\\nthe rare pictures in N. H. What a noble combination, those keen\\ncontours of the Haystack pyramids, and the knotted muscles of Mt.\\nLafayette beyond\\n11 P", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0303.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "2-12 Route 31 WATEllVILLE,\\nIn Woodstock are the summer boMrdiug-liouses of Dura P. Pollard,\\nG. G. Baston, Curtis L. Parker, J. iJrjfant, A. W. Sawder, aud otheis,\\ncharging .*?6- 10 a week. The train is taken at N. Woodstock, and runs\\nS. to IV. Thornton (Valley House) and TlioniUni, (Merrill House; Foss s;\\nJenkins s), rich in mountain and meadow scenerj\\nCamptDil Village (Sunset-Hill Houst; HllUhle; Brook-Farm; and\\nboarding-houses of S. C. Wiiley, C Cutter, F. A. Mitchell, C. G. Web-\\nster, etc., .S5-10 a week) is a favorite summer-resort, very quiet and\\nrestful, surrounded by lovely scenery, and much visited by artists. At\\nW. Campton is Sanborn s Hotel, and farther S. is Blair s. Welch Mt. is\\nprominent in the landscape; the Sandwich Mts. are on the E. and Mt.\\nProspect and Livermore Falls are in the vicinity (S. E. and S.). The\\nDevil s Den is a deep cave at Campton Hollow; and the views of the\\nFranconia Range from Durgin s Hill, and of (he broad valley from the\\nSchool House Hill are much a lmired. Following now the Pemigewasset\\nRiver, the train reaclifs Plymouth (see pas^e 210).\\nWaterville {Gr,ehii\\\\ Jfount im House) is 12 JI. N. E. of Campton,\\nand 18 M. from Plymouth, by a road leading up the Mad-l. iver valley.\\nThere is good trout-tishing in this rugged toWii (which has but 54 inhab-\\nilants), and some very romantic scenery^ Portions of the Sandwich Range\\nlie in WaterviHe, forming bold and picturesque mt. gronjis, while the\\nlofty peak of Osceola (4.400 ft. higli) is in the N. E. There is a path to\\nthe summit of Osceola, and the view thence is grand.\\nOn the S. are the principal peaks of the Sandwich Range, Black Mt., White\\nFace, and Bald Knob, with distant views of Mt. Ascutney aud Wlunepesaukee,\\nthe former being aliout 8. W. Looking aci oss tlie Pemigewasset valley the west-\\nern hills and the distant Green Mts. ai-e seen. In the N. AV. are the Franconia\\nMts., with Lafayette s conical peak most conspicuous. The heavy mass of Mt.\\nCarrigain is close at hand, and nearly N., while farther are the jjeaks around the\\nNotcli, with Mt. Washington and the presidential group far beyond. N. of E.\\nare Bear and Double Head Mts., over Pinkham Notch, with Moat Mt. hiding N.\\nConway, and Kiarsarge towering beyond, while the eye follows the Swift River\\nvalley for IS M. to Conway. Below Conway, and nearly 40 M. distant, is Sebago\\nLake, and 25 M. beyond the ocean may be seen on clear days.\\nThe Flume, on a brook 3J-4 M. from the hotel, with Horton s Cave\\nand the falls on Cascade Brook, are frequently visited. Adventuious\\nparties have penetrated the forests to the N. E. to the White Mt. Notch\\nroad, while the route by Flat-Mt. Pond leads by a rude bridle-path to\\nSandwich (on the S.). The trail to the Notch (a guide should be taken)\\nleads first to Greeley Pond, under Mt. Osceola (5 M. from the hotel), and\\nthen, leaving Mt. Carrigain on the 1., passes through the forest to the upper\\npart of Sawyer s River. The course of this stream is followed until it\\nreaches the Notch road, at a }ioint altout midway between the Upper\\nBartlett and Mt. C^rawford Houses (3 M. from each), aud about 15 M. from\\nGreeley s. The path has been cleared recently, and its N. part is made\\neasy by tiie new Sawyer s-River R. R. running into t!ie forest as far as\\nLivermore {Trenwnt Cottage),", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0304.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "DIXVILLE NOTCH. Route 35, 213\\n35. The Percy Peaks, Bixville Fetch, and lake TJmbagog.\\nThe station and village of Groveton {Melcher Housp., $2 a day,\\n$8-10 a week) is 10 M. N. of Lancaster, and 31 M. N. of Govham. It\\nis near the confluence of the Up^ier Aninionoosuc and Connecticut Rivers,\\nand is connected with GuiLlhall, tlie shire-town of Essex County, Ver-\\nmont, by a bridge near the falls in the latter river. The town was settled\\nin 1767, and fortified during the Revolution. Moose, Bellamy, and Cape\\nHorn Mts. are in the vicinity, and from this point the ascent of the Percy\\nPeaks is usually undertaken. Passengers for Dixville and the North go\\nfrom Groveton by the Grand Trunk Railway.\\nThe line passes N. along the Conn, valley with the Percy Peaks on the\\nr... stops at Stratford Holloio, and then at N. Stratford (Willard House;\\nPercy), whence the stage usually leaves in the evening for\\nColebrook, 13 M. N. E. The road follows the Conn. River closely, cross-\\ning the thinly populated forest-town of Columbia, and then, flanking the\\nvast mass of Monadnock Mt., enters the pretty village of Colebrook\\nParsons House, accommodating 100 guests, at ^7-10.00 a week Monad-\\nnock House). The Dix House is at the entrance to Dixville Notch.\\nThis town was named in honor of Sir George Colebrook, an English knight, to\\nwhom it was originally granted. It is the nortliern shire-town of Coos County,\\nwhicli has an area of 1,950 square miles, with a ])opulation of 15,580, and a valua-\\ntion of \u00c2\u00a74,9-16,910. Altliougli New England is the stronghold of the Republican\\nparty, it is a curious fact that Cocis and the other three mountain counties,\\nBelknap, Carroll, and Grafton, usually go Democratic by fair majorities. Cole-\\nbrook has 4 cluirfhes and 1,372 inhabitants. It is said that of the potato starch\\nin America is made in this town (by 8 factories).\\nExcellent trout-fishing is found on the sequestered streams in this\\nvicinity. Mt. Monadnock is near the village, and may be ascended by a\\npath leading in 4-5 M. to its summit. The Beaver Brook Falls are\\nabout 4 M. distant, and are well worthy of a visit.\\nDixville Notch\\nis 10 M. S. E. of Colebrook, and is reached by a road leading up the valley\\nof the Mohawk River, a pretty stream which affords good trout-fishing.\\nThe Dixville Notch is, briefly, picturesque, a fine, gorge between a\\ncrumbling conical crag and a scarped precipice, a place easily defensible,\\nexcept at the season when raspberries would distract sentinels. (Theo-\\ndore WiNTHROP.) This pass is in the town of Dixville, which has 31,000\\nacres of landand32 inhabitants, with a valuation of 20,000. The Notch\\nis not a mountain-pass, but a wonderful ravine among high hills, whose\\nimpending cliffs are worn and broken into strange forms of ruin and deso-\\nlation. At Dixville, all is decay, wreck; the hopeless submission of\\nmatter in tlie coil of its hungry foes. Tlie first view of the Notch is", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0305.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "244 Route 35. LAKE UMBAGOG.\\ndisappointing, since it is entered at a high level by the road which has\\nbeen ascending all the way from Colebrook. No mountainous line i^i seen\\nin front, and it is only after leaving the great forest and makhig a sharp\\nturn to the r. and a short, steep ascent, that the high, columnar sides are\\nseen frowning at each other across the narrow cliasm. These cliffs of\\ndecaying mica slate present a scene of ruin, trausitoriness, and shattered\\nstrength, that is mournful and almost repulsive,\\nTable Rock is on the r. of the road, and is reached by a rude stairway\\nof stone blocks called Jacob s Ladder, whose divergence from the road is\\nmarked by a guide-board near the top of tlie first steep rise. The Rock is\\n561 ft. above the road and 2,450 ft. above the sea, and is a narrow pin-\\nnacle only about 8 ft. wide at the top, with sharp, precipitous sides.\\nThe view is very extensive from this point. Monadnock looms boldly in the\\nW. with other and more distant sunuuits in Vermont the Canadian Hereford Mt.\\nis in tlie N. W. niiile Connecticut Lake and the Magalloway Mts. are in the N.\\nTo the E. are the broad lains of Errol and the iiiijter Androscoggin valley. But\\nthe most inii)rcssive sight is the dreary pass below with its broken palisades seem^\\ning ready to fall at any moment. The rock-spires o]iposite, which aw seen from\\nthe road as clearly outlined against the sky, from this oint lose their sharpness\\nof form against the dark background of a lofty hill which towers over them.\\nAbove Table Rock a short path leads to the Ice Cave, a profound cliasm\\nwliere snow and ice may be found throughout the summer. Tlie Profde\\nis seen from a guide-board on the r. of the road, high up on the cliffs,\\nwhile tlie Pulpit is pointed out on the 1. Farther on, a board on the r.\\ndirects attention to the refreshing waters of Clear Spring, and another\\nboard on the 1. points out Washington s Monument and the Pinnacle,\\nreniarkal)le rock-formations which have recently been developed by clear-\\ning away tiie forests. A sign on the 1. shovv s the path leading to the\\nFlume, where a brook runs through a gorge in the rock, which is spanned\\nby a rustic bridge. The flume is 20 ft. deep and 10 ft. wide, and has been\\nformed by the erosion of a trap-dike. At the foot of the Notch (wliich\\nis 1^ M. long), a board directs to the r. to the Cascades, before which\\nis the grove where excui sion-parties usually dine. Beyond the grove\\nis a neat rustic bridge and seat, liefore a small cascade, and by following\\na rugged i)ath up stream on the 1. (15 minutes) a cliff-side seat is readied,\\nfrom which a noble series of falls are seen, descending sheer from the\\nprecipice above.\\nThe Clear Stream Meadow s are below the E. side of the Notch and\\npresent a scene of pastoral beauty that strongly contrasts with the deso-\\nlate region behind.\\nFrom this point the return is i;sually commenced, though parties of\\ngentlemen prepared for a forest expedition sometimes go on to Errol Dam\\n(Errol House Akers House) 13 M. distant. A steamer leaves the Dam\\nsemi-weekly for the Ui)per Magallow^ay River, and also for the Lake\\nHouse, in Upton, at tlie foot of L^^ke Und^agog. Wiiithiop tells Life", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0306.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO CAPE ANN. Route 36. 245\\nin the Open Air of his voyage in a small boat to the Rangeley Lakes,\\npassing through Umbagog, tlien over a 3 M. portage, and thence travers-\\ning the Lakes Welocksebacook, AUegiindabagog, Mollychunkamu^ and\\nMoosetocmaguntic to Rangeley (see Route 41). From the Lake Hofflse at\\nthe S. end of Umbagog, semi-weekly stages rnn to Bethel (see Route 40).\\nConnecticut Lake (Conn. Lake House) is 25 M. N. E. of Colebrook,\\nIt is 5^ M. long by 2J M. wide, and abounds in fish. A small steamer\\nplies over its waters. 4 M. N. E. through the forest is Second Lake, 2|\\nM. long by 2 M. Avide, while still fartlier N. is Third Lake, covering 200\\nacres, and on the border of Canada is Fourth Lake, the source of the Con-\\nnecticut River. The latter lake covers 3 acres, and is 2,500 ft. above the\\nsea. S. E. of Connecticut Lake the Magalloway Mts. are seen, while\\nfrom its lower end the Connecticut River Quonektacut, meaning Long\\nRiver, or River of Pines) flov/s down a long cascade. These lakes are in\\nPittsburg, a town of 200,000 acres, with but 400 inhabitants. Game\\nabounds in the forests, and fish in the streams.\\n36. Boston to Cape Ann.\\nTrains several times a day, from Eastern R. R station, on Causeway St. To Man-\\nchester, 25 M.; Gloucester, 31 Kockport, 35. Daily steamboats from Boston.\\nBoston to Beverly, see page 2-18. Thence a branch line runs N. E., with\\nfine views of Salem harbor, by Frlde^s Crossing^ Btverly Farms, and W.\\nManchester, Avhere there are noble sea-side villas and estates of wealthy\\nBobtonians. Manchester-by-the-Sea (Manchester House, ^7 a week) is\\na quaint little maritime village, about M. from the great Afascono mo\\nHouse ($3.50 a da} $25-40 a week; billiards, bowling, sail-boats, teie^\\ngraph, gas), near Eagle Head, the Singing Beach, etc. It stands on a fine\\nheadland, with a vast sea-view. The beach is hard and smooth. Inter-\\nesting drives landward. Magnolia (Hesperus, Ocean-Side, and Crescent-\\nBeach Houses, $12-20 a week each; Oak-Grove, Sea-View, and Willow\\nCottage, $8-12 each), 2-2^ M., from the obscure Magnolia station, is a\\nvery popular summer-resort, on fine rocky bluffs over the sea, smd near\\nNorman s Woe (see page 24G). Wm. M. Hunt s picturesque studio, 77/e\\nHulk, is here; and his disciples still haunt the adjacent cliffs and forests.\\nJames Freeman Clarke s smnmer-home is near by. Beyond dreary hills,\\nthe ridge of the land of rocks and roses (Cape Ann), the train reaches\\nGloucester (Gloucester Hotel; Ocean; Webster; each 7 10 a week Pa-\\nvilion, Sy-lS). At Good-Harbor Beach, Bass-Rock House (U M. out, 12 iiO\\na week) at E. Gloucester, Harbor-View, Delphiue, Fair-View, Seaside, and Pebbly-\\nBeach Houses, 11 2 M. out, and 7 10 a week each.\\nGloucester, the foremost fishing port in the world, stands on a fine harbor\\nof Cape Ann, and has 20,000 inhabitants, 15 cliurclies, and 5 baid^s. It is\\nthe end of the famous North, Shore, lined with patrician Bostouian villas,\\nand celebrated in art, poetry, and history.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0307.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "246 Route 36. GLOUCESTER.\\nThe City Hall is a new and elegant structure of brick, in the\\nmodern French style of architecture. The inner harbor is guarded, by\\nTen Pound Island, and j^resents a rare scene of bustle and activity, being\\nthe very home of scliooners. Tlie outer harbor is i)votected from the sea\\nby Eastern Point, with its lighthouse and fort, while on the W. shore is\\nthe Stage Fort (erected during the Secession War) from which is obtained\\na pretty view of the harbor and toAvn. Directly across the harbor from\\nthe city is E. Gloucester, from whose rugged hills the compact streets,\\nwith tlie church-spires and the Collins School and lofty City Hall, make\\na pretty scene (the best near views are from Rocky Neck). Several large\\nsummer boarding-houses are scattered over the E. Gloucester peninsula,\\nwhich has wild and rugged scenery on the seaward side. On Little Good\\nHarbor is a beach, at the S. end of which are the Bass Rocks, where the\\nsurf rolls in grandly after an easterly gale. The City Hall Tower over-\\nlooks the pretty suburbs of Brookbank and Steepbank, and views the\\nopen sea beyond E. Gloucester. Within 5 minutes walk of the City Hall\\nis Fort Point, a small, rocky promontory covered with fish-flakes, Avith\\nthe remains of an old fort on its highest point. Near by (and 3 minutes\\nwalk from the Gloucester Hotel) is a curving beach, facing the surf from\\nthe inner harbor and partly occupied by the Pavilion Hotel, of which\\nLady E. S. Wortley said, It is very much like being afloat in a line-of-\\nbattle ship, we are so close to the grand old Atlantic.\\nBeacon Pole Hill, close to the city on the Anniscpiam road, commands\\nan extensive and interesting prospect of Gloucester, the bare, bleak hills\\nof the cape, and the waters and shores to the N. and S. Beyond the hill\\nis the hamlet of Riverdale, which has a cliurch of the 17tli century.\\nJohn Murray, the Apostle ofUniversalism, planted that seot in America in\\n1770, and preached for several }^ears in this church. Jn the old Uiuverpalist Church\\nis a curious origan, which was captured duriug the Revolution by a privateer. It is\\nlit. high, and is played by turning a civmk, its capacity being .3(1 tunes. In the\\nFirst Parish Church (founded 1642) is a British caunou ball, tired iuto the town in\\n1775.\\nThe pleasantest excursion about Gloucester is to Norman s Woe and\\nRafe s Chasm. About 2 M. from the city, a small road turns off to the\\nL from the Manchester road, and soon, losing all evidences of carriage-\\ntravel, runs into a sequestered patli in the borders of the forest and by\\nthe edge of the sea. The dark and frowning mass of rocks soon seen,\\nsurrounded by the sea, is Norman s Woe, the scene of Longfellow s poem,\\nThe Wreck of the Hesperus.\\nIt was the schooner Hesperus\\nThat sailed the wintry sea.\\nAnd fast through the midnipht dark and drear,\\nThroueh the wliistling slcit and snow,\\nLike a sheeted ghost the vessel swept\\nTow rds the reef of Norman s Woe.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0308.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "ROCKPORT. Route 36. 247\\nFollowing the precipitous, rocky shore about 1 M, S. W. of the reef,\\none conies to Rate s Cliasm, a remarkaljle fissure in the great cliff which\\nfronts the sea. It is 6 ft. wide, 40-50 ft. deep, and 100 ft. long, and tlie\\nroar of the wr.ves is appalling wlien tliey sweep tlirough it after a storm.\\nSome distance beyond, on the same shore, is anotlier curious cleft in the\\ntrap-rock. I he ramble may be extended to Goldsmitli s Point and\\nits summer villas, with Kettle Island and Great Egg Rock off shore, and\\nthe elegant Crescent- Beach Hmise. A little to the N. (and near the\\nIMagnolia fiag-station on the railroad) is a swamp containing the rare and\\nbeautiful magnolia-trees, whose flowers are out in July,\\nAromxl the Cape is a favorite excursion from Gloucester, and the\\ndistance is 12-14 M. From Gloucester to Rockport by higliway or rail-\\nroad, is about 4 M. By diverging to the r. from the main road a shore-\\nroad (inferior) is gained, which leads to Rockport by Whale and Loblolly\\nCoves, passing near Thacher s and Straitsmouth Islands, -with their tall\\nlighthouses. Thacher s Island has two powerful Fresnel lights, in\\ngranite towers, 112 ft. high and M. apart. Tliere is a tradition that a\\nrel)el cniiser hit one of tliese lanterns with a cannon-shot during a dark\\nnight of the Secession War.\\nKockport {Sheridan House) is a well-named to^vn of about 4,000\\ninhabitants, with 6 cliurches and 2 banks. From costly artificial harbors\\nalong this rock-bound coast, great quantities of granite are shipped to all\\narts of the Union. 2 M. N. of this village is the summer-resort of Pigeon\\nCove (stages from Rockport station), with the Pigeon Cove, Ocean View,\\nand Linwood Hotels (GO -75 guests each; .^12-15 a week). This was\\nformerly a favorite resort of the great divines of the liberal sects,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chapin,\\nStarr King, Bartol, and others,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and has grown rapidly in popularity. The\\nrocky shores furnish an endless variety of scenery, and the surf, after\\nstormy Aveather, is grand in its power. Phillips Avenue and other streets\\nhave been graded on the heights by Pigeon Cove, and a large village of\\nsimimer residences (called Ocean View) has been built here.\\nFrom Ocean Viev/, the road runs to Folly Cove, and near Folly Point,\\nthe N. limit of the Cape, to Lanesvillc, looking across tlie northern waters\\nto the shores of Essex North, New Hampshire, and lower ]\\\\Iaine. Tliere\\nare boarding-houses here, and a little way beyond is Bay View, Avlieie\\nare large wharves, and a steam railroad running back into quarries which\\nyield a favorite light-colored granite. On a sightly hill over tlie port is\\nthe elegant seaside cottage (of red and gray granite) pertaining to tlie\\nHon. B. F. Bntler. Beyond is the hamlet of Annisquam, at the mouth\\nof the Squam River, with summer boarding-honses and a gron]) of ilhis\\ncalled Cambi idge Avenue, and owned l)y Camln-idge people. It is abdut\\n4 M. to Gloucester, by Riverdale and the hill known as tlie Poles, and np\\nt!ie Squam River. The ancient canal from Squam to the harbor lias been\\nreopened. The Grand-View and Dudley Houses are at Aniiisriuam.", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0309.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "248 Route 36. CAPE ANN.\\nCape Ann was formerly inhaTuted by a small tribe of Indians, who called it Win-\\ngaersheek. It was rounded by Capt. Smith in Uil4, who named it Cape Traga-\\nbigzanda in memory of a Turkish jirincess who had befriended him while he was\\nwounded and a prisoner in Constantinople (1601). Prince Charles of England\\noverruled Smith, and named the cape in honor of Ids royal mother. In 1025 the\\nforest-covered promontory was settled by a colony under Roger Conant, who\\nfounded here tlie first Puritan church. Abandoned by Conant in favor o: Salem,\\nit was soon re-peopled by another swarm from the English hive, and incorporated\\nin 1642 under the name of Gloucester, since most of its settlers came from the\\nEnglish town of that name. The colonists soon exterminated the lyons and\\ndrove off the Indians. 1692 was a year memorable in the annals of mystei7,\\nand hundreds of French and Indian ghosts were thought to liaunt the cape, and\\nwere often shot at but never hurt. So great was the panic that two regiments\\nfrom the mainland occupied the cape. With the decline of the witchcraft delusion\\nin Salem the suijerstitious mariners of Gloucester lost sight of their mysterious\\nenonies, and the guards were withdrawn. In 1716 the first terrible marine dis-\\naster occurred, when 5 large fishing- vessels from this port were lost off the Banks\\nwith all on board. In 1774 Edmund Burke, siieaking of the Massachusetts fisher-\\nmen, said, No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries, no climate that is not\\nwitness of their toils neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the acti^^ty of\\nFrance, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of Eiiglish enterprise, ever carried\\ntheir most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been\\nluirsued by this recent people, a people who are yet in the gristle, and not yet\\nhardened into manhood. In 1775 Cape Ann sent 300 men to the American army\\nbesieging Boston, and in August of that year Gloucester was bombarded for 4\\nhours by the British sloop-of-war Falcon. The minute-men held the town, and\\ncaptured 4 boats, a tender, and a prize schooner with 40 men from the Falcon.\\nThe ruined town was soon rex aired, and with the close of the war, the cessation\\nof iirivateering, and the reduction of the national navy, the fishing-fleets were once\\nmore manned and sent out. Gloucester had included the whole cape until 1840,\\nwhen Rockport became an imlependent town. The canal from the harl)or to\\nSquam River (first cut in 1643) was long ago abandoned as useless. In 1S73\\nGloucester received a city charter.\\nWilliam W^inter, the poet, E. P. Whipple, the essayist, and Samuel Gilman, the\\nUnitarian divine, were born here also, Capt. Haraden, who, with the Picker-\\ning, swept the Bay of Biscay and the North Atlantic, and took 1,000 camion from\\nthe British on the sea, between 1775 and 17S3. Epes Sargent, the author Henry\\nSargent, the painter and other notables of the same family, came from Glouces-\\nter.\\nThe fisheries around Newfoundland have caused trouble ever since 15S5, wTicn\\nQueen Elizabeth sent a fleet which swooped down on a swarm of Norman fishing-\\nvessels on the Banks, and ca]itured half of them. But the deep-sea and George s\\nBank fisheries are the noble pursuits of this maritime people, who man their fleets\\nwith 5,000 men, and lose on an average, 17 vessels and 113 men each year. In\\nthe winter of 1862, 13 vessels and 130 men from this port were lost in one night\\non George s Bank.\\nWik! are the waves which lash the reefs alonsr St. (Icorpe s Bank,\\nCold on the shore of Labiartor the fosr lies white and dank\\nThrouph storm and wave and blinding mist, stout are the hearts which man\\nThe fishing-smacks of Marbleheacl, the sea-boats of Cape Ann.\\nThe cold North lisht and wintry sun glare on their icy forms\\nBent grimly oer their straining ^lines, or wrestling with the storms\\nFree as tlie winds they drive before, rough as tlie waves they roam,\\nThey laugh to scorn tlie slavers threat ivgaiust their rocky home\\n(JouN G. Whittier.)\\n37. Boston to Portland and St. John.\\nThis is the most interesting and easy of the routes to Maine and the Maritime\\nrio\\\\inces. No change of cars is necessary between Boston and Bang U since\\ntlie Eastern Railroad cars pass on to the rails of the Maine Central Railway at\\nPortland and are carried through to Bangor. At the latter city the traveller gets", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0310.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "EVERETT. novic 37. 249\\non tlie trnin of the Enrnpe.in anil North Ainerio. in R;iil\\\\vay, which passes through\\nto 8t. Joiiu. Boston to Salem, IG M. to NeM buryport, M M. to Port:imouth,\\n56 M. to Portland, 108 M. to Augusta, 171 M. to Bangor, 24G M. to St. John,\\n44. M. to Halifax, 63G M.\\nThe rich and elegant cars of the Pullman Company are attached to every\\nthrough train. This company has over 500 cars (costing -S IS- 22,090 each) running\\non 90 railroads. They are used througliout the United States, also between Bom-\\nbay and Calcutta (1,800 M.), and are about to be introduced on the through route\\nfrom Parii to Vienna. Tlie cliief advantage possessed by this line is that it runs\\nthrDugh the large sea-cities of Massachusetts, with frequent views of the ocean\\nand the northern bays. Numerous ]ioimlar seaside resorts are near its track,\\nAvhile 9 connectiuij; lines run landward from it. Fares, to Portland, \u00c2\u00a73.00 to\\nBangor, SG.OO to St. John, $10.00 to Halifax $14.00.\\nThe line nearly coincides v/ith the route of the Portsniouth Flying Coach\\nCo., established in 17G2, to make weekly trips by way of the Newburyport road.\\nThe fare was 13s. M. to Portsmouth and 9s. to Newbury. President Dwight\\n(of Yale) rode over this route in 179G, and wrote, No part of the United States\\niurnislies a tour eipially pleasing. Nowhere is there in the same compass such a\\nnum .ier of towns ecjually interesting, large, wealthy, and beautiful, or equally\\niiilialnted by intelligent, p(^lished, and resitectable people.\\nTwo tlirougji express trains run daily each way between Boston and Bangor,\\n240 M., in 11 hours.\\nTjie train leaves the terminal station on Causeway St., at the foot of\\nFrieiid St., and runs out over Charles River on a long trestle. On\\nthe 1. is the track of the Boston and Lov^^ell E. E,., and on the r. va q the\\nFile] 1 burg and the Boston and Maine tracks. The height. of Charlcstown,\\ncrowned by Bunker Hill Monument, rise on the r., and the manufactories\\nof E. Cambridge are seen on the 1. OtT Prison Point harlestovvn) the\\nFitcliburg Pt. R. is crossed, with the State Prison close at hand, and tlie\\nMcLean Asylum for the Insane on tlie 1. This Asylum was opened in\\n1818, and has extensive buildings which cost over $200,000, sitrrounded\\nby pleasant grounds. It Avas named for a philanthropic Boston merchant,\\nwho gave ,$150,000 for this object and to Harvard University. After\\nrunning for nearly a mile over the waters of diaries River and Miller s\\nCreek, the line gains the Somerville meadows, and crosses the Boston and\\nMaine track just before reaching Somerville station. Soon after leaving\\nthis station, Mt. Benedict and the site of the Ursuline Convent (de-\\nstroyed by a mob in 1834) are passed on the 1. and the train crosses the\\nMystic River, with Charlestown and E. Boston on the r.\\nStation, Everett, whence the Saugus Branch diverges to tlie N., and\\npasses through the suburban villages of Maiden, Maplewood, Linden,\\nCliftondale, Saugus, E. Saugus, and hyan Common. Near the latter vil-\\nlage it rejoins the main line. The town of Everett was incorporated in\\n1870, with a population of 2,222 and a valuation of .$2,000,000. From\\nthis point the track nins S. of E. to Chdsea station. From Boston to\\nClielsea the road describes a semicircle with the centre of the curve in-\\nclined to the N. W. The road formerly terminated at E. Boston, but a\\ndepot was built in tlie city, and a circuitous course was necessary in order\\nto avoid the deep outer channels of the Charles and Mystic Rivers.\\nChelsea and Revere Boacli are described in Route 2. The line soon crosses\\n11*", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0311.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "250 Route 37. LYNN.\\nChelsea Creek and Sangiis River, Avitli the hotels on Chclr.cix (or r.evcrc)\\nBeach, on tlie r., skirts Lyuu Harbor, passes W. Lyuii, and stops at\\nLynn.\\nHotels. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The Roscobd Kirtland. On the beach, llefl-Rock Hnupe (912-18\\na week), and Oc(sin Cottat^e. Horst-cars to Boston, S\\\\va.nipscott, Wyouia, and\\nPeabody. Stiujcs to Nabant.\\nLynn is a busy city of 40,000 inhabitants, situated near the N. end of\\nMass. Bay, on a harbor formed by the peninsula of Nahant. The greater\\npart of tlie city is on a plain near the sea, while a chain of porphyritic\\nhills on the N. is adorned with many neat villas. Market St. is the main\\nthoroughfare, and is lined with large commercial buildings, mostly of\\nbrick, although by far the greater part of tlie city is constructed of woo l.\\nSkilled American labor- is employed here to a larger extent than in the\\nother manufacturing cities of New England (where foreign workmen are\\nnumerous), and its interests are protected and sometimes over-asserted by\\na powerful organization called the Knights of St. Crispin.\\nThe city was founded in 1629, and named for LjTin Regis, in England, the home\\nof its lirst pastor (1636-79). In ISIO, it was the 7th town of Essex County in\\n1820, the 5th in 1830, the 4th in 1840, the 2d, which rank it still maintains\\n(Lawrence being the largest city in the county). About 1750, tlie nianulac.turc of\\nladies shoes was commenced here by a Welcliman named Dagyr, and it has since\\ngrown to vast lu-oportions, Lynn now being the first city in the world in this\\nbranch of industry.\\nIn 1767, I^ynn mnde 80,000 pairs of slioes in ISIO, l.Oon ^0 |,-nrs in 1?^\\n5,.3 10,00n pairs and in 1880, over 12,000,000 pairs, valued at S 21,000,000. In 1S80,\\nthere were employed 7,297 men and 3,389 women, in this work.\\nThe Soldiers Monument is an imposing memorial (to 289 dead, out\\nof 3,270 men sent to the war), with bronze statuary and tablets, near tlie\\nCity Hall. The Public Library contains 32,000 volumes; and the city has\\n6 neAvspapers and 26 churclies.\\nThe *City Hall, one of the linest municipal buildings in New England,\\nis i M. W. of the station, substantially built of brick and brownstone, with\\na tower. It fronts on a long and narrow Couimou, near which is the luag-\\nnificent St. Stephen s Memorial Church (Ei)isc()pal), of red-gneiss rubl le,\\nwith a very ricli interior. High Rock is N. of the City Hall, and commands\\na wide view of the city and the surrounding waters. Here was the home\\nof Moll Pitcher, a reputed sorceress, and here also, in later years, have\\nresided the Hutchinson family of singers. Pine Grove Cemetery is a\\nbeautiful rural burying-gromul on the hills toward the Lakes of Lynn.\\nDungeon Rock is 3 4 M. from the city. Here, on one of the highest\\nof a series of picturesque, forest-covered hills, it is said that certain pirates\\nhad their den and treasure-house, until an earthcpiake swallowed them\\nup (in the 17th century). In 1852 a person came to this hill and began to\\ndig for treasures imdcr the inspiration of spiritualism and the guidance\\nof clairvoyants. He Avorked here until his death in 1SG8, meanwhile\\ncutting a passage into the iron-like ptirphyry rock, 135 IL. long, 7 ft. wide.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0312.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "SWAMPSCOTT. Route ^y. 251\\nmvl 7 ft. liigh. Near this point is the Sangus River, where a forge and\\nsnieltiiig-works for working iron were erected in 1643.\\nTlie pleasantest part of Lynn is the Adcinity of Nahant St. and Saga-\\nmore Hill, where tliere are many fine villas belonging to Boston mer-\\nchants. The bank building and the new Universalist Church are in this\\nquarter, and are worthy of notice. Lynn Beach and Nahant (see page 21)\\nare gained by way of Nahant St., while by following the shore toward\\nthe N. (a foot-patli only) a line of elegant seaside villas is passed, and\\nSwampscott is readied.\\nSoon after leaving Lynn, the train reaches Swampscott (Great Anawan\\nHouse; Little Anawan House Ocean House Lincoln House), a fashion-\\nable watering-place, which, like Nahant, is much affected by the aristocracy\\nof Boston. Their elegant carriages and trim yachts are easily brought\\nhere (13 M. from Boston), and nudce land and water lively through the\\nsummer months. Numerous boarding-houses, small hotels, and cottages\\nreceive their quotas of the guests. The beaches are short and limited,\\nbut afford safe bathing, while the greater part of the shore consists of\\nhigh bluffs and ragged ledges. Phillijis Beach, about 3 M. E. of the\\nstation, faces the open sea, and is nearly insulated by Phillips Pond. A\\nlarge cluster of cottages is built on the prominent point over Dread\\nLedge, from which the shore trends W., and pretty views of Nahant Bay,\\nthe peninsula of Nahant, and the islanded Egg Rock, may be gained.\\nThe yachts and village fishing-smacks are usually anchored off Fisher-\\nman s Village and along the S. shore. (See also page 407.) Beyond\\nSwampscott the train reaches\\nSalem.\\nHotels. Essex Uouse, 170 Essex St., S2.25 a day.\\nHorse-cars from Essex and AVashington Sts. to Peahody and Beverly, the\\nWillows, N. and S. Salem, and Dauvers. Y. M. C. A., 191 Essex St.\\nSalem, the mother-city of the Massachusetts colony, and a shire-towoi\\nof Essex County, is favorably situated on a long peninsula between tAvo\\ninlets of the sea. It has 28,000 inhalntants, and while slowly gaining in\\nwealth, it is losing its place among the cities of the State and County, by\\ntheir more rapid increase. The marine aristocracy of the old East India\\nmerchants and captains still holds lines of stately old-time mansions, and\\ntlie stillness and grave propriety of the city is generally noticed by the\\nvisitor. The wharves are now occupied by the few coasting-vessels which\\nhave taken the place of the great East Indiamen which formerly entered\\nhere. Boston has taken this trade away, and the city is now supported\\nby its lately developed steam-mills and factories. There is a safe and\\ncommodious harbor before the city, which is defended by Forts Pickering\\nand Lee, and good boating is found there. The State Normal School is\\nsituated on Broad St., and has IGO girls in attendance. Instruction of a", "height": "3090", "width": "1904", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0313.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "252 Route 37. SALEM.\\nhigh order is given here without cost, on condition that each stndent shall\\nteach (for a specified time) in the schools of the Commonwealth. The\\nchurches of the city are not remarkable for their architecture, although 3\\nof them are of stone. Tliere are 4 Unitarian churches, and 13 others.\\nThe East-India Marine Hall, on Essex St., was erected by the East-\\nIndia Marine Society, 1824. It was purchased and refitted by the trustees\\nof the Peabody Academy of Science, Avith funds given by George Peabody,\\nof London, 1867; and contains the Museum of the East-India Marine So-\\nciety (commenced 1799), and the Natural-History Collection of the Essex\\nInstitute, received as permnnont deposits, and hiter accessions.\\nHere is a coUection illustrating the orders of the animal kingdom, ar-\\nranged in their proper seciuenee from the lowe^t form to the highest The\\nmost striking features are the corals, reptiles, birds, and the Australian mar-\\nsuitials. On the E. side are the ethnological collections, which rank among\\nthe very highest in America, and are especially rich in South-Sea-Island\\nimjdements, cloths, models, idols, domestic utensils, etc.: and Chinese,\\nJapanese, and East-Indian life-sized models of native characters, l)esides\\nthe boats, clothing, utensils, implements of war and of domestic use from\\nthese countries, and from Africa, Arabia, and North and South America.\\nThe collection from .Japan is the finest on exhibition in the country. Li\\none part of the hall is a complete assortment of gods, Hindoo, Chinese,\\nand Polynesian. The models of naval architecture are very numerous,\\nand mark the progress from the rude Esquimau canoe to the nmdel of the\\nstately and heavily armed Salem East Indiaman, the Eriendship. The\\ngallery is devoted to the Natural Historv and Arclueolog} of Essex County.\\nNearly ever} s])ecies of the flora and fauna is represented, the collections\\nof birds and native woods being especially fine. The Acadeni}- has also\\nthe best local collection of prehistoric implements and utensils of stone,\\nbone, and clay to be found in Essex County. The Museum is open, free\\nto the public, every Aveek-day from 9 to 12 and from 1 to 5 o clock. The\\naverage numl)er of visitors for fifteen vears is upwards of 35,000 annuallv.\\nThe stately Plummer Hall (open 8..30-1, and 2.30-5), at 134\\nEssex St., was erected by Jliss Phnnmer s becpaest, on the site of Gov.\\nBradstreet s mansion, and Wm. H. Prescolt s birthplace. The lower\\nfloor has a rich museum, Avith several Copley and Smibert portraits.\\nAbove is an elegant hall with white Corinthian columns at the sides,\\nand some old portraits, the chief of Avhich is a large, full-length paint-\\ning of Sir William Pepjierell in his favorite red costume. Oliver Croin-\\nAvell, Secretary Pickering, Governors Leverett, Bradslreet, and Endicott,\\nseveral early divines and ladies of the colonial era, are represented\\nin these old portraits. There are three libraries (Athenannn. Essex Li-\\nstitute. and S. Essex Medical Society) in the building, Avith an aggregate\\nof 50,000 A olinnes, the larger part of Avhich are in the hall. The original\\ncharter of Massachusetts Bay, given by King C harles I. in 1(528, is j)re-\\nserved here, together Avith s undry other quaint old documents of State.\\nOver the main stairway is a graphic painting representing a scene in the\\nwitchcraft days. Behiiui I lummer Hall, and reached by passing around\\nthe building, is the oldest church edilice m the Northern States. It Avas\\nbuilt in 1G34 for the First Church, of Avhich Koger AVilliams Avas ])astor,\\nand Avas used for 38 years. In 1072 a new church Avas built, and this\\nedifice Avas aliandoned. It is about half as large as an ordinary jiarlor, and\\nhas a gallery, a high-pointed roof, diamond-paned Avindows, Hawthorne s\\nand Bowditch s desks, spiuning-AvhecLs, .vpiimet, liarpsichord, etc.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0314.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "SALEM. Route 3 r. 253\\nThe Roger- Will inms ffonse is at 310 Essex St. (with a one-story shop\\nin front). It was built in IGoi, and some of the alleged witches had\\ntheir preliminary trials here. Gallows 11111 is I M. W. of the city,\\nand commands a broad view over the harbor and surrounding country.\\nllvre 19 persons were put to death during the witchcraft delusion. In\\nJlmmony-Grove Cemeteri/, W. of Salpm, George Peabody is buried;\\nwhile in the village of Peabody (2 INf. distant; horse-cars from Salem) is\\nsluiwn the house where he was born. The library (oO,OUO vols.) and col-\\nlections of the Pcabudy Institute are worthy of a visit (open Wednesday\\nand Saturday). The most notable object is the portrait of Queen Victoria,\\ngiven by her to Gi orge Peabody. It is 14 by 10 inches in size, painted on\\ngold, and adorned witii rich jewels. It cost S oO,000. See also line por-\\ntrait of George Peabody.\\nDttbi) Wharf, on the S. of the city, was formerly the focal point of the\\nE. India trade; and at its head stands the old Custom /Ljuse where Ilaw-\\ntliorne was employed (his birthplace was at No. 21 Union St.). The Court\\nIIous, and the CUy Hall are granite buildings near the tunnel. In the E.\\nis the broad Washington S(]uare, near the brownstone East Church (Uni-\\ntarian) and St. Peter s Episcopal Church.\\nThe Willows,\\nreached hy horse-cars in I hr., is a rocky point, viewing the North Shore\\nand Bay, and provided with pavilions, gardens, restaurants, a skating-\\nrink, music, boats, etc., frequented by the Salem people. Steamboats\\nhence to Lowell Island and P everlv, several times daily. Juniper Point\\n{Ocian-View Juniper; Atlantic; C enfro/) is a cottage-colony on Winter\\nIsland. Forts Pickering and Lee (now in ruins), and a light-house stand\\non the lonely Saltm Neck, Hawthorne s favorite haunt.\\nDrives to Swampscott, 4 M. Nahant, 6 Marblehead Neck, 4; Marble-\\nhead, S^\\\\ Beverly Farms, 4; Peabody, 2; Danversj Wenham Lake, 6;\\nFloating Bridge, 5; Asbury Grove, 8; Chebacco Lakes, 8.\\nIn 1626 Roger Conant left the fishing colony on Cape Ann, and built the first\\nlK use on the Indian domain of Nauinkeag.* In 1627 the Plymouth Company\\ngranted to certain kniglits and gentlemen of Dorchester, and their heirs, assigns,\\nand associates forever, all that part of New England which lies between a great\\nriver called Merrimac, and a certain other river called Charles. John Endicott\\nwas sent over in 1628, and founded at Naumkeag tlie capital of this district. The\\ncolony was called Salem from the peace which tliey had and lioped in it. In\\n1628 the First Church was formed, and in 1631 Philip Ratcliife was scourged, had\\nhis ears cut oif, and suffered banishment and confiscation of liis property, for\\nblasphemy against the church of 8alem, the mother-church of all this Holy Land.\\nThe militant disposition of the colonists was shown by the fact that during the\\nfirst few years they imported 18,000 worth of furniture, building materials, c.,\\nwhile 22,000 wortli of arms and artillery was brought in during the same time.\\nIn 1629 there were 10 houses here, besides the governor s house, which was gar-\\nnished with great ordnance, and thus wee doubt not that God will be with us,\\nand if God be with us, who can be against us. In midsummer, 1630, Gov. John\\n*Nn\\\\imkeatr is said o be nn Indian word meaning Eel land, but Cotton Mather fwho\\nis nothin;- if not Oriental) holds to its d rivation foin the Hebrew words, Nahum (comfort)\\niind K iilv Ivivon", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0315.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "254 Routes?. SALEM.\\nWinthrop arrived at SaloTn with 10 ships and a large number of colonists. Thf\\nlovely Ladv Arabt lla Johnson, the daughter of the Earl of Lincoln, and the wife\\nof Isaac Johnson, the wealthiest of the colonists, was the pride of the settlement,\\nand the flag-sliip of the fleet was named for her. Before leaving England she in-\\nsisted on accompanying her husband, AVhithersoever your fatall destine shall\\ndryve you, eyther by the furious waves of the great ocean, or by the many-folde\\nand hoVrible dangers of tlie lande, I wyl surely not leave your company. There\\ncan no peryll chaunee to nie so terrible, nor any kinde of death so cruell, that\\nshall not be nuich easie$ for me to abyde than to live so farre separate from you.\\nWitliin ;j months after the landing, this brave patrician lady died at iSalem (and\\nwas buried near Bridge St.). Her husband survived lier but a month.\\nWinthroi and Jolinson moved S. to Charlesiown, and thence to Boston, which\\nsoon became tlie chief town and capital of the colony (see page 7). Endicott, Pea-\\nbody, and others remained at Salem, and built mansions near Noi th River, and\\nthe former led the 1st Mass. Regiment (organized in Essex County, in 1636) in a\\nbloodless and successful campaign against the turbident Anglican colony at Merry\\nMount (Braintree). In 1661 the Quakers were persecuted at Salem, and in 1677\\nthe Indians on the coast of Maine seized 20 vessels, mostly from this town, while\\n4 vessels escajied by battle and returned to the port, bearing 19 wounded men and\\nseveral dead. The witchcraft delusion arose in 1692 in the family of Samuel Parris,\\npastor of the adjacent village of Danvers. His daughter and his niece accused\\nTituba, a slave of the household, of bewitching them, and Parris whipped her\\nuntil she confessed it. Tituba s husband, under the influence of fear, charged\\ncertain other persons of the same crime, and Parris proclaimed that the Devil\\nhath been raized among us, and his rage is vehement and terrible, and when he\\nshall be silenced the Lord only knows. The jail of Salem was crowded with\\nEssex County people wht) had been denounced for diabolical connnunications. 19\\npersons were hung on Gallows Hill, and Giles Cory was pressed to death. Cotton\\nMather was a leader in these persecutions, which lasted for 16 months, until the\\ngovernment became aware of its error, and released the scores of prisoners from\\nthe jail. In partial extenuation of this sti ange delusion, it may be said that Lord\\nChief Justice Hale, Lord Bacon, Sir William Blackstone, Addison, Johnson, and\\nother distinguished scholars believed in the reality of witchcraft and the pro-\\npriety of its punishment by death. Quarter of the population of Salem left the\\ntown in panic, and after aU was over, Parris acknowledged his error, and was\\ndismissed by his church.\\nIn 1774 Gov. Gage ordered the removal of the legislature from the closed port\\nof Boston to Salem. In 1776 a British regiment huided here, designing to destroy\\nsome military stores in N. Salem, but they failed to do it. Four Essex County\\nregiments were enrolled in the Continental army, while the fishermen of Salem\\narmed their craft and became privateersmen, by whom 445 British vessels were\\ntaken during the Revolution. After the war, E. H. Derby built a fleet of fine\\nships, and opened the East India trade, which by 181S engaged 53 Salem ships\\nand from this era most of the aristocracy of the city dates its origin.\\nSalem has given to the State, Senator Cabot, and Timothy Pickering, a Con-\\ntinental otficer, who became successivelv U. S. Postmaster-General (1791-5),\\nSecretary of War, and Secretary of State (1795 1800). He was also a U. S. Sena-\\ntor, 1803-11. Gov. Bradstreet, the Nestor of New England, and Gov. Endi-\\ncott, spent much of their lives in Salem. Gen. Israel Putnam, of the Continental\\nArmy Gen. F. W. Lander, mortally wounded after leading in some brilliant\\nactions of the War for the Union (1862) antl F. T. Ward, commander of the\\narmies of China until he was killed in the battle of Ningpo in 1862, were all\\nnatives of Salem. Also were born here, John Rogers, the sculptor N. Bowditch,\\nthe mathematician, astronomer, and author of The Practical Navigator N.\\nI. Bowditch, the antiquarian J. Prince and N. Adams, clergymen Benjamin\\nPierce, the mathematician the eminent nu^-cliants, Derby, Crowninshield, Phil-\\nlips, and Gray Maria S. Cummins, the novelist John Pickering, the philologist\\nJ. B. Felt, the annalist; and W. H. Prescott, born 1796, the author of histories\\nof Ferdinand and Isabella, the Con(iuest of Mexico, the Conquest of Peru, and\\nPhilip II. of Spain, amounting to 11 octavo volumes, and translated into 5 Euro-\\npean languages. Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the sweetest and purest of Ameri-\\ncan prose-writers, was born at Salem in 1804. After graduating from Bowdoin\\nCollege (1825), he settled in Salem, and horn 1838 to 1841 was in the Boston Cus-\\ntom House. In 1841 he joined the Brook l arm Comnmnity, and from 1843 lo", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0316.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "MARBLEIIEAD. Route 37. 255\\n1S46 he lived at Conrnrd. 1846-50 he was surveyor of the port of Salem, and\\n1S53- 57 he held the U. S. Consulate at Liver])Ool. He died at Plymouth, N. H.,\\nMay 19, IS Ji. The most important of his works of romance and miscellanies are,\\nTlie .Scarlet Letter, a weird and pitwerful romance of the early colonial days\\nof Massachusetts, and The Marble Faun, whose scene is laid in Rome, Peru-\\ngia, and the A])penines.\\nFour hraneli railroads run out from Salem.\\nA line crosses the towns of Peabody and Lynnfield, to Wakefield on the Boston\\nand Maine R. R. 4 trains daily pass into Boston by this route, and over the rails\\nof the last-named company.\\nI he Sah m and Lowell ll. R. (pertaining to the Boston and Lowell R. R.) runs\\nfrom the station near Salem Court House, to Lowell (24 M.). Fare, 80 c. 3 trains\\ndaily each way. This line crosses Peabody to Ipswieli River, which it follows for\\nC-7 M., and then jjasses through tlic towns of N. Reading, AVihnington, and\\nTewksbury, to Lowell.\\nTlie Lawrence liranch of the Eastern R. R. runs 3 trains daUy each way be-\\ntween Salem and Lawrence, through the towns of Dan vers, Middleton, and N.\\nAndover.\\nAnother branch runs to Marblehead (4 M.), passing the Forest River Lead\\nWorks.\\nMarblehead is louilt on a peninsula\\nof 3,700 acres, very rocky and uneven. It was incorporated in 1G35, and\\na clironicler of that time calls it Marmaracria, opiiiduni maritimuni,\\nsaxis abnndans. Wliitefield gazed in astoni.shnient upon its rocky hills\\nand said, Pray, where do they bury their dead Tlie town has about\\n8,000 inhabitants, and is situate l on the side of a narrow, deeji harbor.\\nIt was formerly engaged in tlie fi.sheries, but has latterly turned its atten-\\ntion to the shoe-manufactory. A full regiment marched from this town\\nto the Continental Army the crew of the Constitution frigate was mostly\\nenlisted here and it is said that the town sent more men (in proportion\\nto its population) to the Secession War than any other place in the\\nUnion. There are many quaint old colonial houses here, especially the\\nbank building, which was raised in 1 768 for an aristocratic mansion, and is\\nbut little altered. One of the churches was built in 1714, and is still\\nnsed for services.\\nIn June, 1813, there occuiTed a desperate naval battle off this coast, between the\\nAmerican frigate Chesapeake and tlie British frigate Shannon. The vessels\\nwere of about equal size, and tlie Chesajieake had sailed from Boston (with a\\npicked-up crew) in answer to a challenge from the Shannon. The latter vessel\\nwas splendidly handled, and after a few close broadsides, she ran alongside the\\nChesapeake and carried her by boarding, after a sharp resistance on the decks.\\nThe American Capt. Lawrence, was mortally Avounded and carried below, his\\nlast words being, Don t give up the shii). The English Capt., Broke, was so\\nbadly woiuided tliat he retired from the service, after carrying the Chesapeake\\ninto Halifax in triumph, and being knighted for his gallant achievement.\\nElbiidge Gerry was bom at Marblehead in 1744. He was a Congressman,\\n1776-85, and 1789-03, and signed the Declaration of Independence, but refused\\nto sign the U. S. Constitution (1787). In 1812 he was elected Vice-President of\\nthe U. S.\\nAt this town is laid the scene of Whittier s poem, Skipper Ireson s Ride.\\nMany years ago Capt. Ireson refused to take off some of his townsmen from a\\ndrifting wreck, because of the expense of feeding them all the way home. On\\nhis return the citizens tarred and feathered him, and rode him, in one of his own\\nboats, to Salem and liack, he remaining silent and unresisting. Whence the re-\\nfrain.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0317.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "25 G Roide 37. BEVERLY.\\nOld Floyd Ireson. for his hnrd heart,\\nTam-d and feathered ami carried in a cart\\nBy tlic women of Marhlehead.\\nIn 1775 this toAvn was only second to Boston in population. The 14th Mass.\\nContinental Reg., raised here and in Salem, was one of the elite corps of the\\narmy, and was called the amphibious. It ferried the army across the East\\nRiver by night after the defeat on Long Island, led the van in crossing the Dela-\\nware to the battle of Trenton, and escorted Burgojnie s c;iptive army through\\nNew England. The Marblehcad privateers did great service one of them took a\\nBritish sliip off Boston, laden with l,50u tons of powder and other stores. The\\nSt. Helena, 10, while convoying a fleet to Havana, was attacked at night by\\nthe British brig, Lively. At dawn, after a long hglit, F.he loinid Iserself under\\ntlie guns of the line-of-battle-ship Jujnter. The captive Marbleheaders were\\nput on board the Lively, and 12 days later theyro.se and took her, and run into\\nHavana. The Embargo (1810) rained the maritime business of Marblehead, and\\nat the close of tlie War of 1812, 500 of her sailors were in British prisons.\\nMarbleliead Neck is across the harbor (2 M. by road,) and is nsnally dotted\\nW th white tents during the summer. Tinker s Island (seen to the S.)is noted for\\nits cunner-fishing. Massachusetts Bay was stocked with cunners by some Bos-\\nton gentlemen, aii l the delicious lish have iiropagated rajjidly.\\nIjOAvell Island is a small island 5 M. from Salem, which is occupied by a\\nhotel accbmmndating 800 guests. The island covers but 25 rocky acres, and has\\ngoiid sea-air, witli views of Ca] e Ann, Beverly, the Satan Rocks, and Marblehead\\nwith its trim little fort. A steamer runs out several times daily from Marblehead\\n(2 M.).\\nAfter leaving Salem the main line passes through a tunnel 600 ft. long,\\nand crosses North River on a long Ijridge, between which and the highway\\nhridgc, a few rods down the stream, a fleet of yachts is moored for 8\\nniontlis of the year. Station, Brverh/. an ancient village which was\\n.settled in 1630, Imt is now- chiefly known for its extensive shoe-factories,\\nwliicli are concentrated about the public square near the station. Lathrop\\nSt. (named after Capt. Lathrop, a native of Beverly, who fell at the head\\nof the Flower of Essex, in battle near Deerfield, in 1675) affords a tine\\nmarine promenade, with an extensive viev/ over the bay, and its forts and\\nislands. The town has 7,263 inhabitants and ten churches.\\nNathan Dane, who resided here from 1775 to 1S35, was an eminent jurist. In\\n178r he introduced and fought through Congres.s a bill excluding slavery forever\\nfi om the vast domain N. W. of the Ohio River. Robert Rantoul, Jr., a p()\\\\verful\\nand popular politician, of remarliable jmrity of life and prineiides, was born here\\nin 1805. He filled the unexpired term of Senator Yv ebster in 1851. Dr. A. P.\\nPeubody, the eminent Unitarian divine, was also a native of Beverly.\\nStation, Wenham and Hamilton. Wenham was settled about 1636,\\nand its foundation was celebrated by Rev. Hugh Peters, who preached on\\nthe borders of its lake, from the text, AtEnon, near to Salem, becau.se\\nthere was mucli water there. The town was called Enon for many ears.\\nAn English tourist of 1686 wrote, Wenham is a delicious paradise; it\\nabounds with rural pleasures, and I would choose it above all other towns\\nin America to dwell in. Wenham Lake has a world-wide reputation for\\nits ice, which is sliipped to the remotest ports. The ice is kept free from\\nsnow, and is cut when a foot thick, an acre producing about 1,000 tons,\\nwhich is stored in great buildings near the shore. These ice-houses (seen\\nto the 1. from the track) liave double walls of wood, filled i:i with saw-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0318.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "IPSWICH. Route 37. 257\\ndust, and preserve the ice through the heats of summer. Side-tracks run\\nto the ice-houses by which it is carried throughout tliis part of the\\ncouutrj^, or to the ships at Boston. Salem gets its water-supply from\\ntills lake (the lai-ge reservoir is seen on a hill to the S. E. and the water\\nmust be good according to one writer s d priori reasonmg, of the soft-\\nness and purity of the waters of Essex County there can be no doubt,\\nfor its ladies are noted for their bloom and beauty. Gail Hamilton (Miss\\nMary A. Dodge) resides in the town of Hamilton (named after Alexander\\nHamilton), a quiet farming village about 1^ Isl. N. E. of the station. A\\nside-track leads here to the 1. to a large and favorite Metliodist camp-\\nground, where many thousands congregate in the month of August. 11 is\\n1 M. from the station, and its groves are tilled with small cottages. 60\\nacres of land are included in this Asbbry Camp-ground.)\\nA branch line runs from Wenliani to Essex, a quaint old marine village, ftmious\\nfo7- shii)-lmil(lincr, and noar ncean-viewinp- hills. It was the liirthplace of Rnfiis\\nClii atf% a brilliant orator, lawyer, and U. S. Senator. The jtictnresque Clie-\\nbacco P\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bbiids are 1 M from U n(xJh}iry K-Crossing station, amon,^ forest-covered\\nlulLs, and are a favorite local suminer-resort having a large hotel and boats.\\nThe main line now crosses Ipswich River, and stojis at Ipswich\\n{Agawam House restaui\\\\ant in the station). John Norton, of whom\\nCotton Mather says he spoke like Hortensius, and wrote like Abericus,\\nwas tlie pastor of this village from 1636 to 1652. His colleague was\\nNathaniel Ward, the author of tlie Simple Cobbler of Agawam, who\\nwas rector of Stoudon Marcy, Essex Coui ty, England, until silenced by-\\nArchbishop Laud for non-conformity. Capt. John Smith, in 1614, spoke\\nof the many cornfields and delightful groves of Agawam, but in 1632\\na fleet of 100 canoes filled with fierce Tarratines from the Penobscot laid\\nwaste this fair Indian village and destroyed many of its people. So the\\ncoast was clear, and John Winthi-op (afterwards founder of New London\\nand first Gov. of Connecticut) bought the tov/n of the Sagamore Mascono-\\nmet for 100, and settled here in 1633.\\nThe people are noted for their hospitality in summer the sea- wind\\nblows cool over its healtliy hills; and take it for all in ail, there is not a\\nbetter preserved specimen of a Puritan town in the ancient Common-\\nwealth. The chief village is situated on the r. of the track, on both si.les\\nof the Ipswich River, whicli is crossed by two stone bridges, one of which\\ndates fioni 1764. It has a fine public-library, a soldiers monument (to\\n65 dead), a harbor abounding in clams, and nearly 4,000 acres of liay-jJi o-\\ndiicing salt-marsli. There are about 3,700 inhabitants in the town,\\nwhich has hosiery-factories and 6 neat churches. Tliis is the seat of\\nIpswich Female Seminary, an old and famous school where Andover\\ntheological students are wont to take unto themselves wives of the\\ndaugliters of the Puritans.\\nA few miles to llie. E., down the river, is the North Ridge on Gniat", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0319.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "258 Route 37. NEWBURYPORT.\\nNeck, and Ipswich Bluff, a favorite sximnier camping-ground for fishing-\\nparties.\\nStation, Rowley (tlie chief village is over a mile S. W. a town largely\\ncoiiiposed of salt marsh. It was settled in 1638 by a nomadic church, led\\nby Ezekiel Rogers, who had been rector of Rowley in Yorkshire, and was\\nsilenced for Puritanism (non-comformity. In 1650 he died, leaving his\\nlibrary to Harvard College, and his estate to the Rowly Church. The\\nfirst cloth made in America was turned out from works erected by these\\nimmigrants. The line now runs across a wide and desolate moor, crosses\\nthe Parker River, passes the Oldtown Hills on the r., crosses the Newbury-\\nport R. R. (Boston and Maine), and stops at\\nNewburyport.\\nHotels. Merrimac House, .$2.50 a d;iy, 3 7-12 a week. Horse-cars to\\nAniesbury, by Merrimac St. .Sfaf/es daily to Artichoke, \\\\V. Newbury (8 M.). Grove-\\nlaiid(8 M.), Haverhill (11 M.), Oidtowt), S.ili Jiury Beach, and Plum-Island B.-ach.\\nsteamers to Blai-k lliK-ks (in sninuier), whence horse-cars to Salisbury beach.\\nJial/road to Boston (see pajie 27H).\\nNewburyport is an ancient sea-city, beautifully situated on a declivity\\nfacing the Merrimac River, and within 3 M. of the ocean, which is seen\\nfrom its wharves and house-tops. It has about li,000 inhabitants, and a\\nvaluation of $8,000,000. There are 16 churches, 4 banks, and\\n2 daily and two weekly newspapers. The chief retail trade is carried on\\nin State St., while the wliolesale trade is on the water-front, which is\\ntraversed by a marginal steam-railway connected with the Eastern Rail-\\nroad track. Since the absorption of foreign commerce by Boston, New-\\nburyport has been forced to adopt the jtolicy of the other small cities of\\nthe coast, and sustain itself by manufactories, while the old marine aiis-\\ntocracy has isolated itself from the new regime. The decadence of the\\ncity is shown by its decrease in population between 1860 and 1870, which\\namounted to over 500. The streets are generally broad, straight, and quiet,\\nwhile great numbers of shade-trees are found in every part of the place,\\nbeing cared for under the provisions of a fund left for that purpose by a\\npublic-si^irited citizen. The streets which run up from the river are short,\\nand terminate at High St., a broad and umbrageous avenue running IJM.\\nalong the crest of the ridge, and lined with mansions of the olden time.\\nOne of these (near the head of Federal St. was the home of Caleb Gushing,\\nthe eminent jurist and diplomatist. Near the head of Olive St. is the\\nmansion formerly occupied by Lord Timothy Dexter, an eccentric\\nmerchant who made a large fortune by singular ventures (sending a cargo\\nof warming-pans to the West Indies, and other speculations of a like\\nnature). On High St., neur State, is a pond covering six acres, and sur-\\nrounded by a mall and terraced promenade, on which the Essex County\\nCourt House is situated. Nearly opposite is tlie Putnam Free School, a\\nhigii school of wide reputation, and the Roman Catholic Church, wiiile St.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0320.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "NEWBURYPOKT. Route 37. 259\\nPaul s Episcopal Cliurcli and the graceful Gothic Chapel of St. Anne are\\nbuta sliort distance beyond (on High, near Market St.). The City Hall\\nis a large, plain building fronting on Brown Square, near which ai e the\\nNorth Church, the 1st. Baptist, and the Unitarian (the latter- having a\\ntall and graceful spire).\\nThe Public Library was founded by Josiah Little and well endowed by\\nGeorge Peabody. It occupies the old Tracy mansion (on State St.) where\\nWashington, Lafayette, and other noble guests have been received in the\\npalmy days of the place. The two upper stories are now formed into a\\nhall, containing about 15,000 books, while on the lower stoiy is a large\\npublic reading-room (magazines and newspapers). The Marine Museum\\n(open daily; on State St.) contains a collection of curiosities brought in by\\nthe ships of Newljuryport. Besides the usual mementoes of distant lands\\nand peoples, there are shown some very elaborate and handsome models\\nof ships.\\nOak Hill Cemetery is a beautiful rural burying-ground on State St.,\\nbeyond High. It is entered tlirougli a noble granite gateway, bearing the^\\ninscription, Until the daybreak, and the shadows flee away. State\\nSt. runs out into the country, and is prolonged (under the name of the\\nNewburyport Turnpike) through Salem and Lynn to Boston. It Avas\\nformerly tlie road traversed l)y the great northern and eastern stage-lines.\\nThe Old South (Presbyterian) Churcli is on Federal St., and has long\\nsince entered upon its second century. In a vault under the pulpit of\\nthis church are the mortal remains of George Whitefield, the founder of\\nthe Calvinistic Methodists, who died in Newburypoi-t in 1770. Thia\\nchurch also has a fine whispering-gallery, only equalled by the one at St.\\nPaul s, London (the sexton lives in the small house next to the church).\\nThe two-story v/ooden house back of the Old South was the birthplace\\nof William Lloyd Garrison.\\nThe river and harbor and neighboring sea afford fine opportunities for sailing\\nand fishing, in the summer, which are utilized by a largo fleet of pleasure-boats.\\nA favorite drive is to the Chain Bridge (about 3 M. up river), a plaee of rare\\nnatural beauty, with tlie large stone mansion, Hawkswood, on one bank, and\\non the other the castellated and far-viewing house occupied for several seasons by\\nBir Edward Thornton, the British Ambassador. Amesl ury is but a short dis-\\ntance beyond the bridge, while the river-road to Haverhill passes through i leas-\\ning scenery. The Laurels are by the river-side above the bridge, and excur-\\nsions are frequently made to their cool and sequestered groves.\\nThe Devil s Den is an old excavation in the limestone ledges, about 2 M. S. of\\nthe city (by State St.). Asbestos, amiaTithus, and serpentine are found there.\\nDuminer Academy is about 3 M. beyond this point, and is an ancient and famous\\nschool, which was founded and endowed by Gov. Dummer in 1756. Near the\\nAcademy is Dummer Avenue, with the finest lines of elm-trees in Kssex County.\\n3-4 M. from the city is the ancient and picturesque Indian Hill mansion of\\nBen Perley Poore, the author and journalist. This broad and rambling old house\\nmay be called the Abbotsford of New England, so many are the historic curiosi-\\nties which have been gathered here. The old Garrison House is near Oldtown.\\nGreen, and is a well-jsreserved specimen of the missive defensive architecture of\\nthe early colonial days. It was built during the 17th century, and has suffered\\nbut little change.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0321.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "200 Route 37. SALISBURY BEACH.\\nThe cnntinuatinn of ITi,!;li Street by Oldtown Green to Pipe Stave ITill (which\\ncommands ;i bi o.-ul fea-vicw) iind ParVer River, affords a drive throu-li a well-\\nKi-ttled rural district, which hsis an English air, in the carefulness of its cultiva-\\ntion and the antiquity of its liouses. Plvm Idnnd is 2-3 M. E. of Newburyiwrt,\\nand is a wild and fantastic sand-beach, reacliing to Ipswich, 10-12 M. distant,\\nand throv.-n u]), by the joint xwwer of winds and waves, into tJie thousand wanton\\nfigures of a snow-drift. It is joined to the city by a causeway, and has a hotel\\nand two lio:ht}iouses, near the N. end. The beach slopes rapidly, and having a\\nstrong undertow, is not used for bathing, but the breaking of the sea on this bold\\nshore after a storm affords a grand sight.\\nSalisbury Beach (stages semi-daily in summer) is 4 M. from New-\\nbnryport, on the N. side of the Merrimac. Tlie fariiiing town of Salis-\\nIniry is traversed, after crossing the river. This town was settled in\\n1G38, and named (in 1640) in compliment to its first pastor, who came\\nfrom Salishiiry in England. Many ancient houses are to be seen here;\\namong others the birthplaces of Caleb Cnshing and of Abigail, the\\nmother of Daniel Webster also the audience-room of tlie royal commis-\\nsioners of 1699, and the provincial boundary council in 1737. A long\\nplank-road runs across the marshes to the beach, which\\nis 6 M. long, extending from tlie Mei rimac to the Hampton River. The\\nsand is hard, smooth, and gently sloping, and is well adapted for long\\ndrives, and for bathing. The low ridge of sand\\nabove the high-tide line is taken up by a line of cottages wliich extends\\nfor over a mile along the shore. Many tents are pitched on the sands\\nduring the summer, and Whittier s poem, The Tent on the Beacli,\\nwell descriljcs this mode of life and the scenery in the vicinity of the\\nbeach (where its scene was laid). 1| M. S. of the plank-road is the\\nmoutli of the Merrimac River, with the picturesque I uins of an abandoned\\nfort (built to command the entrance), while the city of Nev/buryport is\\nin full sight up the river. Plum Island and Cape Ann are seen on the S.\\nfrom the beach, and Boar s Head, the Isles of Shoals, and Mt. Agamcnti-\\ncus on the N. and N. E. Following a ciistom wliich is now two centui-ies\\nold, the people of the surrounding towns congregate here every year on a\\nday late in August, and enjoy themselves. Sometimes more than 25,000\\npeople assemble. Steamboats run from Newburyport to Black Jiucks.\\nNewbury was settled in 1635 by a colony, under the pastor Thoniiis ParT-:er,i\\nwhich entered the river since called Parker, in the sliip Hector. There are but\\nfew towns in New England whose annals are so jieaceful as are those of Newbury,\\nwhich in the 23S years of its history has not felt the tread of a hostile foot, nor seen\\nthe flash of a hostile gun. The interests of the maritime village at the moutli of\\nthe Merrimac were found to be so different from those of the farming town of\\nNewbury, that Newbuiyport received a separate organization in 1764. In 1772,\\n90 vessels were built here, but the Revolution and the drain of men for the Esisex\\nCounty regiments checked the prosperity of the place, and in 1788 only 3 vessels\\nwere built. President Dwight says of the village in 1796, Indeed, an air of\\n1 Parker studied at Jlagdalen College, Oxford, and early distinguished himself by writing\\ntwo wonderful Latin l)ooks, De Traductinne I eccr.toris and iSIethodns Divinae\\nGratiae. When old and blind, the Homer of New Eufrlaud, he had along controversy\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0with President Chauucey. lie went unto the iaunoitals, in April, 1( 77, in the 82nd year\\nof his age.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0322.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "NEWBURYPORT. Route ST. 2G1\\nwealth, taste, and elesance is spread over this beautiful spot ith a choerfulnoss\\nand brilliancy to which I know no rival. Washmgton, Lafajette iaUejiaad\\nLouis Philippe of France, and other famous men were entertained here by the\\nScratic families. An extensive foreign commerce was hrmly estab islied and\\nin 1S07 the tonnage of the port was over 30,000. The Embargo lell with crushing\\nforce uiK n this nuiritime industry, and the Great Fire ()f ISll, winch \u00c2\u00abweirt a vay\\n16 icres from the most densely built quarter, checked the prosperity of the town\\nand reduced its population to 6,388. Its valuation in 1810 was about the same as\\nfn 1S70 Se town grew .slowly, and its Merrimac-built ships were tamous through-\\nout the world for flcetness, strength, and symmetry, and were made m la.^^c num-\\nbers until tlie decline of American commerce. The cotton-manufacture was eon\\nmenced hei-e in 1836, and is now the leading business of the place, although con-\\nsMe able attention is paid to the coasting trade, and there is ^^^^t\\nbelonging to the port. The carriage bridge across the Mernmac wab built i\\n1827 ad the Chain Bridge, above the city, was the hrst suspension bridge in\\nAmeVS^and the second in the world. The great turnpike rnnmng to Maiden\\nBridge and Boston was finished in 1806, at an expense ot 42 ),000\\nAmon- the natives of Newburyport were, the lawyers Charles Jackson, Simon\\nGrtSf, John L.nvell, Joseph unt, and Theophilus Parsons P f-~\u00c2\u00ab\\nJames Jackson and W. Inealls the inventors, Jacob Perlvius and Edmund Blunt\\nthe Sets LucvHooi^er and II. C. Knight; the authors. Geor,;e AVood, George\\nSmrsLiSm and Hannah F. LeeTthe divhies, J Gree.ileaf. Bishop Clarke,\\nGardner S, rin- G. R. Noyes, and Stephen H. Tyng the generals Michael Jack-\\nson RfvoEnary War, cominander of the Sth Mass.), and N.T. Jackson (Secession\\nW .V and tile senators WUliain Plumer and Tristrain Dalton. Among those long\\nresident here were Hannali F. (9ould, the poetess J. B. Gough, the tempera o\\norator; Caleb Cushing. RufusKin-, J. Q. Adams, and Harriet Prescott fel i\u00c2\u00ab-\\nWilliam Lloyd Garrison, the leader of the emancipalionist movement in the\\nU S w s boni at Newburyport in 1S04. He began to advocate the immediate\\nabolition of slavery about lb30, and led the movement lu that direction untd it\\nwas accomplished, bravely enduring many per.secutions.\\nV ,..i,Mr,-T,nit ^Pnt 1 6!;() snhlicis against the Rebellion of 1861-5.\\nNe\\\\\\\\bunp oit J J. j^if^es are about U M. from the city, and were\\nTheNewburypoit Silve^ Sh than tlie Neva.la mines. The Chipman-\\nopcned ;;v I ,^^;i -i; 1 slveml long lateral tunnels, and employs 70\\nnduLf 2-Vtons arl tS; out daily, valued at \u00c2\u00a7100 a ton. Rich siirface-\\nii Su.ns of silver have been found in the adjacent towns, especially in George^\\ntown; wlK-re very ri(h ores have been secured, the indications bemg that large\\n*T\\\\fobirbronze stldue of George Washington was presented to Newburyport by\\nout of its absen? sons in 1879, and now adorns the open space on High St., near\\nthe Mall It is the masterpiece of J. Q- A. Ward, the eminent sculptor.\\nAfter leaving Newburyport, the Portland train crosses the Mernmac\\nRiver at a high level, on a costly and massive new bridge, 1500 ft. long.\\nFine views are afforded (to the r.) of the city and river, with tlie ocean in\\nthe distance. Stations, E. Salisbury and SeabrooJc, a tlnnly settled town,\\nwhose territory is mostly covered with forests and salt marsh, and whose\\nname is derived from the nnmerous brooks which flow through it to the\\nsea Many of the people are engaged in making wliale-boats, and the\\ninhabitants of the seaward part of the town (S. Seabrook) long bore an\\nunenviable reputation. Their physiognomy, dialect, and clothmg were\\nso marked and unique that they were always recognized in the neighbornig\\ncity and designated as Algerines. A religiou.s and educational mission\\nwas establi.shed here about 1866, and is now self-supporting and prolilic\\nin benefits. Seabrook was settled in 1638, and was often harried durmg\\nthe Indian wars.\\nStation, Hampton Falls, S. E. of the village of the same name, which", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0323.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "262 Routes?. HAMPTON BEACH.\\nhas a large monument erected by the State to Mesliech Weare, the first\\nPresident of N. H. (1776-85).\\nDr. LangdoTi, chaplain of the N. H. regiment in the Lonisburg expedition,\\nreceived 10,000 acres of land in N. H. for his services, fatignes, and dangers.\\nHe was President of Harvard Uni\\\\ersity, 1774-80, and pastor at Hanijjton Falls,\\n1781 -97, and at his death he left his fine library to the village church. In August,\\n1737, the Governor of Mass. rode to this little hamlet at the head of the Legis-\\nlatui-e and escorted by 5 troops of horse. Here, in the George Tavern, he liad\\nlong conferences about the provincial boundaries, with the Governor and Legis-\\nlature of N. H. The latter demanded the territory which now conijKJses lier two\\nlower tiers of towns, whi(di had been settled by Mass. men under Mass. charters.\\nThe Governors failed to agree, and an appeal was sent to the King, setting forth\\nhow the vast, opulent, and overgrown province of Mass. was devouring the poor,\\nlittle, loyal, distressed province of N. II. The royal lieart was touched, and tlie\\nKing commandeil Mass. to sui reuder two tiers of towns (:28 in number) from the\\nConn. Eiver to the sea.\\nThe railroad now passes over long tracts of salt-meadow, on the E. of\\nwhich is Hampton Beach and the ocean. Station, Hampton, an ancient\\nvillage which was settled in 1638, on the Indian domain of Winnicummet,\\nand near a block-honse erected by Mass. in 1636 to mark its N. E. border.\\nThe first settlers were from Norfolk in England, and were long exposed\\nto pitiless attacks from the Indians. The town is now a qniet and\\npleasant land of peace and plenty, abounding in gray old colonial man-\\nsions, and traversed by broad and level roads. The village near the\\nstation Union House, good) has three churches in the old Puritan archi-\\ntecture. Stages run from the station to Hampton Beacli, 3 M. to the\\nS. E. Boar s Head Hotel, 300 guests Leavitt s Hampton Beach\\nHotel; Eagle House; and at the Loioer Beach, the Ocean House, 160\\nguests; Couch House.) Besides the hotels, there are many small summer\\ncottages on and near the beach. Boar s Head is a bold bluff 70 ft. high,\\nwhich projects into the sea from a stony strand, and affords the best mariae\\nviews on the N. H. coast. On the S. is the long and vague line of the\\nbeaches which front Essex North and stretch by Newburyport to Cape\\nAnn, while Mt. Agamenticiis is seen in the N. beyond Rye with its village\\nof hotels, and the Isles of Shoals are off shore on the N. E. The Boar s\\nHead Hotel is favorably situated on the little grassy plateau on the bluff,\\nand has a fine sea-view. (See Whittier s poem, Hampton Beach.\\nFrom the vicinity of Boar s Head a sandy beach extends S. to Hampton\\nRiver, where many vessels were made in the colonial days. The river\\nforms a safe harbor for coasters, though its entrance is fringed Avith I ocks\\nand shoals. Its clams are famous, and water-fowl formerly abounded,\\nwhile the settlement of Hampton was due to the abundance of salt hay on\\nits marshes. Salisbury Beach begins on the S. shore of the river, and\\nextends to the Merrimac, At half and low tide may be seen the rocks\\noff sliore, of which Whittier sings (in The Wreck of Ri vermouth\\nRivermouth Rocks are fair to see,\\nBy dawn or sunset shone across.\\nWhen the ebb oftlie sea has left them free\\nTo dry their fringes of gold-green moss", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0324.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "RYE BEACH. Route 37. 2G3\\nFor there the river comes wiiidinof down\\nFrom salt sea-mearlows and iii)lan(ls brown,\\nAtkI waves on the outer rficks at onni\\nShout to its waters, Welcome Home.\\nOnce, in the oUl Colonial flays,\\nTwo hundrerl years ago and more,\\nA boat sailed down the winding ways\\nOt Hampton Kiver to that low shore.\\nNortli Beach lies to the N. of Boar s Head, and was formerly lined\\nwith fish-honses from which the hardy iisliernien put out to sea in small\\nboats. A road runs N. near tliis stony strand, to Little Boar s Head and\\nRye Beach. The beach at Hampton is composed, for the most part, of\\na gradual slope seaward of liard sand, affording fine facilities for sttrf-\\nbathing and also for driving (at low tide). Tlie favorite drives from\\nHampton, inland, are to Exeter, to tlie rich fruit-growing town of Green-\\nland, to the ancient village of Hampton Falls, and to Stratham Hill.\\nThe next railroad station is N. Hampton, in a sparsely populated farm-\\ning town. Stages run throughout the summer to Rye Beach, 4 M. E.\\nHotels. Farragut House, S 4 a day, 17.50 21 a week Sea-View, S 15 25\\nRising-Sun, SS-15; Oceari- Vavo /inarilinfi-hnHses of J. II. Perkins, I. Manlen,\\nn. Sawjer, C. A. Jennes8, L. T. Sanborn, G. 11. Jenne.ss, A. BMchelder. 0. H. Coffin,\\nand many others, at If? 7 IS a week. E/ isrnpa/ Chiirc/i of St Andrew s-by-the-\\nSea. There is an admirable drive along the .shore to Straw s Point, commanding a\\nsuccePsion of interesting ocean views.\\nHye is the most fasliionable of- the N. H. beaclies, and presents an\\nagreeable ahernatiou of sharp and storm-woni ledges with strips of sand\\non which bathing is safe and pheasant. On tiie S. is Little Boar s Head,\\na sea-beaten bluff on which several fine cottages have been built, together\\nwith a large private boarding-house. A long, sandy beach stretches N. E.\\nfrom Jenness Beach to Straw s Point, which was bought a few years since\\nby Gov. Straw, and is now occupied hy the tine seaside cottages of several\\nN. H. gentlemen. An extensive marine view is obtained from this point,\\nfrom Boon-Island Light on the N. E. to Cape Ann on the S., embracing\\nnearly 40 M. of coast. One of the Atlantic telegraph-cables ends here.\\nDrake is of the opinion that the sliore full of white sand, but very stony and\\nrocky, near which Capt. Gosnold anchored (in 1602), was Rye Beach. Tlietown\\nof Rye was settled in 1G35, and was named from the English home of some of t!ie\\nimmigrants. In 1606 a flotilla of Indians attacked tbe people at Sandy Beacli and\\nkilled or captured 21 of tliem. In tlie same year th.e colonists retaliated by at-\\ntacking an Indian band while at breakfast. Tlie hill where this action took place\\n(to tlie r. of Greeidand station) lias ever since been called Breakfast Hill. Tlie\\nlittle town lost 8S men in the RevoUitionary War. Large sea-walls of i)ebbles are\\nseen near the Rye lieaches, v.hicli were thrown uj) by the waves in the great storm\\nwhich destroyed Minot s Ledge Lighthouse.\\nBeyond N. Hampton is Greenland station, in a small fruit-growing\\ntown. Station,\\nPortsmouth.\\nnotels. Rockingham House, a superbly frescoed and marhle-paA^ed hotel\\nof the hrst class, accommodating 250-300 guests; Kearsarge House National\\nHouse.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0325.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "2G4 Routes?. PORTSMOUTH.\\nKailroads, to Saro aiul Portland to NcwburiT^i t, Salem, ami Boston to\\nK. L diiway aini lh\u00c2\u00ab Wliit-i Mts. to Maiicliestcr and Concord. .Stafl es to Kittcry\\nand York Steamers daily (in sumniei) la 1 hr. to the Isles of yiioals a small\\nferry-boat plies between Portsmouth and the Navy- Yard. Stages run to New-\\ncastle.\\nThe site of Portsmouth was first visited by Capt. Prino; in 1603, and afterwards\\nbyCapt Smith in 1G14. In 1(523 it was settl( l (on Odiorne s Point) under the\\nauspices of the Laconia Company. A small but armed with several cannon was\\nerected on Great Island in 1635. The town was called Strawbeny Bank until\\n1653 on account of the abundance of strawV)erries which srew on its hills and\\naround the Great House of the i ,ro]n-ietor, Caj.t. ISIason. The people chose\\nPortsmouth as a name most suitable b r tliis place, it being the river s mout-i,\\nand as good as any in the land, although they probably accepted the idea from\\nCapt Mason, the founder of N. H., and proi-rietor of its islands, who had\\nlon been governor of the South Sea Castle, in the harbor of Portsmouth, Eng-\\nland. The ^vilbme was fortified M-ith palisades which effectually guarded it from\\nIndian marauders, who were repulsed by cannon in 1676. In 1696, a party landed\\nnear the Plains from a fleet of canoes and killed 14 Englishmen. In 1739, the\\ntown s-people firmly resisted the annexation of N. H. to Mass., and thus secm-ed\\nthe provincial independence of the former. In 1746, a new 16-gun battery was\\nl)uilt near Fort William and Maiy, on Great Island, and a 9-gun battery was built\\nat Little Harbor, to resist the expected French Armada. In Dec, 17 4 SuUivau\\ntook Fort AVilliam and Mary by surprise (with Rockingham Count yjolunteers),\\nand carried awav 100 barrels of powder and 15 cannon, and in In 5 the same\\ngentleman led the 3d N. H. Regiment to the Continental camp at Cambridge.\\nAt the close of the Revolution, De Warville found here a thin population, many\\nhouses in ruins, women and chiMren in rags, and everything announcing decline.\\nA brisk era of maritime prosperity soon carried the town to a higher level and\\nmany fine mansions were built for the new families of consequence. But the\\nEmbargo, a succession of disastrous fires, and the decdine of its commerce, fully\\nchecked this tide of prosperity, and the city (chartered in 1S49) has long been\\nlosing ground. Between 1S53 and 1870 it lost over 1,800 inhabitants.\\nPortsmouth, the capital of New Hamp.shire from 1712 to 1807, and its\\nonly seaport, is a quaint and pleasant old city (of 9,211 inhabitants),\\nsituated on a peninsula 3 M. from the mouth of the Piscataqua River.\\nTliere are nfore quaint houses and interesting traditions in Portsmouth\\nthan in any other town in New England. The Mansard mania has not\\nreached these quiet and shaded streets, and the prevailing architecture\\nseems to be that of the colonial days. There is a fine U. S. building\\nhere, also a few neat churches, while the Parade, or central square, ex-\\nhibits two or three specimens of curious old architecture. The city has\\n4 banks, 9 churches, 2 daily and 3 weekly new.spapers (of which the\\nN. II. Gazette is the oldest American paper continuously published,\\nhaving been established in 1756). There are also manufactories of shoes,\\ncarriages, furnittire, cotton goods, c. The quietness of the city, it:;\\nsalubrious sea-air, the pleasant drives in the vicinity, and the nearness\\nof fine br aches, render Portsmouth a favorite and desirable summer-re-\\nsort. The Athenreum (on Market Square) has about 12,000 volumes and\\na large reading-room. The old Church of St. John is worthy of a visit,\\nand so is Gov. Wentworth s mansion at Little Harbor (2 M. distant).\\nThis is a large, irregular, and picturesque building (dating from 1750)\\nwhich contains the old provincial council-chamber, and many quaint", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0326.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "THE ISLES OF SHOALS. Route 37. 265\\nrelics of the past, among which some portraits by Copley will be noticed.\\nGeorge Wasliington paid a visit to this mansion while the Wentworths\\nwere still there (it passed out of their hands in 1817). Portsmouth Har-\\nbor is one of the best in New England, always free from ice, 70-80 ft.\\ndeep, and the river is f M. wide opi^osite the city.\\nPortsmouth has given to American literature, T. B. Aldrich, J T. Fields, B. P.\\nShillaber, and Ehza B. Lee to the church. Dr. Nichols and Bishop Parker to\\nthe bar, Jud^;es Livermore and Langdon, and the Atkinsons to t!ie State, Gov.\\nBenning Wentworth, 8ir John Wentworth, and Senator John Langdon and to\\nthe navy. Commodores Parrott and Long, and Connnauder Craven.\\nOpposite Portsmouth (steam-ferry frequently from the foot of Daniel\\nSt. is the TJ. S. Navy Yard, on Continental Island, in the town of Kittery\\n(Maine). It has extensive ship-houses, machine-shops, rigging-lofts,\\nAvharves, and barracks; also a dry-dock which cost 800,000.\\nThis city has ever been famed for its naval architecture. In 1600, the Falk-\\nland, 54 guns, was built here in 16it6, the Bedford, 32 in 1740, the Amer-\\nica, 40 in 1770, the Raleigh, 32; in 1777, the Ranger, 18; in 1784, the\\nAmerica, a superb line-of-l)attle ship, presenteil to France. The Pcppcrell\\nHotel is a pleasant sunmier-resort at Kitterj% with tine sea-views, boating, bath-\\ning, fishing, and riding. The Ocean-View Hotel is near by.\\nKittery Point village, near the Navy Yard and Fort McClary, has the ancient\\nPe])perell, Sparhawk, and Cutts mansions, fine old colonial houses, filled with the\\nremnants of tlieir quaint furniture. Pepperell s tomb is near the first-named.\\nSir William Pepperell was Itorn at Kittery Point in l()9o. He rose rapidly in\\nthe colonial military service until 1745, when he conunanded the expedition which\\ntook Louisburg, for which he was knighted. He occupied imjjortant positions in\\nxVew England, was made a lieut.-gen. in the British army, and Gov. of Mass., and\\ndied in 1759. His grandson. Sir W. P. Sparhawk, assumed the Pepx)ereU name\\nand inherited the vast estates, which were sequestrated in 1778, on account of\\nhio adliereuce to the British government in opposition to America.\\nThe Isles of Shoals are 10 M, from Portsmouth, and consist of 8\\nrocky islets (9 M. from the shore), the largest of which contains 350\\nacres. There is but little vegetation on these rugged ledges, which lift\\nthemselves out of deep water, and are surrounded by the purest and\\ncoolest sea-air.\\nThe steamer leaves Portsmouth in the morning, and affords a fine retro-\\nspect of the city. The public works and national vessels at the Navy\\nYard are soon passed, and then the island-town of Newcastle (on the r.\\nThis town was settled before 1630, and incorporated in 1693. It was the\\nsite of old Fort William and Mary, and now has the poweri ul Fort Con-\\nstitution and the Portsmouth Light. On the 1. Fort McClary is seen, on\\nKittery Point, and the Wliale s Back Liglithouse is passed, with Frost s\\nand Odiorne s Points on the r. As the steamer gains the open sea, the\\ncoast of Maine is seen on the N. W., trending away beyond Mt. Agamen-\\nticiis. The Isles are now rapidly approached. The Apiiledore House\\nis a great hotel on Appledore Island, accommodating 500 guests, at 3.00\\na day. The great Oceanic lintel has beeii rebuilt (opened in 1873,\\nburnt in 1875), and is on Star Island, the former site of the vil-\\n12", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0327.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "266 Route 37. YORK.\\nla^e of Gosport. Several family cottages are attached to tlie hotel,\\nand leased by the season. On Star Island is a small cavern, wliere\\na woman once hid in a rocky recess while tlie Indians massacred the\\npeople of the settlement. It is said that she killed her two children to\\nprevent them from discovering her to the Indians by their cries. Another\\npoint on the rocky shore was the favorite resort of a lady school-teacher,\\nwho was wont to read there, until Sept. 11, 1848, when a huge wave\\nwashed her away, to be seen no more. Fine trap-dikes are found on this\\nisland. 1 M. S. W. is White Island, with a powerful revolving light, 87\\nft. above the water, and visible 15 M. away. Haley s (or Smutty Nose)\\nIsland is between Appledore and Star, and has the graves of 16 of the\\ncrew of the Spanish ship Sagunto, which was lost here (in 1813) with\\nall on board. Duck Island is 2 M. N. E. of Appledore, and is a rugged\\nand dangerous mass of rock. Fine fishing may be enjoyed from boats\\nabout the islands, and yachts may be engaged at the hotels.\\nThe Isles of Shoals were discovered by Chainplain in 1605, and were visited by\\nineisieboioi t last-named manner named them\\n^^^^i^^L^l^^rZ^^^ early adopted and in 1G23 the Isles o\\nShoulcii are s^en of (derived probably from the shoahng or schoohng of\\n^^Tlll m^fAppleSS^^^^^^ soon colonized, and in 1640 had a considerable\\nwas purchased and depopulated\\nYork villa-e is 9 M. N. E. of Portsmouth (daily stages over a hilly\\nroad to the btnich and the Marshall House). It is a .piiet and pleasant old\\nmartime hamlet, with several ancient houses, and a slender-spired church\\nwhich was built in 1748. 4 M. N. are two quaint old garrison-houses,\\nMclntire s and Junkin s, while the clayey valley of York River, being\\nfertilized with sea-weed, has some fine farms, which are noted for their\\napples and cider. H M. from the village is York BeacH, one of the bes\\nin New England, about H M. long and formed of gently sloping hard\\ngray sand. At its N. end Cape Neddick runs out into the sea, with a\\ncurious rocky islet called -The Nubble off its point, and separated from\\nit by a deep, narrow, and tide-swept channel.\\nw \u00e2\u0099\u00a6^i. TVInr ^hall Hnw^e c U -21 a week, overlooking the Short Samb\\nHotels. Mars\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab v^X w^rhor rWbv two snnnnor hoardu\\n!;:;;:aTrj:j:!r ^x.si;S,r, .r: laiSwiiJ k.i \u00e2\u0080\u009era, and bot", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0328.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "BALD HEAD CLIFF. Route 37. 267\\nsea- water baths Sea Cottage^ near middle of Lon^ Sands at Union Bluffs (E. end\\nof l^oug SauJs), are the Tliouip.-oii, Fairmouut, and Agauienticus Houses. Tlie I ar-\\nviewin,!^ CiiO llouse is at Bald Haud L /lff. Tliere are many cheap cottages to let\\non Ijung Sauds and at i oncordcllle (1 M. from lighthouse on Nubble, and 2 M,\\nfrom Cape NeJdick village). Sti-ainhoat twice daily from Portsmouth to York\\nHarbor and Union Blulis Jjee also Marpt:r s Ma(jax,i)Ui for Sept., 1883.\\n6-7 M. from York Beach (by a bad road through Cape Neddick)\\nis Mt. Agamenticics, a lofty hill wlieiice fine views of tlie ocean and of\\nthe Wlute Mts. may be obtained. About 5 M. N. from the beach is\\nBald Head Cliff, a remarkable rocky promontory, second only to the\\nGiant s Causeway in wild and majestic grandeur. The highly inclined\\nstrata of the ledges show long and I egular stripes of vivid and variegated\\ncolors, while the action of storms and rolling surf has broken the cliff\\ninto curious shapes. The view from the Puljyit when a heavy sea is roll-\\ning is awe-inspiring, with such force do the great surges break on the\\nrocks below. On its S. W. side tlie cliff falls sheer for 85 ft., to the\\nwater. Some years since, a new barque from Kennebunkport, being\\nlightly ballasted, was driven in on Bald Head Cliff, and lost, with its crew\\nof 14 men. Boon Island is seen off shore, with its lighthouse, 133 ft.\\nabove the sea. The Nottingham Galley, 10 guns, was wrecked on this\\nisland in 1710, and a horrid cannibalism sustained the life of the few men\\nwho were saved. The long Oguuqmt Beach stretches from Bald Head\\nCliff to Wells.\\nYork was settled about 1624, and in 1642 Sir Ferdinando Gorges established\\nhere the city of Gorgeana, with a full iiumicipal govennnent, and semi-yearly\\nfairs, to occur at the feasts of SS. James and Paul. Gorges was Lord Palatine\\nof Maine, and vainly tried to establish a feudal system here. The death of Gorges\\nand the rise of the English republic made it easy for Massachusetts to take ])os-\\nsession of Gorgeana City in 1652, and 10 years later the province took away the\\ncity charter, and named the town York. It was then the chief place in Maine,\\nand received a large addition to its poimlation by the arrival of a detachment of\\nexiled Scotchmen who had been captured by Cromwell at the battle of Dunbar.\\nThe Indians made frequent attacks on York, and in 1676 they destroyed Cape\\nNeddick village and its people. Feb. 5, 1692, the town was attacked at da\\\\Ani by\\n300 Indians and Frenchmen, who had marched from Canada on snow-shoes.\\nMany of the villagers gained refuge in the garrison-houses, which were success-\\nfully defended while the remainder of the settlement was destroyed. After a\\nbloody slaughter in the streets the assailants retired, leading 100 prisoners with\\nthem to Canada, after killing 75 of the peo] le of York. Henceforth until 1744,\\nthe settlers kept guarded as if in a state of siege, and throughout Queen Anne s\\nWar (1702-1712), spy-boats patrolled the coast betweeti Cape Neddick and Boar s\\nHead. 3 companies from York went to the Louisburg campaigns, and on the\\nmoi-ning after the battle of Lexington, 60 men marched thence to Cambridge.\\n*The Wentworth is a modern and first-cLiss summer-hotel ($4.50 a\\nday; S 21 -S iS a week), with electric lights, billiards, bowling, stables,\\norchestra of 20 pieces, music hall, boating, batiiing, fishing, and an im-\\nmense view along the coast, including 8 light-houses, and toward the\\ninland hills. It is 2 M. from Portsmouth (frequent stages) and near New\\nCastle, a quaint fishernu n s town of 600 inhabitants (see pages 264-5).\\nOn Jaffrey s Point is the stone-towered villa of Edmund C. Stedman, th?\\npoet and critic, near the home of John Albee, a graceful local poet.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0329.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "268 Routes?. WELLS.\\nPortsmouth to Portland.\\nBeyond Portsmouth the train crosses the Piscataqua River, affording a\\npleasant view ^to ther.) of the ancient city, and of the distant Navy\\nYard. Stations, Kittery (3 M. from Kittery Point), Elliot (a pretty\\nfarming-town), and Conway Junction, where trains diverge to N. Con-\\nway and the White Mts., 71 M. distant (see Route 3].). 3 M. beyond\\nConway Junction is \u00c2\u00abS Berwick Junction,\\nS. Berwick village is 2 M.\\ndistant, and has considerable manufactures. Stations, N. Berwick and\\nWells. The Boston Maine R. R. crosses at N. Berwick.\\nWells was founded in 1643 by Rev. John Wheelwright, who had been banished\\nfrom Mass. for heresy. In 1676 the settlement was vainly attacked by Mo^ g\\nMegonc, and in 1692 a fui ious assault was made by 500 men, led by Fi eiich offi-\\ncers. After a 48 hours siege, the enemy, led by M. Burniffe, Gen. Labocre, and\\nthe Tarratine chiefs Madockawando and Egeremet, attempted to storm the fort,\\nbut were disastrously repidsed by the artillery and musketry of Capt. Converse s\\ngarrison. In 1703, 39 of the peox)le of Wells were killed or captured.\\nWells Village {Ocean House, 60- 75 guests, $10-12.00 a week) is\\nabout 4 M. S. E. of the station, and is finely situated on a high ridge\\noverlooking the ocean. The houses are built along the old northern post-\\nroad, and are separated from the beach by Wells River. 1^ M. from the\\nvillage (good road) is Wells Beach {Atlantic Bouse, $10-16 a week;\\nBay- View House Hif/hhind Cottage, S 14- a week), a sandy strand, with\\nrocky ledges off shore, furnishiug good bathing and hunting. The view\\nfrom the AtLantic House is grand, embracing Boon Island, Ogunquit Beach,\\nand the trend of the coast from Bald Head CUff to Cape Porpoise. A short\\ndistance S. of Wells is the ancient village of Ogun(iuit, with Bald Head\\nCliff beyond, while 4-5 M. N. is Kennebunk.\\nThe Boston and Maine R. R. has a station \u00e2\u0096\u00a0within 1 M. of the Atlantic House\\nStation, Kennebunk (restaurant), 3 M. from the village {Mousam\\nHouse), which has several factories and shipyards, with 4 churches.\\n3 5 M. beyond are the maritime villages of Kennebunkport and Capt\\nPorpoise. Large granite breakwaters are built out on each side of the\\nmouth of the Kennebimk River, from which a beach runs W. 2-3 JI. to\\nthe Mousam River. There are several small boarding-houses here {Sea\\nView, Beach, and Fairvieiv Houses). Near Cape Porpoise village {Goose\\nRocks House) is a group of small islands sheltering a good harbor.\\nThis locality was first visited in 1602, and settled in 1629. In 1690 the provin-\\ncial garrison on Stage Island was removed, and the Indians soon attacked thp\\nsettlenipnt, upon which the jieople withdrew to the fort. After a long siege by\\nthe Indians, a crippled man from the fort escaped by night in a leaky canoe to\\nrortrsmouth, whence aid was sent, and tlie peoi)le were taken off. Tlie plaee Avaft\\ndeserted for 9 years, and 3 years after its resettlement (1702) it was utterly de-\\nstroj-ed by 500 Indians. In 1713 the town Avas again occupied, and in 1717 it was", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0330.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "BIDDEFORD. Route 37. 2G9\\nincorporated by the Mass. Legislature, with the name of Arundel. After bearing\\nthis name lor 104 years, the town discarded it for its ^ireseut name.\\nBeyoud Kennebuiik the train reaches Biddeford, a city of over 10,000\\ninliabitants, witli 4 baulvs (2 of deposit), 3 newspapers, and 13 churches.\\nOpposite Biddeford, and across the Saco River, is the city of Saco (Saco\\nHouse), with 5,757 inhabitants, 4 banks (2 of deposit), and a weekly\\npaper. The river has 55 ft. of falls between the cities, fm-nishing a fine\\nw^ater-power, which is utilized by the York, Pepperell, and Laconia cot-\\nton factories, running 175,000 spindles, with about 3,000,000 capital,\\nand employing over 3,000 operatives. Several hundred men are engaged\\nill large machine shops, while great numbers are in the lumber-mills.\\nThis district was first visited by De Monts in 1605, and Vines wintered here in\\n1G17-18. Permanent settlements were made about 1030, and in 1G75 the Sokokis\\nIndians were repulsed with severe loss from the fort at the falls. In 1703, this fort\\nwas taken by another attack, led by French officers, and in 170S Fort Mary was\\nbuilt. Uiddeford was bought for \u00c2\u00a390 by Wm. Phillips, of Boston, and in 1718\\nreceived its separate incorijoration, and was named for an English city whencu\\ncame several of its settlers. It became a city in 1855. Saco was incorjiorated as\\nI eppei-ellborough in 1762, and was named in honor of the knight who owned its\\nterritory. It was called Saco in 1805, and became a city in 1867. The celebrated\\nSaco River regiment (5th Maine) was raised hereabouts in 1861, and served through\\nthe Secession War, being most distinguislied for its brilliant bayonet-charge at\\nRappaiiannock Station, where it took hundreds of prisoners and the flags of the\\n8th Louisiana, and 6th, 7th, and 54th North Carolina regiments.\\nBiddeford Pool is 9 M. from the station (7 M. for pedestrians, by Fort\\nHill and the ferry). Steamers run twice daily from the pier below the\\nfalls, down the beautiful river to the Bool.\\nHotels. Highland House, 300 guests, 10 25 a M-eek Ocean House, S? 7\\n1(1; Jlolman House Fletcher House; Minsion House, $6 a week. At Bay\\nA iew, or Ferry ilecicli, Bay- View House, 150 guests, i H- 12 a week.\\nThe steamboat from Biddeford touches at Ferry lieacli, connecting there with\\nthe Old- Orchard Beach 11. K.\\nThe village is on a peninsula opposite the hill on which are the ruins of\\nFort Mary (built in 1708). Near by is a quaint old house of the 17th\\ncentury. The Pool is a broad and muddy-bottomed cove, which is very\\nnearly land-locked, and is filled hy each tide. There was formerly a\\npopular belief tliat whosoever entered the Pool on the 2i)tli of June wouKl\\nbe cured of all disease. On the ocean-front near the hotels is a fine, sandy\\nbeacli with good facilities for surf-bathing (rent of baihing-houses, $1.00\\na week), wliile a resounding rocky shore stretches around toward the\\nharbor. N. E. of the Pool is Stage Island, wliere a British frigate de-\\nstroyed 5 vessels in 1814, and Wood Island, with a powerful revolving\\nred light.\\nThe P nston and Maine Railroad (Route 38) touches the present route at Bidde-\\nford, and tourists who wish to visit the I ooi will find that route equally near.\\nAfter leaving Biddeford, the train crosses the Saco River, and passes on\\nto Saco station, with fine views of the sister cities on the r. 5 M. farther", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0331.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "270 Route 37. PORTLAND AND ITS ENVIRONS.\\non is W. Scarborough station, whence stages ran in 3 M. to Scarborough\\nBeach (Atlantic House, 50-60 guests Kirkwood House, somewliat\\nlarger both good houses also several inexjiensiA e boarding-houses).\\nThe beach is 2-3 M. long, hard, level, and safe for batliing, wliile the\\nfishing offshore is very good. A fine piece of forest near the Atlantic\\nHouse fumiislies pleasant walks. Front s or Libby s Neck (with two\\nlarge summer boarding-houses) projects into the ocean from the S. end of\\nthe beach, while on the N. is Richmond s Island, off the mouth of Spur-\\nwink River, and Cape Elizabeth with its large hotels.\\nThis town was settled about 1630, and in 1658 submitted to Mass. and adojited\\nthe English name, Scarborough, in place of its Indian name, Owaseoag( a place\\nof much grass In King Philip s War it wa.s defended by troops of Mass.\\nagainst several Indian attacks, over 200 men being in garrison here. The troops\\nwere called away in 1(;7G, and the enemy destroyed the town, and in 1677 240\\nMass. soldiers were landed here. They were tiereely attacked, and defeated with\\nthe loss (\u00c2\u00bbf 60 men and their commander, Capt. 8wett. In 1681 a large fort (parts\\nof which still remain) was built at Black Point, but the town was abandoned\\nbetween 1690 and 1702. In 1703, the fort was attacked by 500 men under M.\\nBeaubarin, but was defended by a brave little band from Lynn, while heavy niins\\ncaused the hostile mines to fall in. After over 100 Enghsh lives had been sacri-\\nficd by tlie Indians, Scarborough became firmly established, and in 1791 was as\\nJiopulous as Portland (2,235 inhabitants). The exodus from JIaine has greatly\\nAveakened this town, which in 1870 had a population smaller by 544 souls than\\nthat of 1791.\\n6 M. beyond W. Scarborough (passing Scarborough and Cape Elizabetli\\nstations) the train crosses Fore River, and stops at Portland.\\nPortland and its Environs.\\nArrival. The Boston station is about 1 M. from the centre of the city, and a\\ncariiage should be taken, as the district to be traversed is unattractive.\\nHotels. *Falmouth House, a fine structure on Middle St., J82.50-3 a day\\nPreble House, United States Hotel, S 2 -2.50 a day City, 2 a day.\\nHoi se-cars on Congress St. from Vaughan St. to the Observatory every 15\\nminutes; from the Preble House, by Preble, Portland, and Greeu Sts,,to Evergi-eeu\\nCemetery, Deering from Congress, by Spring, to Emery St.\\nRejidinn-i ooiiiS. The Y. M. C. Association, corner of Congress and Casco\\nSts. the Public Library, in the City Hall, open 10 A. M. to 9 P. M. the Portland\\nFraternity, 4 Free St. Merchants Exchange, Exchange St.\\nKailroatls. The Ea.stern R. R., to Portsmouth and Boston (Route 37) the\\nBoston and Maine R. R., to Lawrence and Boston (Route 38) Maine Central\\n(Portland and Kennebec) R. R., to Augusta and Bangor (Route 47) Maine Cen-\\ntral (Lewiston Division) to Lewiston and Bangor (Route 46) Portland and Og^\\ndensburg R. R., to N. Conway and Upper Bartlett (Route 39) cars of the Knox\\nand Lincoln R. R., for Rockland (Route 44); Portland and Ro hester R. R.\\nGrand Ti-unk Railway (Route 40).\\nSteain.ships. The Allan Mail Line runs between Portland and Liverpool\\nfi-om Nii\\\\cml tr to May, and from May to November T)etween (^m oec and Liver-\\npool. Cabin-fares, 65 -80.00 third-fdass, .s 30.00. Vessels of tlic International\\nSteamship Co. ran thrice weekly (Mondays, Wednesdays, and I^ iidays, at 5 P. iL)\\nto Eastport and St- John, connecting with steamers for Annapolis and Halifax.\\nPortland to St. J(dni, .S5.00. A weekly steamer leaves for Halifax direct; fare,\\n$S.00. Semi-weekly steamers leave Franklin Wharf icr New York; fare (includ-\\ning state-room), S5.00. Dailv steamers leave Franklin Wharf at 7 P. M. for\\nBoston fare. 81.00 (with state-room. .8 2(t0). These vessels are large and com-\\nmodious, and the trip allords i leasaut views of tiie harbors of Portland and", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0332.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "PORTLAND. Routes?. 271\\nBoston. Tri-wpekly stenmers also for the Penobscot River, stopping at the\\nriver-ports from Rockland to Bangor. The steamer Lewiston leaves Railroad\\nWharf semi-weekly for Mt. Desert and Machias (see Route 45). Smaller boats\\nrun semi-weekly to Boothbay, Peinaquid, Waldoboro, a;id Damariscotta (see Route\\n44) and several times daily to Peak s and Cushing s Islands. Excursion steam-\\ners frequently ascend Casco Bay to Harpswell.\\nPortland was settled in 1632, on the Indian domain of Machigonne, and was\\nnamed Casco Neck until it passed under tise Mass. government in 1658, when it\\nreceived the name of Falmouth, In 1676, the settlement was destroyed by the\\nIndians, and 35 of its people were killed and captured. The desolated village\\nwas repopulated in 1678, and received an accession of Huguenot immigrants\\nfrom La Rochelle, but the Indians soon rose again, and in 1689 killed 14 of the\\ntown-guard on Munjoy s Hill. In the same year, the town was menaced by a\\nlarge hostile force, but was delivered by the opportune arrival of Major Church, a\\nslcilful partisan officer, with troops from tlie PJymoutli Colony. Church marched\\nout to the vicinity of the Deering estate, and boldly engaged the enemy, who was\\nput to flight after a sharp skirmisli in which tiie Plymoutli men lost 11 killed and\\nmany wounded. After Church had left the town (16it0), the three main defences\\nwere attacked by 500 Frenchmen and Indians. One of them was evacuated and\\nanother was stormed. Fort Loyall, the largest fort on the coast (then on the\\njiresent site of the Grand Trunk station), was fiiirly garrisoned and mounted 8\\ncannon. Having destroyed tlie village and most of its inhaliitants, the fort was\\nbesieged fur 5 days, and mined under the direction of tlie French officers. Ere\\ntlie mine was sprung the fort surrendered, and the survivors of its garrison were\\ntaken to Quebec. Scores of the people were killed, and loO were made lu isoners.\\nIn 1703 the neighboring villages of Spurwink and Purpooduck were destroyed,\\nand 55 people killed or cajitured. After the Peace of Utrecht, in 1713, the place\\nwas again occupied and grew slowly, the population of 720 souls in 1753 having\\nincreased to 2,000 by 1764. October 18, 1775, this jjrosperous town was bom-\\nbarded by 4 British war-vessels (the Canseau, Cat. and others, under command of\\nCapt. Mowatt, who liad previously sutfered some indignities here). Detachments\\nof marines were landed, and between their incendiaiy labors and nine hours of\\ncannonading from the fleet, 414 buildings were utterly destroyed, leaving but 100\\nstanding. Tlie rebuilding of Falmouth was commenced in 1783 in 1785, the\\nFalmouth Gazette was started, to advocate the inde]iendence of Maine (then\\nunder the Mass. government) and in 1786 a town was incorporated here, with\\n2,000 inhabitants, under the name of Portland. In 1832 it became a city (popula-\\ntion 13,000), and soon afterwards began the construction of great railway lines to\\ntlie back country. An extensive foreign trade sprang up, jn-incipally with the\\nWest Indies, and the city grew rapidly in wealth and importance. On the night\\nof July 4th, 1866, a disastrous tire swept away one half of the compact part of the\\ncity, causing a loss of 6,250,000.\\nPortland, the commercial metropolis of Maine (with 36,000 inhabitants\\nand a valuation of $31,2.59,401), is situated on a high peninsula in the\\nS. W. end of Casco Bay. Its harbor is deep and well sheltered, and\\ndefended by three powerful forts, while several large islands beyond afford\\nfavorite resorts in the summer season. The peninsula on which the city\\nis built is 3 M. long, and at the centre is little over M. wide. It is\\nbotmded by Portland Harbor and Fore River on the S. and W. and by\\nBack Cove on the N. Bramhall s Hill, on the W. of the peninstila, is\\n175 ft. high Munjoy s Hill, on the E., is 161 ft. and the central part\\nof the city is 57 ft. above the water. The Western Promenade looks down", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0333.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "272 Route 37. PORTLAND.\\non the rural environs from Eranihall s Hill, and from this point Congress\\nSt. runs down the length of the peninsula to the Eastern Promenade on\\nMunjoy s Hill, from which line views of the bay and islands may be ob^\\ntained. Each of these promenades is 150 ft. wide, divided into sections,\\nand planted with lines of trees.\\nThe City Hall is a large and imposing building of light Nova Scotia\\nstone, surmounted by a singular dome. Passing from this point up\\nCongress St., with Lincoln Park on the r., the Homan Catholic Bishop s\\nPalace is seen on the 1., and the large Cathedral of the Immaculate Con-\\nception. Beyond St, Luke s Church (Epis.) on the 1., a large building\\noccupied by a graded city school is passed, and alongside of it the old\\nEastern Cemetery is seen.\\nAmong those who are buried here are Commodore Prehle and Captains Bur-\\nroughs and Blythe. Edward Prt-lile was l)orn at Portland in 1761, and was an\\nottiL tT in tlie American Navy duviny the Revolution. He commanded tlie squad-\\nron wliirh sailed to Tripoli in 1803, and humbled its piratical people by several\\nbombardments of the city, at the same time averting the dangers of a war between\\nthe Emperor of Morocco and the United States. Burroughs and Blj-the com-\\nmanded respectively the American war-vessel, tlie Enterprise, and the British\\nbrig, the Boxer, which fought off Pemaquid in 1813. After a sharp action of\\n48 minutes, in which both captams were killed, the Boxer surrendered and was\\ntaken into Portlajxd.\\nJust beyond the cemetery is the observatory on Munjoy s Hill, which\\nshoidd be ascended for the sake of its extensive view (small fee to the\\nkeeper). To the S. W. on the heights beyond Fore River, is the fine\\ncastellated building of the State Rcfomn School, with the plains of Scar-\\nborough aiid Saco beyond, and far down the coast is tlie blue cone of Mt.\\nAgamenticus. Portland and its inner harbor lie to the S. and W., with\\nBramhall s Hill at the further en l of the ridge. To the N. W. is the\\nvillage of Gorham (Maine), over Back Cove and Deering s Oaks, and far\\nbeyond, 80 M. distant, the Wliite Mts. may be seen in clear weather. N.\\nE. are the numerous verdant islands in the blue waters of Casco Bay, Avith\\nthe bending shores of Falmouth and Cumberland. The lighthouse on\\nSeguin Island, at the mouth of the Kennebec, 25 M. distant, is easily\\nseen by the aid of the telescope suspended from the roof, while on the\\nE. is the outer harbor, with Peak s aiid Cushing s Islands, and the mas-\\nsive fortifications. S. E. is Cape Elizabeth, with its summer hotels, and\\nthe Twin Sisters (Portland lighthouses). A short distance beyond the\\nObservatory is the Eastern Promenade. The Marine Hospital, which\\nmay be seen from this point, Is a fine building fronting on the Bay at\\nMartin s Point.\\nThe U. S. Custom House is an elegant granite building in the peculiar\\nstyle whicli has been introduced by the architects of the present Adminis-\\ntration, The inner hall, with its elaborate marble ornamentation, is\\nworthy of a visit. A sliort distance N. E. of the Custom House are the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0334.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nd-out is being digitized, and will be inserted c\\nfuture date.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0335.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\n)ut is being digitized, and will be inserted at ai\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0336.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "ENVIRONS OF PORTLAND. Route 37. 273\\npiers of the New York, Boston, and Liverpool lines of steam.ers, and the\\nextensive terminal station of the Grand Trunk Railway.\\nTlie Post Office is a beautiful structure of white Vermont marble, built\\nin the mediaeval Italian architecture, with an elegant i;pper portico sup-\\nported by Corinthian columns. Tliougli small, this is one of the richest\\nand most pleasing of the national buildings in New England. In this\\nvicinity are the stately buildings of the City Hall and the Falmouth Hotel,\\nwith many fine commercial buildings. Beyond the Mechanics Hall a\\nsuccession of fine residences are seen stretching up the slopes of Bram-\\nliall s Hill, on streets so thickly lined with shade-ti ees as to have given\\nto Portland the name of the Forest City. The trees in the central\\nstreets were destroyed during the great lire of 1866.\\nThe Society of Natural History has good collections of shells, minerals,\\nbirds, c. and the libraries of the Athena?um and Institute are often\\nvisited. There are several neat stone churches in the city.\\nThe commercial facilities of Portland have Vieen greatly increased bylhe oon-\\nstrurtiou of a maryinal railway along the water-frout of the city, with side-tracks\\nrunning down the wharves. The imports in IST-t were 8 \u00e2\u0080\u00a225,022,%0 the exports\\nAVfre i?2G,()65,646. Tlie tonnage of the j^nt is 110,830 tons. Portland lias a lucra-\\ntive trade with Great Britain but her chief commerce is with the West India\\nIslands, vast amounts of shooks and sugar-barrels having been sent there, and\\nrepaid by return eargoes of sugai- and molasses, which were worked over in largo\\nrotineries in tlie city. Brown s sugar-liouse is the lofty building witli many\\nsmall windows, bet\\\\ een the railroad station and the city. It was rebuilt witlun\\nCO days after the Great Fire. In 1870 there were received at Portland nearly\\n15,000 hogsheads of sugar and 45,000 hogsheads of molasses.\\nThe city is supplied with water from Lake yebago, 17 M. distant, which Is 247\\nft. above tide-water, and is said to have the purest lake-water in the world. 20\\nM. of pipes underlie the city and convey the water to all its parts. There are\\nhere 3 daily papers, 7 weeklies, and 3 monthlies.\\nEvei green Cemetery is 2^ M. from Portland (by stage or railway), and has\\npleasant woodland grounds covering 177 acres. There is a fine Gothic monument\\nof Caen stone over the remains of William Pitt Fessenden, U. S. Senator IVom\\n1854 to 1869.\\nPortland was the birthplace of Henry W. Longfellow, the poet N. P. Willis,\\nthe poet and traveller Sara P. Parton (Willis s sister), who wrote popular essays\\nunder the pseudonym of Fanny Fern Erastus and James Brooks, the New\\nYork journalists and politicians Rear-Admiral Alden, who was distinguished in\\nthe naval battles at Vera Cruz, New Orleans, and Mobile Commodore Preble,\\nwho rommanded in the Tripolitan War; Capt. G. H. Preble, who fouglit in the\\nMi^xican and Secession wars John Neal, the poet and noveUst and Neal Dow,\\nthe reformer.\\nEnvirons of Portland.\\nCape Elizabeth is S. of the harbor, and stretches its rugged cliffs into\\nthe ocean. The drives over this surf-beaten promontory are veiy pleasant\\nduring the summer, and extend to the Twin Sisters lighthouses, at the\\nend of the cape, 9 M. from the city. The Cape Cottage is 3 M. from\\nPortland, and is a large and picturesque hotel, built of stone, and accom-\\nmodating 100 guests (frequent stages to the city). The scenery is fine,\\nembracing the shoreless ocean on one hand and the entrance to the harbor\\n12* R", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0337.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "274 Route 37. ENVIRONS OF PORTLAND.\\non the other. 5 M. beyond this point is the Ocean House, a large hotel\\nnear a lianl, sandy beach, with good facilities for surf-bathing. 10 M.\\nfrom Portland is the Atlantic House, on Scarborough Beach. The Port-\\nland Light is Sj M. from the city, on a higli bluff which commands broad\\nsea-views. A steam -ferry runs from Custom House Wharf to Cape\\nElizabeth village, and i M. from its pier is Fort Preble, a formidable\\nwork on a commanding point. To the N. is the town of Cape Elizabeth,\\nand 2J M. fi-om Portland is the fine building of the State Reform School.\\nSteamers run several times daily (in summer) to the islands in Casco\\nBay. This is one of the pleasantest short marine excursions on the coast,\\nand can be made in 3 4 hours, although it is better to go down on a fore-\\nnoon boat, dine at the Ottawa House, spend the afternoon on Cushing s\\nIsland, and return on the afternoon boat.\\nThe steamer leaves the pier and passes into the harbor, with Fort\\nPreble on the low point to the r., and the more powerful works of Forts\\nScammel and Gorges on islands in front. Beautiful retrospects are af-\\nforded of Portland, rising in terraced lines along its hills. Casco Bay,\\nover a small part of which the steamer passes, is one of the most pic-\\nturesque of American bays, and some enthusiastic persons rank it next to\\nthe Italian Bay of Naples. It is popularly supposed to contain 3G5\\nislands (like Lake Winnepesaukee), and its green archipelago abounds in\\ngood fishing-places. Boats of all sizes, with experienced captains, may\\nbe hired in Portland. Diamond Island, about 5 M. from the city, is fre-\\nquently visited by large parties, and has noble groves of old trees, with a\\nbold, rocky shore opening occasionally in level strips of beach. Diamond,\\nPleasant, and Indian Coves are beautiful and sequestered inlets, bordered\\nwith beeches, maples, and oaks. Peak s Island is 4 M. from the city,\\nand is a popular summer- resort for the people of Cimiberland County.\\nThere are several small and inexpensive hotels here (Casco House, Union\\nHouse, and others), and fine views of the city with its harbor and de-\\nfences, the curving coast of Cape Elizabeth, and the shoreless ocean, aro\\nenjoyed.\\nCushing s Island is four M. from the city (frequent steamers), and\\nis the outermost of the islands in this direction, facing the ocean. The\\nOttawa House is the only one on the island, which covers 250 acres, and\\nis composed of high bluffs. Tliis hotel is a favorite resort for Canadians,\\nwho are usually in the majority here. The building is of brick, and\\naccommodates 150 guests, at $14-18.00 a week. The view from the\\ncupola of the Ottawa House (for patrons only) is beautiful, including on\\none side the lovely islets of Casco Bay, then the level-horizoned ocean,\\nthe ship channel, and the bold shores of Cape Elizabeth. But the view\\nover the harbor towards and including Portland is the most pleasing.\\nThe forts are seen in the foreground, Peak s Island on the r., and in the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0338.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "BOSTON TO PORTLAND. Route 38. 275\\nremote N. W., if the day is clear, the White Mts. are visible. Sandy\\nbeaches for bathing, and rocks projecting in deep water, for fishing, lie\\nalong the sliore. An embowered path leads along the ridge to the npper\\nend of tlie island, passing tliroiigh a fine cedar forest. Tlie walk ends on\\nthe verge of a loft}^ precipice of storm-beaten rock (called White Head),\\ncommanding fine views of the ocean, the bay, and the city.\\nSteamers run almost daily in the summer up the length of Casco Bay,\\nto Harpswell, a quiet old peninsular town rendered classic by Mrs.\\nStowe s romance, The Pearl of Orr s Island, and hy Whittier s poem,\\nThe Dead Ship of Harpswell. There are several pleasant summer\\nboarding-houses at this point.\\n38. Boston to Portland.\\nBy the Boston and Maine Railroad. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Boston to Portland, 115 M, fare $3.00.\\nAfter leaving tlie terminal station on Hayniarket Square, Boston, the\\nline crosses tlie Charles River, passes over Prison Point, in Charlestown,\\nstops before the crossings of the Fitchburg and the Eastern Railroads,\\nand reaches Somerville station. On Winter Hill, in this town, the cap-\\ntive army of Burgoyne was cantoned for many months. The city of\\nSomerville was named in honor of Richard Somers, a brave naval officer,\\nwho was killed in the Tripolitan War. Leaving Charlestown Heights\\non the r., the line crosses the broad Mystic River, and stops at E,\\nMedford, whence a branch line runs to Medford, a busy village interested\\nin ship-building and other profitable industries. Tufts College, a flourish\\ning institution under the care of the Universalist Church, is near Medford,\\nand on Ship St. is a solid and low-windoAved brick house that was built\\nby Gov. Cradock s men in 1634.\\nStation, Maiden (Maiden House, Pratt s Hotel), the old Mystic Side,\\nand now an inq^ortant manufacturing village near the clustering hills\\nwhich Avere likened by President Dwight to the sweeping flourishes of a\\ngraceful penman.\\nAdoniram Judson, the apostle of Burmah, was born at Maiden in 1788,\\nHe spent 40 years in and near Rangoon, translated the Bible and other\\nbooks into Burmese, and although he was at times chained and impris-\\noned, he succeeded in building up a powerful church with thousands of\\nmembers.\\nStations, Wyoming and Melrose, pleasant suburban villages of recent\\norigin. Spot Pond, a favorite summer-day s resort, is less than 2 M. W.\\nof Wyoming. Stoneham station is 2 M. E. of the village of Stoneham\\n(Central House), to which it is joined by a horse-railroad. Stoneham has\\n22 shoe factories, and does a business of about 3,000,000 a year. The\\nmain Une next passes Greenwood, then runs along Crystal Lake (on the", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0339.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "276 Route 38. WAKEFIELD TO NEWBURYPORT.\\n1.), and stops at Wakefield Junction, whence a branch linedivei^es to the\\nE., reaching Salem by way of Lynnfield and Peabody.\\nWakefield to Newhuryport.\\nA branch railroad runs from Wakefield Junction to Newburyport in 30\\nM. Leaving the elegant mansion and grounds of Cyrus Wakefield, and\\nWakefield Hall, his princely gift to the town, on the 1., and the extensive\\nrattan-works on the r., the branch line soon crosses the Saugus River, and\\nenters Essex County. Stations, Lynnfield Centre, W. Danvers (Avhere\\nthe Salem and Lowell Railroad is crossed), and Danvers. The latter is an\\nancient town, which was settled before the middle of the 17th century.\\nThe witchcraft delusion arose here in 1692, and in 1774 a strong British\\nforce was cantoned on Danvers Plains, in order to overawe Essex County.\\nThe town is now dependent on large shoe manufactories, with carpet-\\nworks and a rolUng-mill. The train soon ci osses the Salem and Lawrence\\nRailroad, and runs N. through the thinly settled towns of Central Essex.\\nStation, Topsfield (Topsfield House), settled in 1639, on the scanty in-\\ntervales along the Ipswich River. Boxford, a sterile town, was incor-\\nporated in 1686, and has two box -factories. Station, Georgetown (Pen-\\ntucket House), a bright and busy village E. of the railroad, with consid-\\neral)le manufactories of boots, shoes, and carriages. George Peabody,\\nthe eminent philanthropist, was employed in this town in his younger\\ndays (1812-13), and has evinced his pleasant memories of it by present-\\ning to Georgetown a fine public library and fund. The Memorial Church\\nis a monument of his filial regard. S. W. of the village is Bald Pate, the\\nhighest hill in Essex.\\nA branch railroad runs N. W. from Georgetown through the towns of\\nGroveland and Bradford, to the city of Haverhill (7^ M.).\\nThe train crosses the towix of Newbury, and in 9 M. from Georgetown\\nreaches Newburyport (see Route 37).\\nWakefield was settled in 1G39, and was for over two centuries known as\\nS. Reading. In 1868 it assumed its present name in honor of a wealthy\\ncitizen who had greatly benefited it. Cyrus Wakefield introduced the\\nrattan-working industi-y into this country, and liad large factories here.\\nWakefield has 5,319 inhabitants, 3 papers, 6 churches, a public-library, a\\ncostly town-hall, a memorial hall (to 17 dead soldiers), and shoe-factories.\\nPassing Lake Qiianapowitt (on the r.), the train reaches Reading,\\ndevoted to the manufacture of shoes, cabinet-ware, organs, c. Stations,\\nWilmington, Wilmington Junction (where the Salem and Lowell Railroad\\ncrosses the present route), Ballardvale (with factories making files, Bris-\\ntol polish, and fiannels), and Andover {Elm House Mansion House).\\nThis ancient academic town was settled about 1643, on the Indian domain\\nof Cochichewick, which was bought from the natives for \u00c2\u00a726.64 and a", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0340.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "ANDOVER. Route 38. 277\\ncoat. Andover has some active manufactures, but is chiefly famed for its\\nschools. Tlie Puucliard High School is a local institution of high stand-\\ning. Phillii:)S Academy occupies a fine building on the hill, and is of wide\\nreputation. It was endowed by the Phillips family, in 1778, with 85,000\\nand considerable landed estates, and has since occi^pied a prominent posi-\\ntion. The Abbot Female Seminary is an old and famous school for young\\nladies. The Theological Seminary of the Congregational Church was\\nfounded about 1808, and soon after received liberal endowments 120,000\\nfrom Samuel Abljot and 250,000 from William Bartlett). This insti-\\ntution has long been the school of the prophets for the sect to wliich\\nit belongs, and has prepared its ablest divines for their work. Up to 1871\\nit had graduated 2,491 men, and in 1876 it had 7 professors and 54\\nstudents. It is under the Presidency of E. A. Park, D. D., a prominent\\ndivine, who is also the editor of the learned quarterly, the Bibliotheca\\nSacra, which is published here. Its buildings are very plain, causing the\\nvisitor to wonder if orthodox angels have not lifted up old Harvard and\\nMassachusetts Halls, and carried them by night from Cambridge to\\nAndover Hill. But the situation is one of extreme beauty, and the\\ngrounds are quiet and abounding in trees. In front of the line of build-\\nings is a long walk shaded by four lines of trees, near whose ujiper end is\\nBrechin Hall, a handsome building of local stone, which contains a library\\nof al)Out 30,000 volumes, and a few curiosities. A copy of Eliot s Indian\\nBible, a superb copy of the Codex Sinaiticus, and various trophies from\\nthe mission fields are to be seen here.\\nJohn and Peter Smith came to Audover from Brechin, in Scotland, many years\\nago, and amassed large fortunes. They built and gave Brechin Hall to the\\nSeminary, and erected noble schools in their native Brechin, on a hill which they\\ncaused to be named Andover Hill.\\nS. of the grounds, and near the Mansion House, is the old home of\\nLeonard Woods, D. D., an eminent Calvinistic theologian, who taught in\\nthe Seminary, 1808-46, meanwhile holding controversies with the Uni-\\ntarians on one side, the Episcopalians on the other, and the Baptists and\\nSwedeuborgians. The Printery and several dormitory buildings are on\\nstreets near by. A beautiful chapel has lately been built.\\nAndover was so named because its first settlers came from Andover in\\nEngland. It supported 100 men in the Continental Army. Elizabeth\\nStuart Phelps, authoress of Sunny Side, c., and her daughter, E. S.\\nPhelps, authoress of Gates Ajar, c., were born here.\\nThere are pretty ponds in Andover, and the valley of the Shawshine\\nRiver has some pleasant rural scenery, while the view from Andover Hill\\n(at sunset especially) is highly praised. Many summer visitors stay here,\\npartly attracted by the fine society.\\nAfter leaving Andover, the train arrives at S. Lawrence, opposite the\\ncity of Lawrence. Some of the through trains cross the river and enter", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0341.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "278 Route 3S. LAWREXCE.\\nthe city, Avliile otlicrs do not, but proceed down the r. bank of the river to\\nllaverliill. It is but a few minutes walk over the Merrimac River, while\\nfrom the bridge the traveller gets views of the great dam (on the 1.) and of\\nthe long line of factories (on the r, and front).\\nLawrence.\\nHotels.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Franklin House, a small but elegantly appointed hotel opposite\\nthe 11. H. Wtation, \u00c2\u00a72. 50 a day Essex Hotel.\\nThis city was fouuded by the Essex Company in 1844, and contained,\\nin 1845, 100, and in 1847, 3,000 inhabitants. A powerful stone dam was\\nbuilt across the river, giving a fall of 28 ft. and a water-power equal to\\n10,000 horse-power. A canal 1 M. long carries the water along the line\\nof mills, parallel with the river and 400 ft, from it, and another long canal\\nis exit on the S. bank. The city water-supply was recently introduced,\\nand cost $1,240,000. The Merrimac River is 1,000 ft. wide here, and\\nthe fall over the dam has a beautiful effect. The city has 2 banks and 2\\nsavings-banks, 56 schools, a library, and a park on Prospect Hill. S.\\nLmorence is a prosperous manufacturing suburb across the Merrimac.\\nThe chief nianufactories are the immense and imposing Pacific Mills, with\\n140,000 spindles, 4,000 looms, \u00c2\u00a72,500,000 capital, and 2,400 female and 1,200 male\\noperatives, making calicoes, lawns, and dress-goods the Washington Mills,\\n62,000 spindles, 1,300 looms, and 2,600 operatives, making cotton and woollen\\ngoods, Lvoadeloths, doeskins, shawls, and cambrics the Atlantic Cotton Mills,\\nemploying 1,400 persons the Everett Mills, 1,000 operatives, making cotton and\\nwoollen goods the Pemberton Mills, 800 operatives the Ailingtou Woollen\\nMills the Lawrence Duck Co., Russell Paper Co., Lawrence File and Spindle\\nWorks, Lawrence Lumber Co. etc.\\nLawrence (35,000 inhabitants) is one of the three capitals of Essex Co.,\\nand is the most beautiful of the manufacturing cities of New England.\\nThe mills are separated from the city by the canal, and their great depen-\\ndent boarding-houses are isolated by a wide green. The city has 18\\nchurches, 5 Masonic lodges, 4 lodges of Odd Fellows, 3 weekly and 2 daily\\nnewspapers. The Common is a fine green square, with abiuidance of\\ntrees, having on its N. side the handsome Oliver High School and the\\nCentral Cong. Church. On the E. is the 1st Unitarian and Grace Church\\n(Ellis. while on the S. are the elegant city and county buildings. In the\\nbase of the tower of the City Hall are two huge cannon-balls which were\\nfired from the iron-clad fleet on the rebellious city of Charleston. The\\nLawrence American is the leading daily paper of Essex Co. The\\ncity has good public libraries, several of which pertain to the cot-\\nton-mills. The valuation of Lawrence in the year 1875 was 23,000,000.\\nOn a street leading W. from the Common is the stately and elegant\\nchurch of St. Mary (Roman Catholic) in the purest of the simpler\\nforais of Gothic architecture. This church was six years in building, and\\nis of a handsome gray stone, with interior arches, columns, and a lofty\\nclere-story and spire of the same material. In its vicinity are several", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0342.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "HAVERHILL. Route SS. 279\\nCatholic institutions, which are powerful and highly beneficent in their\\nworkings among the factory populations.\\nThe city was named from Abbot Lawrence, a wealthy and philanthropic Boston\\nmerchant, who was one of its founders. He was a member of Congress for 5 years,\\nMinister to England 1849 1852, and endowed the Lawrence Scientific School (at\\nCambridge) with S 100,000. His son was Consul-General to Italy, 1862 9, and his\\nbrotlier Amos was eminent for his generosity, having given $4-500,000 for chari-\\ntable, educational, and religious works.\\nOne of the most terrible accidents in American history took place here Jan. 10,\\n1800, when the Peraberton Mills fell, on ac(Xiunt of thin walls and insufficient sup-\\nports, and caught fire soon after, burning alive many who had been caught in tlio\\nfalling ruins. 525 persons were killed and wounded on that dreadful day.\\nThe Lowell and Lawrence Division of the Boston and Lowell R. R. runs from\\nLawrence to Lowell, thi ough the towns of Andover and Tewksbury. There are 4\\ntrains each way daily, in 4f) minutes. Distance, 13 M. fare, 40 c.\\nThe Manchester and Lawrence R. R. runs N. W. to Manchester, N. H., in 70\\nminutes. Distance, 26 M. fare, 80 c. This line passes through Mcthucn, a flourish-\\ning highland village near the Falls of the Spigot River. About .3 M. beyond Law-\\nrence tlie line enters the State of New Hampshire. Stations, Salem and Windham.\\nThe latter village is2.V M. S. of the station. This town has a few large ponds, and\\nGlebe Mt. (1,800 ft. high). Station, Derry (stages to village 2 M. E.), famous for\\nai ])les. 200 city people spend the summer among the quiet farms in this\\ntown. (Sanders Hotel).\\nStations, Wilson s and Londonderry (stages to the village, 2 M. S.). This town\\nwas settled in 1719 by a colony of Scotch Presbyterians, from Ulster Co., L-eland,\\nami was named for the old country Londonderry, in whose long and terrible siege\\nseveral of the iminigrants had been engaged. Before their settlement the district\\nwas called Nutfield^ from the abundance of its nut-trees. On the first day of their\\narrival, the settlers collected under a great oak-tree, and heard a sermon from\\ntheir pastor, after which they Ijegan to build their cabins. Although on the\\nremote frontiers, the town was never molested by the Franco-Indian marauders,\\ncommands to that effect having been issued by the Marquis de Vaudreuil, Gov.-\\nGen. of Canada, who had lieen a classmate at college with McGregore, the Lon-\\ndonderry pastor. The first American resistance to Gen. Gage s troops was when\\na detachment marched from Boston to this place (46 M.) and captured several\\ndeserters from the British line regiments. The townsmen rose, and pursued the\\ntroops, and forced them to release their prisoners, Avho became lesidents of Lon-\\ndonderry. Colonels Reed, McCleary, and Gregg, and Gen. Stark (victor at Ben-\\nnington), all of the Continental Army, were born here. The Scotch-Irish colo-\\nnists introduced the potato, the foot-wheel, and the loom into New England. 6\\nI\\\\I. bevond Londonderry Station the line enters the city of Manchester (see\\nlionte 29).\\nThe Lawrence Branch (of the Eastern R. R.) nms from Lawrence S. E. to Salem.\\nThe main line of the Boston and Maine Railroad follows (beyond Law-\\nrence) the r. bank of the Merrimac River for 10 M., to the city of Haver-\\nhill, passing N, Aiidover and Bradford.\\nHaverhill {Eagle House, $7-14 a week) is a handsome city, built on\\nhills which slope down to the Merrimac River, which is navigable to this\\npoint (18 miles from the sea). In 1830 it had 3,912 inhabitants, and now\\nhas 20,000. The principal business of the place is the manufacture of\\nshoes, in which it is second only to Lynn. In 1869, 6,000 persons were\\nhere employed in this industry, and over 5,000,000 pairs of shoes were\\nmade. Woollens, hats, and clothing are also manufactured.\\nHaverhill has 19 churches, two or three of which are quite handsome.\\nThe Public Library has a costly building, adorned and frescoed, with\\n20,000 volumes and a statuary hall. The city has 5 new.spapers and a\\nMasonic temple.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0343.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "280 Route 38. EXETER.\\nThe new City Hall (on IMain St.) is an imposing buiMinp;, well a lapted\\nfor the civic olFices. From Golden Kill tliere is a fine view of tlie river\\nand city, and of the ancient vilhige of Bradford (famed for its academy\\nfor girls, now occupying extensive buildings on a far-viewing hill. This\\nacademy was foimded in 1803, and was a nursery cf missionaiies wives,\\nHarriet Newell, Mrs. Judson, and others). 1 M. N. E. of Haverhill, and\\nin its rapidly extending suburbs, is the pretty Lake Kenoza, surrounded\\nby hills. A neat stone club-house has been built on its banks by some\\nHaverhill gentlemen. This lake was named, and has been written of, by\\ntlie poet Whittier, whose birthplace (1807) near its shore (the scene of\\nSnowboun t still stands.\\nA tine Soldiers Monumtnt, with a statue of a U. S. soldier, stands on Main\\nSt. (for ISl dead). Also a bronze statue, with bas-i*eliefs, of Mrs. Dustan.\\nGen. Moses Hazen, born at Haverhill in 1733. was an officer in the campaigns\\nof Crown Point, Louisburg, and Quebec, and conuuanded the 2d Canadian Con-\\ntinental Reg. Congress s Own from 177G to 1781. He tlien moved to Ver-\\nmont, and one of his descendants was Gen. W. B liazen, who long fou; ht the\\nComanches, then commanded a brigade (1861 2) at the battles of iShiloh, Corinth,\\n8tone River, Chickaniauga, and Mission Ridge. In Sherman s march to the .sea,\\nhe connnanded tlie 2d division of the 15th corps, with which he stormed Fort\\nMcAllister, at Savannah, Dec. 18, 1864\\nHaverhill was .settled in 1(541, on the Indian domain of Pentucket, bj^ a cf)]ony\\nled by Rev. Jolin Ward, wiiocame from H.-iverliillin England. The village ehiirch\\nAvas seientiflcally fortified, but the town lost many men during Queen Aiuie s War.\\nIn 1698 the Indians took Mrs. Hannah Duston, ^v\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ith hei nurse and her child (G\\ndays old). The latter tliey nun-(lered, and, after a long inareli through the forests,\\ntold the women that they were to be foreed to run the gauntlet when they readied\\nthe village. That night Mis. Duston, with the lUU se and a young English boy.\\narose silently and killed 10 of the 12 Indians, scalped them, and dropped down\\nthe river in a bark canoe to Haverhill. In 1708 the village was attacked by 250\\nFrench and Indians, ami 40 of its peopile were killed and captured.\\nThe river-road to Newbnry]iort runs by the side of the Jlerrimac, through a\\npictures([ue succession of hill-towns. Daily stages leave Ha\\\\erhill for Newbury-\\np nt, W. Amesbury, and Hampstead.\\nA railroad runs from Haverhill to Newburyport via Georgetown, in 16 M. 5\\ntrains daily are run each way, in 40-60 minutes.\\nAfter leaving Haverhill the main line runs N. into New Hampshire,\\nStations, AtJdnson (stage to Hampstead), Plaistow (stages to Sandown\\nand Danville), Neivton, and E. Kingston (stage to Kingston). These are all\\nquiet fanning toAAms in Rockingham County, N. H. Station, Exeter (good\\nrestaurant in the station; Gorham Hall; American House), a pretty\\nvillage of 3,437 inhabitants, at the head of nav gafon on Exeter River.\\nExeter was founded by Rev. John Wlieelwright, who had been banished\\nfrom Mass. for the heresy of Antinomianism. He bought this land in the\\nwilderness from the Indians, but when it was annexed to Essex Co.,\\nMass., in 1642, he was obliged to go into more distant exile. The In-\\ndians about Squaniscott Falls migrated to the vicinity of Troy (on the\\nHudson) in 1672, but other and fiercer tribes menaced the village, and\\nnearly 40 of the people were killed ami captui cd during the later Indian\\nwars. 38 men of Exeter died in the Continental Army. In 1781, Hon.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0344.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "EXETER. Route 3S. 281\\nJohn Phillip?, foimderl Phillips Academy, and endowed it with 134,000.\\nBenjamin Alibot, LL. D., was preceptor of the Academy from 17S8 to\\n1838, and Dr. Giileon L. Soiile was preceptor from 1838 to 1873.\\nAmong the distinguished men who have been prepared for college here are John\\nPickering, the jurist and philologist Abiol Abbot J. IS. Jiuckminster, the \\\\m\\\\)\\\\x-\\nlar divine James Walker, the Unitiirian theologian Nathan Lord, U. D., Presi-\\ndent of Dartmouth College, 1828 -G3; A. H. Everett, LL. D., the accomplished\\ndiplomatist (to Belgium, Spain, and China) Nathan Hale, LL. 1)., the journalist\\nLeverett tSaltonstall, LL. D. J. G. Cogswell, LL. D., of the Astor Library\\nT. W. Dorr, the R. L insurgent Governor J. P. Cushing, President of Hampdcn-\\nSidney College, Va., 1821-36; Theodore Lyman, the philanthropist; Alplicus\\nFelch, Senator from Michigan, 1847-53; Charles Paine, of Vt. John P. Hale,\\none of the first antislavery senators (from N. H., 1847-53, and 1855-65); the\\neminent historians, Richard Hildrebh, Jared Sparks, and George Bancroft Ed-\\nward Everett, the statesman and orator Daniel Webster and Lewis Cass, who\\nwas born at Exeter in 1782. An otticer through the War of 1812, Governor of\\nMichigan, 1813-31, Secretary of War under Jackson, Minister to France, lS3(j-\\n42, Cass came near being elected President of the U. S. in 1S48. receiving 137 elec-\\ntoral votes to 163 given for Gen. Taylor. He was U. S. Senator, 1845-8, and\\n1851-7, and from 1857 to Dec, 1860, was Secretary of State. His policy was\\nsteadily proslavery, but lie favored thenation.al goveriiuient during tlie Relieliion.\\nHe died in 1866, at Detroit, where 54 years before he had been made prisoner by\\ntiie British (with the whole Army of the Northwest) while a captain in the 3d\\nOhio Regiment.\\nExeter is a beautiful and elm-shaded village in a level farming-town,\\naud has the county buildings, 8 churches, 3 banks, a newspajier, a high-\\nschool, several prosperous factories (cottons, woollens, paper, brass,\\nmachinery, etc.), and many handsome residences. It is 10 M. from Rye\\nReach, and 9 from Hampton. Phillips Academy has neat modern build-\\nings, on a campus adorned with veneralde elms. It has about 200 stu-\\ndents, and has educated over 4,000. The Rnhinson Female Semiiuiri/ is also\\nin the village, and has a stately building and a rich endowment, provided\\nby Wm. Robinson. It was opened in 1869, and has about 240 students.\\nStages run from Exeter to Kensington, Amesbnry, Salisbury, and Newburj^iort\\n(see Route 37) to Kingston, Sandown, Brentwood, Chester, and Fremont, tri-\\nweekly and to Hampton Beach (see Route 37) semi-daily in summer and Sep-\\nteni ber.\\nStations, S. Newmarket, and Neimnarket Junction (restaurant), where\\nthe Concord and Portsmouth track crosses the present route, ^kf^-\\nTaa,x\\\\:it {Washington House; Newmarket House) is a village containing\\ncotton and lumber-mills.\\nTri-weekly stages run from Newmarket to Lee, Nottingham, Northwood,\\nEpsom, Chichester, and Concord.\\nStation, Durham, the old Oyster River settlement, many of whose people\\nwere killed in various Indian raids diaring King Philip s War. In 1695,\\nthe village was carried by assault, though defended by 12 garrison -houses,\\nand nearly 100 of its people were killed or captured. The town is now\\nknov. n for its excellent hay-crops, which are obtained from the deep\\nargillaceous loam along the Oyster River. Over 1,000 tons are exported\\nannually. Stations, Madbury, and Dover {Avierican House Neio Hamp", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0345.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "282 Route 38. DOVER.\\nshire House), a busy little mamrfacturing city at the lower falls of the\\nCocheco River. Dover has over 9,000 inhabitants, 3 banks, 11 churches,\\n4 weekly papers, and extensive niamifactories. The Cocheco Mills em-\\nploy 1,000 hands and .50,000 spindles, with a capital of 1,300,000, and\\nmake 11,000,000 yards of cotton cloths yearly. The Cocheco Print\\nWorks, with 240 hands, print 16,000,000 yards yearly, and there are\\nother branches of industry, the chief of which is the shoe business, in\\nwhich 12 firms are engaged. Pretty views are obtained from the hills\\nnear the city, and the City Hall is a handsome structure.\\nDover is the oldest pl;i(;e in the State, having been settled in the spring of\\n1623, on the point of land at the continence of the Newichawannick and Bel-\\nlamy Rivers (4 M. S. E. of the city). The pioneer colony was coin})osed of Eins-\\ncopalians sent over by the Laconia Company, and they had much trouble with\\nthe Mass. Puritans. In 1641, Dover was annexed by Mass., and in 1679 was re-\\nturned to N. H. The people had a man to beate the drumme on Lord s days to\\ngive notice for the time of meeting until 1665, when they built a Terrett upon\\nthe meitting house for to hang the Bell. In 1657 they chose by voet a Seoell-\\nmaster, and in 1653 they built the meeting-house 40 foote longe and 26 foote\\nwide. Major Walderne settled on the present site of the city, and built a strong\\ngarrison-house. Here he was visited in 1676, during a time when peace reigned\\nin this region, by 400 Indians, two companies of troops being with him. He won\\nthe conhdence of the Indians, and arranged a sham-fight between them and the\\ncolonial soldiers. When their guns were discharged the troops rushed in and dis-\\narmed tluim, after which 200 were sent to Boston as prisoners, Several of these\\nwere executed on Boston Common, and the remainder were sold into slavery in\\nthe West Indies. 13 years later a powerful Indian force seized Dover by niglit,\\nand destroyed 4 garrisons, killing 23 and capturing 29 persons. Walderne, then\\n74 years old, and commander of the forces of N. H., they captured, and placed\\nin a chair on a table within his own hall, where they slowly slashed him to death..\\nThe town was the object of other disastrous attacks during the Indian wars, but\\nwas never abandoned by its intrepid people.\\nTri-weekly stages run from Dover to Barrington and Strafford (Bow Lake\\nHouse), near Bow Lake (which covers 1,625 acres), and the Blue Hills.\\nDover to Lake Winnepesaiilcee.\\nThe Dover and Winnepesaukee Railroad runs to Alton Bay (28J M). Stations,\\nPickering s, and Gonic (with stages running to Barrington, Strafford, and Bain-\\nstead). At Rochester (see page 213) connections are made with tlie Portsmouth,\\nGreat Falls, and Conway R. R., and with the Portland and Rochester R. R.\\nStations, Place s, and Farmington {Elm House), a shoe-manufacturing village near\\nthe Blue Hills, or Frost Mts. From the loftiest of these hills, Mt. Mouadnock,\\nthe White Mts., and the ocean may l)e seen on a clear day.\\nHenry Wilson was born at Farmington in 1812. He was educated with money\\nearned by his own laboi-, and settled at Natick (Mass.) in 1838, as a shoemaker.\\nDeclaring himself an uncompromising foe of negro slavery, his abilities soon won\\nhim honorable fame in the State politics, and after rising from one oflice to an-\\nother for 15 years, he was chosen U. S. Senator in 1855. In 1872 he was elected\\nVice-President of the U. S. His most distinguished senatorial labors were in\\nconnection with the antislavery movement and the Kansas troubles, emancipa-\\ntion, reconstruction, and the conduct of the war.\\nAfter leaving Farmington the line passes three rural stations, and stops at Al-\\nton Bay, on Lake Winnepesaukee. The Bay View House is located here 10.00\\na week and upwards), and has a large livery stable attached, with pleasant drives\\nill the vicinity. (See page 218).\\nStages run from Alton to the three villages (North, Centre, and Parade) of\\nBanis tead to Pittsfield, 15 M to Lake Village and Laconia, 18-20 M. and to\\nWolfboro, 10 M.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0346.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "OLD ORCHARD BEACH. Route 3S. 283\\nThe fine iron steamer, Mt. Washington, leaves Alton Bay on arrival of the\\niraius, twice daily (in summer), for the villages on the lalce. The distance to\\nCentre Harbor is 30 M. (see Route 32).\\nThe first station beyond Dover, on the main line, is RoUinsford, Avhence\\na branch track runs (in 3 M.) to the factories at Great Falls. Station,\\nSalmon Falls (Jones House), the seat of two cotton-mills.\\nAlter passing N. Btvwick (where tlie Eastern K. K. is crossed), Wells is\\nreached. The station is 1 M. from Wells Beach (see p. 2G8), one of the best\\nof tlie Maine beaches. From Kennebunk a branch railroad runs 5 M E. to\\nKennebunkport {Parker House, $9-15 a week), a quaint old village,\\n1 M. from the mouth of the Mousam River. M. out, on Cape Arundel,\\ni-^ the great Ocean-Bluff House (^JOO guests), with admirable sea-views\\nand facilities for bathing, boating, and fishing. In and near the village\\nare the Glen, Riverside, Beach, Granite-State, Cliff, Seaside, Sea-View,\\nand other hotels ($7-15 a week). The long beaches and sea-repelling\\ncliff s of this promontory form noble combinations of scenery, and a\\nsummer-village has been erected here. The cool air and facilities for\\nboating, bathing, and fishing have made this a favorite resort. The\\ntrain crosses the Saco River between the busy manufacturing cities of\\nBi(hleford and Saco, and bears away for 4 M. to Old Orchard Beach.^\\nOld Orchard House, 400 guests, 14- 25.00 a week, telegraph, band,\\nand ball and reading rooms in the house Ocean House, near the former,\\nand of great extent the Gorham and the Montreal Houses are less ex-\\npensive). The track runs between the great hotels (on the 1.) and the\\nbeach, and the station is very comraodiously situated. Stages run from\\nthe beach to the Saco station on Route 37. This beach, which has been\\ncalled the finest in New England, extends from the Saco River to Pine\\nPoint, at the mouth of Scarborough River, a distance of 10 M., with a\\nbreadth (at low water) of 300 ft. The sand is very hard and smooth, and\\naffords an admirable drive-way, while from the absence of undertow, the\\nsurf-bathing is perfectly safe. Near the hotels is a beautiful forest-park\\nof 30 acres, with pleasant paths, arbors, and rustic adornments. About\\n2 M. distant, on Foxwell s Brook, is a pictiiresque waterfall, 60 ft. high.\\nThe beach derives its name from an ancient orchard of apple-trees, the\\nlast of which died before the Revolution. Old Orchard is probably the\\nmost fashionable of the seaside resorts E. of Hampton and Rye, if not of\\nall E. of Swampscott.\\n5| M, from Old Orchard is Scarborough station, which is about 3 M.\\nfrom Scarborough Beach. The train now runs over Cape Elizabeth,\\ncrosses Fore River on a long and costly bridge, and enters Portland.\\n1 The hotels at Old Orchard were dcvastnti-d by tire in 1S75-0. In tlie .season\\nof 1S76 0])etied the new *01d Orchard House (-300 guests $3-3.50 a day\\\\\\n4 stories high, 550 ft. long, with gas, hot and cold water, steam fire-i nmps, bil-\\nliards, bowling, nmsic, etc. The smaller hotels are tlie Fiske, St. Cloud, Adams,\\nand Sans Sonei (100 guests eacli), the Sea-Shore and the Central ($1.50-2.50 a\\nd:i\\\\ laihuad is being buill lioni Blue I uiut to Saco T eiry.", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0347.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "284 Route 39. LAKE SEBAGO.\\n39. Portland to the White Mts.\\nstations. Portland to B. M. Transfer, 5 M. Westbrook, 11 S. W iiul-\\nliani, V^ White Rock, 17 8ebago Lake, L 4.V Steep Falls, 32; Baldwin. Sa.V\\nW. Baldwin, 36; Hiram Bridge, -13; Brownfield, 49; Fryeburg, 55 Conway\\nCentre. 60 N. Conway, 63 Glen Station. 66 Upper Bartlett, 72 Beniis, 7S\\nCrawford House, 87 Fabvan, 5 1 Twin Mountain, 95 Betldelieni, 101 Wing\\nlload, 105 Whitetield, 109 Scott s MiUs, 112 Lunenburg, 114.\\nThe train leaves the union station in Portland under Branihall Hill, and\\npasses out to Westbrook (in a tovvii of about 4,000 inhabitants), with\\nseveral villages in which are manufactured cotton cloths, twine, wire,\\nand iron goods, with large quantities of paper. Immense quantities\\nof canned goods are prepared here, and the total manufactures of West-\\nbrook amount to 3,500,000 yearly. Station, S. Windham, in a town\\nwhich was settled in 1737 and guarded by a Mass. fort. The Oriental\\nPowder Works are located here, and the Mallison Falls on the Presump-\\nscott River are S. of the village. Stations, White Rock, and Sebago\\nLake, whence steamers leave for Harrison.\\nLake Sebago\\nis 14 M. long by 11 M. wide, and has a depth, in some parts, of 400 ft.\\n6 towns are on its shores, and others are located on the connecting lakes\\nto the N. The steamers leave Pavilion Bay (at Lake Sebago station) and\\nsoon pass (on the r. Indian Island, and Frye s Island, with 1,000 acres of\\nforest. When the liroader part of the lake is gained, to the N. E.,\\nRattlesnake Mt. is seen and in the same direction, near the lake, is the\\nboyhood home of Nathaniel Hawthorne. We also pass on our r. the 14\\nDingley Islands. The scenery on the W. is wilder and more rugged.\\nSaddleback Mt., in Baldwin, is plainly visible, fi-om which the eye roams\\nN. E., beyond the Great Bay, over the Sebago hills and farms and\\nforests. Still farther N. is Peaked Mt., beyond which the view extends\\nN. to Mt. Kiarsarge (Pequawket), so blue and cold in the hazy distance,\\nwhile the ^Vliite Hills may be distinctly seen if the day is tolerably clear.\\nTlie passage across Sebago a stretch of water occupies one hour, after\\nwhich the steamer enters the rapid and devious Songo River. It is l)nt\\n2^ M., as the crow flies, to the head of the river, and yet we must sail 6 M.\\nand make 27 turns. Picturesque contrasts of farm and forest, granit(3\\nledge and intervale, make the voyage on these narrow waters pleasant and\\nnovel. 5 M. from Sebago tlie steamer enters a lock at the confluence of\\nCrooked or Pequawket River, which rises about 35 M. N. in the to\\\\\\\\ii of\\nAlbany. After rising several feet in the lock, the steamer passes N. into\\nthe Bay of Naples, near the head of which is Naples {Elm House), a small\\ni", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0348.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "FRYEBURG. Route 39. 285\\nvillage in a farming to-wn. Before stopping at this place, the steamer\\npasses through a drawbridge, and, after leaving it, it steams out on Long\\nLake, This is a river-like expanse of water 12 14 M. long and less than\\n2 M. wide. 9 M. from Naples the boat stops at Bridgton, whence a stage\\nruns 1 M. W. to Bridgton Centre {Bridgton Rmise Cumberland House).\\nTliis is an important manufacturing village, with a weekly paper, a\\nsavings-bank, and three churches, in a town originally called Pondicherry,\\nfrom the abundance of small ponds and wild cherries found there. This\\nvillage has become somewhat of a summer resort in a quiet way, from its\\nvicinity to the lake and to picturesque hill-scenery. The next stopping-\\nplace on the lake is N. Bridgton {Lake House).\\nTo the N. is Waterford, the birthplace of Artemas Ward, Major J;ick\\nDowning, and Cyrus Hamlin, a very picturesque region of lakes and\\nmountains, with the Waterford House, Pine-Grove House, Bear-Mt. House,\\nand otlier siunmcr-resorts, and the Maine Hygienic Institute, Stages lipiice\\ndailv to Harrison, Bridgton, and Norway (10 M.). Harrison {Elm House)\\nIS the end of the steamboat-route.\\nThe Bridfjton and Saco River R. R. is a new narrow-gauge route from\\nBridgton Junction, beyond W. Baldwin (on the P. 0. R, R,) to Bridg-\\nton (16 M.; 1 hr,).\\nAfter leaving the Lalce Sebago Station, the train passes the stations,\\nRichrille and Stee2J Falls, in the town of Standish, Avhich was grantetl to\\nand settlecf*by veterans of the Louisburg campaigns, and named after the\\nPilgrim captain. Beyond Steep Falls, the line follows the valley of the\\nSaco, and passes through the town of Baldwin (stations, Baldvnn and W.\\nBaldwin). The Great Falls of the Saco are seen from the train beyond\\nW. Baldwin, near which the Ossii:)ee River meets the Saco. The river\\nfalls 72 ft. in several successive pitches. The train now enters the town\\nof Hiram, on narrow intervales along the Saco, and stops at Hiram Bridge\\nML Cutler House). As the train crosses the old pine-plains of Hiram\\nand enters Brownfield, occasional glimpses are caught of Mt. Pleasant, a\\nlung, isolated ridge, over 2,0UU ft. higli, commanding a noble view i.f\\nthe White Mts. and the lake-countr} of W. Maine. On its crest is tiie\\nMt.-Pleasant House (75 guests; f 12 a week), a commodious hotel reached\\nby stage from Bridgton (10 M.). The principal view is to the N. W. along\\nthe clustering peaks of the White Mts. Station, Brownfield {Uberiy\\nHouse), whose farm-houses admit many summer visitors, Burnt Meadow^\\nad Frost Mts. being the principal objects of interest. Stages leave daily\\nfi r Denmark.\\nThe plains along the river grow wider and more productive, as the\\ntrain passes on to Fryeburg {Oxford House), a pretty village on a\\nbroad, level plain, slightly elevated above the intervales of the Saco,\\nwhich encloses it in one of its huge fohis. Many summer visitors rest\\nat the comfortable old hotel, while others are quartered in the boarding-", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0349.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "286 Route 39. FRYEBURG.\\nhouses which are fotmd in the vilLage. The intervales of Fryehurg are\\nnoted for their richness and beauty, and contain nearly 10,000 acres which\\nare annually overflowed and fertilized by the Saco. On these meadows is\\nthe winter home of large droves of cattle who graze on the mountains\\nduring the summer. There are several thousand acres of forest in the\\ntown and it is claimed tliat Fryeburg has more standing timber now than\\nit had 40 years ago. The principal points for excursions are Stark s Hill\\n(500 ft. high), Jockey Cap, and Pine Hill, eminences near the village, which\\ncommand panoramic views of the distant White Mts. and of Chocorna.\\nMt. Pleasant is 9 M. to the E., and is often visited for the sake of its\\nnoble ovei -view, and Lovewell s Pond is near the village (by the Pine\\nStreet road).\\nCapt. John Lovewell, the son of an ensign in Cromwell s Puritan army, was an able\\npartisan olhcerof the colonies. In April, 1725, he led 46 men from the Mass. fron-\\ntier towns by a long and arduous march into tlie heart of the Pecjuawket countiy.\\nAfter marching over 100 M., they reached Saco (now Lovewell s) Pond witli 34\\nmen, and here they encanijied for 36 hours, near the chief village of the Indians.\\nOn Saturday, May G, while they were assembled around the chajilain on tlie\\nbeach, and ere the morning devotions had been linished, a gun was heard an l an\\nIndian was seen watching them. They left theii- packs near the pond, and ad-\\nvanced toward the intervales, but met an Indian in the forest who shot and mor-\\ntally wounded Lovewell, tliough his own death followed quickly. Meantime the\\nSachem Paugus and 80 warriors had found and counted the packs and laid an\\nambuscade near them, which completely entra})})ed the Americans on their\\nreturn. The magnanimous Paugus ordered his men to fire over the heads of the\\ninvaders, and then to bind them with ropes. With horrid yells the Indians leaped\\nforth and asked Lovewell if lie would have quarter. Only at th^ muzzles of\\nyour guns shouted tlie brave captain, and led his men against the unprepared\\nenemy. They drove the Indians some rods, but were repulsed by a fierce counter-\\ncharge, in which Lovewell and 8 of his men were killed. Tlieu the Americans\\ni-etreated slowly, lighting inch by inch, to a ])osition with the ond on their rear,\\nBattle Creek on the r., and Rocky Point on the 1. This sheltered osition they\\nmaintained for eight hours against continual assaults, and at sundown the In-\\ndians retreated, leaving 39 killed and wounded, including Paugus, who fell late in\\nthe contest. Througliout the long day the yells of the Indians, the cheers of the\\nAmericans, and the pattering of musketry resounded tlirough the forest, while\\nChaplain Frye, mortally wounded while fighting among the foremost, was often\\nheard i raying for victory. In the moonlit midnight hour the ])rovincials re-\\ntreated, leaving 15 of their number dead and lying on the field, while 10 of the\\n1!) others were wounded. After sutt ering terribly on the retreat, the little band\\nreached the settlements. The battle at Pe(iuawket filled the northern tribes with\\nfear, and caused some of them to move to Canada. A long and mournful baliad\\nof 30 stanzas (like the old Scottish ballad of Chevy Chase) commemorates this\\nforest-light.\\nWhat time the noble Lovewell came\\nWith titty men from I)unstnl)le,\\nThe cruel Pequot tribe to tame\\nWith arms and bloodshed terrible.\\nAh I many n wife shall rend her hair,\\nAnd many a child cry Woe i.s mel\\nWhen mes^ensrers the news shall bear\\nOf Lovewell s dear-bought victory.\\nWith footsteps low shall travellers po\\nWhere Jjovewcll s I ond shines clear and bright,\\nAnd mark the place wlieie those are laid\\nWho fell in Lovewells bloody fight.\\nFryeburg was granted to, settled by, and named for. Gen. Joseph Frye, of An-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0350.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "PORTLAND TO QUEBEC AND MONTREAL. Route 40. 287\\ndover, Mass., a veteran officer of the French wars. It was for many years the\\nonly town near the AVhite Mts., and grew rapidly, having a weekly market-day\\nwhich filled its streets with bnsy life. An academy was early established here\\n(endowed by Mass.), and was taught in 1S02 by Daniel Webster. G ivernor Enoch\\nLincoln lived here from 1811 to 1819, and Avrote a long poem, entitled The Vil-\\nlage, which was descriptive of the beautiful scenery of the fairest town on the\\nstream of the Saco. A few Pecpiawket Indians lingered in this locality after the\\ndispersal of the tribe, and did good service in the expedition of Rogers s Rangers\\nagainst St. Francis, and in the Continental Ai my.\\nStages run from Fryebnrg to Paris, by way of Lovell, Sweden, Waterford, and\\nNorway (30 M.) also by Bridgton, Harrison, and Norway (32 M.). These towns\\nare all in the Pequawket country, and Lovell (2 small inns) has the beautiful\\nKezer Pond, which is 1 M. wide and 8 M. long.\\nAfter the train leaves Fryebnrg, the mountain views in front and to the\\n1. are fine. The line enters New Hampshire, and passes by Conway\\nCentre to N. Conway (see page 223) and Upper Bartlett.\\n40. Portland to Quebec and Montreal\\nVia the Grand Trunk Railway, which is owned and operated by an Anglo-Cana-\\ndian corporation. This line is principally used for tlie trans p(n-tation of freight,\\nbut it runs one through passenger ti ain daily. Portland to Gorham, 91 M., in 4.V-\\n6 hours to Quebec, 317 M., in 19-20 houi-s to Montreal, 297 M., in 17^-19\\nhours.\\nThe train leaves the spacious terminal station in Portland, near the Vic-\\ntoria Docks, and, passing around Munjoy s Hill, crosses the mouth of\\nBack Cove. Tlience it runs through the towns of Falmouth and Cumber-\\nland, near Casco Bay, and crosses the Maine Central Railway at Yar-\\nmouth Junction.\\nStation, N. Yarmouth, settled on the Indian domain of Wescustogo\\nabout 1640, and deserted in 1675-8, and 16S8-1713, on account of the\\nIndian wars. On returning in 1713, the settlers found a young forest cov-\\nering their old fields and roads. Between 1725 and 1756 many of the\\ncolonists were killed or captured by the Indians. During the first half of\\nthe present century, the town grew and prospered, but during the past 20\\nyears it has lost 16 per cent of its population. Stages run hence to Dur-\\nham, on the Androscoggin.\\nStations, Pomnal and New Glmicester, the latter being a pretty and\\nprosperous village which was founded by men of Gloucester, Mass., about\\n1735. At Danville Junction the Maine Central Railway diverges N. E.,\\nand runs to Lewiston and Bangor. From Lewis ton Junction, branch line\\nto Lewiston; also, stages to Poland Springs, 3^ M. (see page 308). Sta-\\ntion, Mtchanic Falls, near a small factory village, from which tri-weekly\\nstages run to Casco (12 M.).\\nThe Portland and Oxford Central Railway runs N. from Mechanic Falls, passing\\nthrough the towns of Oxford, Hebron, Buck field, Hartford, and Canton (three\\ninns.). Tiiese towns were all settled in the latter years of the 18th century, and\\nthe last four named have been losing in poijulation for 20 years. Canton was the", "height": "3085", "width": "1844", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0351.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "288 Route 40. BETHEL.\\nhome of the Rockomeka Indians (who were exterminated hy the small-pox in\\n1557 and was settled in 170:^ nmler the name of Phiiips-Oanada. It is prettily\\nsituated near the Androscoggin River, and has some rieli intervale lands.\\nThe next station on the niain line is Oxford (Lake House), from which\\ntri-weekly stages run to E. Otisfield, Casco, and Naples.\\nStation, S. Paris (Andrews House), a busy village, with maniifactures\\nand a large country trade. Daily stages run hence to Fryeburg, 33 M. S.\\nW. (fare, 2.00), by way of Norway, Harrison, and Bridgton also by way\\nof Watert ord, Stages run from every train to Paris Hill {Hubbard\\nHouse; Union House), 3 M. N. E. This is a village on a lull 831 ft.\\nhigli, where are located the Oxford County buildings. To the E. is Mt.\\nMica, Avhere beaiitiful specimens of tourmaline are found, together with 15\\nother minerals. It is called the most interesting locality of rare min-\\nerals in the State of Maine. Streaked Mt. is near by, and is nearly\\n1,800 ft. high. Stations, W. Paris and Br //ant s Po7id (small inn), from\\nwhich tri-weekly stages run to Milton Plantation, Rumford, and Andover\\n(21 M. N. fare, 1.50); also to Paimford, Mexico, Dixfield, and N. Jay\\n(on the Androscoggin Railroad). Another line runs from IVIexico through\\nRoxbury to Byron. Rumford has some high hills, Wliite Cap, Glass-\\nFace, and others, which yield thousands of bushels of blueberries annually.\\nThe Kumford Falls have been called the grandest in New England,\\nand have suffered but little from improvement. The descent of the\\nAndroscoggin River is over 150 ft. in three or four plunges over ragged\\ngranite ledges. The third fall has a j;iearly perpendicular descent of 70\\n80 ft., and its roaring is heard at a great distance. There are throe taverns\\nin Rumford.\\nAt Bryant s Pond station the track is 700 ft. above the sea, and the\\nPond itself is a pretty highland lake, from which flows the Little Andros-\\ncoggin River. Station, Bethel Bethel House, accommodating 100\\nguests The Elvis House), a beautiful village in a town of about 2,200\\ninhabitants. Tlie broad intervales of the Androscoggin are outspread here\\nin all their fertility and fairness, while noble views of the White Mts. in\\nthe W. are ol)tained from adjacent hills. There are also mineral spring*\\n(small hotel) in the town, rin l numerous summer boarding-houses, whera\\ncomfort, quiet, and abundant country fare are given for the moderatt\\nprice of i? G 10.00 a Aveek.\\nBethel has often been likened to N. Conway on account of its mortntain-\\nviews and rich intervales, and many city people spend their summers\\nhere to enjoy the air, the scenery, and tl)e fine fisliing in the vicinity. 12\\nM. S. of Bethel are the Albany Basins, where the Pequawket River has\\nworn a wonderful series of reseiwoirs in the talcose rock, the largest of\\nwhich is 70 ft. deep and 40 ft. in diameter. 18 M. N. E. of Bethel, by\\ngood roads and througli pleasant river-scenery, arc the Rumford Falls,", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0352.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "GILEAD. Rcmte Ifi. 289\\nBethel to Lake Umbagog.\\nSemi-weekly stage to Upton, at the foot of the lake, in 26 M. fare, $2.50. The\\ncountry traversed is mostly in a wild state and thinly populated, but affords some\\nstriking river and mountain scenery. The Androscoggin is followed for G M. to\\nS. Neivry (small inn), after which the road lies near the Bear River, and 6 M. be-\\nyond S. Newry, Bartlett s Poplar Tavern is passed. The Screw Auger Falls are\\nal)out 3 M. from this point, ami near anning s Mills. Beyond the Tavern the\\nhigh hills of Grafton (chief among whit-h are Speckled and Saddleback Mts.) ap-\\npear to close across the road. But the Bear River is closely followed into Graf-\\nton Notcli, a lonely pass among the frowning hills. The remarkable water-\\ngorge known as Moose Chasm is situated in this notch. The small Cambridge\\nRiver is now approached, and in its valley tlie road passes on to the lake. Tlie\\ntownshii) of Upton (formerly Letter B. Plantation, and made a town in ISGO) is\\nnow entered, and the stage stojis at the Lake House, on the shore of Umbagog.\\nThere are two other iims in this town, wliich has ISO inhabitants. A steamer\\nleaves the Lake House on the arrival of the stage, and runs to Errol Dam (in N.\\nH.), a rude lumbermen s village, with two inns. Dixville Notch is 10 M. N. W.\\nf)f Errol, and the handsome village of Colel rook is 20 M. from Errol (by the Notch\\nroad). From Bethel to Colebrook (see page 243), the distance is about GO M. (the\\nexcursion is not recommended for ladies).\\nThe steamer ascends the Magalloway River from Errol Dam to Burfee s Land-\\ning (12 M.), whence adventurous parties of gentlemen have ascended to Parma-\\nchcne Lake and Camel s Rum])Mt., which overlooks a wide and desolate wildei\\nness (see Harper s Magazine, Vol. XX.).\\nBethel was settled in 1773, under the name of Sudbury-Canada, and here, in\\n17SI, oicurrcd the last Lidian depredation in Maine, when a small war-party\\nfrom St. Francis plundered the outlying houses, killed three men, and led three\\nprisoners to Canada.\\nTlie next station beyond Betliel i.s Gilead, a small village on the fertile\\nAndro.scoggin meadow.s, between two ranges of shaggy mountains. It\\nwas named for a great balm-of-Gilead tree within its borders, and in the\\nearly years was almost rendered untenable by bold raids of bears with\\nwhich the hills were infested. On the night of the Willey slide in the\\nWhite Mt. Notch (1S26), immense avalanches fell from the mountains of\\nGilead, especially from Picked Hill. The darkness was so intense as\\nalmost to be felt. The vivid liglitnings and long streams of fire covering\\ntlie sides of the mountains caused by the concussion of the rocks, only\\nserved to make the darkness more visible. The valley rocked as though\\nan eartlujuake were shaking tlie earth.\\nBeyond Bethel the railway ]\u00c2\u00bbas.5es the village of W. Bethel and runs\\nthrough the glens of Gilead to -S Ae^y/wTze (Winthrop House). From this\\npoint the mountain-views on the S. W. are fine, and the train rmis down\\non the r. bank of the Androscoggin, with Mt. Moriah on the 1. and Mt.\\nHayes on the r., to Gorhara (see page 227). Station, Berlin Falls (small\\nhotel), near the famous Falls on the river, and next to Berlin is 3filan,\\non the plains of Lumber-dy. The view down the river from Milan is\\nvery beautiful, including the vast forms of Mts. Washington, Adams, and\\nMadison. E. of Milan is the town of Success, with 5 inhabitants, and\\nN. of otark, through which the train passes beyond Milan, is the town\\n13 s", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0353.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "290 Rmtelfi. ST. HYACINTHE.\\nof Odell, with about 25,000 acres and 1 inhabitant. Tlie line now follows\\nthe Upper Animonoosuc River, to Northumberland, and thence passes up\\nthe 1. bank of thp Connecticut Kiver to Stratford and N. Stratfcml, with\\nthe Percy Peaks on the r. (see page 243). The line now crosses the river\\nand runs through 15 M. of uninhabited forest in Vermont, to Island Pond\\nStewart House, 100 guests); a village erected by\\nthe railway, which has spacious buildings here; this point being 149\\nM. from Portland and 148 M. from Monti eal. The border custom-house is\\nlocated here, and near the village and track is a pretty lake, 2 M. long\\nand I M. wide, surrounded by a hard, smooth beach of white quartz\\nsand, with waters aboimding in fish. About 12 M. beyond Island Pond,\\ntlie train passes Norton Pond, and enters the Dominion of Canada. At\\nLinniixville the Passumpsic R. R. (Route 24) comes in from the S. Sher-\\nbrooke is the W. terminus of the International R. R., running 09 M. to\\nLake Megantic (and heading for Moosehead Lake); and of the Quebec\\nCentral R. R., running by Lake Aylmer and the Chaudiere Vallev to\\nQuel)ec (140 M.). Eichmond (on the St.-Francis River) is the seat of\\nSt. -Francis College.\\nThe Quebec Braiich runs 76 M. N. E. from Richmond to Quebec.\\nStation, Danville, a pretty rural village, with beautiful views from Clare-\\nmont Hill and the Pinnacle (which is 3 M. from Danville, and rises 1,000\\nft. from the plain). Kingsey Falls are 7 M. distant, and are often visited.\\nStation, Arthabaska, whence a branch road runs 35 M. N. W. down the\\nBecancour valley to Three Rivers, on the St. Lawrence. 10 M. E. of\\nArthabaska is Rouillard ML, whence a broad forest-view is gained, ex-\\ntending from the St. Lawrence 40 M. N. W. to the bright Lakes Aylmer\\nand St. Francis, in the distant S. E. The train now passes on through a\\nthinly populated country, and crosses the Chaudiere River about 8 M.\\nfrom Quebec (2-3 M. from the Falls), and near the point where the Riviere\\ndu Loup Division (125 M. long) of the Grand Trunk Railway diverges to\\nthe N E. The train stops at Point Levi, opposite Quebec, and pas-\\nsengers are carried across the St. Lawrence in ferry-boats.\\nQuebec, see Route 5G.\\nFrom, Richmond to Montreal the distance is 76 M. (almost due W.\\nAfter passing the copper-mining town of Acton, the train reaches St.\\nHyacinthe, 35 M. from Montreal. This is a curious old Franco-Cana-\\ndian city, pleasantly situated on the plains on both sides of the Yamaska\\nRiver. The Cathedral is a fine building, and the college is one of the\\nbest in America. The course of studies here is said to be only equalled\\nby the best Jesuit colleges in France. The college building is an im-\\nposing structure of cut stone, 700 ft. long, and surmounted by a cupola.\\nThe fertile district between St. Hyacinthe and Montreal is inhabited by\\nthe descendants of the old French immigrants, preserving their language,\\ncustoms, and religion intact. The railway stations on this tract are\\nSoixante, St. Hilaire, St. Bnmo, St. Hubert, and St. Lambert. The", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0354.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "FARMINGTON. Rmite 4I. 291\\nsingular mts. of Beloeil, Yamaska, and Rongemont are passed, and at\\nSt. Lanibert the train crosses tlie St. Lawrence on tlie Victoria Bridge.\\nMontreal, see Route 54.\\n41. Portland to Farmington and the Western Maine Forest\\nPortland to Farmington, 93 M., in 5 hours to the Rangeley Lakes, 133 M.\\nThe train leaves the Portland and Kennebec station and runs over Roiite\\n47 to Brunswick, where it passes on to the rails of the Androscoggin\\nDivision of the Maine Central Railway. Stations, Lisbon Falls (a manu-\\nfacturing village on the falls of the Andi oscoggin), Lisbon, Crovde)/ s\\n(whence a branch railroad diverges to Lewiston) Sabbat isville, and Leeds\\nJunction. At this point the present route is crossed by Route 46, and\\nclose connections are made, so that passengers who prefer that route may\\navail themselves of it. For the next 12 M. the line runs through the\\nto\\\\yn of Leeds, stopping at the stations, Curtis Corner, Leeds Centre, and\\nN. Leeds.\\nGen. O. O. Howard was born at Leeds in 1830. He graduated at West Point,\\nand was an instructor tliere until the outbreak of the Rebellion in 1861. Leading\\nthe 3d Maine Volunteer Infantry into the Held, he won distinction and a general s\\ncouuiiission at Bull Run, and lost his right arm at the battle of Fair Oaks. He\\ncommanded the 11th corps of the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg,\\nChancellor.sville, and Gettysburg, and tlien fought in the Georgia eami)aigns. He\\ncommanded the right wing of Sherman s army in the march to the sea, and\\nsince the war has been engaged in the work of bettering the condition of the\\nnegroes and Indians.\\nThe next three stations (Strickland s Ferry, E. Livermore, and Liver-\\nmore Falls) are in the long town of E. Livermore, where the train ap-\\nproaches the Androscoggin River. Livermore Falls is devoted to manu-\\nfactures. This district was called Rockomeka, or great corn land, by\\nthe Indians, and is distinguished for its fine breeds of cattle.\\nJust across the river is the town of Livermore, the birthplace of the brothers,\\nIsrael Washburne, Congressman, 1851-01, and Gov. of Maine, 18()l-3; E. B.\\nWashburne, Congressman from Illinois, 1853-09, and Minister to France, 1809-70,\\nan able statesman and skilful diplomatist and C. C. Washburne, Congressman\\nfrom Wisconsin, 1856-62 and 1807 -71, a suc(;essful general in the campaigns in the\\nlower Mississippi valley, and chosen Gov. of Wisconsin in 1871.\\nStations, Jay Bridge and N. Jay (stages to Dixfield and Bryant s\\nPond, on Route 40, in 37 M. in the farming town of Jay, and Wilton, a\\nmanufacturing village, from which stages run W. 13 M. to Weld (Mon-\\ndays and Fridays), a village (small inn) on the shore of a lake, with lofty\\nmts. in the vicinity. Bear Mt. is on the S., Ben Nevis on the W., Metal-\\nlic Mt. on the N., and Bald and Blue Mts. on the E., the latter being\\nnearly 4,000 ft. above the sea, and 2,360 ft. above the village. Stages\\nalso run to Chesterville, on the E.\\nBeyond E. Wilton, the train crosses the Sandy River and its intervales\\non a broad, curving trestle, and stops at Farmington {Stoddard House;", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0355.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "292 Route ^1. THE RANGELEY LAKES.\\nHotel Marble; Lake House). The town has 3,252 inhabitants, with 2\\nbanks, a weekly paper, and 6 churches. This bright village is situated on\\nthe favorite grain-lands of the old Canibas Indians, and has also a lucrative\\nlumber-trade. The Western State Normal School is located here; also the\\nLittle Blue School, so that tliis remote village on the edge of the forest has\\nsomewhat of an academic air. The Franklin County buildings are also\\nlocated here.\\nStages run from Farminpton to Temple; to New Vinejard, New Portland, and\\nKiugfield; to Industry and Starks to New Sharon, Rome, Belgrade, and Augusta.\\nNew Portland and Kingtield (Franklin House) are picturesque but thinly iio})u-\\nlated mt. to\\\\vns. Near Kinglield on the W. is the Mt. Abraham Range, 3,387 ft.\\nhigh. The natural and civil histories of the Maine border towns are monoto-\\nnously alike. Tliey were mostly settled between 1775 and 1800, exhibited a slow\\ngrowth until 1860, and then began to retrograde. The losses occasioned by thr\\nwar, the great emigration westward, and the sterility of the New England ract\\nare the reasons generally assigned for this decadence, while the severity of tin\\nci;mate, the destruction of the forests, and the exhaustion of the soil, are sell\\nevident natural causes of decline. Franklin County, through which the iiresen;\\nroute is laid, had nearly 2,000 more inhabitants in 1860 than in 1870, and in that\\nsame decade the State lost 7,872 in poijulation. This lias been Maine s loss, but\\nthe Union s gain, and natives of this State may be found in posts of trust and\\nhonor in nearly every large American community.\\nThe Eangeley Lakes\\nhave of late years become the favorite fishing-ground of New England,\\nand hotels, cottages, lodges, and camps abound on their beautiful wooded\\ncapes and coves. They are nearly 1,500 ft. above the sea, and cover 80\\nsquare miles, abounding in trout and other game-fish, and surrounded by\\ngreat unbroken forests, haunted with game. A quaint little railroad as-\\ncends from Farmington, passing Strony (stages to Freeman. 5 M., and\\nSalem, 9 M., near Mt. Abraham), to Phillips {*Tlie Ehmoood Bardin\\nHouse), a lively frontier-town, with 2 churches, a paper, and miles of fer-\\ntile farms. A road and path lead hence to the crest of Mt. Blue. From\\nriiillips morning stages to Madrid (Madrid House), across tlie Beech-Hill\\nspur of Saddle-back, and doAvn to Grtfnr(de (Gretn-\\\\ (de House), whence\\na road of 3 M., and a steamboat runs down Eangeley Lake, 9 M. by 3 M.,\\nto Ranfjeley (Kangeley-Lake House; Oquossoc House), a small lake-side\\nvillage. 10 M. N^is Kennebngo Lake, and 7 M. W. is The Outlet (Moun-\\ntain-View House), 1\\\\ M. from Indian lioch and Camp Kennebaf/o, the\\nheadquarters of the powerful Oquossoc Angling Association. Close by is\\nCiipsuptic Lake, rich in scenery, and the route to I arnuicliene Lake (17 M.\\nby boat, and 8 M. of hard walking). Mooselucmaguntic Lake, just be-\\nlow, is traversed by a steamer touching at lacluudson s Camp, Bugle\\nCove, Camp Bema, and Upper Dam, where there are small inns (stages\\nfrom Camp Bema to Byron, 10 M.). This is the largest of the Uangeley\\nLakes, and has much beautiful scenery, and very good fishing and hunting.\\nBchiw the l i)i)er Dam is Lake Mollychunkamunk, 5 M. by lA, famous\\nfor trout aiul doer, and 6 M. from ]\\\\It. Aziscoiis; aiul below this is Welo-\\nkenebacook Lake. There are snmil steamboats and inns on boih these\\nlakes. A G-M. road leads from the Middle Dam to Lake Umbagog, who.-e\\nsteamer runs to Upton and Frrol Dam (see pages 244 and l i\\\\)). and up the\\nlonely Magalloway Kiver, near whose head-waters is Lake Parmachene.\\nAnother favorite route to the Rangeley Lakes is from Bryant s I ond, on the\\nGrand Trunk, 22 M. N. to tlie lovely town of Andovor {French s Hotel; Ando-\\nrer House, ^1 10 a week), whence daily bnckhoards run, 11 M., to the S. arm\\nof Welokenehiicook, cfmneetiiig there with the stianiboat at noon. From Bry-\\nant s Pond (Glen-Mitimtain House) the stage passes through I in Uool: ntid liuin-\\n/ruv/ (Rnint onl Hotel), and :imcti(1=! the Eliis-I .iver Valley by Lead Mf., White Ca)),\\nand other pe.iks. Stage f:i re, to Andover, S 1 50 theix o to S. Arm,!? 150. I :.e\\nroad IVoui Audover N. leuds tiirouga au uuhrokeu wilderue s, with picture, (iuo", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0356.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "SKOWIIEGAX. Route 42. 293\\nmountains and notches. The vicinity of Audover is full of interesting excursion-\\npoints, W hite-Oap Mountain, 7 51. {road within 1 M. of top) Hlack-Urook Notch,\\n9 M. between Sawyer Mt, and Elue Alt. Sawyer s Notch the Cascades ou Frye s\\nlirook, Sac.\\n42. Portland to the Upper Kennebec.\\nBy either of the Routes 46 or 47 to Waterville, and thence by a branch raih oad\\nin I j M. to Skowhegan. This line passes along the r. bank of the Kennebec, with\\nthe stations of Fairfield, Somerset Mills, and I isuou Ferry.\\nThe Somerset R R. runs farther up tue valley, diverging from the Maine Central\\nR. R. at Oakland, and passing through Norridgewock, Madison, Ausou, and N.\\nAnson (2(i M.).\\nSkowhegan (ITesdton House, 150 guests, $10.50-14; Hotel Cohurn,\\nS8-1-2) is a pleasant village in a prosperous town of about 4,000\\ninhabitants. It has 3 banks, a weekly paper, and 5 churches, and\\nderives its importance from numerous manufactories situated on a large\\nwater-power. The Kennebec here falls 28 ft. perpendicularly over ragged\\nledges, with a picturesque island ending at the crest of the fall. The\\nfalls are best viewed from the point near the site of the Skowhegan Ho-\\ntel, or from the carriage-bridge below. From the latter point there is a\\npleasant view down the river, the most prominent object being the grace-\\nful railway-bridge, while the streaui is narrowed between high, rocky\\nbanks like a western canon. The favorite drive is to Norridgewock\\n(5 i\\\\I.) by a fine river-road, returning on the opposite bank, and aft ording\\nbeau ti fid views of the blue Kenneliec.\\nS agcs leave Skowhegan early every morning for Mad n^on, 5 M. Solon (Solon\\nH(Hise), 14; Bitii/ham {Sia, j;e House, where dinner is taken), 22; Carrifiot/,- (O.w-\\nney s House), S and The Fork.s Forl^x Hotel, 150 guests, !!(5-14 a week),\\n4 i M at t!ie contluence of tlie Kenneliec ami Dead Rivers. Daily stages from\\nN Anson to Solon (8 M.), connecting witli above route Tri-weekiy stages from\\nT.ie Forks to Part in Pond (Parlin-Pond House, $5 -14), 15 M. Jorkmantowii\\n(.\\\\dams s inn), 20 M. Afoose Jlirer, 30 M. Sandy Bay, or Canada Road (Hilton s\\ninn), 44 and Kennchec Line, 48. Thence Canadian mail-stages descend the\\nCliaudure Valley, 51 M., to St. Joseph de lieauce, on the Quebec Central R. R.\\nNorridgewock (two inns) is a beautiful rural town, situated on both\\nsides of the Kennebec, and on the Somerset Railroad. At the N. vil-\\nlage, 5 M. from Skowhegan, are the old Somerset County buildings, with\\na broad river-side street on which stand some rare and immense old trees.\\nThe river is here crossed by a carriage-bridge and a fine railway-bridge.\\nr 6 M. above the village, and near the confluence of the Kennebec and\\nthe Sandy Rivers, is Old Point.\\nAt Old Point was tlie chief town of the Canibas Indians, a powerfid tribe of\\nt!n Alienaqui nation. As early as IGHl French missionaries from Quebec settled\\nhere, and in 1005 Sebastian Rale, a FreuL-h Jesuit, came from Canada and be-\\ncame the spiritual and (!)rarti(;ally) political chief of the tribe. Kale was a\\nman ol high culture, and had been Greek professor in the College of Nismes (in\\nS. France). He prepared a complete di(!tionary (now at Harvard University) of\\nthe Ahenaqui language, which had diminutives and augmentatives hke the\\nItalian, and was a jjowerfnl and flexible language, the Greek of America.\\nWhile the colonial government policy was generally e(iultahle and fair toward the\\nIndians, frequent gross ijijuries and cruelties wcrj intlictcd on them by irrespon-\\nsible Enghsh adventurers. Hence a burning sense of wrongs endured and the", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0357.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "294 Route 42. PORTLAND TO THE UPPER KENNEBEC.\\nloss of their ancestral lands forced the Indians into a constant state of Tv arlike\\nfervor. It is said that Father Rale had a superb consecrated banner floating\\nbefore his church, and emlilazoued with the cross and a bow and sheaf of arrows.\\nThis was the crusading flag borne often and again over tlie smoking ruins of\\nMaine and N. H. villages. In 170.5 Norridgewock was destroyed by 270 colonial\\nsoldiers, who marched thither swiftly in winter by the aid of snow-shoes. At the\\nclose of Queen Anne s War (Peace of Utrecht) the Sachem of the tribe went to\\nBoston, to demand worknien to rebuild the village-church, and an indcnniity for\\nthe destruction of the houses. Mass. promised both, on condition that Norndge-\\nwock would accept a Puritan x^astor, but the Sachem refused the condition. The\\nIndians soon restored their homes, and sutiered another plundering raid in 1722,\\nfor which the coast of Maine paid dearly. In 1724 it was seen that the tribe\\nmust be driven away before the coast-towns could be held securely, and in Au-\\ngust of that year an atrocious attack was made on Norridgewock by 20S colonial\\nsoldiers from Fort Richmond. So carefully was the .Tdvance guarded by Har-\\nmon s Rangers and a company of Mohawks, that the village was surrounded, and\\nth first intimation of the presence of the colonials was conveyed in a shower of\\nbullets which swept through the streets. Some of the Indians esca])ed through\\nthe thin environing lines, but all who remained in the wigwams men, women,\\nand children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 were massacred.\\nThe noise and tumult ga\\\\ e Pere Rale notice of the danger his converts were\\nin, and he fearlessly showed himself to the enemy, hojiing to draw all their atten-\\ntion to himself, and to secure the .safety of his flock at the peril of his life. He\\nwas not disappointed. As soon as he appeared, the English set up a great shout,\\nwhich was followed by a shower of shot, when he fell dead near to the cross wliich\\nhe had erected in the midst of the village. Seven chiefs, who sheltered his body\\nwith their own, fell around him. Thus did this kind shepherd give his life for his\\nsheep, after a painful mission of 37 years. (Charlevoix.) When the fragment\\nof the tril)e re-entered the ruined village, they found Rale s body, horribly muti-\\nlated, at the foot of the mission cross. After his converts had raised up and\\noftentimes kissed the precious remains, so tenderly and so justly beloved by them,\\nthey buried him in tlie same place where he had, the evening before, celebrated\\nthe sacred mysteries, namely, the spot where the altar stood before the church\\nwas burnt. {Histoire Gencrale de Nouvdle France.) Bishop Fenwick, of Bos-\\nton, erected a granite obelisk on the site of the church m 18.33. After Ijiug deso-\\nlate for half a century, Norridgewock was settled by the whites in 1773.\\nStarks (Clifton Housed is a farming town 10 M. N. W. of Norridgewock,\\nwith tri-weekly stages to Fannington, 13 M. W. (see -Route 41). On tliu\\nnew Somerset Railroad route, Anson is N. of Starks, and is a consider-\\nable, though failing village, with 3 small hotels and about 1,700 inhabi-\\ntants. Emhden is a large but thinly settled town across the river from\\nSolon (inn), a decadent towm near Carritunk Falls, where the Kennebec\\nnarrows from 480 ft. wide to 40 ft. and falls about 20 ft. The stage-\\nroute passes through Solon, Bingham, Moscow, and Carritunk, to The\\nForks, a forest-village of about 150 iiiliabitants, 45 M. N, W. of Skow-\\nhegan. Here are a few houses and a large hotel, amid fine forest-scenery,\\n5 M. from Moxle Poml, island-strewn and mountain-walled 12 M. from\\nthe rare trouting of Pleasant Pond; and 25 M. (no road) from Mooseliead\\nLake. There is capital fishing in the sandy-shored Parlin Pond, near\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which is the frontier custom-house, and at Wood Pond, Attean Pond, and\\nINIoose River, farther into the forest. From Moose-River Village canoes\\ndescend the river by Long Pond and Brassua Lake to Moosehead Lake,\\n32 M. E.\\nStages run from N. Anson (Somerset TTouse). 48 M. N. W. up the C.arrahasset\\nVallev, liY New Portland and Kinsfield, to Fiis*!S (Sfimr Hmisr), on Von\\\\ Itiv.-r,\\nand near Mt. Higelow and olher i euko. M I c; oiid is Tim fnu.:, and 1: M fir-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0358.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "KATAHDIN IRON- WORKS. Route 43. 295\\nther in are the Seven Ponds, famous fishing-grounds. Another stage-route, of\\n38 M., leads from N. Anson by l ead Kiver {Mt -Bigelow House), to Fiacfstaff\\n(Flagstaif House), at the foot of Mt. Bigelow. This wild aoid sequestered region\\natfords very good fishing and hunting.\\n43. Boston or Portland to Koosehead Lake.\\nThe Mt.-Kineo House is about 20 hours from Boston (tickets up and back, 15)\\nby taking the 7 P. M. Pullman train to Bangor, where one arrives at 5.45 A. IM and\\ntakes the morning train on the Bangor and Piscataquis R. K., reaching the hotel\\nabout mid-afternoon. Or the day-train may be taken from Boston, and the ni^lit\\nmay be sjient at Bangor. Or Bangor may be reached by steamboat from Boston\\n(see Route 48).\\nThe Bangor and Piscataquis train ascends the Penobscot River for 12 jM.,\\nby Veazie and Oruno, to Oldtown, where it diverges from the Maine-\\nCentral line and runs up the Piscataquis Valley, across the decadent\\ntowns of Alton, Lagrange, arid Orneville. At Mdo Junction a railroad\\ndiverges to the N. 25 M. up the Pleasant-River Valley, famous for its\\nslate-quarries, to Katahdin Iron- Works (Silver-Lake Hotel, 100 guests),\\naround which are very good trout-ponds and deer-haunted woods, with\\nthe Whitecap, Horseback, and Chairback Mts., the Gulf, the Ebeme Mts.,\\nand the Houston Ponds. A rude logging-road leads N. to Ripogenus and\\nChesuncook. At Brownville, on this line, may be found guides, and the\\nroad to Schoodic and Seboois Lakes and the Ebeme Ponds.\\nFrom Sebec station, on the main line, daily stages run N. to S. Sebec,\\nSebec (5 M.), and Barnard. From Sebec a steamboat runs daily up the\\nbeautiful Sebec Lake, 12 M. long, to the LaJce House, at the mouth of\\nWilson Stream. Boats, guides, and supplies may be obtained at Sebec.\\nfor excursions to Buck s Cove, Lake Onaway, and other famous fishing-\\ngrounds, amid charming wild scenery.\\nDover (Blethen House), the shire-town, has a newspaper and many\\nfarms, and a daily stage to Dexter, 14 M. S. W. Across the river is\\nFoxcroft (Foxcroft Exchange), a busy manufacturing village. The train\\npasses on by Sangerville and Guilford (Tin-ner House), to Abbott Villuf/e\\n(Buxton s), whence a daily stage runs N. 14 M. to Howard and Willi-\\nmantic, at the head of Sebec Lake. The line next rises on high grades,\\ngiving fine views over the hill-girt valley. From Monson Junction a\\nbranch line runs N. 5 M. to Monson (Lake-Hebron Hotel, 100 guests),\\nwhere 300 men quarry fine slate. Lake Hebron is 900 ft. above the sea,\\nand 3i M. long. In the vicinity are Lake Onaway, 8 M.; Greenwood\\nLake; Sebec Lake, 9 M.; and a score of forest-enwaljcd ponds, stocked\\nwith trout, land-locked salmon, and German carp.\\nBeyond Monson Junction the line traverses a thinly populated region,\\ncrossing the towns of Blanchard and Shirley, and running down to the\\nterminus at West Bay, on Moosehead Lake.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0359.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "20G Route /^S. MOOSlIILAU LAKE.\\nMocsehead Lake.\\nTlie magnificent wilderness Ij iu^ about and beyond Monseheail Lake, as far as\\ntt O 0;iiiailiaii IVimtieis, with its lakes and rivers, portages aud cun.ps. lisning and\\nbunting jrrouLids, c., are very carefully des cri lied, with larj^e maps and jiletitirul\\nillustrations, in Lucius L. Hubbard s new book, Woods aud Lakes of Maine\\n(published by James R. Osgood Co.), aud also in the f-auie author y Guide to\\nMoosehead Lake and Northern Maine.\\nKiueo is a peninsula situated half-way up Moosehead Lake, projecting from the\\nE. shore so far that the lake, which a few miles below is 15 M. wide, is here nar-\\nrowed to little more than 1 M. Mt. Kiueo is 900 ft. higli, rising grailually from the\\nwater on the N. and \\\\V., and on the S. and E. presenting perpendicular faces of Hint\\nrock. The Pebble Beach is formed of pieces of stone of various colors broken from\\nthe mountaiu, rounded and polished by the action of the w.iter. S. of the mt. the\\nground forms a plateau sloping gently to the water. Here stanls the Mt.-Kinco\\nHouse, with accoumiodations for 500 guests, fitted with modern couvenieu es,\\na first-class hotel erected (in 1884) and n:aintained in the wilderness. It is famed\\nas a headquarters for trout-fishermen, who come in great numbers from all parts of\\nthe United States for the fishing in .lune and September. It is al.-o a favorite\\nrefuge for those afHicted with hay-fever, and a resort for all who eiijoy the air and\\nscenery of lake and mountain combined, arriage-roads and wood-paths lead to\\nthe Cliff, Pebble Beach, c. Steamers belonging to the liou. -e convey guests to any\\npart of the lake. H^re camjnng parties for all points farther up rlie lake, for the\\nWest Branch of the Penobscot, and tlie St. .lolin waters, obtain guides and sup-\\nplies. The transient rates .at the Mt. Kiueo are .s 2 a day lor June, a-2- 3 tor July\\nand Oct., .112.50-3.50 for Aug. and Sept., with iliscounts for sojourns of a week or\\nmore. Electric bells, steam-heating, g;L\u00c2\u00abi, elevator. c.\\nGreenville {ImIv House Evdeth House) is a small farming village on theS. shore,\\nand about 5 M. W. o! Wilson E^md, whieli is famed for its tiout. Here may be\\nseen many lumbermen,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Americans, Indians, and Canadian and Acadian Pioii -h-\\nmen, rude and stalwart foresters. Maine has two classes of warriors among\\nits sons, lighters of forest and fighters of seas. Braves must join one or the\\nother army. The two are close allies.\\nMoosehead Lake is 3-5 j\\\\L long, from 4 to 12 M. wide, and contaiii.s 220\\nsquare Tuile.s. It is 1,02-3 ft. above tlie sea, to wliich its waters pass by\\nthe Kennebec River. The sliores are monotonous and uncultivated, save\\nwhere Mt. Kineo runs out into the lake, though distant mts. on either\\nside give variety to the view. Except Greenville, at the S. end, there are\\nno towns, plantations, or permanent settlements on these lonely shores.\\nSteamers leave Greenville daily for Mt. Kineo. Passing out of the long,\\ndeep cove in which the village is situated, the Sijuaw ]\\\\It. is seen on the\\n1. and the steamer runs N. between Deer Island on the 1. and Sugar Island\\non the r. E. of the latter is Lilly Cove, strewn with romantic i.slets and\\nsurrounded by mts. Beyond Sugar Island the great bay is seen to the S.\\nW., through which the Kennebec flows outward toward the sea, while\\nSpencer Bay opens to the N. E., with Spencer Mt. (4,000 ft. high) at its\\nhead. Katahdin may be seen to the N. E. on a clear day. The bold\\nbluffs of Kineo are now seen ahead, and the steamer stops near its base\\nand close by the hotel.\\nAt 16 18 M. N. of ]\\\\tt. Kineo, over the desolate-shored North Bay, the end of the\\nLake is reached, and a well-travelled portage of 2 M. leails across to tiie Penobscot\\nRiver. This river may be descended in a }\u00c2\u00bbirch-c-inoe well guided (jiassing .several\\nrapids) te Chesnncook Lake, I O-oO M. N. E. Plain forest-fare and rude forest-\\nlife must be encountered here. Chcsuncook is about 20 M. long and 1 -3 M. wide,", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0360.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "PORTLAND TO ROCKLAND. lloidc U. 297\\nand lios to the S. of the large Lakes, Cauconigomuc and Caucomgomosis, and the\\nAllagasli cliaiu of hikes, the southernmost and largest of which is Apniogeuagu-\\nniook. Beyond Chesuncuok (IS. E.) Ripogenus Lakt; is traversed, then ensues a 3\\nM. portage, and then the river is descended for many leagues to PeniaduuKJook\\nLake, with Mt. Katahdin boldly prominent on the N. E. and N. This mt. is some-\\ntimes ascended with the canoe-guides, from the river, a long and ai duous\\njourney. From Peniadumcook the widening river (more properly the W. branch\\nof the Penobscot) may be followed to Mattawamkeag or Oldtown.\\nGood guides, a supply of provisions, and strong clothing are requisite fortius\\ntour, wliicli requires 7-10 days, from Greenville to Oldtown. (See a vigorous\\naccount of this loute by Theodore Winthrop, Life in the Open Air, (Jhai)s.\\nVI. -XV. also Thoreau s Maine Woods.\\n44. Portland to Rockland.\\nBy the Maine Central and Knox and Lincoln Railways, in 96 M. The\\ntrain leavevS the Portland and Kennebec station in Portland and passes\\nover Route 47 to Brunswick. Stages run thence to Harpswell and Orr s\\nIsland. A few miles beyond Brunswick, the train reaches Bath. Sagada-\\nhoc House Shannon s Hotel Coliimhian), a maritime city situated on the\\nKennebec River, ]2 M. from the sea. Bath has 11,000 inhabitants, with a\\nvaluation of 6,400,000, 7 banks, and a daily paper. It was foj-nierly\\nthe fourth city in the republic in the shipbuilding business, and grew in\\nwealth and prosperity until the decline of American commerce. This\\nbranch of industry was founded here in 1762, and was favored l\u00c2\u00bby the fa-\\ncility with which the best ship timber was floated down the Kenneliec fi om\\nthe northern forests. In 1853 and 1854 the tonnage built here amounted\\nto 107,854. The city has a fine harbor, rarely embarrassed Avith ice, and\\ndeep enough for the largest ships. The streets are irregular in their\\ncontour, and the settled district extends for over 3 M. along the W. bank\\nof the river, being only about M. wide. The river at this point is over\\nM. in width, and is rapid and deep. There is a neat Government\\nbuilding here, also the Sagadahoc County buildings, and 11 churches.\\nThe site of Bath was first visited by Capt. Weymouth in 1605. It was bought\\nfrom Robin Hood, an Indian chief, by Rev. Robert Guteh, of Salem, who lived\\nhere from IGfjO to 1G79. The growth of the settlement was very slow until the\\nclose of the Revolutionary War, when an active lundjer and shipping trade sprang\\nup, which was but momentarily injured by the Embargo and the AVnr of 1S12.\\nFrom causes which are national rather than local, Bath s leading industry has\\nbeen checked, and the city, like the other small maritime cities of New England,\\nis turning towards manufactures.\\nStages run daily to Arrowsic and GeorgetoAvn. Steamers run to Phipsburg,\\nGeorgetown, Arrowsic, Boothbay, Pema(]uid, and Waldoboro.\\nThe long peninsnlfis and narrow parallel islands which run into the salt water\\nbelow Bath are very interesting in a historical point of view. Arrowsic is an\\nisland town with about 250 inhabitants, on 20,000 acres of land, nuicli of which is\\nsalt-marsh. This island was settled ami fortified in IGGl, and its settlement was\\ndestroyed by an Indian raid in 1723. In another midnight attack, 50 houses were\\nburnt, and 35 persons were killed and captured in the fort, which was stormed in\\nthe ilarkness. Months after, a detachment of soldiers landed to bury the dead,\\nbut were ambushed and rudely handled, dcorijetoirn is an island town below\\nArrowsic, with similar annals of early adventure. Phipsburg is a long }ieiiinsula,\\nBtretching for about 2 M. from Bath to Bald Uead Cape, bounded on the AV. by\\n13*", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0361.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "298 Route U. WOOLWICH.\\nQuohog Bay, and on the E. by the widenings of the Kennebec. The Uuguenot chief,\\nDe Monts, planted the cross here in 1CU4, and in 1607 Sir George Fophani ami\\nRaleigh Gilbert (nephew of Sir Walter Kaleigh) came here with 2 ships and lu(J\\nmen. They sayled up into the river neere 40 leagues, and found yt to be a very\\ngallant river, very deepe, and then returned to this peninsula, where they landed\\nand celebrated the service of the Episcopal Church, assembled around their chap-\\nlain. This is said to have been tlie first Christian service in New England. A\\nline of cabins and a church were built, and Fort !St. George was raised for their\\nprotection. After a quarrel between the colonists and Indians, the latter got\\npossession of the fort, and plundered it but having scattered around several bar-\\nrels of powder (being ignorant of its qualities), it caught ttre and exploded, de-\\nstroying the fort and the Indians. The remaining aborigines, interpreting the\\nfatal explosion as a Divine punishment, hastened to be reconciled with the colo-\\nnists, whom they supi)lied with food all winter. The intense cold of the Avinter\\nof 1607-8, the destruction of their stores, the dubious favor of the Indians, and\\nthe death of Popham and other leaders caused the colony to break uj) in the\\nspring and return to England, having found nothing but extreme extremity.\\nThe peninsula was resettled in 1716 by the Pejepscot proprietore, who erected\\nhere a stone fort 100 ft. S(iuare, made houses and roads, and established a line of\\ncommunication by sea with Boston. A few years later it was destroyed liy a sud-\\nden Indian attack, and the fort was demolished. The peninsula was again settled\\nin 1737, and in 1814 was incorporated, and named in honor of Sir William Phips.\\nThe town has 1,344 inhabitants, largely engaged in fishing and shipbuilding, and\\nits shores are rugged and irregular. Seguin Island lies off shore to the S. There\\nare one or two small summer boarding-houses on the peninsula.\\nThe 3d Maine Regiment, in the Secession W^ar, was raised in the Kennebec\\nValley, between Phipsburg and Skowhegan. It was one of the bravest regiments\\nin the army, was engaged in nearly all the great Virginian battles, and at Gettys-\\nburg alone lost 113 men. Howard was its first colonel.\\nTri-weekly stages run S. from Batli to Winnegancc, 8 M. Phippsburg, 7 M.\\nParker s Head, 10 M. and Small Point, 15^ M. Also (from Woolwich) tri-weekly\\nto Arrowsic and Georgetown.\\nAt Bath the througli cars for Rockland are taken across the Kennebec\\nRiver on a large steam ferrj^-boat, and run on to the rails of the Knox\\nand Lincoln Railroad at Woohvich, on the farther shore. This town was\\nsettled in 1638 on the Indian domain of Nequasset, and was depopulated\\nby an attack in 1676. 50 years later it was resettled, and in 1759 was in-\\ncorporated as Woolwich, so named from a resemblance of the Kennebeo\\nRiver at this point to the English Thames at Woolwich.\\nWilliam Phips was bom at Woolwich in 1G51, and was a shepherd on its rocky\\nhills. Learning how to read and write, and then aCciuiring the art of shii)-car-\\npentering, he rose in consideration and influence. In 1684 he sailed from London\\nin a war vessel, to attempt the recovery of the gold from a sunken Spanish treas-\\nure-ship near the Bahamas. The quest was unsuccessful, but in 1687 he suc-\\nceeded in recovering from the wreck $1,500,000 in jewels and bars of gold and\\nsilver. He was knighted by the king, and received $80,000 of the treasure. He\\ncommanded the expedition which took Port Royal from the French, and from 1692\\nto 1694 he was Gov. of Mass. In 1694 he died suddenly at London, where he had\\ngone to render an account of his government. His activity, bravery, and enter-\\nprise enabled him to rise from the tasks of an unlettered shepherd on the Wool-\\nwich bills to the governorship of the chief British province in America.\\nBeyond Woolwich the train passes the country stations of Nequasset\\nand Montsweag, and then stops at Wiscasset (Hilton House), a maritime\\ntown on the Sheepscot River, 12 M. from the sea. It has 1,978 inhabi-\\ntants, 2 banks, and a weekly paper (tlie Seaside Oracle The widen-\\nings of the river opposite Wiscasset afford a broad and capacious harbor,\\nwith 12 20 fathoms of water, and but rarely troubled with ice. It w^as", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0362.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "PEMAQUID. Route U- 299\\nonce talked of for a U. S. naval station. Tliis town was laid nnder con-\\ntribution by the British sloop-of-war Rainbow, during the Revolution.\\nIts palmiest days were between 1780 and 1806, when the maritime trade\\nwas very extensive, and many leagues of back country were dependent on\\nit for supplies. This prosperity was ruined by the Embargo and the War\\nof 1812, and Wiscasset is now only a pleasant village, fading slowly from\\nits picturesque hills.\\nDaily stages run from Wiscasset to Boothhay (two inns), 9 M. S., another of the\\nancient peninsular towns. It was visited by Weymouth in 1605 settled in 1030\\ndestroyed in 1G88 and resettled in 1730. Its fine harbor was chosen for a naval\\nstation by the British government about 1770, but tlie outbreak of the Revolu-\\ntionary War jirevented national works from being constructed. The town has\\n3,200 inhabitants, who are mostly engaged in the fisheries, the coasting trade, and\\nin shipbuilding. The village is very attractive, with islands in front guarding\\nthe noble harbor, in which, during long storms, 4-500 sail of fishing vessels\\nsometimes take refuge. Many summer visitors rest at Boothbay, which is reached\\nalso by steamer from Bath. The steamer touches, en route, at Southport (Rose-\\nwood Cottage), an insular town inhabited by fishermen. The S. extremity of\\nthis island is Cape Newagen, whence the Damariscove Islands are seen on the E.\\nWestport is another insular town, 11 M. long, to the W. of Boothbay, and inhab-\\nited by fishermen.\\nBeyond Wiscasset the train passes to the station, Newcastle and Dam-\\nariscotta. A considerable settlement was made at Newcastle early in\\nthe 17th century, as is evinced by the traces still seen. It was probably\\ndestroyed by the French, and its memory has faded from history. Many\\nyears after this colony fell, another was established, which was destroyed\\nin King Philip s War. A third settlement on the same site Avas destroyed\\nin 1688, and the land lay desolate for 30 years. The town now contains\\n1,729 inhabitants, mostly engaged in manufacturing. Damariscotta\\n(Maine Uotel) was settled in 1640, and was a frontier post of the\\nold Pemaquid Patent. It was often assailed by the Indians, and twice or\\nthrice was abandoned. It was named for Damarine, Sachem of Sagada-\\nhoc (called Robin Hood by the English), and now is generally spoken of,\\nin the country-side, as Scottie. It has 1,334 inhabitants, and ship-\\nbuilding is the cliief industry. The Damariscotta River separates it from\\nNewcastle.\\nStages run to Alna, Pittston, and Gardiner to Jefferson and Augusta to Bris-\\ntol and Pemaquid. Bristol is a territorially large town, embracing nearly all the\\npeninsula between the Damariscotta River and Muscougus Bay. It has about\\n3,000 inhabitants, and at the village of Round Pond are extensive oil-works.\\nPemaquid.\\nOn and near a rocky promontory in the extreme S. of Bristol is the site of the\\nancient colony of Pemaquid, than which no locality in New England lias more of\\nhistoric charm. The Maine Historical Society has explored these deserted sliores,\\nand the site and ruins of Fort Frederick have been secured for a monument to bo\\nerected in honor of the pioneers.\\nCapt. Weymouth visited Pemaquid in 1605, and kidnapped several Indians. 10\\nyears later a furious war broke out between the Tarratine Indians and the Bashaba\\nor Chief of the Western Maine tribes. The Bashaba and his family and council-", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0363.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "300 Route U. WALDOBORO.\\nlors were put to death by a flaring inroad of the Tarratines, but the- tribes had\\nbecome greatly reduced by the war and an ensuing pestilence. The Wawen.)cks\\n(fear-naughts) occupied the peninsulas about Pema(iuid, but were so reduced in\\nstrength as to be unable to prevent colonization. In 1630 it is said that a fort\\nwas erected here, and in 1631 the Peniaquid Patent was granted to two merchants\\nof Bristol. In 1632 the pirate Dixey Bull entered the harbor, plundered the\\nvillage, and carried away the vessels. Massachusetts sent an armed ship against\\nhim, but he was taken by a royal cruiser, and executed (probably) at London in\\n1635. In 1648 all this region was formed into a Ducal State, and made an ap-\\npanage of James, Duke of York (afterwards King James II.). No religious service\\nbut the Anglican was allowed. In 1635, the 16-gun brig Angel Gabriel was\\nwrecked here, and in 167-4 Sir Edmund Andros built Fort Charles, brought in\\nmany Dutch inunigrants, and named the place Jamestown. It had then three\\nlong, ]iaved streets, with several cross-streets, and was called the metropolis of\\nNew England. The Indians remained tranquil during King Philip s War, until\\nthey had suffered grave affronts from the colonists, when they swept down on\\nPemaquid and utterly destroyed it. Many of the people escaped in boats to Mon-\\nhegan, an island far out in the sea. In 1678 the jjlace was reoccupied, and in\\n16S9 it was again destroyed by the Tarratines, tlie 3 cai)tains of the garrison\\nhaving been killed. The point was reoceui)ied by 850 Mass. troops, and in 1692\\nSir WiUiam Phips erected a stone fort here, mounting 18 guns, and called tlie\\nstrongest on the continent. This was named Fort William Henry, and soon\\nrepulsed an attack by 2 French 36-gun frigates. In 1693 13 Tarratine and Penob-\\nscot chiefs submitted at the settlement, and the village grew rapidly. In 1696\\nIberville (having defeated an English fleet on the coast) attacked the place with a\\nfleet bearing several hundred French regulars, some Mic-Mac Indians, and 200\\nTarratines under Baron de Castine. After bombarding Fort William Henry from\\nbatteries on the opposite point and from the fleet, a breach was made and the\\nfort was taken. The settlement was plundered and ruined, and the surviving\\ninhabitants were led into captivity. It was soon settled again, and when Mass.\\ntook possession of Maine its people begged that Pemaquid might remain the\\nmetropolitan of these parts, because it ever have been so before Boston was\\nsettled. In 1724 the ruined fort was somewhat repaired to defend the people in\\nLovew ell s War, and in 1730 it was rebuilt under the name of Fort Frederick, by\\nCol. Dunbar, sun cyor of the King s woods in America. This officer had a fine\\nmansion here, and laid out a new city, but was soon relieved on account of his\\narbitrary acts, and was made Gov. of St. Helena. Fort Frederick was attacked in\\n1745, and in 1747 it was assaulted by a French force, which was repulsed with\\nheavy loss. The fort was destroyed by the people in the Revolutionary War, lest\\nit should become a British post. In 1813 a sharp naval battle occurred off Pema-\\nquid Point, when the American brig Enterprise was attacked by the British\\nbrig Boxer. After a conflict of 48 minutes the Boxer surrendered, having\\nsuffered severe losses. In 1814 tlie place was attacked by 275 men in boats from\\nthe frigate Maidstone, who were repulsed with such severe loss that the\\ncaptain of the fiigate was discharged from the British navy.\\nAncient fortifications, streets, cellars, wharves, and cemeteries are found all\\nover the Point, and many remarkable antiquities may be shown by the farmers\\nnear the now deserted point.\\nThe restless sea resounds along the shore.\\nThe lipht land-breeze flows outward with a sigh,\\nAnd each to each seems clianting evermore\\nA mournful memory of the days gone by.\\nHere, where they lived, nil lioly tboiitrlTts revive,\\nOf patient striving and of faith held fast\\nHere, where tliey died, their buried records live,\\nSilent they speak from out the shadowy past.\\nPemaquid: a ballad.\\nAfter leaving Damariscotta the line passes through Nohlehorough (3\\nstations) to Wdldnbcrro (Medomack House), which was settled by 1,500\\nGermans in 1753- 4. Their descendants still remain in the town, which,\\nhas over 4,000 inhabitants. Station, Warren, a shipbuilding town, which", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0364.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "ROCKLAND. Moute U. 301\\nwas settled by Scotch-Irish in 1736. Station Thomaston {Knox Houses-\\nGeorges House), sitiiated on a deep narrow harbor, and containing the\\nMaine State Prison. The prison was established in 1824, and up to 1872,\\n1,100 convicts bad served tlipir time out, 390 had been pardoned, 18 had\\nescaped, and in that year 128 convicts remained within its walls.\\nIn 1720 a fort was built here (near the present railway-station), and garrisoned\\nand armed with cannon by Mass. It was luriously attacked by the Tarratine In-\\ndians in 1722, and, an assault led by French nidnks having been disastrously re-\\npulseil, a mine was dug. This work was so unscientiheally done that it fell in\\non the besiegers, who retired in confusion. In midwinter of 1723 it was again\\nbeleaguered vainly for 30 days, and in 1724 it was attacked by a fleet of 22 vessels\\n(captured fishermen). A sharp naval skii iaish was fought with colonial relief-\\nships, which were forced to retire, greatly damaged by the Indian artillery. But\\n1he fort still held out and repulsed every attack, and stood until the Revolution,\\nwhen it was demolished bj the British. Gen. Waldo (who died ui 1759) obtained\\npossession of the Muscongus Patent, embracing a tract of 30 M. wide on each\\nside of the Penobscot, and settled the peninsulas with Germans and Scotch-Irish-\\nThis tract came into possession of Gen. Knox through his wife, who was the\\nheiress of part of it, and about 17 .i3 lie built here the finest mansion in Maine,\\nand lived in baronial state, entertaining numerous guests with splendid hospi-\\ntality.\\nHenry Knox was born in Boston in 1750, and became a skilful military en-\\ngineer and artillerist. He was conuuiinder of the artilleiy of the Continental\\nArmy, engaged in most of the inii)ortaut battles and sieges of the Revolution,\\nand was Secretary of War from 1785 to 1795. He originated the first and only\\norder of American chivalry, tlie Society of the Cincinnati, was strongly aristo-\\ncratic in his tastes, ami demanded tiie ol)servance of the etiquette of a palace at\\nhis manor in Tlioinaston. Tlie Knox mansion stood close to the jiresent railway-\\nstation (which was one of the oflices of tlie estate), and was demolished in 1872.\\nStages run from Thomast(ni to the ancient jieninsular towns of Gushing and\\nFriendship, on Muscongus Bay also to St. George, a historic old town, which,\\nprojects into tlie sea, and is near the islands which Weymouth named St. George s\\n(in 1604). Weymouth set up a cross (Anglican) on these shores, and wrote, I\\ndoubt not it will i)rove a very flourishing i)lace [Maine] and be re-\\nplenished with many faire townes and cities, it being a province both fruitful and\\npleasant. In 1724, 16 soldiers from the Thomaston Fort, led by Capt. W^inslow,\\nwere ambushed and destroyed among St. George s Islands, and in 1753 a strong\\nstone fort was built on this peninsula.\\nThe train soon reaches Bockland {Thorndike Hotel), pleasantly situ-\\nated on Owl s-Head Bay, looking out on Penobscot Bay. Tliis city has\\n8,500 inhabitants, 4 banks, 4 weekly papers, 8 churches, a new Court\\nHouse, a new granite Post-Office, and a coidIous supply of water from the\\nbeautiful Lake Chickawaukie. Ship-building is carried on, but the chief\\nindustry is lime-burning, 1,200,000 barrels being made yearly by 1,000\\nmen, in 82 kilns. The kilns should be seen at night. The environs of\\nRockland abound in picturesque hill and marine scenery.\\nSteamboats run to Portland (5 times weekly), Bangor (thrice weekly), Castine,\\nEllsworth, and Maehias (twice), iSlt. Desert and Sullivan (thrice). Stages run to\\nS. Tliomaston and the bold cliffs of Owl s Head (4 M.) to St. George, Augusta,\\nCamden, and Belfast.\\nThe granite of the adjacent islands is unrivalled for its beauty, compactness,\\nand uniformity. Dix Island is a vast mass of granite, where tlie vessels load di-\\nrectly from the sides of the ledges. It furnished the stone for the N. Y. and Phila.\\nPost-Offices, and the inmien. ie monolithic columns for tlie U. S. Treasury at Wash-\\nington. The Bodwell Co. at ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0inalhaven and Spruce IleJid furnished the material\\nfor the new Government building at Cincinnati and the t^tate, ^Var, and Navy\\nPcnartirpiitr- at W aplijiigfon.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0365.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "302 Routed. PORTLAND TO MOUNT DESERT.\\n45. Boston or Portland to Mount Desert.\\nA new railroad line runs S. E. from Bangor to Ellsworth and Mount-Desert Ferry,\\nwhence ferry-boats to Bar Harbor, in 8 M. (295 M. from Boston; 10-12 hrs).\\n2 trains daily, with Pullman cars.\\nStanch steamships leave Boston nearly every evening (at 5 P. M.), reaching\\nRockland very early the next morning, and there connecting with the steamboat\\nfor Mt. Desert (in 5 hrs.).\\nPassengers leaving Boston on tlie evening express-train (7 P. M. Eastern or\\nBoston and Maine) reach Portland in time to take the steamboat (wharf close by\\nstation) for Rockland, Castiue, and Mt. Desert.\\nSteamboats leave Bangor Tues., Thurs., and Sat., at 8 A. M., running to Bar\\nHarbor in 8 hrs., and touching at Castine, Islesboro, and other points.\\nThe steamer Lewiston leaves Portland at 10 P. M. aud passes over\\nordinarily quiet waters, outside the famous peninsular to^vns of Sagada-\\nhoc and Lincoln Counties, to Rockland, which is reached at 5 A. M. The\\ntourist should arise as early as j)ossible, to enjoy the scenery of Penob-\\nscot Bay. Leaving Rockland, with Owl s Head on the r. and the pictur-\\nesque Camden Hills on the 1. the steamer crosses the broad Penobscot\\nBay, between the insular toAvns of Islesborough and Vinalhaven, and at\\nabout 7 A. M. reaches Castine (two inns). This is a pretty village on a\\nnarrow peninsula projecting into the bay, aud its history is of great\\ninterest.\\nCastine.\\nThis peninsula was called Pentagoet, and was taken by the Pl5Tnouth Com-\\npany for a trading-] lost. There was a Puritan fort here in 1626, and at a later\\nday the place was taken by the fleet of D Aulney, who had been sent out by Car-\\ndinal Richelieu and Razilla, to recover Acadia. D Auhiey built strong fortifica-\\ntions here, and withstood a long bombardment from two 5lass. ships under Capt,\\nGirling. The next few years are made romantic by the wars of the rival feudal lords,\\nU AuIney and La Tour, the one Catholic and the other Huguenot, in which Pen-\\ntagoet and St. John suffered repeated sieges and attacks. In 1674 a Dutch fleet\\ntook Pentagoet after suffering some losses. In 1667 Vincent, Baron de St. Cas-\\ntin, formerly colonel of the Royal Carignau Regiment, and the lord of Oleron, in\\nthe French PjTenees, came to Pentagoet, married the daughter of Madockawando,\\nthe Sachem of the Tarratines, and became the apostle of Catholicism among the\\ntribes, who revered him more than his creed. In 1688 Sir Edmund Andros,\\nwith the Rose frigate, plundered the settlement, aud St. Castin was ever after\\na bold enemy of Mass. In 1696 lie led his Indians in Iberville s fleet against\\nPemaquid, which he destroyed. After living liere for 30 years, he fought in the\\nNova Scotia campaigns of 1706-7, and tlien returned to France. His son by the\\nTarratine princess became chief of the Penol)scot tribes, and was a peaceful,\\nbrave, and magnanimous gentleman, who ruled his wild subjects successfully\\nuntil 1721, when he was led prisoner to Boston. He usually wore the Indian\\ncostume, but sometimes appeared in a superb French uniform. In 1722 he went\\nto France, and took possession of his father s jiroiierty, honors, and seigniorial\\nrights, and lived until his death on his Pyrenean estates. Lineal descendants\\nof the St. Castins have governed the Tarratines until the present (at least until\\n1860). The New-Englanders settled at Castine in 1760, and in 1779 it was fortified\\nby 650 British soldiers. Mass. sent a powerful force against this point, consist-\\ning of 2,000 soldiers, in 24 transports, convoyed by 19 war-vessels, carrying 344\\ncannon. The Americans were twice repulsed from the peninsula, but after losing\\n100 men in a third attempt they landed and ojiened batteries. After several days\\nof cannonading, 7 British frigates (204 guns) entered the bay, and bore down on\\nthe crescent line of American ships. After cue broadside the American line was", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0366.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "MOUNT DESERT. Route 45. 303\\nbroken, mrl a disgraceful dchandadc ensued. After a hot pursuit among the\\nialuuds and up tlie river, every vessel of the great fleet was taken or destroyed,\\nwitliout resistance. The army straggled in broken squads to the Kenneliec set-\\ntlements, and Commodore Saltonstali was cashiered for the most shameful defeat\\nwhich America ever suifered on the sea. Castine was held by the British from\\n1779 to 17S3, and was again taken and held by 4,000 of their troops in the War of\\n1812. The history of Castine has more romantic interest than that of any New\\nEngland town, and its soil abounds with tlie relics of 5 national occupations,\\nwhile 5 naval battles have been fought in its harbor.\\nCastine is a wealthy town, with neat wide streets and fine residences.\\nIt is the seat of tlie Eastern Normal School, and has 3 churches. The\\nchief business of the people is connected with the sea, in shipbuilding,\\ncoasting, or the deep-sea fisheries. Faint traces of St, Castin s fort are\\nseen, and on the hill behind the village the English Fort George is well\\npreserved. The remains of various American batteries and field-works\\nare found on the peninsula, while the harbor is commanded by a neat\\nlittle fort recently erected by the United States. Castine is a favorite\\nsummer-resort, by reason of its seclusion, its heroic memories, its fine\\nboating and fishing facilities, and the salubrity of its sea-breezes.\\nFrom Castine the steamer turns S., and roimding Cape Rosier, passes\\nthrough a narrow sound, and stops at Deer Isle, an insular town of 3,400\\ninhabitants, devoted to the deep-sea fisheries. The soimd is then crossed\\nto Sedgioick, a rugged and thinly inhabited town, beyond which the\\ncourse is S. E. aromid Naskeag Point, and across the island-strewn Bay,\\nwith Mt. Desert looming in front, and the lofty Blue Hill (950 ft. high)\\non the N. Passing around the lower point of Tremont, S. W. Harbor is\\nentered, and the steamer stops at a pier near a great lobster-canning fac-\\ntory. Leaving this point, the island shores are rounded, with their re-\\nmarkable rock-bound cliffs and overhanging mountains, to Bar Harbor.\\nMount Desert.\\nHotels. At Bar i/ar 6or, AVest End; St. Sauveur (125 guests 3! 10.50 -21 a\\nweek) Malvern (150 guests) Grand Central (S 12-15 3U0 guests) Rodick($12-\\n16a week 600 guests) Atlantic (I? 1U.5U 17) Marlborough 10.50-18); Newport\\n($14-18); Rockaway ($10-20); Des Isle 14 -21 100 guests); Belmont 12\\n14) Lynam 11 -15) and many smaller houses, at lower prices. On Green Mt.,\\nnew Summit House, 50 guests. At Eagle Lake, boarding-house for 50 guests. At\\nSeal Harbor, Seiis\\\\t\\\\e House (100 guests; $7-10), and Lynam s. At Northeast\\n.fl^wftor, Kimball House ($7 111); Manchester House Harbor Cottage. At South-\\nwest Harbor, Ocean House 7 -10 a week) Island; Stanley; Harbor; Freeman.\\nAll these charge 7 12 a week. At Somesville, Mouut-Desert House 6 10).\\nMount Desert is an island covering 100 square miles, and is distin-\\nguished for its wild and romantic scenery of mountain, lake, and shore,\\nand for its curious and poetic history. Politically, it is divided into 3\\ntowns, with an aggregate of about 4,000 inhabitants, on 60,000 acres of\\nland. It is said that there is no point (except Rio Janeiro) on the Atlan-\\ntic coast of the Americas, where such magnificent scenery is found, the\\nsublimity of the mountains challenging the eternal grandeur of the sea.\\nThere are 13 distinct mountain-peaks here, with numerous lakes, while a\\ndeep, narrow arm of the sea runs to the N. nearly through the island.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0367.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "304 Roiite45. MOUNT DESERT.\\nThe sea-shore by Bar Harbor. The view from the village is very\\npretty, extending across the Porcupine Islands in Frenchman s Bay to\\ntlie rolling hills of Gouldsborongh. Tliere are beaches near the village,\\nand the high rocky islet across the narrow harbor is Bar Island. The\\nbeach rambles may be done by the water-side at low tide, but the chief\\npoints of interest are more easily and safely reached by the roads which\\nfollow the shore. CromtoelV s Core is nearly H M. S. of the village, and\\nhas bold cliff-shores, on one of which is seen the rock-figure called the\\nAssyrian. The Indian s Foot (a foot-print in the rock) and the Pulpit\\nare in this vicinity. 4 M. S. of Bar Harbor (by a road leading under New-\\nport Mt. on the r., and with the Bay and the round-backed and bristling\\nPorcupine Islands on the 1.) is Schooner Head, a high, wave-washed,\\nclitf, with a white formation on its seaward side, which resembles a\\nschooner under sail. It is said to have been cannonaded by a British\\nfrigate in 1812. The Spouting Horn is a passage worn through the cliff,\\nthrough which the billows sweep in stormy weatlier, and form an inter-\\nmittent fountain above the cliff. The Mermaid s Cave is S. of the Head,\\nand 1^ M. beyond is Great Head (gained by a field-path to the 1.), the\\nhighest headland between Cape Cod and New Brunswick, with wonder-\\nful cliffs and chasms, and a broad sea-view. Newport Beach stretches\\nbeyond Great Head to Thimder Cave (entered only by boat), which is m\\nthe lofty Otter Creek Cliffs.\\n6-7 M. N. W. of Bar Harbor are the Ovens, a range of caves in the\\nporphyritic cliffs on Salisbury Cove, where the sea has produced some\\nfine effects of beach and worn rocks and bright and dripping ledges. The\\nVia Mala is a long passage in the neighboring cliffs. At Hull s Cove\\n{HvIVs Cove House, $7-10.00 a week), 2 M. N. of Bar Harbor, is a neat\\ncrescent beach, near which the Gregoires dwelt. Madame Marie Tliei ese\\nde Gregoire was the granddaiighter of the Gascon noble, Condillac, to\\nwhom the King of France granted Mt, Desert in 1688. In 1785 she\\nclaimed and received the island, and lived here with M. Gregoire until her\\ndeath (about 1810). From Point Levi, N, of the Cove, a fine view is\\ngiven of Frenchman s Bay, which is 10-12 M. long and about 8 M. wide,\\nwith Newport and Schoodic Mts. on r, and 1., at its entrance, the\\nPillars of Hercules at Mt. Desert,\\nJordan s Pond is 9 M. S. W. of Bar Harbor, by a road passing\\nthrough Echo Notch. About 8 M. beyond the village a side road to the\\nr. is taken, which leads to the lake, situated between the noble cliffs of\\nSargent s Mt. on the W. and Mt. Pemetic on the E., with the Bubble\\nMts. on the N. The banks of this lake furnish the most beautiful pros-\\npects on the island, with rare combinations of the charms of mountain-\\nwaters and mountain-cliffs. The lake is 2 M. long, and M. wide, and\\naffords good trout-fishing.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0368.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "GREEN MT. Route ^5. 305\\nEa^le Lake (so named by F. E. Church, the artist) is 2^ M, W. of Bar\\nHarbor, and is reached by a path leaving the road near Green Mt. It is\\n2 M. long, with Green Mt. on the E., Sargent and tlie Bubble Mts. on the\\nS. and S. W., and the bold peak of Pemetic on the S. There are pretty\\nsand-beaches on the shores, and the ascent of Mt. Pemetic may be made\\nfrom the S. end. There are many trout in these calm and transparent\\nwaters.\\nGreen Mt. is near Bar Harbor, from which a road leads to the summit\\nin 4 M. There is a small hotel on the summit, where accommodations for\\nthe night may be obtained. The view from Green Mt. is delightful.\\nNo other peak of the same height can be found on the Atlantic coast of\\nthe U. S., from Lubec to the Rio Grande, nor from any other XJoint on\\nthe coast can so fine a view be obtained. The boundless ocean on the one\\nside contrasting with high mts. on the other, and along the shore numer-\\nous islands, appearing like gems set in liquid pearl, form the most promi-\\nnent features in tlie scene. White sails dotted over the water glide slowly\\nalong. We know not Avhat view in nature can be finer than this, where\\nthe two grandest objects in nature, high mts. and a limitless ocean,\\noccupy the horizon. The name of Eden is truly appropriate to this beau-\\ntiful place. 20 M. out on the ocean is seen Mt. Desert Rock, with its\\nlighthouse bearing a fixed white light. In the W. are the numerous mts.\\nof the island, with briglit lakes interspersed, while the Camden Mts. are\\nin the distance. It is said that Katahdin is sometimes visible in the re-\\nmote N. (100 M. away). Frenchman s Bay, with its many islands, and\\nthe Gouldsborough Mts. beyond, is outspread on tlie E. It is claimed\\nthat Mt. Washington has been seen from this point, 140 M. W. Whittier\\nthus describes this view (in Mogg Megone\\nThe hermit priest, who lingers now And there, beneath the sea-worn cliff,\\nOn tlie Bald Mount;iin s shrubless brow, On which the Father s hut is seen.\\nThe pray and thunder-smitten pile The Indian stays his rockinfi; slcilf,\\nWliich marks afar the Deseitlsle, And jieers the hemlock-boiiphs between,\\nWhile eazing on the scenes below. Half trembling, as he seeks to look\\nMay halt forget the dreams of home. TI))on the Jesuit s Cross and Book.\\nThere, gloomily against the sky\\nFar eastward o er the lovely ba} The Dark Isles rear their summits high\\nPenobscot s cluste/ed wigwams lay And l^esert Kock, abrupt and bare.\\nLifts its gray turrets in the air,\\nBeneath the westward turning eye Seen froiii afar, like some stronghold\\nA thousand wooded islands lie,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Built by the ocean-kings of old\\nGems of the waters with each hue And, faint as smoke-wreath white and thin\\nOf brightness set in ocean s blue. Swells in the north vast Katalidin\\nAnd wandering from its marsliy feet\\nThere sleep Placentias group, and there The broad Penobscot comes to meet\\nPere Breteaux marks the hour of prayer, And mingle with his own bright bay.\\nNewport Mt. is near the water, and commands a noble view of the\\nvery many shadowy mountains and the resounding sea. The ascent is\\nmade from the Schooner Head road. Most of the other mts. have been\\nascended and furnish fine views, while the summit of Kebo hr, froni\\nbar Harbor) affords a charming prospect at sunset.\\nT", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0369.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "306 Route 45. SOMES SOUND.\\nS. W. Harbor and Somes Smind.\\nBesides the hotels at the Harbor there are large lobster-packing works\\nrear the steamboat wharf. 3 M. S. W. is the celebrated Sea Wall, a\\nridge of large stones thrown up by the sea, 1 M. long, 15 ft. high, and of\\ngreat mdth. 5 M. W. is Seal Cove, a small harbor near a lake which is\\n4 M. long and very narrow, imder the spurs of Western Mt. Lmiy Lake\\nis 2J M. N. W. from S. W. Harbor, and extends for several miles between\\nBeach and Western Mts. Denning s Lake lies about 3 M. from the\\nHarbor, and is 4 M. long, with Dog Mt. on one shore and the imposing\\nStorm Cliff on Beech Mt. on the other. These 3 large lakes are said to be\\nwell stocked with fish, and by the near approach of the mts. they afford\\nfine scenic effects.\\nBeech Mt. is often ascended from S. W. Harbor (a mountain road nms\\nnearly to the summit). The view embraces Denning s Lake, Somes\\nSound, the eastern gioup of mts. and Frenchman s Bay, on the E. with\\nLong Lake, Western Mt., Blue Hill, Penobscot Bay, and the Camden\\nHills, on the W. The ocean-view on the S. is of limitless extent. The\\nbleak summit of Dog Mt. and the easily ascended Flying Mt. command\\nextensive prospects over Somes Somid on the E. Sargent s Mt. and Mt.\\nMan sell are sometimes ascended from this point.\\nSomes Sound is an arm of the sea which extends up between the mt.\\nranges, for 7 M., with a width at its entrance of 2 M. The scenery here\\nhas been likened to the Delaware Water Gap, to the Hudson River at the\\nHighlands, and to Lake George. This deep fiord is a favorite sailing\\nground, although caution is necessary on account of the sudden gusts\\nwhich sweep down from the rats. Somes Soimd enables us to sail\\nthrough the heart of the best scenery on the Island. Tlie Sound is well\\nseen from Clark s Point, at S. W. Harbor, and a road leads near its shores\\nto Somesville, at the N. end. After passing the gateway between Dog\\nMt. on the 1. and Mt. Mansell on the r., a broader expanse is entered,\\nwith Beech Mt. on the 1., and Green Mt. and tlie eastern group on the r.\\nFernald s Point is on the W. shore, and is a pleasant spot, with grassy\\nla^\\\\^ls and a cold, clear spring. This was the seat of the Jesuit settlement\\nof St. Sauveur, and Father Biard s Spring is still shown. There are\\npicturesque cliffs on the mts. in the vicinity, and Flying Mt. rises on the\\nW. Somesville is a small village prettily situated at\\nthe head of tlie Sound. The central lakes and mts. are easily visited\\nfrom this point, and the boating and fishing on the Sound are much prized.\\nSomesville is 6 M. from S. W. Hai bor, 8 M. from Bar Harbor, and 4 M.\\nfrom Fernald B Point.\\nIn 1603 Henri IV. of France granted to the Sieur de Monts all the American\\nshores between the jn-esent sites of Pliihidelphia and Quebec, under the name of\\nAcadia. While De Monts and Cbamplaiu were exploring their vast domain, they", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0370.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "PORTLAND TO LEWISTON AND BANGOR. Route 46. 307\\nhftw the penlcs of this island, which was called Monts Deserts by Champlain. The\\npriests Biard and Masse assumed too much autliority at the Port Royal colony,\\nand were sternly rebuked l)y its chief, Potrincourt, who said, It is my part to\\nrule you on eartli, and yours only to guide me to heaven. They threatened to\\nlay the colony under interdict, and Potrincourt s son so resented this that they\\nleft Port Royal on a ship sent from France by Madame de Guercheville, with\\notlier Jesuits on board. Tlie mission band sailed to the S. We then dis-\\ncovered that we were near the shore of Mt. Desert, an island which the savages\\ncall Pemetic We returned thanl^s to God, elevating the Cross, and smging\\npraises with the holy Sacrifice of the Mass. We named the ])lace and harbor St.\\nSauveur. (Father Biard.) Historians differ as to the duration of the settle-\\nment, but it was linally broken up by Samuel Argall, Governor of Virginia, who\\nsurprised the place in a time of profound peace. His 14-gun ship entered the\\nSound as fleet as an arrow, and took the French vessel after some cannonad-\\ning, Father Du Thet having been shot down at a gun. Tlie English now plun-\\ndered the village, broke down the Jesuits crosses, and carried such of the\\ncolonists as they could find, captives to Virginia.^ Although granted by Louis\\nXIV. to Condillac in 1G88, the island was not resettled until the arrival of Somes\\nin 1761. In 17t) 2 Mt. Desert was granted to Gov. Bernard, of Mass., frojn whom\\nit was conhscated during the Revolution because he was a royalist. In 1785,\\nof the island was granted by Mass. to Sir John Bernard (the Governor s son), and\\nsoon after the greater part of it was given to the Gregoires, heii s of Condillac.\\nBar Harbor in 1868 contained only the Agamont House and a few\\nhumble dwellings. Now its sliores are lined with magnificent villas, the\\nsummer-homes of the Ogdens, Searses, Musgraves, Derbys, Howes, and\\nother patrician families and inside of these is a great cluster of summer-\\nhotels and shops of every grade, with 3 churches, 2 newspapers, a\\nskating-rink, a public library, a complicated sewerage system, and a\\nwater-supply from Eagle Lake. 5,000,000 has been invested here, and\\nreal-estate commands enormous prices. The shore cottages make a down-\\neast Newport the great village above is a combination of Bethlehem and\\nOld Orchard.\\nThe Gr ten- Mountain Railway was built in 1883, 6,300 ft. long, to the\\ntop of Green Mt., 1,532 ft. above the sea, where a comfortable new hotel\\nhas been built. Buckboards run from Bar Harbor to Eagle Lake, which\\nis crossed by a steamboat to the railway station. The average rise is 1 ft.\\nin 4^; the maximum, 1 in 3. The summit is visited by 6-8,000 persons\\nevery season.\\nSeal Harbor, facing the ocean and the rocky Cranberry Isles, has\\nrecently become a favorite resort, and steamboats touch there semi-weekly.\\nThe adjacent scenery is very interesting.\\nNortheast Harbor has the summer-cottages of Bishop Doane, President\\nEliot, and others; and is a beautifully situated hamlet, with the Ejiiscopal\\nchapel of St. Mary s-by-the-Sea, 5 M. from S. W. Harbor by road, or 2 M.\\nby sea.\\nNear Somesville is Roger A. Pryor s summer-home, on an island of 7\\nacres. A small steamboat plies on Somes Sound, and gives fine views of\\nits singular fiord-like scenery.\\nSullivan {Wauheaij House; $7-10 a week) is reached by steamboat\\n10 M. up Frenchman s Bay from Bar Harbor. It has good facilities for", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0371.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "307 a Route 46- ISLE AU IIAUT.\\nboating, fishing, and driving and the marine scenery of Waukeag Neck\\nis of remarkable beauty. Mdlbridye is also reached by the Mt. -Desert\\nboats and Guuldsburo (Baj -View House). 5 M. E. of the latter is Steuben,\\nwith a monument commemorating its 29 heroes dead in the civil war.\\nIsle au Haut (visited and named by Champlain in 1004) is the farthest\\nhigh land out to sea off the Maine coast. It is nearly 600 ft. above sea-\\nlevel, at its highest point; and commands tine views of the Camden Hills\\nand Mt. Desert. The cliffs on the S. side are 90 ft. high; while Duck-\\nHarbor Mt. rises direct from the ocean 300 ft. The island lies on the\\nroute to Mt. Desert, its S. extremity being but M. N. of the straight\\ncourse from Boston to Mt. Desert. It is 7 M. from dreen s Landing, the\\nS. village on Deer Isle, where the Mt.-Desert steamers of the Boston and\\nBangor Line touch at every trip. Carver s Harbor, Vinalhaven, is 10 M.\\nfrom Isle au Haut and there are semi-daily boats thence to Rockland.\\nIsle au Haut lies 24 M. S. E. of Rockland. The passage from Rockland\\nto Green s Landing, 24 M.; and from Green s Landing to Thoroughfare\\nHarbor on Isle au Haut it is 7 M., the course lying through a picturesque\\nand beautiful archipelago. At Green s Landing, boatmen will always be\\nfound ready to carry passengers to Isle au Haut by either sail or row\\nboats. Several of the residents accommodate boarders during the sunuiier\\nmonths. The island presents many attractions to the summer-tourist. It\\nis well-wooded; and an equable temperature prevails throughout the sea-\\nson, with much less fog than is common farther E. or nearer the mainland.\\nIsle au Haut is 6 by 3 M. in area, with a shore-line of 40 M., and from\\na distance resembles the Blue Hills of Milton, and appears wrapped in a\\nrich purple haze. The mountain-ridge is well-wooded, and has a con-\\nspicuous notch near its crest-line. The island has about 200 inhabitants^\\nclustered in a little jjort at The Thoroughfare, kind-hearted and hospitable.\\nA comfortable club-house, having accommodations for 20 guests, was built\\nin 1884 at Point Lookout, the N. extremity of the island. It is owned by\\nmembers of the Isle au Haut Company, residing in New York and Boston.\\nJames D. Barter, James Robinson, William G. Turner, and others will\\ntake boarders.\\nDeer Isle {Sunnyside Hotel, at N. W. Harbor) is a picturesque island,\\n10 by 6 M. in area, with 6 hamlets and 3,300 inhabitants, grave and\\nthoughtful people, devoted to fishing and farming. It has ancient forests,\\nsea-viewing hills, fine roads, pretty coves, a joyous bracing ])erfumed air,\\nlow prices, and simple fare. There are many farm boarding-houses; 500\\ncity-boarders visit the isle every season. The steamer Mt. Desert touches\\ndaily at Green s Landing, at the S. end of Deer Isle and the Henry Morri-\\nson- touches at N. W. Harbor on her route from Rockland to Ellsworth.\\nIslesboro {Seaside House; Sprarjue) is an archipelago-town in Penob-\\nscot Bay, with 1,200 maritime inhabitants. Many summer-visitors are\\nfciiiiil hero.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0372.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "LEWISTON. ^oute 46. o07 J)\\nMt. Desert to Machiasport.\\nAfter leaving Bar Hartor the steamer crosses Frenchman s Bay and\\nl-ounds the bold Schoodic Point. The deep fiords of Gouldsborough and\\nSteuben are seen on the N., with the peninsulas which here ruji ont from\\nthe mainland, and Little Menan Island is passed, with its lighthouse,\\n109 ft. high. The maritime village of Millbridge (Atlantic House) is\\nreached about 3 hrs. after leaving Mt. Desert. The steamer then crosses\\nNarraguagus Bay to Jonesport (Bay View House), a peninsular toAvii\\ndevoted to fishing and the coasting trade. Englishman s Bay and Machias\\nBay are now crossed, and 3fachias2}ort (Deering House) is reached (by 5\\no clock, P. M. This is a shipbuilding village, with a railroad 8 M, long\\nrunning into the lumber district of Whitneyville.\\nMachias (East em Hotel Clare s Hotel) is a manufacturing to^vn of\\n2,530 inhabitants, on the Machias River, N. of the port. It was fought\\nfor by tlie English and French in the 17th century, and finally settled in\\n1763. The British war- vessel, the Margaretta, was captured here in\\n1775, and Sir Robert Collier s fleet was repulsed in 1777 by the militia and\\nthe Passamaquoddy Indians.\\n46. Portland to Lewiston and Bangor.\\nTrains leave the Maine Central station on arrival of the Eastern Railroad trains\\nfrom Boston, some of the cars from Boston passing over on to the rails of the\\nBangor line. One train daily runs to Bangor, and three trains to Lewiston.\\nThe train runs through the farming towns of eastern Cumberland\\nCounty for IJ hours, passing the stations, Cumberland^ Walnut Hill,\\nGray, and New Gloucester, At Danville Junction the Grand Trunk\\nRailway is crossed.\\nStation, Auburn (Elm House; Maine Hotel), a prosperous little city\\njust across the river from Lewiston. Auburn became a city in 1869, and\\nhas a population of 6,166, with many large shoe-factories and other\\nworks. The Androscoggin County buihiings are located here.\\nStation, Lewiston Z e- lFi7^ House, fronting on the Park, $2.50 a\\nday Marston House), a manufacturing city of recent growth, having\\n20,000 inhabitants, with 5 banks and a daily paper. The *City Hall is\\none of the finest municipal buildings in New England, and has a lofty and\\ngraceful tower surmounted by a spire. It fronts on the Park, near the\\nDe-Witt House. A large water-power is derived from the falls on the\\nAndroscoggin River, and is utilized mainly by cotton and woollen mills.\\nOver $7,750,000 are invested in these works, which turn out $11,000,000\\nworth of goods yearly, employnig 7,500 operatives, running 300,000 spin-\\ndles, and turning out annually 65,000,000 yards of cotton cloths, 900,000\\n3 ards of woollen goods, and nearly 5,000,000 bags. Many French Cana-\\ndians are employed here, and the number of young jjeople in the city is", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0373.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "308 Routers. READFIELD.\\nquite notable. The bridge leading to Auburn commands a fine view of the\\nLewislon Falls, where the river breaks over a ledge of blackened gneiss.\\nThe Liake-Auburn Spring Hotel (SIO 15 a week) is 5i M. by stage from\\nLewiston (or 8 M. to E. Auburn, and then steamer). Boston to Lake Auburn and\\nreturn, 7. It is pleasantly situated on a bold bluff over the lake, and MO ft. above\\nthe sea. The spring water is pure, soft, and laxative, efficient in liver, kidney, and\\nstomach diseases. Lake Auburn is 4 M. long. At VV. Auburn (5 M. from Auburn)\\nis the Grand- View House, 1,100 ft. above the sea, and looking across to Mt. Wash-\\nington.\\nPoland Spring, 3.^, M. by stage from Lewiston Junction (whence a short\\nbranch runs from the Grand-Trunk line to Lewiston), has recently become the chief\\ninland watei ing-place of Maine. The water (vast quantities of which are exported)\\nis singularly pure, and is beneficial for kidney ami stomach diseases, dropsy, scrof-\\nula, c. The hotel is a huge modern structure, SOU ft. above the sea, with eleva-\\ntors, gas, c., and overlooks a vast region of hills and lakes. Riites, 12-20 a week.\\nBates College is back of Lewiston, and has commodious buildings. It\\nwas organized in 1864, under the care of the Free Baptist Church, and has\\na Theological School attached. There are 12 instructors and 135 students,\\nwith about 12,000 volumes in the library.\\nAfter leaving Lewiston the train passes through the fanning towns of\\nGreene, Leeds (where the Androscoggin Division crosses), Monmouth,\\nand Winthrop Winthrop Hotel), a pleasant village, near Lake Marano-\\ncook, the chief picnic ground of Maine, a lovely winding lake which is\\n9 M. long and 1 M. wide, dotted with picturesque islands. W. of the\\nvillage is Mt. Pisgah, from which the White Mts. are seen.\\nStation, Readfield (Elmwood), the seat of the Maine Wesleyan Semi-\\nnary and Female College, which was incorporated in 1823, and has 150\\nstudents (both sexes). Stages run to Augusta, Farmington, Fayette, and\\nChesterville. Station, Belgrade (Railroad House), in a town whose sur-\\nface is largely composed of lakes. Besides Mesmlomhe Lake, which lies\\nnear the track (on the r,), there are several others, one of which is between\\nBelgrade, Rome, and Vienna, and covers 25 square miles. This lake is\\nquite picturesque, with irregular and broken shores, and several islands.\\nStations, N. Belgrade, W. Waterville, and Waterville, where the Au-\\ngusta Division of the M. C. Railway unites with the present route (Lewis-\\nton Division).\\nWaterville to Bangor, see Route 47.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0374.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "BRUNSWICK. Route 47. 309\\n47. Portland to Augusta and Bangor.\\nPortland to Bangor, 13S M. Two through trains daily, and 4 trains daily to\\nAugusta (63 M.). This is the favorite route from Portland to the East, passing\\nthrough the valley of the Kemiebce, and by Brunswick, Gardiner, Hallowell, and\\nAugusta. The trains on the Eastern R. R. (Route 37) from Boston make close\\nconnections at Portland with this line, and some of the cars pass over on to its\\nraUs. Time is given at the Portland station for dinner.\\nAfter leaving Portland, the train passes over the suburban plains, and\\nstops at Woodford s and Westbrook. The latter is a populous town,\\nwith 6,630 inhabitants (in 3 villages), and has large paper manufactories\\nand works for canning corn, lobsters, c. Crossing now the farming\\ntown of Cumberland, the line intersects the Grand Trunk Railway at\\nYarmouth (restaurant at the station), and then passes on to Freeport^ a\\nvillage at the head of Casco Bay, devoted to shipbuilding. The rural\\nstation of Oak Hill is next passed, and then the train enters Brunswick\\n{Bowdoin House Tontine Hotel restaurant in the station).\\nPe.iepscot was settled in 1628, under a patent from Plymouth, and was soon\\nassigned to Mass., under whose protection a flourishing colony settled here. It\\nwas destroyed by the Indians in 1676, and afterwards the territory was b(iught of\\ncertain local chiefs. The conflicting claims between the Plymouth patent and\\nthis later pur(;liase gave rise to the most long and vexatious lawsuit in the annals\\nof Maine. The proprietors built Fort George at Pejepscot, and in consideration\\nof 400 from the province and exemption from taxes for 4 years, tliey maintained\\nat the colony a clergyman, a schoolmaster, and a sergeant Avith 15 soldiers. The\\nfort was on tlie W. side of the Androscoggin River, at tlie liower Falls, and waa\\ncalled tlie key of Western Maine, since it guarded the favorite pass of the Ana-\\nsagunticook Indians. It was erected in 1715, after the town had been destroyed\\na second time (in 1690). In 1722 Fort George was flanked, and the town was once\\nmore ruined by the revengeful Indians. The Anasagunticooks migrated to St.\\nFrancis later in the century, and the district was soon reoccupied by the English,\\nand in 1737 received the name of Brunswick.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0375.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "310 Route 47. BOWDOIN COLLEGE.\\nBrunswick is a prosperous town at the falls and the head of tide-water\\non tlie Androscoggin River, and is built on two broad, i)arallel streets. Jt\\nhas 4,727 inhabitants, with 4 banks, several churches, a weekly paper,\\nand numerous luiuber-mills. The river here falls 41 ft. in 3 pitches, af-\\nfording a large water-power, part of which is used by the Cabot cotton-\\nmills.\\nBowdoin College is located on an elevated plain near the railway-sta-\\ntion. This institution was incorporated in 1794, and opened in 1802, with\\nan endowment from the State of 5 townships and 19,000 a year for 5\\nyears. It has at present 24 nistructors and 148 students, exclusive of 100\\nstudents in the medical department, witli a library of about ^5,000 volumes.\\nThe old Massachusetts Hall has been beautifully titted up as a Museum of\\nNatural History. The conspicuous building with two spires, which stands\\nnear the centre of the line, contains the handsomely frescoed chapel, and\\nthe gallery of statuaiy and paintings. Nearer the station is a large and\\nattractive Memorial Hall built of stone, and the Medical School is across\\nthe road and near the Congregational Church. The pine-groves in the*\\nrear of the college are widely known for their sombre beauty, and afiord\\nfavorite walks for the students.\\nThe Bowdoin Gallery of raintings. Pierre Baudouin was a Huguenot gentle-\\nman from La Rochelie, who landed at Portland in 1687. His grandson, James\\nBowdoin, was a friend of tYanklin, an ardent i)atriot, and Gov. of Mass., 1785-6.\\nJames Bowdoin the son of the last-named, was a scholar and diploinati.st, and at\\nliis death he left to this college 6,000 acres of land, $6,000 in money, and his ex-\\ntensive librai-y, philosopliit-al api\u00c2\u00bbaratus, and pictm-e-gaUery. Some of the jtaint-\\ntngs have been restored with questionable effect.\\n2, Venus equip]iing Cupid, after Titian; 3, Continence of Scipio, N. Poussin\\n(perhaps only a tine copy) 5, 6, Studio scenes 10, Sacking a town, Flemish\\nSchool; 11, Italian scene, Vamhrome; 12, Surgeon and ])atient, attrilmted to\\nBronwer 13, Sleeping Cupid, Pupil of Gvido Reni; 15, Italian landscape, N.\\nBeryhem; U, l(i, Laiidscaiics 17, Infant John the Bajitist, Stella; 18, Dutch\\nDairy Women, FlcmisJb Sdiool *19, Interior of a church, Flcmiah School; 21,\\nPoultry, Hondekoeter 22, Seven Ages of Man, Hogarth; 23, Old Tower, Hogarth;\\n24, Ruins, Hogarth 25, The Women at the Sei ulchre, Simon Vouet (painted on\\ncopper) 28, View on the Campagna 30, James Madison, Gilbert C. Stuart 32,\\nArtillery, Wouvermans The Governor of Gibraltar, Van Dyke (one of his best\\nportraits the college has refused 30,000 for it) 35, The Head of John the Bap-\\ntist in a charger, after Guido Reni; 36, The Saviour, cojncd from a picture in ilie.\\nRoman Catacombs; 37, Mirabeau 38, Adoration of the Magi, after Rvhens 39,\\nDescent from the Cross 40, John in the Wilderness 44, Holy Family, either\\nhy Raphael, or a fine copy 45, Translation of Elijah 46, Simon and the child\\nJesus in the Temple, possibly by Rubens; 50, A Scene in the Iiuiuisition, Flemish\\nSchool; 51, Venus and Adon is,^ after Titian; 53, Cleojjatra 56, The Angel deliv-\\nering Peter from inison 57, Diana and Endyniion 58, Venus receiving gifts I rom\\nCeres, attributed, to Rvbens 59, Fox and Pheasant 60, Combat of Hyena and\\nDogs; 62, Adoration of the Magi, Domenico Franco; 63, Esther and Ahasuerus,\\nFranco; 64, Marine view, Flemish; 65, Discovery of Achilles, Teniers 66, Land-\\nscape, Dutch; 67, Turkish sea-fight, Mauglub 68, JMorning on the coast, Laroix;\\n70. Cattle, after Paul Potter; 70-89, Portraits of the Bowdoins, who claimed\\ndescent from Baudoin, the Count of Flanders and Crusader 92, Storm at sea 93,\\nLandscape 97, President Harrison 98, 99, Italian scenes 100, View of Messina\\n102, Henry Clay 104, The Duke of Cumberland, victor at Culloden 105, Pilgrim\\n106. Tlie Walk to Enniiaus 107, Peter repentant 110, 111, Venetian views 112,\\nChrist bearing the Cross 116, 117, Fi ench scenes 119, Itahan landscape 120, A", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0376.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "AUGUSTA. Route 47. 311\\nView on the Rhine 12-2, 123, Landscapes 126, Bishop Mcllvaine 127, 128, Affeo\\ntion and Love 131, President Pierce 133, Portrait, Copley.\\nFranklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, was in the Bowdoin class\\nof 1824, and in that of 1825 Henry W. Longfellow and Nathaniel Ha^vthorne\\nwere classmates. In the adjacent village, J. S. C. Abbott, the historian, and\\nG. P. Putnam, the veteran publislier, were born. The Presidency of the College\\nis now held by J. L. Chamberlain, a successful general during the Secession\\nWar, and Gov. of Maine, 1867 71.\\nRailroads run from Brunswick to Lewiston, Farmington, and Bath.\\nDaily stages run S. 13^ M. to romantic and sea-girt Harpswell also tri-weekly\\nmail 14 M. S. to Orr s Island.\\nBeyond Brunswick the main line turns N. crosses the Androscoggin,\\nand approaches the bank of the Kennebec River (seats on tlie r. preferable)\\nthrough the farming towns of Topsham and Bowdoinham, which have lost\\n1,100 inhabitants since 1850. Stations, Pdchmond, a busy shipbuilding\\nvillage near the site of Fort Richmond (erected in 1 719), S. Gardiner, and\\nGardiner (/oAnsoTC House; Evans House). This is a city of 3,403 in-\\nhabitants, with 4 banks, 2 weekly papers, 7 churches, and several small\\nfactories. The chief industries of Gardiner are in sawing lumber in sum-\\nmer and ice in winter, and immense ice-houses maybe seen on the banks\\nof the Kennebec. The Common contains 5 acres, and is situated on\\nChurch Hill (125 ft. above the river), which commands a pleasant view.\\nThe slopes of this hill are lined with residences, while the stores are on\\nthe riverward plain, and the factories are along the water-power given by\\nthe Cobbosee Contee River. This place was settled in 1760, and was\\nnamed in honor of the family which o^vned its territory.\\nStation, Hallo well {Hallowell House, near the station), a quiet little\\ncity on the banks of the Kennebec, with 3,008 inhabitants, 4 banks, a\\nweekly paper, and 6 churches. It has a few small factories, but is chiefly\\nnoted for the extensive quarries of white and light gray granite, back of\\nthe city, in which 250 men are employed. 900,000 yards of floor oil-cloth,\\nand 2,500,000 yards of cotton cloths are made yearly here. Hallowell\\nwas first permanently settled about 1754, and was named in honor of its\\nchief proprietor.\\nAugusta Augusta House, first-class Cony House, near the sta-\\ntion Mansion House), the capital of the State of Maine, is 2 M. N. of\\nHallowell, and at the head of sloop navigation. The city is built on both\\nsides of the Kennebec, and contains 7,815 inhabitants, witli 5 banks, a\\ndaily and 5 weekly papers, 9 churches, and 3 Masonic lodges. The sitii-\\nation of Augusta is beautiful, being on and around the high hills whicli\\nborder the river. About M. above the town is the great Kennebec\\nDam, 584 ft. long, and 15 ft. above high-water mark. Besides improving\\nthe navigation of the river above, this dam forms an immense water-\\npower, estimated at 3,700 net horse-power. It was built in 1836-7, at\\nan expense of $300,000, and was at one time owned by A. k W.\\nSprague, the Rhode Island manufacturers, who erected large and\\ncostly factories in the vicinity. The commercial part of Augusta lies", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0377.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "312 Route 47. AUGUSTA.\\nalong the r. bank of the river, on Water St. while the heights above are\\noccupied by mansions and public buildings. The handsome Congrega-\\ntional Church, of granite, is on the verge of the ridge, and not far from\\nthe High School building. Farther S., on State St. (which runs along\\nthe heights), are the fine granite buildings of Kennebec County, and be-\\nyond these is the State House. This elegant structure is built of white\\ngranite, mostly derived from ledges of the same material on which it is\\nfounded. It is situated on a high hill, which commands a beautiful view,\\nand is surrounded by well-ornamented gromids. It was built in 1828 31,\\nwith a solidity Avhich is rarely encountered in American public works,\\nand its principal external features consist of a rustic basement, support-\\ning a colomiade of 10 monolithic columns of the Doric order, while above\\nall is a graceful dome. Tlie Rotunda is first entered, a neat hall sup-\\nported by 8 columns, and draped with 80 storm-worn and battle-torn\\nflags which were borne by the Maine regiments in the War for the Union.\\nIt is said that not a flag was lost by the Maine troops in the war. Tlie 32\\npennons of the cavalry and artillery are arranged on the side-walls, while\\nin the adjacent lobbies are 10 rebel flags which were taken in action by\\nthe troops of Maine. Under the chandelier in the centre of the hall is a\\nneat little fountain, whose basin is stocked with trout. On the walls are\\nportraits of Governor Pownal, Sir William Pepperell, Senator Rufus King,\\nGen. Knox, and Presidents Washington and Lincoln. On one side of the\\nhall is a fine bust of Gov. Chamberlain, by Jackson, From the second\\nstory access may be gained to the halls of the Senate and House of Repre-\\nsentatives, and on the S. side of the third story is the State Library, con-\\nsisting of 23,000 vohimes. Still higher up is the dome, from whose sum-\\nmit (easily accessible) a fine view is enjoyed. On the S. is seen HalloweU,\\nover broad reaches of the silvery Kennebec on the W. are high, wooded\\nhills on the N, is the white city of Augusta divided by the river and\\non the E. is the Kennebec, with the U. S. Arsenal on the meadows be-\\nyond, and the Insane Hospital on the heights.\\nThe State Insane Hospital is a noble granite building on the heights E.\\nof the river, and situated in extensive ornamental grounds. It cost\\n300,000, and accommodates 300 patients, many of whom lighten the\\nhours of their seclusion from the world by working on a large farm which\\npertains to the Hospital. The building is 262 ft. long, and was erected in\\n1850 52, after the destruction by fire of the old Hospital, in which 27\\npatients and a keeper were burnt. Near this point is the Kennebec Arse-\\nnal, where the United States keeps several tliousand stand of arms, with\\nmany cannon and other mimitions of war. There are several neat build-\\nings here, and the grounds are by the river-side and are well arranged.\\nThe Hospital and Arsenal being in the E. wards of the city, are reached\\nby crossing the long bridge near the foot of Water St., from which are\\nafforded views of the slender and graceful iron railway-bridge.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0378.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": "AU(; U.iTA. Roni^ 47. 3 1 3\\nTogus Springs are al)ont 4 M. to the S. B., and were formerly a sum-\\nmer-resort of cousielerable local fame. In 1S6G a National Asylum for\\ndisabled volunteer soldiers was established at this beautiful place, at an\\nexpense of \u00c2\u00a7300,000. A farm of 600 acres is attached to the Asylum,\\nand 500 men can be accommodated here, although but 200 are now\\npresent.\\nAugusta occupies part of the ancient domain of the Cushnoc clan of the Can-\\nib. is tviVje of the Abeua([ui nation Oi Indians. It was in the Kennebec Patent\\ngranted to the Plymouth Colony in 1029, and was settled before 1054, but aban-\\ndoned and laid waste in 1076 (King Philip s War). In 1716 a stone fort was built\\nliere, and abandoned in 1724 (Lovewell s War), and in 1754 Fort Western was\\nbuilt on the E. bank of the Kennebec River. This Avas a strong fort, surrounded\\nby pali;5aded outworks garnished with towers, and in the autumn of 1775 it was\\noccupied by Benedict Arnold, who crossed the wilderne.ss to Quebec with 1,100\\nmen (New-Englanders and Virginians). His conunaud rested here for some time,\\nand m.xde batteaux in which the Kennebec was ascended to a point above Mols-\\ncow. Along portage then toolc the forces to the Dead River, which was ascended,\\namid fearful hardships hy hunger, cold, and exposui e, to its head-waters. Another\\nportage carried them to Lake Megantic (in Canada), whence the Chaudiere River\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was de.scended, and Arnold s little, army of gaunt and ragged lieroes arose like an\\napparition from the savage southern wilderness before the walls of Quebec.\\nAugusta prospered in the arts of peace until the outbreak of tlie yecession\\nWar, in ISiil, after which it became a central rcmlezvous for the troops of the\\nState. Among the regiments which formed and encamped here was the Sth\\nMaine, wliich foaglit in South Carolina and Florida, lost 95 men at Drury s Blulf,\\nSS at Wier s Bottom, and 100 at Cold Harbor, bearing meanwhile the colors pre-\\nseiiLed to them by the Governor of Maryland, at Annapolis. Also the 9th Maine,\\nwhich fought in S. Carolina, stormed the Morris Island batteries at dawn, and\\ntook tlie colors of the 21st S. C, lost 100 men in the repulse from Fort Wagner,\\nand was decimated at Cold Harbor. Also tlie famous 1st Maine Cavalry, which\\nfonglil at Brandy ytation, Aldie, Luray, Middleburgh, and in numerous raids\\nand outpost attacks, losing many hundred men.\\nAugusta is 98 M. from Kittery 142 M. from Eastport 207 M. from Fort Kent\\n59 M. from Bangor 52 M. froiir Portland and 182 M. from Presque Isle. The\\nState, of which it is the capital, has an area greater than that of the other five\\nNew England States combined.\\nSteamers run between Augusta, Ilallowell, and Gardiner, connecting there with\\nthe Star of the East^ for Boston, and the ports lower down on the Kennebec\\nKiver.\\nSui es run from Augusta to W. Gardiner, Litchfield, Webster, and Lisl)on Falls\\nto Winthrop and Wayne to Manchester, Readticld, Mt. Vernon, Fayette, Vienna,\\nChesterville, and Farmington to Belgrade, Rome, and New Sharon to S. Vas-\\nsulboro, China, Alljion, Unity, Tnjy, Dixniont, Newliurg, and Bangor to\\nWindsor, Palermo, Liberty, Montville, N. Searsmont, Belmont, and Belfast (42\\nM., fare $3.00) also across Lincohi County to Rockland and Damariscotta.\\nAt Augusta the line crosses the Kennebec on a light and graceful iron\\nbriilge, and follows the beautifid river for over 20 M. (seat on the 1. side\\npreferable). Station, Vasscdbnro (small inn), a manufacturing village in\\na large and prosperous town, which is jjleasantly diversified by hills and\\nponds, and has on the E. Cliina Lake,., which is about 10 M. long and\\natfords good fishing. The lake is almost cut in two by projecting points\\nat the Narrows, and empties by the Seliasticook River. S. China is a\\npretty village at the S. end of the lake, with a tavern, a church, and 3\\nstores.\\n14", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0379.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "314 Rmdeip. WATERVILLE.\\nBeyond Vassalboro, the train passes through Winslow, and crosses the\\nKennebec near its confluence witli the Sehasticook. The niins of Fort\\nHalifax are seen on the blnflf point just S. of the union of the rivers.\\nTt.is fort was one-of a chain erected by Mass. to defend the Maine coast\\nfrom French raids. It was built by Gov. Shirley in 1754, and garrisoned\\nby 130 men, imtil its abandonment, after the Peace of Paris (1763).\\nLarge Indian settlements formerly occupied the intervales in this vicinity,\\nand as early as 1G76 envoys of Massachusetts came here to detach the\\ntribe from Khig Philip s Confederation, an imsuccessful attempt,\\nWaterville {^Elmwood House, $7-18 a week), a city of 5,000 in-\\nhabitants, near the Taconic Falls on the Kennebec River, is built along\\nrambling streets on a broad plain above the river, and has some handsome\\nresiliences. Near the station are the buildings of Colby University\\n(founded in 1813), which has 9 instructors and 150 students, with a li-\\nbrary of 20,000 volumes. This institution is under the care of the Baptist\\nChurch, and besides the usual barrack-like dormitories of American\\ncolleges it has two handsome new stone buildings. On one side is the\\nnew granite Scientific Department, while the other wing of the line is\\noccupied by a fine stone building with a tower. The lower j)art of this\\nedifice is occupied by the library, while the upper part is consecrated as\\na Memorial Hall. On one side of this hall is a fine monument by Mil-\\nmore, representing a colossal dead lion, transfixed by a spear, with an\\nagonized face, and with his paw resting on the shield of the Union (an\\nadaptation of Thorwaldsen s Lion at Lucenae). Below this large and\\nbeautiful work is a tablet (also of marble) containing the names of 20\\nformer students who fell in the War for the Union, with the inscription,\\nFratribus etiam in cineribus carig quorum noniina intra incisa sunt, quiquo\\nin bello civili pro reipuhlicie integritate ceoiderunt, lianc Tabulam posueruut\\nalumni. The Memorial Hall is to be decorated with pictures.\\nA branch railroad runs from AVaterville to Skowhegan (see Route 42), and at\\nthis point the Lewiston Division of the Maine Central Railway (Route 46) unites\\nwith the present route (the Augusta Division.) Stages run hence to many rural\\nvillages. The Somerset R. R. runs N. from W. Waterville.\\nIn running from Waterville to Bangor the train passes Kendall s Mills,\\nor Fairfield, Station, and soon after the track of the Skowhegan Division\\nturns off to the 1., and the present route (Bangor Division) crosses the\\nKennebec on a high bridge. Stations, Clinton and Burnham.\\nFrom Burnham the Belfast Division of the Maine Central Railway runs S. E. to\\nthe city of Belfast (see Route 48), in 35 M. passing through the farming towns of\\nWaldo County, Unity, Thorndike, Brooks, and Waldo.\\nBeyond Burnham the line follows the Sebasticook River to the station,\\nPittsjield (Lancey House daily stage to Palmyra, Hartlaud, St. Albans,\\nHarmony, Ripley, and Cambridge in 20 M., fare 1.50. Stations, Detroit,\\nand Newport {Shaw House), a prosperous village on the shores of East\\nPond, which is 15 M. around and affords good fishing. The Dexter\\nDivision of the Maine Central Railway runs N. to Dexter.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0380.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "BANGOR. Route Jjl/. 315\\nTo the S. are the high hills of Dixmont, and the train passes on by\\nE. Newj^ort, Etna, Carmel, and Hevmon Fund to\\nBangor.\\nHotels. Bangor House, on the heights, $2-250; Penobscot Exchange;\\nBangor Exchango American.\\nSteamers leave daily (except Sunday), from June 1 to Oct. 15, for Boston,\\nstopping at river-ports 2, 3, or 4 times a week other portions of the year.\\nRailroads. The Maine Central, to Portland and Boston, 246 M. (by Eastern\\nR R in 10 hrs. to St. John, 205.\\\\ M. in 12 hrs. the Bangor and Piscataquis R. R.\\nto Moosehead Lake, in 6 hrs. the Shore Line, to Ellsworth and Mt. -Desert Ferry,\\n8 M. from Bar Harbor, Mt Desert.\\nStages run to Hampden, Frankfort. Prospect, Stockton, Searsport, and Belfast\\n(30 M fare $2.50 leaves early in the morning) to Monroe to Newburg, Dix-\\nmont, Troy, Unity, Albion, and China to Exeter to Kenduskeag, Corinth, and\\nCharleston to Glenbnrn, Brownville. and Katahdin Iron Works to Brewer,\\nEddington, Clifton, Amherst, and Aurora.\\nBangor, the second city in Maine, and the second lumber-mart in the\\nworld, is a handsome city situated on commanding hills at the head of\\nnavigation on the Penobscot River. It is about 60 M. from the sea, and\\nis divided into two parts by the deep ravine m which flows the Kendus-\\nkeag Stream. The business part of the city is situated on the level land\\nadjoining this stream on both sides, and has many massive and substantial\\ncommercial buildings, since Bangor is the trade-centre for a larger area of\\ncountry than is fed by any other New England city. It contains 20,000\\ninhabitants (in 1800 it had 277), with 11 banks, 2 daily and 4 weekly\\npapers, 5 insurance companies, 5 Masonic lodges, 43 schools, and 14\\nchurches. The heights on eitlier side of the Kenduskeag are lined with\\nwell-sliaded streets, and have many handsome residences, while there are\\nseveral well-built churches in the same localities. The Custom House and\\nPost Office, on the Kenduskeag Bridge, is a neat granite structure. There\\nare 240 men engaged in iron-works here, and 150 in the shoe-manufactur-\\ning trade, besides which the city has several small factories and ship-\\nyards, with a lucrative coasting and foreign tratle. The products of the\\nrich alluvial basin of the Penobscot are handled here, although, on account\\nof the severity of the climate in this high latitude, but a small portion of\\ntlie valley is under cultivation. The tributaries of the Penobscot pene-\\ntrate the great Maine Forest in every direction, and bear downward to\\nBangor inmiense quantities of lumber, in the sawing and shipment of\\nwhich the city finds its chief industry. The booms in which the descend-\\ning logs are caught extend for miles along the river, and a great number\\nof saw-mills are in operation along the shores. Up to 1855, 2,999,847,201\\nft. of lumber had been surveyed at Bangor; between 1859 and 1869,\\n1,869,965,454 ft of. long lumber were shipped hence; in 1868 alone,\\n274,000,000 ft. of short lumber (clapboards, laths, and shingles) were", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0381.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "316 Route 4S. BANGOR\\nshipped; and iii 1872, 240,500,000 ft. of long lumber were surveyed liere.\\nThe lumber crop of 1372, in Maine, was about 700,000,000 ft., of which\\n225,000,000 floated doA\\\\Ti the Penobscot, and 100,000,000 passed down\\nthe Kennebec. To transport tliis immense amount of lumber to its des-\\ntined markets, fleets of hundreds of vessels come up to the city, where\\nthere is a broad expanse of deep water with tides rising over 16 ft.\\nThe Theological Seminary Avas chartered by the State of Mass. in 1814,\\nand is under the care of the Congregational Church, though its teaching\\nis non-sectarian orthodoxy. It occupies buildings fronting on a broad\\ncampus, in the highest part of the city, and has 5 professors, 40-50\\nstudents, and about 600 alumni, wdth a library of 13,000 volimies. ^Vo-\\nrumbega Hall is on the Kenduskeag Bridge its lower portion being used\\nas a market, while in the upper hall 2,000 persons can be seated. Music\\nHall is on Main St.\\nIt is said that Champlain ascended the Penobscot as far as the site of Bangor,\\nin IGOS. Tlie settlement was made between 1769 and 1775, and in 1791 Rev. yeth\\nNoble, its representative, was ordered by tlie i)eople to luive it incorporated under\\nthe name of iSunbury. Mr. Noble, however, was very fond of the old tune of\\nBanj^or, and (perhaps inadvertently) had that name given to the new town. In\\n1814 the town was taken by a British squadron, after the destruction of the Joliu\\nAdams in IS it became a eity and in 1848 it was declared a port of entry.\\nThe 2d Maine regiment was raised in ISul around Bangor, and received supe b\\ncolors from the ladies of New York, Baltimore, and San Francisco. The latter\\nflag was the finest m the army, and was the centre of a terrific fight at Bull Run,\\nin which the color-guards were all killed, and the opposing regiment (the 7th\\nGeorgia) was nearly annihilated. The flag was not lost, and the regiment was\\nthe last on the field. At Gaines Mill tliis command took the 5th Alabama flags,\\nand at Fi-edericksburg it lost of its rank and file.\\nGlenburn {Perch House) is 10 M. N. of Bangor, on Pushaw Pond, which has\\nconsiderable local fame for its tine fishing.\\n43. Boston to Bangor. The Penobscot River.\\nPy the Boston and Bangor Steamship Co. (6 steamer?), leaving Foster s Wharf,\\nBoston, June 1 to Oct. 15, daily (Sundays excepted), at 5 P. M. Boston to Hooklai d,\\nSi 2.50; to Bangor, 3 50. See new tiuie-table.\u00c2\u00ab. Band and orchestra attached to\\nsteamers during .July and August. The new buildings on Foster s Wharf are con-\\nvenient and comfortable Tlic steamships are large and commodious, and the\\nvoyage is along the most interesting sections of the historic New-England coast.\\nIn calm weather the outside route is very pleasant. The steamer\\npasses down Boston Harbor (see page 20) and out on the open sea, ap-\\nproaching Cape Ann and Thacher s Island (Route 36) at late twilight.\\nThe early riser next morning will see the bold shores of Moidiegan Island,\\nfar out in the ocean. This island was settled in 1618, and had a Stirling\\nhistory for more than a century, but now lias only a few score of inhab-\\nitants, mostly engaged in the deep-sea fisheries, or wringing scanty crops\\nfrom the rugged thousand acres on the bluffs. The steamer now passes\\nin by the historic peninsulas of Knox County, leaves Vinalhaven on the\\nE., and rounding Owl s Head, roaches Rockland, 175 M. from Boston\\n(see lioute 44). The steamers here connect closely", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0382.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "BELFAST. R(Mte48. 317\\nwith the steamer for l.It. Desert. After leaving Rockland, and passing\\nRockport ou the 1., the steamer approaches a cliaiu of lofty hills, and\\nenters the harbor of Camden Bay View House, 100 guests, $2.00 a\\nday West Mt. Home), This is a pretty town, with 5 villages, 4,500 in-\\nhabitants, and 9 churches. It was visited by De Monts in 1*304, and by\\nWeymouth in 16U5, was named in honor of Lord Camden, America s\\nfriend in Parliament, and was fortified in 1812 to check the British at\\nCastine. Pring coasted by this place iii 1603, and reported it a high\\ncountry, full of great woods, and such it still is. The tvN^o Megunticook\\npeaks rise back of the town to the height, respectively, of 1,335 and 1,457\\nft., while Mts. Pleasant, Batty, Hosmer, and others complete the group.\\nTlie view from Megunticook is one of the noblest of marine prospects,\\nembracing the blue Penobscot Bay with its archipelago, Mt. Desert far in\\nthe E. and a vast sweep of tlie ocean on the S. E.\\nTlie steamer runs N. for 18 M. between the shores of Lincolnville and\\nNortliport, and the insular town of Islesborough, and stops at Belfast\\n{American House New England House). This is a handsome little\\ncity (5,278 inhabitants) built on a declivity which slopes to the water,\\nwith wide, shady streets, and several commercial blocks built of brick.\\nIt has 2 banks, 2 weekly papers, 6 churches, several shipyards, and the\\nWaldo County buildings.\\nThis port was discovered by Wej^mouth in 1605, who set up a cross (Anglican)\\nhere, and wrote that jnauy who had been traveUers in sundry countries and in\\nmost famous rivers, affirmed them not comparable to this, the most beautiful,\\nrich, large, secure, harbor inj| river tliat the world affordeth. Belfast was settled\\nand iKuned in 1770 by Scotch-Irish Presbyterians from Londonderry (N. H.), and\\nwas abandoned in 1779, after attacks by the British at Castine. It was resettled\\nin 1786, and invested by the British in 181-i. In 1865, a destructive fire swept\\nover its business quarter, and between 1860 and 1870 its population decreased by\\n250.\\nCastine is seen far across the bay to the E. as the steamer nms up 7\\nM. to Searsport (small hotel), a maritime to^vn with nearly 3,000 inhabi-\\ntants, under the lee of Brigadier Island.\\nPassing out into the liay, with the historic peninsula of Pentagoet\\n(Castine) on the E., the bold shore of Fort Point is soon reached. Here,\\nin 1758-9, Gov. Pownall erected a powerful fort for the defence of the\\nPenobscot. It was the best fort in Maine, and its construction was paid\\nfor by Parliament. The British frigate Canseau partly demolished it in\\n1775, and in 1779 Capt. Cargill, of the American army, fuiished its de-\\nstruction. Some remains of the fort are still visible.\\nThe Fort-Point Hotel is finely situated on this promontory, near the ruins\\nof Fort Pownal and the seal-abounding Odom s Ledge, with beautiful views over\\nthe island-strewn Bay, the blue Camden Mts., and Castine. It is a lirst-class\\nsummer resort, with 125 rooms and a frontage of 150 ft. There are good con-\\nveniences for boating, bathing, fishing, and driving.\\nNow steaming N., Wetmore Island is passed on the r. (a barren tract\\nwith al)ont 400 inlinbifants v. lio live by fishing and hunting), an.l thp", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0383.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "318 Route 40. OLDTOWN.\\nriver seems to end, so rapidly does it contract. As the swift tides of\\nBucksjiort Narrows are entered, a sndden turn reveals the bright vUlage\\nof Bucksport {Robinson House Riverside House), a shipbuilding and\\nfishing place with 3,433 inhabitants. This town was settled by Col.\\nBuck, of Haverhill, in 1764, and now has two banks, a custom house,\\nseveral churches, and a lucrative county trade. On the hill above the\\nvillage is the E. Maine Conference Seminary, a Methodist School with\\n3 _ 400 students, from whose lawn beautifid river- views are afforded. On\\nthe bluff opposite Bucksport is Fort Knox, an immense and costly forti-\\nfication lately built by the U. S., which completely commands the river\\nwith its heavy batteries.\\nStages run from Bucksport to Mt. Desert (see Route 45), in about 80 M., pass-\\ning through Ellswortli {American House), a city of 5,260 inhabitants, the capi-\\ntal of Hancock County. A railroad runs N. to Bangor.\\nThe river now grows more narrow and picturesquely sinuous, while\\nvessels are frequently passed. Winterjiort (Commercial House) is reached\\n5 M. above Bucksport, after passing Mt. Waldo and the granite-producing\\nshores of Frankfort on the W. 7 M. beyond, the steamer stops at Hamp-\\nden (Penobscot House), where the U. S. corvette John Adams, 24, was\\nattacked (while refitting) in 1814 by a small British fleet. Capt. Morris,\\nof the Adams, had armed shore-batteries with his ship s guns, but the\\nbadly officered rural militia were speedily routed by a bayonet-charge of\\nthe British regulars. Morris then spiked his guns, blew up his ship, and\\nretreated with the sailors to Bangor. The British plundered and overran\\nHampden for 3 days. Soon after leaving Hampden, the steamer reaches\\n(about noon) the city of Bangor (see Route 47).\\n49. Bangor to St. John.\\nBy the Maine Central and New Brunswick Railways, 205^ M. Passengers on the\\nthrough train from Boston (by Routes 37 and 47), the celebrated Flying Yankee,*\\ngo through in 22 hrs. (450 M.). Pullmans on day-trains, and sleeping-cars at night.\\nSeats on the r. side of tlie car afford views of the river. After leaving\\nBangor, the train passes Veazie and other stations, with the river covered\\nwith booms and immense rafts of timber, and lined with saw-mills. Sta-\\ntions, Orono (the seat of the State Agricultural College), and Oldtown\\n(two inns), a place of about 4,000 inhabitants, mostly engaged in the\\nlumber business. Tlie immense and costly booms and mills should be\\nnoticed here. 01dto^vnhas the largest lumber-mill in the world, where\\n100 saws are at work turning the rude logs which come in at one side into\\nplanks, which are rafted away to Bangor. On an island near the village\\n(ferry-boat on the shore) is the home of the TaiTatine Indians, one of the\\nthree tribes of the Etchemin nation. Though the most powerful and war-\\nlike of the northern tribes, the Tarratines rarely attacked the colonists.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0384.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "FREDERICTON. Route Ifl. 319\\nAfter a series of wrongs and insults from the whites, they attacked the\\nsettlements in 1678, and intlicted such terrible damage and loss of life\\nthat Maine became tributary to them by the Peace of Casco. After de-\\nstroying Pemaquid to avenge an insult to their chief St. Castin, they re-\\nmained quiet for many years. The treaty of 1726 contains the substance\\nof tlieir present relations with the State. Tliey own the islands in the\\nPenobscot, and have a revenue of $6-7,000 from the State, which the\\nmen eke out by working on the lumber rafts, by hunting and fishing,\\nwhile the women make baskets and other trifles for sale. The declension\\nof the tribe was marked for two centuries but it is now slowly increasing.\\nThe island-village is without streets, and consists of many small houses\\nbuilt around a Catholic church. There are over 400 persons there, most\\nof whom are half-breeds.\\nAt Oldtown the line crosses the Penobscot on a high bridge, and enters\\nMilfiird, a lumbering village. The 1. bank of the Penobscot River is now\\nfollowed for 45 M. to Mattaioamkeag, through a succession of thinly popu-\\nlated towns, Greenbush, Passadumkeag, Enfield, Lincoln, and Winn,\\nwhose inhabitants are mostly engaged in lumbering. Mattawamkeag (two\\ninns) is a small village at the confluence of two rivers.\\nStages run 38 ]\\\\I. N. through the Avilderness to Patten (small inn), the outpost\\nof I ivilizition nearest to Mt. Katahdin, a lone peak which rises out of the wilder-\\nness to a height of 5,HS5 ft.\\nStages also run N. B. through the forest, crossing 8 townships, to Houlton.\\nStages run from Liucohi to Springfield, Carroll, Topsficld, and Calais.\\nThe railway now follows the Mattawamkeag River, and nms through\\nthe forest (almost unbroken) for 58 M. to Vanceboro Vnnceboro\\nIlmtse restaurant in the station). Weston is a post-town on the Calais\\nand Houlton mail-stage line, with 400 inhabitants and a hotel. This point,\\nwhich may be reached from Bancroft or Danforth, is near the shore of the\\nGrand Schoodic Lake, where fine fishing is afforded. Vanceboro has good\\ntroutiug on the St. Croix River, and soon after leaving this village the\\ntrain crosses the St. Croix and enters the Province of New Brunswick.\\nAt McAdam Junction the New Brunswick and Canada Railroad is crossed,\\nand the train passes on through a monotonous wilderness to Douglas Mt.,\\nin Wftlsford, beyond which the St. John Valley is entered, and the river\\nis followed down to St. John, 91 M. from Vanceboro.\\nBy changing cars at Fredericton Junction, travellers pass in 1 hr. to\\nFredericton {Queen s Hotel; Barker s). Fredericton is a small city of\\n6,000 inhabitants, beautifully situated on the St, John River, and distin-\\nguished as the political capital of the Province. The Government House\\nis a plain and dignified stone building in extensive grounds just N. of the\\ncity, and the Parliament House is a modern structure near the deserted\\nbarracks. The University of New Brunswick has fine buildings on a\\ncommanding hill near tiie city.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0385.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "320 Route 40. ST. JOHN.\\nChrist Church Cathedral (Episcopal) is one of the finest on the\\ncontinent, though small. It is of gray stone, in English Gothic archi-\\ntecture, and has a stone spire, 178 ft. high, rising from the junction\\nof the nave and transepts. The interior is beautiful, and the chancel\\nhas a superb window of Newcastle stained glass, presented by the\\nEpiscopal Church in the United States. In the centre is Christ cruci-\\nfied, with SS. John, James, and Peter on the 1., and SS. Thomas, Philip,\\nand Andrew on the r. In the church tower is a chime of 8 bells, each\\ninscribed,\\nAve, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Pater, Rex. Creator, Ave, Simplex, Ave, Trine,\\nAve, Fill, Lux., Salvator, Ave, Regnans in Sublime,\\nAve Spiritus Consolator, Ave Resonet sine fine,\\nAve Beata Uuitas. Ave Sancta Trinitas.\\nThe St. John River.\\nWhen there is water enough in the river, steamers ascend the St. John River to\\nWoodstock, G 2 M. N. W., aiul near Honlton. Steamers leave Fredericton for St.\\nJohn at 8 a. m., arriving tliere at 3 p. m. Distance, about 90 M. fare, Si. 00.\\nSteamers run daily each way also from St. John up the river and into the\\nGrand and Washademoak Lakes.\\nAs the steamer passes into the stream, a beautiful view of the capital\\ncity, with its Cathedral and University, is obtained. On the opi\u00c2\u00bbosite\\nshore is the moiith of the Nashwaak Eiver, where stood a fort which was\\na centre of siege 250 years ago. 11 M. belov/, the village at the mouth of\\nthe Oromocto Kiver is passed, and the lofty spire of Burton church is soon\\nafter seen on the r. The boat stops at Sheffield, with its large academy,\\nand passes Maugerville, which was settled by Bostonians in 1766. Gage-\\ntown is next seen, on a bluff opposite the mouth of the Jeinseg River, and\\nin a rich farming country. Numerous islands are .passed, and broad in-\\ntervales stretch back from the shores. Tlie steamer soon enters the Long\\nReach, which is followed for 20 M., passing the mouth of the Ncrepis\\nRiver, with its fortified point, abandoned for two centuries. At Gi-and\\nBay the scenery grows nobler, and the broad estuary of the Kennebccasis\\nRiver opens to the E. with tine effect. A narrow channel between pic-\\nturesque palisades is now entered, and followed on swift waters, until a\\nglimpse of the Suspension Bridge is gained on the r. as the steamer rounds\\nto her pier at Indiantown, a suburb of\\nSt. John.\\nHotels. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Hotel Dufferin, King Square, S 2.50 a day New Tictoria, Prince.\u00c2\u00abs St.\\nWaverley, King St. {^2 a day); Royal and several smaller housis.\\nCarriagres. 30 c. a course iu the city 50 c. each half-hour. Stajres to\\nIndiantown, fare 5 c.\\nKail-ways. To Fredericton, Bangor, and Boston to Woodstock, Houlton,\\nand St. Amlrews to Shediac, Halifax, and Windsor.\\nSteanicri4. To Eastport, Poi-flatid. and Bo.ston to Dighy and Annapolis;\\nto Yai-mouth and Slielburue to Halifax to Fredericton and Woodstock.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0386.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "THE NEW BRUNSWICK BORDER. Route 50. 321\\nSt. John, the metropolis of New Brunswick, is a city of 29,000 inhabi-\\ntants, situated on a rocky promontory between the St. John River and\\nCourtnay Bay. Its situation on high liilks renders it very picturesque,\\neither from within or as seen from the harbor. The streets are broad and\\nstraiglit, and King s and Queen s Squares and other open grounds diversify\\nthe surface of the hills. The city lias some inanufactures and a large\\ncoast and country trade, ami its water-front is wovtli}^ of a visit. There\\nare 8 Episcopal Churches, 3 Catholic, 9 Baptist, G Methodist, 7 Presby-\\nterian, and 1 Congregational. The Custom House, the Y. M. C A. build-\\ning, the Orphan Asylum, the Post-Otlice, and Trinity Church, are good\\nbuildings. The Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (PI. 8)\\nis a large stone structure with a lofty spire, and with stained glass\\nwindows in chancel, transept, and aisles. The ornaments of the choir iu\\ncolored marble are worthy of notice. Near the Cathedral is the Bishop s\\nPalace, and some convent-scliools. From this vicinity Reed s Castle is\\nseen, whence a fine view of the city and harbor is obtained. Lily Lake is\\nnear tiie castle.\\nThe fa\\\\ orite drives are out over Marsh Bridge to Red Head; to the\\nCemetery and Loch Lomond; and over tlie Suspension Bridge to the\\nheights of Carleton. The Bridge is 640 ft. long and 100 ft. above low\\nwater, and affords a fine view of the St. John Falls, wliere the river dashes\\ndown at low tide througli a narrow gorge. At high tide is presented the\\nremarkable sight of a river falling up stream, when the tides of the Bay\\nof Fundy rush xipward through the gorge far above the river level.\\nFrom the Lunatic Asylmn, or from the JMartello Tower on Carleton\\nHeights, a panoramic view of the city, the bay, and the remote purple\\nline of the Nova Scotia shore, is given. The Mahogany road is a pleasant\\ndrive near the Bay.\\nChamplaui discovered and named the St. John River on St. John s Day, 1604.\\nIn 1635 Charles St. Estienue, Lord of La Tour, built a fort here, which was vainly\\nattacked by D Aulney iu 1643, the siege being raised by Massachusetts ships\\nattacking U Aulney. During tlie abstuce of La Tour in 1645, the fort (under\\ncommand of Madame La Tour) repulsed a naval attack, but was forced, later in\\nthe year, to surrender. Madauie La Tour was made to stand with a rope around\\nher neck, while the whole garrison was massacred.i She died within a few\\ndays, and D Aulney soon followed her. La Tour married Madame D Aulney in\\n1653, and thus rewon his fort. It was soon captured by the English, and left\\ndesdlate for a century. In 175S a British garrison was established here, and iu\\n1776 tlie men of Machias destroyed the fort and cannonaded the neighiuirinj^\\nvillage. In 1783 a fleet-full of loyalists rom the United States landed and seUled\\nhere, and since then the city has grown rapidly.\\n50. The New-Brunswick Border, Eastport to Madawaska.\\nEastport may be reached by the International steamers, which leave Boston ;it\\n8 A. M., Mondiy, Wednesday, and Friday (in July, Aug., and Sept.), and Portland\\nat 6 p. M. on the same days. Boston to St. John, \u00c2\u00a75.00; Portland to Eastportj\\n$.4.00 (180 M.).\\n1 See Whittier s poem of St. John.\\n1 U", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0387.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "322 Route 50. ST. ANDREW.\\nDaily stages from Ellsworth to N. Hancock, 6 M. Franklin, 12 Cherryfield, 30\\nHarrington, 37; Jonesboro, 50; Machias,58; E. Macliias, 62; Dennysville, 8U\\nPembroke, 86| Eastport, 1)7.\\nSastport PassamaqiLoddy House) is the coast border-town, and lias\\n3,7c!8 inhabitants. It is pleasantly situated on a hilly island in Passama-\\nquoddy Bay, and is commanded by Fort Sidlivan, a garrisoned post of the\\nU. S. The bay abounds in picturesque islands, the chief of which is\\nCampo Bello, opposite Eastj^ort and within the Canadian borders. This\\nisland is often visited in summer, and has much fine ocean scenery. To\\nthe S. is Quoddy Head and the Canadian island of Grand Manan (1,800\\ninhabitants), 22 M. long and 3-6 M. wide, with its western shore lined\\nby frowning cliffs 3 400 ft. high.\\nA steam-ferry runs 3 M. S. to ILulbec (Luhec Hotel Cobscook House), a quaint\\nmarine villa;;e witli 9 churches and several summer boarding-houses. It is pic-\\ntMresr|UPlv sitnntod on a long ]ieninsnla, and front towar l Campo Hello Island.\\nOrand Maiiaii the yiaradise of -litfs is reached by mail-boats from East-\\n])oit, ;tnd lias superb coast-scenery. There are several small hamlets at the coves,\\nwhere board may be obtained for $4 -7 a week.\\nStages and steamers run 30 M. N. W. from Eastport to Calais. The\\nsteamer moves out across the broad and island-studded bay, passing on\\nthe 1. Pleasant Point (in Perry), the home of the 400 remaining members\\nof the Openango tribe of the Etchemin nation of Indians. The first stop-\\nping-place is St. Andrew (with a large new hotel accommodating 300\\nguests), a decadent maritime provincial town (3,000 inhabitants), pleasantly\\nsituated on a long promontory, and having fine facilities for bathing, boat-\\ning, and fishing. St. Andrew is the shire-town of Charlotte County, N. B.,\\nand is the terminus of the N. B. and Canada Railway. Beyond this port the\\nbay narrows rapidly, and Neutral Island (with its lighthouse) is i)assed,\\nopposite Robbinston. Henri IV. of France granted Acadia (an indefinite\\ndistrict, embracing Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and as much more as\\nhe could get) to the Sieur de Monts in 1602. In 1604 the grantee brought\\nover a colony (mostly of Huguenots) and settled on this island, which\\nhe fortified strongly. During the mournful winter of 1604-5, 36 out of\\n70 of the colonists died, either from scurvy, or from drinking water\\npoisoned by the Indians. Remains of De Monts fort may be seen on the\\nisland (which belongs to the U. S.). Robbinston village is now touched at,\\nand then the steamer passes up by Oak Point and Devil s Head to Calais\\n{hiternational Hotel St. Croix Exchange). This is a city of about 6,000\\ninhabitants, with 2 banks, 2 weekly papers, and 6 churches. It was\\nfounded in 1789, and has a large shipbuilding and lumber business.\\nA railway runs 20 M. N. W. from Calais to Eewey s Island (in Princeton two\\ninns), whence the picturesque Schoodic Lakes may be entered. The steamer\\nXaiad runs (iiTcgnlarly, for lumbe)-ing work) on Lewey s, Big, and Long Lakes.\\nThere is a large village of Passamaquoddy Indians on one of these lakes, and\\nhunting and fishiiig parties from the coast cities often pass the sununer here,\\nroughing it in canoes and in the forest.\\nMail-stages run from Calais to Eastjjoi t also (daily) through tlie vast and des-\\nolate forest to Bangor, 95 M. W. fare, i:7. M also (from Princeton) to lloulton.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0388.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "WOODSTOCK. Route 50. 323\\nA covered bridge leads from Calais to St. Stephen Queen Hotel), a\\nbright and active town of over 5,000 inhabitants. The citizens of Calais\\nand of St. Stephen have ever lived in perfect fraternity, and formed and\\nkept an agreement by which they refrained from mutual hostility during\\nthe War of 1812.\\nFrom this point the N. B. and Canada Kailway nins W. through the\\nforest (crossing Route 49 at McAdam Junction) to Dehec, 74 M. distant,\\nwhence a branch road runs (in 11 M.) to Woodstock, the shire-town of\\nCarleton County, N. B. This town has 4,000 inhabitants, and is pleas-\\nantly situated on the St. John River, 150 M. from its mouth. A R. R. nms\\nthrough Tobique to Grand Falls, where the river is contracted into a\\nnarrow gorge between lofty cliffs, and plunges over a succession of rocky\\nsteps, the first leap being 40 ft. perpendicular (Grand-Falls Hotel). The\\nrailway continues up the river to Edmundslon (Whitney s Hotel), whence\\nstages to Riviere du Loup, on the St. Lawrence River (see Route 56).\\nFrom Debec a branch railroad runs N. W. 8 M. to Houlton {Snell\\nHouse Buzzell House), tlie shire-town of Aroostook County, Maine, with\\na population of 2,851, 2 weekly papers, and 5 churches. Houlton is 456\\nM. (by railway) from Boston, and has stage-routes running to all parts of\\nN. E, Maine.\\nStages run S. through Hodgdon, Amity, Orient, Weston (30 M.), and Topsfield,\\nto Calais through Linneus, Macwahoc, and Mohmkus, to Mattawamkeag to\\nSmyrna, Rockabema, and Patten (W.) by Littleton, Mouticello, Bridgewater\\ndinner at Half-Way House), and Woetfield, to Presque Isle also N. by Mars Hill\\nand Easton, to Fort Fairlield.\\nPresque Isle (good hotel) is a forest-village of 450 inhabitants, with 2\\npapers Sunrise and North Star 3 churches, and an academy. It\\nis 42 M. N. of Houlton, and is the capital of Aroostook County and the\\ncentre of its rich farming lands, wliich cover over 500,000 acres, and\\nare being rapidly settled on account of its variety, cheapness, and fertil-\\nity. Many Swedes live here, and Madawaska is a populous French dis-\\ntrict. There is good fishing and pleasant scenery in the vicinity and 12\\nM. N. E. is Fort Fairfield, on the New-Brunswick Railway, 3 M. from\\nAroostook Falls. Caribou village is picturesquely situated, 12 M. N.\\nStages run from Presque Isle to Houlton also (tri-vveekly) to Asliland, 24 M.\\nW., whence a lumber-road runs W. by the AUagash Mts. to the Lake of Seven\\nIsles, a little above the head of tow-boat navigation on the St. Jolm River and\\nover 80 M. from Ashland. This road jiasses through the heart of the great forest.\\nThe primeval woods of Maine still cover an extent seven times tliat of the\\nfamous Blaek Forest of Germany at its largest expanse in modern times. Tlie\\nStates of R. I., Conn., and Delaware could be lost together in our northern forests,\\nand still have about each a margin of wilderness sufficiently wide to make the\\nexploration without a compass a work of desperate adventure.\\nFort Fairfield (small hotel) is on the frontier, on the road running E. from\\nPresque Isle to Tobique (N. B.) on the St. John River. It lias nearly 2,000 in-\\nhabitants, with 5 churches.\\nStages run on the Military Road, to Fort Kent, 84 M. N. W. of Presque", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0389.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "324 Route 50. MAD AW ASK A.\\nIsle. This route crosses and follows tlie Aroostook River to CariTtoii, jind\\nthen runs for 20 M. through the forest to Van Buren (two inns), a semi-\\nFrench settlement (1,000 inhabitants) on the St. John, and near the\\nGrand Falls. The road now turns N. W. and follows the St. John 15 M.\\nto Grant Isle, a French village, 10 M. beyond whicli is Madawaska\\n(Founder s inn), a village belonging to a large district which has long\\nbeen inhabited by Acadian French, who were expelled from Nova Scotia\\n{Acadie) in 1755. There are several thousand of these Catholic and\\npious Acadian peasants, divided into 4 parishes, and here the tourist\\nmay perhaps find an Evangeline. (The poem has been translated inio\\nCanadian French, and is popular.) Madawaska and the Eagle Lakes lie\\nS. of this village, which is 100 M. N. of Houlton. 26 M. beyond (the\\nstage following the St. John River, and passing tlirough Dionne), Fort\\nKent, with its two inns and ruined block-house, is readied. The popula-\\ntion is still French, and 20 M. W. is St. Francis, another Acadian village.\\n(Stages run occasionally.\\nFort Kent is 194 M. from Bangor, and 440 M. from Boston.\\nNEW YORK CITY TO THE SAGUENAY RIVER.\\nHaving described New England and her eastern frontier in the 50 pre-\\nceding routes, it has been thought advisalde to add thereto a brief survey\\nof those most interesting regions which lie on the west and north of her\\nborders. The tourist might easily arrange a profita:ble and pleasant sum-\\nmer-trip, by taking either of the Routes, 3, 8, 19, or 21, to New York,\\nthence ascending the Hudson to Albany, and passing to Montreal by way\\nof Saratoga and Lakes George and Champlain, whence Quebec and the\\nSaguenay are easily reached and the return to Boston could be effected by\\neither of the Routes, 24 (and 25) or 40 (and 37 or 38.)\\nThe region between New York and Montreal is m\\\\ich more fully de-\\nscribed in Osgood s The Trliddle States A Handbook for Travellers,\\nwhich also covers all the territory S. to Washington and W. to Pittsburgh.\\nIt contains 477 pages and 2. J maps and plans (price, $1.50).\\nThe region from Montreal to Quebec and down the Gulf to Prince Ed-\\nward Ishuid, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, is carefidly described in\\nOsgood s The Maritime Provinces: A Handbook for Travellers.\\nThis volume conlains o i(3 pages, with 8 maps and plans (price, 1.50).\\nOsgood s White Mountains tlioroughly describes the peaks and\\npasses, hotels and villages, of the White-Mountain region. 4 maps and\\nG panoramas. i^i.OO.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0390.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK CITY. Route 51. 325\\n61. New York City.\\nHotels. The Windsor is a new, lofty, and eleyant house on upper Fifth Ave.\\n(corner of 4Cth St.), cliargin.^; $5 a day. The Eiiekinghani is a pahitial faniily\\nhotel on Fifth Ave., corner of 50th St. (o])]\u00c2\u00bb08ite the new Cathedral). Tlie \u00e2\u0099\u00a6Ross-\\nmore is a new and stately hotel (kept hy the Lelands) at the corner of Broadway\\nand 42d St. The Fifth Avenue, on Madison Square (8-900 guests), a va.st and\\nsuperb marble building the St. Nicholas, on Broadway, corner of Spring St., a\\nmarble building in the Corinthian order, six stories high, cost $1,000,000, and cares\\nfor 1,000 guests the Metropolitan, on Broadway, corner of Prince, is of brown-\\nstone, six stories high, and cost nearly S 1,000,000 the Grand Central, on Broad-\\nway between Amity and Bleecker Sts., eight stories high, of marble, and accom-\\nmodating 1,500 guests Hoffman House, on Madison Square, an aristoi .ratic house,\\ncaring for 350 guests Gramercy Park House, on Grauiercy Park, an innnense\\nfamily hotel, with room for 6-800 guests; Grand Hotel, corner Broadway and\\n31st St., an elegant first-class house. These immense hotels are amply supplied\\nwith all the luxuries of modern American civilization. Their charges are from\\n$4.00 to $5.00 a day, with considerable reductions in case of a long sojourn.\\nThere are several first-class liotels on Union Square the Everett (European plan)\\nthe Clarendon, patronized by English tourists the Union Square the Spingler\\nthe Union Place, c. The New York Hotel, 721 Broadway, is a resort for\\nSouthern visitors the Prescott House, 531 Broadway, acconunodates 300 guests\\nand is nmch frequented by foreign tourists so is also the ])alatial St. Denis\\nHotel, on Broadway opposite Grace Church. Tlie 8t. Cloud (corner of Broadway\\nand 4 2d St.) is a good up-town hotel the Gilsey House (Bniadv/ay and 20th St.)\\nand the St. James (Broadway and 2Gth St.) are also fine hotels above Madison\\nSquare. The Merchants National, and Western are on Cortlaudt St., in the\\nlower part of the city, and are patronized by business men. The*Astor House\\n(on Broadway, opposite the Post Office) is kept on the Euroj ean plan, as are also\\ntbe Brandreth (corner of Broadway and Canal St.), the Westminster (corner\\nIrving Place and Kith St.), the Belvidere (Irving Place and 15th St.), tlie Irving\\n(Broadway and 12tli St.), the Brevoort (5th Ave. and 8th St.), the Al oemarle, c.\\nFrench s, Leggett s, Sweeny s, and the Cosmopolitan are near the City Hall Park,\\nRooms may be obtained at the European plan hotels for from \u00c2\u00a71 to \u00c2\u00a73 a day,\\nwith meals a la carte within the house or elsewhere. For a tourist who is to\\nmake but a short visit to New York these houses will be found more commodious\\nand less exi)ensiye then those on the American pLm. There are about 140 other\\nhotels in the city, several of which are first-class. Tlie Stevens House is on Broad-\\nway near the Battery; and tlie Grand Union, opposite the Grand Central deuot\\n(42d St.) is conveniently situated for passengers arriving by late trains from New\\nEngland or the North.\\nKestauraiitis;. Delmonico s, corner 5th Ave. and 14th St., the best In\\nAmerica (with branch establishments down town, near the corner of Broadway\\nand Cedar St., and on Broad St. near AVall) Parker s, on Broadway near 34th St.,\\nis frequented by ladies; also Bigot s, on 11th St., near Broadway; Geyer s, 734\\nand 736 Broadway, is a large and favorite restaurant Solari, corner of University\\nPlace and 11th St., prepares elaborate late dinners. lauch (864 Broadway) and\\nBergman (1,121 Broadway) keep ladies restaurants, which are much freijuented\\nArnaud (815 Broadway) is famous for fine French candies and Purssell s (010\\nBroadway) is a favorite lunch-saloon for the up-town ladies. At 3!) Park Row,\\nand at Leggett s Hotel are large eating-houses for down-town merchants.\\nTlie cafes and restaurant attached to the large hotels on the Euroi)ean plan are\\ngenerally well kept, and are much visited by ladies. The Astor House has one\\nof the best of these. Oysters may be found in every variety in the small saloons\\nin Fulton Market. Mafllard s (621 Broadway) is famous for fine confectionery\\nand chocolate. New England dishes are served at Payson s on Cortlandt near\\nGreenwich St.\\nConsuls. English, 17 Broadway German, 117 Broadway French, 4 Bowling\\nGreen Italian, 7 Broadway Austrian, 33 Broadway Russian, 52 Exchange\\nPlace Swedish, IS Exchange Place Spanish, 29 Broadway.\\nHeading Ilooms. In all the chief hotels(for guests) Y. M. C. Association,\\ncorner 23d St. and 4th Ave., also at 285 Hudson St., 473 Grand St., and 285", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0391.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "326 RovieSl. NEW YORK CITY.\\nBleecker St. Astor Library, Lafayette Place, open OJ 5 City Library, City\\nHall, ojien free to all, 10-4 Cooper Union, corner 7tli St. and 4th Ave., ojieii\\nfrom 8 A. M. to 10 p. m. Woman s Library, open 9-4 (-^^l.SO a year) N. Y. ilis-\\ntorical Society, corner 11th St. and 2d. Ave.\\nPost-Office, at the foot of City-Hall Park, open continnonsly except Sun-\\nday.s, wiien it is only ojien between 9 and 11 a. m. eiglit deliveries of letters\\ndaily tlie Eastern mails close at 5 a. m., 1..30 p. m., and G p. m. There are 20\\nsub post-offices (Stations), whicli are alphabetically designated.\\nCarriages. Frequent clianges are made in the legal rates, which, however,\\nare but lightly binding on the drivers. Attempts are being made to introduce\\na modification of tiie London cab-system into New York, with comparatively\\nlow fares and courteous drivers. A tariff of fares is (or should be) hung in\\neach carriage, but the drivers frequently attempt to extort undue sums from their\\npassengers. In such cases, since the hackmen of New York are the most ruf-\\nfianly of their class in the world, an instant appeal should be made to tlie first\\npoliceman who may be seen.\\nOmnibuse.s (called stages run (1) from Fulton Ferry, by Broadway,\\nUniversity Place, 14th, and 5th Ave to 47th St., returning over the same route;\\n(2) from South Ferry, by Broadway, 23d, and 9th Ave to 30th St., returning the\\nsame way (3) from \\\\Vall-St. Ferry, by Wall, Broadway, 23d, and Madison Ave., to\\n40th St. The fare on these lines is 5 c.\\nHorse-Cars. The fare on most of the lines is 5 c. (1) Park Place to\\nCentral Park, by Church and Greene Sts. and 7th Ave. (2) Astor House (Vesey\\nSt.) to Central Park, by West Broadway, Varick St., and 6th Ave. (3) Astor\\nHouse to Central Park, by Canal, Hudson, and Sth Ave. (4) Astor House to\\nGrand Central Depot and Harlem, by Park Row, Chatham St., Bowery, and 3d\\nAve. (5) Astor House to Hunter s Point Ferry, by Park Row, Centre, Grand,\\nBowery, 4th Ave., 32d and 34th Sts. (G) Astor House to 34th St. Ferry, by\\nChatham St., East Broadway, Avenues B. and A., and 1st. Ave. (7) Astor\\nHouse to 86th St., by Centre, Bowery, 4th and Madison Aves. (S) corner\\nBroadway and Canal St. to 43d St., by Varick St. and 6th Ave. corner\\nBroadway and Canal St. to Central Park, by Canal, Hudson, and 8th Ave. (10)\\ncorner Broadway and Ann St. through Chatham, East Broadway, Avenues B.\\nand A. (11) corner Broadway and Broome to Central Park, l)y 7th Ave. (12)\\ncorner Broad wav and Fulton to 54th St., by Greenwich St. and 9th Ave. (13)\\nPeck Slip to Harlem (128th St.), by Oliver St., Bowery, and 2d Ave. (14) South\\nFerry to Central Pai-k, by West St. and 10th Ave. (15) South Ferry to Central\\nPark, by the East River Ferries, 1st Ave., and 59th St. (16) Fulton Ferry\\nthrough Centre and Bleecker Sts. to 10th Ave. (17) Grand St. Ferry to Des-\\nbrosses St. Ferry, by Grand and Vestry Sts. (18) Grand. St. Ferry to Cortlandt\\nSt. Ferry (19) Grand St. Ferrv to 42d St. (Weehawken) Ferry (20) corner\\nChambers and West Sts. to 42d St. Depot.\\nKlevatc l Railways (10 c.) run from the Battery to the Harlem Ftiver, by 4\\nroutes: (1) by 6th Ave (2) by Bowery and 3d Ave.; (3) by 2d Ave.; (4) by 9th\\nAve. Stations at about every half-mile. Trains every few minutes.\\nFerries. \u00e2\u0080\u0094To Astoria, from 92d St., and from Peck Sli]) to Blackwcir.s\\nIsland, from 26th St. to Brooklyn, from Whitehall, Wall, Fulton, Roosevelt,\\nCatharine, Grand, Jackson, Houston, and James Sts. to Governor s and Bedloe s\\nIslands, from Pier 43, N, R. to Greenpoint, fnim lOtli and from 23d Sis. to\\nHunter s Point, from James Slip and from 26th St. to Randall s Island, from 20th\\nand from 122d Sts. to Wards Island, ft-om 110th St. to Jersey City, from\\nCortlandt, Desbrosses, Chambers, and 23d Sts. to Hoboken, from Barclay and\\nChristopher Sts. to Weehawken, from 42d St. to Staten Island, from White-\\nhall St., and fr.nn Pi.-r 19, N. R.\\nTheatres.,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Academy of Music (2 Irving Place) and the Metropolitan Opera\\nHouse (Broadway and 7tli Ave.) are magnificent temples of the music-drama, the\\nhomes of grand opera. The Grand Opera House (Sth Ave. and 23d St is a large mar-\\nble building, chiefly used for dramatic representations. The Madison Square (4\\n24th St.) is a theatre of world-wide fame. The Ca,\u00c2\u00abino (Broadway and 3!tth St. gives\\ncomedies and light operas, and lias a cafe and summer-garden. It is a hand. ^onie\\nbuilding, in Moorish arcliitecture. Nib lo s Theatre (Broadway, near Prince St.)\\naccommodates 2,000 persons Wallack s (Broadway, corner of 13th St.) is a favorite\\nreport for lovers of IcgHimnte comedy the Fifth Avenue (2Sth St., near Brcidwiu)\\nand the Union Square (4th Ave and 14th St.) are small but elegant and fashioiiabie", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0392.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "Fold -out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0393.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "tr\\nS\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nDut is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.\\na", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0394.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK CITY. Route 51. 327\\ntheatres; Bijou Opera House (Broadway and 31st St.), light musical plays Daly s\\nTheatre (Broadway aud 30th St.), standard comedy and good music Ilaverly s\\nTheatre (14th St. and 6th Ave.), a rich interior; Star Theatre (Broadway and IStli\\nSt.). The Thalia Theatre (46 Bowery) is devoted to German plays and operas;\\nand Tony Pastor s gives popular varieties and spectacles. Sau Francisco Min-\\nstrels (Broadway, near 20th St.) give negro melodies, dances, etc. There are\\nnumerous well-arranged German beer-gardens in the city, where music and\\ndancing are given. The Casino affords the best of orchestral music, and is a\\nfavorite summer-evening resort of the up-town families. The Atlantic Garden\\n(next to the Thalia Theatre) has fine music, and is chiefly visited by Germans.\\nThe collar concert-saloons on Broadway and elsewhere should be avoided, for they\\nare (for the most i art) both disreputable and dangerous. Lectures and conceil.s\\nare frequently given in Association, Cooper Institute, Apollo, and Irving Halls.\\nClassic music, oratorios, and concerts are generally given iu Steinway Hall (14th\\nyt., near Broadway) and in Chickeriug HalT(. 3tli Ave., corner of ISth St.).\\nKailroads. Across Staten Island to Tottenville, Pier 1, E. R. to Pliila-\\nde]i)]iia, by Trenton (90 M.) from foot of Cortlandt St. by S. Amboy (92 M.) to\\nEa.ston, Pa., from foot of Liberty St. to Greenport, Long Island (foot of James\\nSt.); to Flushing; to liackettstown to Long Branch to Albany (144 M.) sta-\\ntion corner of 42d St. and 4th Ave. to Albany (by tlie Harlem R. R. from the\\n42d St. station to New Haven and Boston, from the corner of 4th Ave. and 42d\\nSt. The Eric Railway (ferry) stations are at the foot of Chambers and of 23d St.\\nSteamers. Transatlantic lines for Liverpool, the White Star and Cunard\\nLines, Piers at Jersey City Inmau Line, Pier 45, N. R. U. S. Mail Line, Pier\\n4(j National Line, Piers 44 and 47, N. R. for Liverpool and Glasgow, Anchor\\nLine, Pier 20, N. R. for London, Piers 44 and 47, and 3, N. R. for Havre, Pier\\n50, N. R. for Hamburg and Bremen, Piers at Hoboken for Antwerp for the\\nMediterranean ports. West Indian lines for Havana, Atlantic Mail Line, Pier\\n4, N. R. for Havana and Vera Cruz, Pier 17, E. R. for Hayti, Nassau, and the\\nBermudas. For St. Thomas and Brazil (monthly). Pier 43, N. R. for St. Domin-\\ngo and Samana Bay. For Panama and San Fiuneisco (semi-monthly). Pier 42, N.\\nR. The American coast for Key West and Galveston (tri-monthly). Pier 20, E.\\nR. for New Orleans (3 weekly steamers), Piers 9 and 12, N. R., and 20, E. R.\\nfor Fernandina, Pier 29, N. R. for Savannah (two weekly steamers), Piers 13 and\\n36, N. R. for Charleston (thrice weekly), Piers 5 and 8, N. R. for Newbern (tri-\\nmonthly). Pier 16, E. R. for Norfolk and Richmond (tri-weekly). Pier 37, N. R.\\nfor W^ashington and Ale.xandria (semi- weekly), Pier 29, E. R. for Philadelphia,\\nthe piers from which the steamboats leave are sometimes changed. See the daily\\npapers.\\nCoastwise and river lines to Yonkers, Tarrytown, West Point, Newburg,\\nPoughkeepsie, Hudson, Albany, and Troy, from Pier 39, N. R. (morning boat),\\nand from Pier 41, N. R. (evening boat) otlier river-steamers are at Piers 49, 35,\\n34, 51, and 43 to Elizabethport and Kill Von Knll, from Pier 14, N. R. (thrieo\\ndaily) to Staten Island (North Shore) hourly, from Pier 19, N. R. (South\\nShore), from Whitehall to Elizabethi ort and Perth Amboy, from Pier 2(5 to\\nLong Branch, from Pier 35 to Sandy Hook, from Pier 28 to Newark, from Pier\\n26 to S. Amboy, from Pier 1, N. R. to Astoria and Harlem, 12 times daily, from\\nPier 24, E. R. (Pe(;k Slip) to Bay Ridge, from Pier 15. E. R., 6 times daily to\\nGreat Neck, Glen Cove, Rosljni, and Whitestone, from Pier 24, E. R. to College\\nPoint and Flushing, from Pier 22, E. R. to Huntington and Oyster Bay, from\\nPier 37, E. R. toGreenport and Orient, from Pier 4, N. R. to High Bridge and\\nKingsbridge, from Harlem Bridge to Morrisania, from Pier 22, E. R. to Sag\\nHarbor, froni Pier 4, N. R. Steamers leave for Greenwich and Stamford from\\nPier 37, E. R. for Norwalk, from Pier 37, E. R. for Bridgeport, from Pier 35,\\nE. R. for Stratford and IVIilford, from Pier 37, E. R. for New Haven, from Pier\\n25, E. R. (afternoon and evening); for Hartford and the Conn. River ports, from\\nI ier 24, E. R. fin- New London (and Boston), from Pier 40, N. R. tor Stonhig-\\nton (and Boston), from Pier 33, N. R. for New]K)rt, Fall River (and Boston),\\nfrom Pier 28, N. R. for Providence, from Pier 27, N. R.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0395.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "328 Route 51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nNew York City, the commercial metropolis of tlie United States and\\nthe chief city of the Western Hemisphere, is situated on Manhattan\\nIsland, at tlie moutli of the Hudson River, in latitude 40 42 43 N.,\\nand longitude 3 1 13 E. from Washington. The population of the city\\nin 1880 was 1,200,299. The island is 131 m. long, and 1 2 M. wide (con-\\ntaining 22 square M.), and is bounded on the W. by the Hudson River,\\non the E. by the East River, on the N. by Harlem River and Spuyten\\nBuyvil Creek, while its S. end looks out on the Bay of New York. The\\nlower part of the island consists of alluvial deposits, but low, rocky ridges\\nare found in the central part, which ascend to the cliffs of Washington\\nHeights on the N. The city extends for 5 6 M. N. from the Battery,\\nand the district above the densely settled streets is studded with villas,\\npublic and charitable buildings, and market-gardens. The grand avenue\\ncalled Broadway runs from the lower end of the island to the Central\\nPark, beyond which the broad and costly Boulevard conducts to the N.\\nend. The city is laid out somewhat irregularly from the Battery to 14th\\nSt. (2^ M.), but beyond that line a succession of straight, jiarallel streets\\nextend from river to river, and are crossed at right angles by broad ave-\\nnues. running lengtlnvise of the island. The Bay of New York is one of\\nthe most picturesque in the world, and affords a safe anchorage for tlie\\nlargest commercial fleets and the great vessels of the European steamship-\\nlines. The inner harbor is entered through a deep strait called the Nar-\\nrows, which is defended by the most powerful and imposing fortifications\\nand armaments in the Western world.\\nThe site of New York was discovered by the Florentine mariner, Verrazzani, in\\nthe year 15 .i4. The harbor was again visited by Hf udric.k Hudson, commanding\\na vessel of the Dutch East India Company (Sept. 3, l(iO and from the scene of\\nwassail and merriment whicli followed the meeting of the saitors and the natives,\\nthe Ii]di;ins named the island Manhattan the place where they all got drunk\\nHudson Ihen ascended the river since named in his honor to the site of Albany,\\nand claimed the land, by right of discc^very, as an apjianage of Holland, under\\nthe name of tlie New Netherlands. In 1614 a Dutch colony came over, and built\\n4 houses aud a fort (near the i)resent Bowling Green), naming the place New Am-\\nsterdam, in honor of that city which had taken the foremost ]iart in the enter-\\njirise. In 1G64, Peter Stuyvesant being Ca])tain-General and the ]dacc having\\nabout 1,S00 inhabitants. King Charles II. of England granted all the land fivm the\\nConnecticut to the Delaware River to his brother, the Duke of Yorlc, and an\\nEimli.sh fleet under Capt. Nichols captured New Amsterdam ajid named it New\\nYoi-k. A Dr. eli fleet retook the place in IfiTH (the population being about 2,50(t),\\nbut it was soon restored to England by treaty. Gov. Sir Edmund Andros was\\nousted liy the people (a few vears later and Jacob Leisler took liis place, and\\nruled nniid the trials and terrors of bitter political straggles and sanguinary in-\\nvasions from Canada. In 1700 the city had about 0,000 inhabitants in 1702 the\\nfirst free grannnar school was opened in 1711 a slave-market was opened in Wall\\nSt. in 172.J the New York rjose We was established and in 17. ]2 a classical academy\\nwas found( d. Tlie connnerce of the city increased rapidly, aud its merchants\\ntook a bold and decided stand against tl)e unjust aggressions of Parliament. The\\nAmerican army under Washingt m occui)ied the city in 177(5, but the British troops\\nwho had abandoned Boston landed on Long Island, and after a severe battle near\\nBrooklyn, Washington was forced to retreat. Other actions at White Plains aud\\nKind s Bridge resulted in gi eat damage to the Americans, and New York was left\\nin the liands of the British, who occupied it for seven years. Part of the city was", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0396.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK CITY. Route 51. 329\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0bxinit, part of it wns turned into barracks, hospitals, and prisons, and thousands\\nof Americans were coiilined on floating hulks in the Bast River. Nov. 25, 1783,\\nthe British left, and Washington and theGovernor of tlie 8tatc entered in triumph.\\nThe first Federal Congress met here, and here, in 17S9, Washington was inaugu-\\nrated President (the city then having 3.S,000 inhabitants in ISOO it had (50,489).\\nThe lirst steamer was put on the Hudson in 1807, and the Erie Canal was com-\\npleted in 182 amid si ilendid celebi ations in the citj^ and 8tate. Gas was intro-\\nduced in 1825 in 18;{2 the Asiatic cholera carried off 4,350 persons in 1835 a\\ngreat tire destroyed 4 20,000,000 worth of property and in 1837 the great hnancial\\ncrisis ruined thousands. The Croton Aqueduct was completed in 1S42, and a\\nlire in 1845 caused a loss of S 7,000,00 The city has grown rapidly since the in-\\ntrodncti m of the railway system, and the most remote parts of the states are\\nreached by its immense lines of track. Scores of ocean-steamers and fleets of\\npacket-ships bring in tlie products of all other continents, and bear away full\\ncargoes of Western grain, or the maiuifactures of the Middle and liastern States.\\nIn 1820 New York had 123,706 inhabitants in 1840, 312,710 in 1800, 813.669\\nand in 1870, 92(5,341. There are but two larger cities (London and Paris) in Chris-\\ntendom, au l if the opulation of the close-lying suburbs of iJrooklyn, Williams-\\nburg, and Jersey City were added to that of New York, it would be tlie sixth city\\nin the world.\\nThe Battery is a park at the S. end of Manhattan I.shmd, containing\\n10.\\\\ acres, and adorned with large trees and verdant hxwns. The water-\\nfront is secured by a sea-wall of massive masonry, above which is a broad\\njironienade which affords admirable \\\\dews of the Bay. The x opnlous\\nheights of Brooklyn are in the E., with Governor s Island nearer at hand,\\non which the high walls of Castle William are seen, with the embank-\\nments of the less im^iosing but more powerful Fort Columbus, a star- fort\\nmonnting 120 heavy cannon. Ellis and Bedloe s Islands are seen farther\\ndown the harbor, with the long hill-ranges of Staten Island beyond, and\\nJersey City on the W. The curious round structure on the Battery was\\nbuilt for a fort Castle Clinton in 1807, was ceded to the city in 1823,\\nand was the scene of the civic receptions of the Mai quis Lafayette, Gen.\\nJackson, President Tyler, and others. It then became an opera-house,\\nwhere Jenny Lind, Sontag, Parodi, Jullien, Mario, c., made their appear-\\nance. Tlie building is now used as a depot fur imnugrants, who are hei e\\nreceived from their ships, and from which they are sent to their desti-\\nnations. From Whitehall, on the E. of the Battery, the Staten-Island,\\nSouth, and Hamilton (Brooklyn) ferry-boats start, besides several horse-\\ncar and stage lines. Boatmen may be engaged here for trips in the harbor.\\nFrom this point South St. follows the East Kiver shore for over 2 M.,\\npassing the ferries to the Long Island cities, and the piers at which lie\\nhundreds of stately packet and clipper shij^s, and humbler coasting-craft.\\nBowling Green, the cradle of New York, is just N. of the Battery. Near\\nby, Fort Amsterdam was built in 1635, and in 1770 an equestrian statiie\\nof King George III. (of gilded lead) was set iip on the Green. In 1776 the\\nstatue was overthro^vn by the people, and taken to Litchfield, Conn.,\\nwliere it was melted into (42,000) bullets. West St. runs N. along the\\nHudson River shore for over 2 M. from the Battery, passing the piers of\\nhundreds of steamcis and the ferries to the New Jersey .shore.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0397.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "330 Route 51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nNo. 1 Broadway was built in 17G0, and served as the headquarters of\\nLord Howe, Gen. Clinton, Lord Cornwallis, and Gen. Wasliinijton. On\\nits site Cyrus W. Field has erected a vast commercial building. Benedict\\nArnold lived at No. 5 Broadway, and Gen. Gage had his head quarters at\\nNo. 11. A short distance above the Green is Trinity Church, a noble\\nGothic building of brown-stone, with a spire 284 ft. high. Tlie interior is\\n192 ft. long and 60 ft. high, with a deep chancel lighted by a superb\\nwindow, and with massive colunms separating the nave from the aisles.\\nThe clnxrch is open all the week, and the ascent of the spire (308 steps\\nsmall fee to the sexton) should be made for the sake of the view from\\nthe top. To the S. is the noble harbor with its fleets and fortified islands\\nand the fair villages of Staten Island in the distance; to the W., across the\\nHudson, are Jersey City, Newark, Bergen, and Elizabeth and up-river\\nfrom Jersey City are Hoboken and Weehawken, with the Palisades and\\nthe distant blue Highlands in the N. The thronged and brilliant Broad-\\nway runs N. E. for 2 M. to Grace Church, and the great mass of the city\\nis seen on either hand while the course of East River may be followed\\nfrom above BlackAvell s Island by Flusliing, Astoria, and Greenpoint, to\\nBrooklyn and Greenwood. Directly below is the crowded Wall St., along\\nAvhose line ran the walls of New Amsterdam. There is a large and ven-\\nerable graveyard about the church, in which are buried Alexander\\nHamilton, Capt. Lawrence (of the Chesapeake), and other noted men,\\nwhile in one corner is a stately Gothic monimient to the patriots who died\\nin the British prison-ships. Trinity Society is the oldest in New York,\\nand the first edifice on the present site was built in 1696. In 1705 Queen\\nAnne gave it a fine communion service (still preserved), and also a large\\ntract of land on Manhattan Island, wliich has since so increased in value\\nthat this church is the richest in America (said to be Avorth over $10,000,\\n000), and spends immense sums annually in benefactions among the poor\\nof New York, besides supporting a considerable body of clergy and a clioir\\nwhich is unsurpassed in the country. There are morning and evening\\nprayers daily in the church (9 A. M. and 3 P. M.), with imposing choral\\nservices on Sunday. The chime of bells in the steeple is the finest in\\nAmerica.\\nWall St. runs E. from Trinity Church, and is the resort of bankers and\\nbrokers, and the financial centre of the republic. At No. 13 the visitors\\ngallery of the Stock Exchdngc may T)e entered, and at about noon affords\\nan exciting view of the busy whirl below. The stately U. S. Sub-\\nTreasury is on the corner of Wall and Nassau, on the site of the hall in\\nwhich Washington was inaugurated first President of the U. S. (1789). It\\nis built in partial imitation of the Parthenon at Athens, with Doric colon-\\nnades and classic pediment, and a lofty interior rotunda, supported by\\n16 elegant Corinthian colunms. It is of Massachusi^tts marble (v.dth", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0398.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK CITY. Route 51. 331\\nf^raiiito roof), and took 8 years in huilding, costing 2,000,000. (Visitors\\nadniiLtcd, 10-3 o clock. Broad St., tlic home of speculators and brokers,\\nleads olF to the S. from the Treasury, while running N. is the busy Nassau\\nSt., also Uned with bankers offices, and leading to the City-Hall i ark\\ncrossing /o/m on which is the oldest Methodist church in America\\n(built in 17G8), and near Avhich, on William St., Washuigton Irving was\\nborn. The venerable Middle and North Dutch Churclies (on Nassau\\nand Fulton Sts. have been secularized and demolished. The former\\nwas useil for the U. S. Post-0 Ilice from 1361 to 1875. Opposite\\nthe U. S. Sub-Treasury are several eminent banking-houses, and the\\nsuperb Drexel building (built in the Renaissance style at a cost of\\n700,000). Still farther down Wall St. is the TJ. S. Custom House, a\\nmassive building of granite, marble, and iron, originally built for a\\nMerchants Exchange, at a cost of 1,800,000. It is 200 ft. long, and has\\na portico of 13 Ionic columns, while a dome 124 ft. high overarches a\\nrotunda surrounded by 8 rich Corinthian columns of Italian nuirl)le, aiid\\ncapable of containing 3,000 persons. The elegant Bank of New York is\\nop}iosite the Custom House, and just below is Pearl St., the scene of a\\nheavy wholesale trade in cotton and other staples. A ferry runs from the\\nfoot of Wall St. to Montague St., Brooklyn. Returning to Broadway, the\\nimmense buildings of the Bank of the Republic, the Metropolitan Bank,\\nthe E(piital\u00c2\u00bble Life Ins. Co. (137 ft. high), and others are passed. Fulton\\nSt. turns off to the r. at the busiest part of Broadway, and leads to Fulton\\nFerry, passing the Evening-Post building and tlie Fulton Market.\\nSt. PauVs Church (Epis.), on the 1. of Broadway, was built in 1766, and\\nhas a statue of St. Paul on its pediment, with a mural tablet in the front\\nwall over the remains of Gen. Montgomery. Opposite the church are the\\nfloridly ornamented Park Bank and the extensive and elegant Herald\\nBuilding, standing on the site of Barnum s Museiim (which was burnt in\\n1865). Tlie long and simple granite front of the Astnr House comes next,\\non Broadway (on the 1.), with Vesey St. diverging to the 1. and leading to\\nthe great Washin jton Market, with its rude and unsightly sheds tilled\\nwith a rare display of the fruits and vegetables, meats and fish, of the\\nadjacent districts. Park Row stretches off obliquely to the r. from the\\nAstor House to Printing House Square, with its bronze statue of Franklin.\\nThis vicinity is one of the great intellectual centres of America, and here\\nare seen the offices of the Herald, Times, Tribune, World, Sun, Telegram,\\nNeirs, Mail ami Express, Truth, Journal, Stoats Zeitung (all daily\\npapers, besides a shoal of weeklies). The Christian Union, Indepen-\\ndent, Graphic, and other able papers, are published in Park Place. By\\nturning from Printing-House Square down Frankfort St., Franklin Square\\nis reached, with the vast and imposing publishing-house of the Harpers.\\nChatham St., the prolongation of Park Row, is the home of Jew trades-", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0399.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "332 Route 51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nmen, mock auctions, and old-clotlies shops. At the S. end of the City\\nHall Park, and opi)Osite the Astor Ilonse, is the new U. S. Post-Office,\\na stately and immense granite building, with lofty Louvre domes and a\\nfrontage (on Broadway) of 340 ft. The architecture is Doric and Renais-\\nsance, the granite columns and hlocks being cut and carved ready for their\\nplaces (by 600 men) at Dix Island, on the coast of Maine, and the building\\nis absolutely incombustible. The basement and first floor are reserved\\nfor the Post-Ofiice, the second and third floors for the U. S. Courts, and 12\\nelevators keep up commmiications. The City Hall is N. of the Post-\\nOffice, and is a fine building of Massachusetts marble, 216 ft. long and\\n105 ft. broad, with Ionic, Corinthian, and composite pilasters lining its\\nfront. It is surmounted by a fine clock-tower, whicli is illuminated at\\nnight. The City Hall was nine years in building, and cost 700,000. N.\\nof this edifice is the new Court House, a massive and magnificent marble\\nbuilding, in Corinthian architecture, 250 ft. long, and completely fire-\\nproof. It was commenced in 1861, the expense being estimated at\\n800,000, but the infamous Tammany Ring having gained control in the\\ncity, $5-6,000,000 was (nominally) spent on the Court House. The\\nelegant Corinthian portico on Chambers St., the lofty and graceful dome,\\nand other details of the plan, have not yet been completed. Opjtosite the\\nCourt House is the liuilding formerly devoted to A. T. Stewart s\\nwholesale trade (shawls, silks, and dry goods), standing on the site of a\\nBritish fort of 1776-83. Passing up Broadway, with immense and costly\\nbuildings on either side, and similarly lined streets running off to r. and 1.,\\nthe brilliant windows, the throngs on the sidewalks, and tlie roar of the\\nstreet cause constant surprise. On the r. is the Bloody Sixth Ward\\n(boimded by Broadway, Canal, Bowery, and Chatham Sts.), with its dense\\nand dangerous population, its filth, poverty, and crime. By turning\\ndown Leonard St. (to the r. the city prison, called the Tombs, is reached.\\nIt is built massively in the gloomiest and heaviest form of Egyptian\\narchitecture, and is usually well filled, while in the interior of the quad-\\nrangle is the place of executions. A short distance beyond, at the inter-\\nsection of Baxter, Park, and Worth Sts., is the Five Points, formerly the\\nmost terrible locality in the city and republic, but now somewhat im-\\nproved by the aggressions of religious missions. In this vicinitj are the\\ncrowded and reeking tenements, the narrow and filthy alleys, the unspeak-\\nable corruption and utter depravity of the slums of the Empire City. It\\nis well to be accompanied by a policeman during a visit to this district,\\nboth to insure personal safety and to learn nanute details.\\nAdvancing up Broadway, Walker St. is seen on the 1., leading to tho\\nHudson River R. R. Depot, whose Hudson St. front is surmoimted by\\nthe largest bronze groujis in the world (emblematic of Vanderbilt scareerV\\nThe ancient Chapel of St. John fronts tlie (h pot, which was built on Si.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0400.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "NEW YOKE CITY. RoiiU 51. 333\\nJohn s Park. Passing now tlie snperh white niarl)le N. Y Life Ins.\\nBuilding (Ionic architecture) and the Brandreth House, the wide Canal\\nSt. is crossed. Prince St. leads off to the old Cathedral of St. Patrick,\\nand then comes Bleecker St., the Latin Quarter of New York, and\\nthe headquarters of Bohemianisin. A little way beyond the Grand-\\nCentral Hotel (on the 1.), a side street leads W. to Washington Square,\\nlaid out on the old Potter s Field, where over 100,000 bodies are buried\\nin trenches. On one side of the Square is the New- York University\\n(founded in 1831), a fine marble building 200 ft. long, in English\\ncollegiate architecture, with a large Gothic window lighting the chapel.\\nAbove the Grand-Central Hotel, Astor Place leads off obliquely to\\nthe r. to the Mtrcantile Library (with 200,000 volumes) in the\\nold Astor -Place Ojiera House. Close by, on the S., in Lafayette\\nPlace, i.s the Astor Library (open 9-5 daily), in two lofty halls hi a\\nlarge Romanesque bnilding. The library was endowed with $400,000 by\\nJohn Jacol) Astor, and has about 150,000 volumes, besides rare old books\\nand considerable departments in the European languages. Tiie Bible\\nHouse (at the end of Astor Place) is an immense structure, six stoiies\\nhigh, covering of an acre, with 700 ft. frontage, and containing 600 oper-\\natives. It cost $300,000, and is the property of the American Bible So-\\nciety, and besides the vast numbers of Bibles issued from its presses, tliere\\nare 13 religious and philanthropic papers published in the building. Since\\n1817 this society has put in circulation 9,000,000 Bibles and Testaments,\\nin 24 languages. Opposite the Bible House is the Cooper Institute, a\\nbrown-stone building occupying an entire square, wliich was founded and\\nendowed by Peter Cooper, of New York. It has a great library and read-\\ning-room, Avith courses of lectures and special studies, nearly all of which\\nare free to the people. Stuyvesant Place leads N. E. from the Institute,\\npassing St. Mark s Church (Epis.), whichhas the tombs of the Dutch Cai)-\\ntaiu-General Stuyvesant (died 1682), the British Governor Slonghter, and\\nthe American Governor Tompkins. At the end of the Place is the ele-\\ngant yellow sandstone building of the N. Y. Historical Society, with a\\nrich historical library of 60,000 volumes, collections of antiquities, a pic-\\nture gallery, and museitms of Nineveh marbles and Egyptian curiosities.\\nCole s Course of Empire paintings are in this art gallery.\\nOn Broadway, corner of 10th St., is Stewart s vast dry-goods store,\\nwitli 15 acres of flooring, said to be the largest store in the world. Grace\\nChurch, and Rectory are now seen on the r., costly and elegant l)uildings\\nof marble, in the most florid Gothic architecture. The lofty and graceful\\nspire is much admired, and the interior of the church, with 40 stained\\nwindows, light columns and arches and carvings, has a theatrical splendor.\\nAt this point Broadway bends to the 1., and soon reaches Union Square,\\na pleasant oval purk, with green lawns and shrubbery, and a large popu-", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0401.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "334 Route 51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nlation of Englisli sparrows. On the E. is a colossal equestrian statue of\\nWashington, wliicli is much admired, and on the W. is a bronze statue of\\nLincoln. The Square is lined with fine hotels and stores, although it was\\nformerly the most aristocratic part of the city. University Place runs S.\\nfrom Union Square, passing the N. Y. Society Library (near 12th St.\\nfounded 1700 01,000 volumes) and the Union Theological Seminary (near\\n8th St. witli 6 professors and 73 students), to the N. Y. University.\\n14th St. runs E. by the elegant Steinway Hall, the Academy of Music,\\nGrace Church Chapel, and Tammany Hall.\\n4th Avenue runs N. from Union S(iuare. To the r., down 16th St., ar^\\nStuyvesant Square and St. George s Church (Epis.), a large and elegant\\neditice of brown-stone, in Romanesque arcliitecture, with a richly frescoed\\nceiling 100 ft. above the tioor, a spacious chancel, twin spires (245 ft.\\nhigh), and a fine rectory (the home of S. H. Tyng, D. D.). Farther up\\n4th Ave. (corner of 20th St.) is the Church of All Souls\\n(Unitarian), a curious structure in Italian architecture, with alternate\\ncourses of brick and light-colored stone. On the next corner is the Cal-\\nvary Church (Epis.), a Gothic building of brown-stone, and near by is St.\\nPaul s Church (Meth.), of white marble, in Romauestpie architecture.\\nOn the corner of 4th Ave. and 23d St. is the Young Men s Christian Asso-\\nciation building, a large and costly structure of brown and Ohio stone, in\\nthe Renaissance architecture, and includuig a fine library, reading-rooms,\\nparlors, a gymnasium, and a public hall. Strangers will meet a kindly\\nwelcome liere. Opposite the Y. M. C. A. is the elegant National\\nAcademy of Design, built of gray and white marbles and blue-stone, in\\nthe purer Gothic forms of the 12th century, with certain features copied\\nfrom the best Venetian architecture. It has an imposing entrance and\\nstairway, with extensive galleries, in which every spring and summer are\\nheld exhibitions of hundreds of the recent works of the best of living\\nAmerican artists (admission 25c. On the lower floor is the Suydam col-\\nlection (on permanent deposit), which includes 92 pictures by eminent\\nFrench and American artists, with a few works of the old Italian masters.\\nE. of the Academy (on 23d St.) are the N. Y. College of Physicians and\\nSurgeons, the Demilt Dispensary, the Ophthalmic Hospital, and the Col-\\nlege of the City of New York (corner of Lexington Ave.). Passing W.\\nalong 23d St., Madison Square is soon reached (3 M. from the Battery),\\na bright and fashion-favored park of six acres, surrounded by palatial\\nhotels (5th Ave., Ilofi man, St. James, c.), and adonied by a monument\\nto Gen, Worth. 23d St. runs tlience W. to the Hudson River, passing\\nthe imposing Masonic Hall, and the great marble Opera House on the\\ncorner of 8th Ave. Turning to the 1. from 23d St. down 9th Ave. to 20th\\nSt., the stoue buildings of tiie richly endowed and flourishing Gtntral", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0402.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "NEW YORK CITY. Route 51. 335\\nTheological Seminary (Epis.) maj be seen. Broadway runs N. from\\nMadison Square for nearly 2 M. to the Central Park, crossing the num-\\nbered streets obliquely, and passing the sumptuous Hotel Victoria, on the\\ncomer of 27th St., several famous theatres, the Congregational Taber-\\nnacle (corner of 34th St.), the Armory of the 37th Regiment (cor-\\nner of 6th Ave-X and long lines of fine buildings and stores. Fifth\\nAvenue begins on the S. at Washington Square, and passes the Col-\\nlege of St. Francis Xavier (Jesuit corner of 15th St. and opposite the\\nManhattan and the New York Club Houses), Chickering Hall (comer of\\n18th St.), the S. Reformed Church (corner of 21st St.), the Church of\\nthe Holy Communion (Epis. ci uciform Gothic, of brown-stone, with\\nfree seats corner of 20th St. and 6th Ave. and the Union Club House\\n(built of brown-stone at a cost of $300,000 corner of 22d St.). The\\navenue now passes the line of superb hotels on tlie W. side of Madison\\nSquare, and crosses Broadway diagonally. The route from Madison\\nSqnare to the Central Park by this avenue leads through the most aristo-\\ncratic and splendid street in America, forming a scene of unexampled\\nbrilliancy and beauty, especially on pleasant Sundays after morning ser-\\nvice and late in the afternoon. Just off the avenue on 25th St. is Trinity\\nCImpel, an elegant edifice lined with Caen stone, frescoed, with richly\\nstained windows, and famous for its choral services. St. Stejihen s Church\\n(Cath. which has the most elegant altar in America, may be seen down\\n23th St., which leads off to the E. to Bellevue Hospital and the Morgue.\\nOn 29tli St., near the avenue, is the quaint and irregular Church of the\\nTransfiguration, much affected for fashionable weddings and familiarly\\nknown as the little ehurcli around the corner. At tlie corner of 3-ith\\nSt. (which diverges on tlie 1. to the great Manhattan Market) is the\\nsuperb marble palace of the late A. T. Stewart, which cost $2,000,000,\\nand has a famous picture-gallery.\\n34th St. leads W. to the Hudson, passing the turreted and embattled\\nbuilduigs of the N. Y. Institution for the Blind. On the E. it conducts\\nto Park Ave., on high ground, which is underlaid by the 4th Ave. R.\\nR. passing through a tunnel over whiclx are well-arranged parks. The\\nUnitarian Church of the Messiah fronts on Park Avenue, and is adjoined\\nby the spacious Church of the Covenant (Pres.), built of gray-stone in\\nLombardo-Gothic arcitecture. In this vicinity (corner of 4th Ave. and\\n32d St.) is a vast and elegant iron building, erected by A. T. Stewart for\\na home for working- women.\\nOn tlie corner of 5th Ave. and 35th St. is the costly and nltra-ritualistic\\nChrist Church (Epis.), with its renowned artistic music and its elaborate\\nfrescoes, while the plainer Brick Church (Pres. is on the 37th St. comer.\\nOn 5th Ave., from 40th to 42d Sts., is the Distributing Reservoir of the\\nCroton Aqueduct, massively built of granite in Egyptian architecture, 44", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0403.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "33G Ruide51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nft, liitrli, 420 ft. Fqiiave, -with an area of 4 acres and a capacify of\\n23,000,000 gallons. The broad promenade ou top is open to the public,\\nand commands extensive and pleasing views. Reservoir Square is a\\npretty park on the W., while the (French Catholic) College of St.\\nLouis is farther down on 42d St. Two squares to the E. on 42d St.\\nis the Grand Central Depot, the converging point of several railways.\\nIt is an enormous structure of brick and stone, covering 3 acres, and 700\\nft. long, bnilt in Renaissance architecture, with several lofty Louvre\\ndomes. On the corner of 5th Ave. and 43d St. is the Jewish Temple\\nEma^iuel, the chief of the 27 synagogues of the city, and the finest piece\\nof Saracenic arcliitecture in America. The brick Clim ch of the Holy\\nTrinity, the iron Church of the Disciples, and tlie superb St. Bar-\\ntholomew s Cliurch are near the depot. Tlie Windsor Hotel is at 5th\\nAve. and 46th St. the 4th Universalist Churcli is at 45th St. and the\\nCollegiate Reformed Church is at 4Sth St. Ou \u00e2\u0080\u00a219th St. are the buildings\\nof Columbia College, a venerable and w^ealthy institution, which Avas\\nchartered (as King s College) by George II. of England in 1754. At the\\ncorner of 50th St. is the Cathedral of St. Patrick (Cath.), the grandest\\nchurch in America. It was commenced in 1858, and is now open for\\nservices; the building occupying the highest poiiit on 5th Ave., and being\\nfirmly founded on solid ledges of rock. The material is white marble, and\\nthe architecture is the decorated Gothic of the 13th century. The front\\nis to be guarded by two marble spires, each 328 ft. high, and adorned\\nwith statuary and rich carvings, Avliile the interior columns are of marble,\\nsujiporting a high and ornate clere-storj The lofty and elegant front\\nentrance is worthy of close inspection. N. of the cathedral is the Catholic\\nOrphan Asylum, The spacious Church of St. Thomas (Epis.) is just\\nabove (on the 1.), near which is Dr. Hall s new church. At 59th St. is\\nthe Scholars Gate to the\\nCentral Park.\\nIn 1S5( the present site of the Park was a di ary and desolate region of swamps\\nand ledges, dotted here and tliere with lieaps of rulibish and the shanties of a\\nriidu and degraded jieople. In tliat year tlie work bei^an wliich has since given\\nNew York the most boautiful, and one of tlie largest ol the parks of the world,\\na work wliicli ii)) to tlie close of 1804 alone had cost .S9,2(K),000. The park is a\\nparallelogram, 2| .M. long and J M. Avide, being 5 I. N. of the J5attery, and nearly\\n1 M. from the rivers ou either side. It includes SfiS acres, of which 185 are of\\nwater, 15 M. of arriage-roads, S M. of bridl(*-paths, and 25 M. of walks, while\\nconimunieation across the island is eoiitliie l to four sunken iY)ads which pass from\\nE. to W. across the park and under its dri\\\\e-ways. Park carriages are in wait-\\ning at tlie lower gates, and carry visitors all through the grounds, for a small sum.\\nThere are brilliant skating-carnivals on the froijen jionds during winter, and on\\nsummer afternoons (csixcially Sundays) the promenades and driveways are\\nthronged. The park may be reached by either of st veral lines of elevated riiilway,\\nrunning from the Hattery and City-Hall Park, every few minutes.\\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art (near 84th-St. station of Sd-Ave.\\nElevated Railway) contains the vast Ce ^nola Collections from Cyprus, and a groat\\nnnmb\u00c2\u00ab r of paintings (hy Rubeus, Hals, Van Dyck, Miirlllo, Velazquez, etc.). Open\\nfioo, \\\\V\\\\d., Thurs., i ri., Sat other days, 25 cts. The Auiericau Museum of", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0404.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "KEW YORK CITY. Route 51. do i\\nNatural History (near 81st-St. station, 6th- Ave. Elevated Railway) is open free\\nWed., Thurs Fri.,and Sat. It oontaiiis iuiuieuso collections, including the Ver-\\nreaux, Elliot (birds of America), Prince Maximilian, Hall (N. Y. geology). Bemcnt\\n(stone age of Denmark), Jay (shells), Squier (Mississippi Valley), and other rare\\ngroups.\\nNear the Scholars Gate (5th Ave.) is the old State Arsenal, a massive\\ncastellated building. Near the bust of Humboldt is the Pond (4| acres),\\nan irregular sheet of water. Winding paths and drives conduct, by\\ngraceful curves and passing picturesque knolls and groves, bridges\\nand arbors, to The Mall, the chief promenade and ornament of the\\npark. At the entrance of this noble esplanade are tine bronze statues\\nof William Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott, and other groups and\\nstatues are seen at various points. The Mall is 1212 ft. long and 208\\nft. wide, and is bordered by double lines of tall trees. At the Music\\nPavilion, near the upper end, fine band-concerts are given on pleasant\\nWednesday and Saturday afternoons, and at such times the vicinity is\\nfilled with a gay and varied crowd. Tlie Mall is terminated by The\\nTerrace, a sumptuous pile of architecture, with frescoed arcades and\\ncon idors, broad promenades, costly and elaborate balustrades, and high\\npedestals wliich are to be graced with synibolic statuary. Broad stone\\nstaii ways lead down to the esplanade by the lake-side, on which is erected\\nthe most elegant fountain on the continent, with bronzes and rare mai ble.s\\nrepresenting the Angel of Bethesda, A large flotilla of pleasure-boats\\nis kept on the Central Lake (20 acres), and pleasant excursions may\\nbe made with little expense (taritis regulated by the commissioners). On\\nthe W. of the Mall is the Green, a broad lawn covering 15 acres, and\\ndestined for a parade-ground. Near the head of the Mall (on the r. is the\\nCasino, a neat refectory on a high knoll. Crossing Central Lake by the\\ngraceful Bow Bridge, The Ramble is entered, 36 acres of copse and\\nthicket and craggy hill, bounded by the lake and threaded by a labyrinth\\nof romantic foot-patlis. Tlie Vine-covered and Evergreen Walks, the\\nStone Arch, the Grotto, and other pretty objects are found in the Ramlile.\\nOn Vista Hill (to tlie N. is the Croton Reservoir, which covers 31 acres,\\nis 105 ft. above tide-water, and contains 150,000,000 gallons of water.\\nThere are broad and far-viewing promenades on its walls of massive\\nmasonry. Just to the N. is the Xeio Reservoir, covering 106 acres and\\nhaving a capacity of 1,000,000,000 gallons. The graceful curves of its\\nshore-line are bounded by lofty stone walls of immense thickness, an*!\\nornamental gate-houses stand at its N. and S. eiids. Just S, W. of the\\nrectangular (smaller) reservoir is the Belvidere, situated on high ground\\noverlooking the park. Above the New Reservoir is the Upjjer Park, less\\nvisited and with less artificial embellishment then the Lower Park, but\\nwith more marked natural beauties. Passing the East and West Meadows\\nthe buildings of Mount St. YinccrJ aie seen on the E., where a pleasant\\n15 V", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0405.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "338 Route 51. NEW YORK CITY.\\nrefectory has been installed in the place formerly occupied by a Catholic\\nSeminary. To the E. is the Arboretum, while close by, on the N., is\\nHarlem Lake (covering 16 acres), with its bold S. shore lined with the\\nremains of ancient fortifications.\\nThe Lienox Library (reached by 67th-St. station of 3d-Ave. Elevated Railway)\\nis a magnificent limestone building fronting on Central Park, at 70th St., and con-\\ntaining a library of 30,000 volumes, including many incunabula, and very rare\\nworks of immense value, Shakespeariana, Americana, etc. The picture-gallery\\ncontains 150 paintings, some of which are by Copley, Stuart, Reynolds, Turner,\\nGainsborough, Delaroche, Munkacsy, Vernct, Wilkie, etc. Admission by card\\n(Tues., Thurs. and Sat., from 11 to 4), obtained by written application to the\\nSuperintendent, 1001 Fifth Ave.\\nClose by is the Lenox Hospital (Presbyterian), a quaint and ornate\\nbrick and stone structure, with tall and slender spires. A few rods\\ndistant (on the old Hamilton Square; and built at a cost of $300,000) is\\nthe spacious and imposing building of the Normal College, in the secular\\nGothic style, with a lofty and massive Victoria tower. The Foundling\\nHospital is still farther E., and in plain sight is the Mount Sinai\\nHosjntal, a cluster of stately buildings in Elizabethan architecture, erected\\nat a cost of 340,000. The eld German park and beer-garden called\\nJones s Wood, is still farther E. at the river-side, and looks across on\\nBlackwell s Island.\\nFrom the point where Broadway reaches the park (corner of 8tli Ave.\\nand 59th St. a grand avenue called the Boulevard, with a parked centre\\nand graceful curves, runs N. to Manluittanville and Kings Bridge. This\\nroad passes (at 73d St.) the extensive stone building (Gothic) of the iV^. Y.\\n07 phan Asylum, which looks down on the Hudson. The Leake an(l\\nWatts Orphan House fronts on 110th St., and can accommodate 250\\nchildren. Close by (on the E. )is the Morningside Park. At 115th St.\\nis the Bloomingdale Asylum for the Insane, with spacious buildings in\\npleasant grounds. The Boulevard now leads by market-gardens and\\nrural villas, to the village of ManhatlanviUe (130th St.), with the impos-\\ning Iniildings of the Convent of the Sacred Heart and of Manhattan\\nCollege on the hill beyond.\\nEnvirons of New York.\\nThe High Bridge is a structure worthy of the Roman Empire. It is\\n1,450 ft. long, 114 ft. high, is supported on 14 piers, and is used to carry\\nthe Croton Aqueduct across Harlem River. It is built of granite, and\\ncost $900,000. Near this point (11 M. from the City Hall) are the\\nl)uildings of the Juvenile Asylum, while the elegant structure of the Insti-\\ntution for the Deaf and Dumb is to the S. W. (near 165tli St.). Just\\nacross IManhattan Ishuid (which is narrow at this point) is Furt Washing-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0406.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "BROOKLYN. Route 51. 339\\nton, looking clown on the Hudson in a succession of fine views. The\\nHigh Bridge may be reached hy the elevated railways which traverse 2d\\nand 3d Aves., but the steamers which leave Peck Slip (12-15 times\\ndaily) for Harlem afford a more pleasant route. These boats pass up the\\nEast River, by the immense municipal charitable and correctional buiM-\\nings on BlacbweWs Island. The entire E. water-front of the city is ]i:issed,\\nAstoria is visited, and,, leaving the tumultuous Hell Gate passage on the r.,\\nthe l)oat enters a narrower cliannel with Ward s Island on the r. On this\\nisland are seen the imposing and extensive buildings of the Inebriate\\nAsylum, together with the Lunatic Asylum and the Emigrant Hospitals.\\nRayidalVs Island comes next (on the r.), with the House of Refuge and\\nother civic charities. The steamer stops at Harlem Bridge, whence the\\nHigh Bridge may be reached by smaller boats or by road.\\nBrooklyn, the third city of the Union (5G(),Gr)3 iidiabitants), is joined\\nto New York by several ferries across East River, and the world-renowned\\nEast-River Bridge, over 1 INI. long and 13.5 ft. high, built 1870-83, at a\\nco.^t of ^15,000,000. Noble views are afforded from its centre. It is crossed\\nby cars. The City Hall is 1 M. from the Fulton Ferry (corner of Court and\\nFulton Sts.), and is an elegant classic building of white marble, near wliich\\nis the Kings-County Court House, built of marble in Corinthian architecture,\\nat a cost of 540,000. There are many other tine public buildings in the city,\\nwhile the private mansions (on Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn Heights, c.) are\\nworthy of notice. The U. S. Navy Yard is of the first class, and covers\\n40 acres, with large depots oi materiel of war, ship-houses, barracks, c.,\\nwhile the Dry Dock (which cost $1,000,000) is one of the best. Some\\nfine vessels may be seen here, including the old line-of-battle ship Ver-\\nmont. The JSIarine Hosjiital (500 i)atients) is a large granite building\\non the Wallabout Bay, where the British prison-ships were anchored\\nduring the Revolution, and where 11,500 patriot prisoners died. The\\nAtlantic Dock fronts toward Governor s Island, and its long granite piers\\nand immense warehouses merit a visit. The principal churches of the\\ncity ai e the Catholic Cathedral, a superb structure (now building) on the\\ncorner of Lafayette and Vanderbilt Aves. the Plymouth Church (Henry\\nWard Beecher) on Orange, near Hicks St. the Church of the Pilgrims\\n(Rev. R. S. Storrs, Jr.), corner of Henry and Remsen Sts.; and the\\nChurch of the Holy Trinity, corner of Clinton and Montague Sts. From\\nthe fact of its having 2-33 churches, Brooklyn has won and wears the\\nname of The City of Churches.\\nProspect Park (reached by horse-cars on Fulton St. and Flatbush Ave.\\nis a noble lival of Central Park, covering 630 acres, and costing, since its\\ncommencement (in 1866), $9,000,000. The Plaza is a large, paved, circu-\\nlar space at the entrance, with a statue of Lincoln, fountains, and flowers.\\nThere are broad and verdant meadov/s, large and umbrageous groves,", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0407.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "340 Route 52. NEW YORK TO ALBANY.\\nhills commanding superb views of the Bay of New York, Staten Island,\\nand the Highlands of the Hudson and the Neversink. There is a pictu-\\nresque lake of 61 acres, and the romantic variety of the natural scenery of\\nthis park, together with its height and its fine distant views, renders it\\nthe pride of Long Island. There are 8 M. of drives, 4 M. of rides, and a\\ngi-eat number of rambles.\\nGreenwood Cemetery is 3 51. from Fulton Ferry (horse-cars every 15\\nminutes strangers not admitted on Sunday), and is the most beautiful\\ncemetery in the world. It contains 413 acres of land, traversed by 20 M.\\nof winding paths and driveways, and embellished with forests and lakes.\\nOcean Hill commands a view over the limitless sea, while Battle Hill\\noverlooks New York and its Bay, Brooklyn, Jersey City, and the Hud-\\nson. Many of the monuments are of much artistic merit, and the reve-\\nnues of the cemetery are devoted to its adornment.\\nTo the E. of Brooklyn are the large cemeteries of The Evergreens\\nand Cypress Hills, beyond whicli are the quaint and pleasant old Long\\nIsland towns of Flushing and Jamaica. Still farther E. is Roslyn\\n(steamer from Peck Slip), a sweet village on Hempstead Bay, near which\\nis Cedarmere, the home of Bryant. Long Branch is 34 M. from New\\nYork (by steamer from Pier 8, N. R., to Sandy Hook, and thence by\\nrail), and is the favorite seaside resort of the upper ten. It has a\\ncluster of the most elegant and expensive summer-hotels on the coast, and\\nhas fine bathing and driving facilities. Coney Island is a favorite resort\\nfor the great mass of the citizens, and is quickly reached by boat from\\nPier 1, N. R., or by cars from Brooklyn. Excursions to the beautiful\\nhills and vast fortifications on Staten Island to the cities of Jersey City,\\nElizabeth, and Newark and through Hell Gate to the island towns, will\\nbe found both pleasant and jn otitaljle.\\n62. New York to Albany. The Hudson Eiver.\\nThe palatial steamers of the day line to Albanv leave Pier 39, N. R. (foot of\\nVestry St.) at 8. 30 a. m. The night boats leave Pier 41 (foot of Canal St.) at 6\\np. M. Tiic Hudson River Railroad runs from the Grand Central Depot (trains to\\nAlbany, 144 M., iu 5-5.^ Ins.); tlie Harlem Railroad station is on 42d St.\\n(Grand Central Depot distance to Albany, \\\\b\\\\ M.). The day steamers will\\nbe preferred by the tourist, on account of the ])aiioramic views of the river-\\nS(-enery thereby obtained, together witii the inununity from the dust and heat of\\nthe ears. The tare is !j5li (up and back, !53).\\nThe Hndson River Avas named in honor of the Dutch mariner who first explored\\nit,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ascending in tlie yaeht Half-Moon as far as the Mohawk River. It has\\nits rise in tlie Adirondaclv Mts., 4,000 ft. above the sea, and after tlie eonflueuec\\nof several bi anehes at Fort Edward, tai es a southerly course to the Bay of New\\nYork. Large steamers ascend to Troy, 1; )0 M., and ships can go as far as Hudson,\\n117 M. Vast (luantities of lumber are floated down tlie stream, while squadrons\\nof eanal-Vioats are rre(iuently passed, bearing coal from Pennsylvania (by the Dela-\\nware and Hudson Canal to Roudoul) and grain from the West (by the iirie Canal\\nto Albany),", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0408.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nId-out is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0409.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nout is being digitized, and will be inserted at e\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0410.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "THE HUDSON RIVER. Route 52. 341\\nAs the great steamer passes out into the stream, a fine view is afForded\\nof the liarbor in tlie distance, the populous shores of Jersey City and\\nHoboken on the W., and the dense lines of piers and warehouses on the\\nNew York shore. Above Hoboken are the Elysian Fields and Castle\\nHill, crowned by the Stevens mansion and still beyond is Weehawken,\\nwhere Aaron Burr, the political adventurer, shot (in a duel) Alexander\\n[lamilton, a distinguished statesman and jurist, and for 6 years Secretary\\nof the U. S. Treasury (1804). At and above Weehawken The Palisades\\nbegin to assume a bold aspect. Tliis is a vast trap-dyke, 3-500 ft. high,\\nwhich nms along the r. bank from Hoboken to Haverstraw, with a lofty,\\ncolumnar front, and masses of fragments at its base. It is less than 1 M.\\nthick, and liides the Hackensack Valley from the Hudson. BuWs Ferry\\n(W.) is a suiTimer-resort opposite 90th St. Manhattcmville (E.) is a vil-\\nlage of New York City, near which are the Lunatic Asylum and the Con-\\nvent of the Sacred Heart, just above which is Carmansville, and a large\\npile of fine buildings surmounted by a dome (the N. Y. Institution for\\nthe Deaf and Dumb). On the same shore, and fartlier N., is Fm t Wash-\\nington, on a bold clitf near 185th St. This was the citadel of the Ameri-\\ncan fortified lines in 1776, but was captured in November of that year,\\nwith its garrison of 2,600 men. On the W. shore is Fort Lee, wliose gar-\\nrison, retreating after that event, was attacked and cut to pieces I y a laige\\nHessian force. Over this point, where the cliffs loom up grandly, the\\nPalisades Mountain House is seen. On Jefl rey s Hook (E.) are the remains\\nof a powerful redoubt which was built to defend the obstructions with\\nwhich the river was filled, and near King s Bridge (by 217th St. were 3\\nforts, about which there was desperate figliting early in 1777. A short\\ndistance above (E.), the moutli of Spuyten Duyvil Creek is passed.\\nThis stream is named after a legendary Dutch trumpeter who swore he would\\nswiin the creek on his mission to the maiulaiid, in spite of the devil (en spiii/t\\nden duyvil). He struggled violently when at mid-stream, gave one long trumpet-\\nblast, and sank. At the mouth of this creek the Indiansattenii)ted to board Hud-\\nsou s vessel (in 160 .t), but after a severe conflict they were repulsed and driven to\\nthe shore. Throughout the Revolutionary War, Spuyten Duyvil was the southern\\nborder of the neutral ground, a belt of about 30 M., which was incessantly\\nswept by raids and guerilla bands.\\nFrom the high promontory of the Palisades on the W. a road leads to\\nthe pretty New Jersey village of Engleivood, in the fertile valley of the\\nHackensack. Above Spuyten Duyvil is the village of Riverdale, near\\nwhich (E. is Mount St. Vincent, a convent of the Sisters of the Sacred\\nHeart. The castellated and towered stone building was the Font Hill\\nmansion of Edwin Forrest, and the large brick biTilding was erected by the\\nsisterhood after their acquisition of the estate. Yonkers (E.) is 17 M.\\nfrom New York, and is a large and flourishing town at the mouth of the\\nNeperan River, where many New York merchants live. Hudson made\\nhis second anchorage here (IGO J), and traded with many Indians who", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0411.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "342 Route 52. TARRYTOWN.\\ncame aboard his vessel. A naval battle was fought off Yonkers in\\n1777 between the British frigates Rose and Phoenix and a tlotilla of\\nAmerican gunboats. This district constituted the ancient Philipse estate,\\ntlie manor-house of wliich is still standing, and with its broad halls, lofty\\nrooms, wainscoting, and Dutch tiles, has a truly antique air. Part of\\nthe manor was built in 1682, and the remamder dates from 1745, all the\\nwalls being of stone. Mary Philipse, the beautiful heiress of this estate,\\nwas the first love of George Washington, and, although he could not wiu\\nher, he always remembered her fondly.\\nA little above Yonkers (on the W.) is the highest point of the Palisades,\\nand soon Hastings is seen on the E., a prosperous village whence much\\nWestchester marble is shipped. Here Lord Cornwallis s British arjny\\ncrossed the Hudson, just l)efore Washington s retreat through the Jeiseys.\\n1 M. above (E. is Dobbs Ferry, an ancient village at the mouth of Wis-\\nquaqua Creek, with ruins of old fortifications and a quauit old church.\\nIt was named for one Dobbs, a Swede, who kept a ferry here, and some\\nyears since a sharp controversy was raised by a well-supported but unsuc-\\ncessful attempt to change the name to Paulding. Opposite this jtlace is\\nPiermont, Avhere a pier 1 M. long (near the line between New York and\\nNew Jersey) projects from the W. shore to the deep-water channel. A\\nbranch of the Erie Railway runs thence to Suffern, 18 M. W. 2 M. from\\nPiermont is the old village of Tappan, where Major Andre was tried and\\nexecuted (1780), and the stone house which was Washington s head-quar-\\nters and Andre s prison is still standing. At Dobbs Ferry begins a lake-\\nlike widening of the river called Tappan Zee (10 M. long, and 2 5 M.\\nwide). Near Irvington, above the Ferry, are several fine mansions, among\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2which is Sunnyside, the ancient and unique home, of Washington Irv-\\ning. It was built in the 17th century by Wolfert Acker, who inscribed\\nover the door Lust in Rust (pleasure in quiet), whence the English\\nsettlers called it Wolfert s Roost. The eastern front is covered with\\nivy, from a slip which Sir Walter Scott gave Irving at Abbotsford. Above\\nSunnyside is the Paulding Manor, a costly building of marble, in\\nElizabethan architecture, and still farther N. is Tarrytown, an ancient\\nvillage beautifully situated on a far-viewing hillside. Near this village\\n(the Terwe Dorp of the 17th century) is a quiet valley known of old as\\nSlaeperigh Haven ^\\\\QGY yllo\\\\\\\\ovf which has been immortalized by\\nIrving. Carl s Mill, the Philipse Castle, and the bridge over the Pocan-\\ntico, are still standing, and so is the old Dutch Church, built in the 17th\\ncentury with bricks brought from Holland.\\nA monument marks the place where Andre was captured. Benedict Arnold, a\\nbrave American general, had lieen coiirt-iuarti.iUxl and reprimanded for certaui\\nderelictions in his coiuniaii-l of J hiladclphia, and his ]\u00c2\u00bbroud si irit felt the stin j; of\\ndis raoe so keeidv tliat lie resolved to bo revenged on his country, lie oi\u00c2\u00bbeaed a\\nsecret correspoudeuce with the Brilisli, and otfcred to surrender West I oiiit (to", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0412.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "THE HIGHLANDS. Route 52. 343\\nwhich he had boen transferrcfl). Major Andre, Adjutant-General of the British\\narmy, went up tlie Tapjian Zee on the sloop-of-war Vulture, and landed by\\nniglit at Stony Point, where he arranged with Arnold for the surrender. But the\\nVulture was forced to retire, and Andre, attempting to pass by land to New\\nYork, was halted in the neutral ground by a squad of irregular militia. He was\\nsearched, and the papers and plans of the surrender were found. Arnold escaped\\nto the Vulture, and became a Brigadier-General in the British army, receiving\\nalso \u00c2\u00a730,000, but Andre, being proven a spy, was executed amid the sorrow of\\nboth armies. He has a monument in Westminster Abbey.\\nNyach is opposite Tarrytown, while to the N. is Sing Sing, on a\\nplecisant hillside, and near the end of the Croton Aqueduct, which lias a\\nfine stone arch here. Near the river are the extensive marble buildings\\nof the State Prison, which were erected by the convicts, and stand in\\ngrounds covering 130 acres. The place is usually overflowing with\\nprisoners, who are guarded by sentinels and patrols. Opposite Sing Sing\\n(meaning Stony Place is Verdritege Hook or Point-no-Point, on\\nwhose upper slope is Rockland Lake, from which New York gets 200,000\\ntons of ice yearly. Teller s (or Croton) Point, with its rich vineyards, is\\nnow approached, and the mouth of Croton River is seen. G M. up this\\nriver is a dam 240 ft. long, 40 ft. high, and 70 ft. thick at the bottom,\\nwliich forms a lake of 400 acres with 40 ft. of water (500,000,000 gallons).\\nFrom this point a closed aqueduct of stone and brick carries the water\\nparallel with the Hudson for nearly 40 M. to the great reservoirs in the\\nC!entral Park, New York. The aqueduct discliarges 60,000,000 gallons\\ndaily, with a down grade of 13^ inches to a mile, and the whole v/ork cost\\n$14,000,000.\\nThe Highlands loom up boldly in front as the steamer crosses the\\nbeautiful Haverstraw Bay to the village of Haverstrww (W.), with the old\\nstone mansion on Treason Hill, where Arnold and Andre met. Above is\\na line of limestone cliffs which have produced 1,000,000 bushels of lime\\nyearly. 3 M. above (W.) is the bold and picturesque promontory of\\nStowj Point, with Verplanck s Point opposite.\\nBoth these places were fortified early in the Revolution, and were captured by\\nthe British army in June, 1779, inflicting a severe blow on the Americans from\\nthe loss of sucli a strategic position. Stony Point was fortilied by earthworks and\\naoahs, and well garrisoned, yet Gen. Wayne begged permission to attack it, savhig\\nto Washington, General, I 11 storm hell, if you 11 only plan it. With two small\\ncolumns of picked men (of the 5tli Penu. Infantrv), on ttie night of July 15th Mad\\nAnthony Wayne carried the fort at the point of the bayonet, under a heavy fire of\\nmusketry and grape-shot. Wayne was shot in the head, but, being borne into the\\ncaptured works, soon recovered, and after cannonading Fort Fayette on Ver-\\nplanck s Point, he dismantled and abandoned the fort. The liglithouse stands\\non the site of the old magazine.\\n3 M. from Stony Point (W.) is Caldwell s Landing, at the foot of the ab-\\nrupt and imposing Dunderberg (Thimder Mt.), which was anciently be-\\nlieved to be the home of malicious imps who hurled fierce tempests out on\\nthe river. Opposite Dunderberg is Peekskill, at the mouth of a creek which\\nw as ascended long ago by Jan Peek, a Dutcli mariner, who was so pleased", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0413.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "344 noatc52. WEST rCKv^T.\\nwith its fertile shores that he named it Peek s Kill, and settled there. Fort\\nIndependence crowned the hill a1)0vethe village during the Revolution, and\\nliere Gen. Putnam had his head(iuarters, and tried as a spy, condemned\\nas a spy, and executed as a spy, the Englishman, Edmund Palmer (1777).\\nAn ancient church (built in 1767) and the venerable Van Cortlandt\\nmansion are worthy of a visit.\\nBending to the W. at Peekskill, the Hudson enters that part of its\\ncourse called the Race, and passes through the beautiful Higldands, which\\nAvere compared by Chateaubriand to a large bouquet tied at its base witli\\nazure ribbon. From Peekskill to Newburgh the steamer passes through a\\npanorama of river-scenery unexcelled in the world. Dunderberg on the\\n1. confronts on the r. Anthony s Nose.\\nThis bold hill (1,12S ft. high) is named after Anthony Van Corlear, Gov. Btnyves-\\nant s trniu])eter. Just at this nimncnt the illustnous sun, iireakiiig in all his\\nsi Icndnr from behind one ol the high cHfrs of the Highlands, did dart one of his\\nmost jMitent beams full ujion the effulgent n^se of tlic sounder of Inass. The\\nretlectitm of which shot straightway down, liissing hot, into the water, and killed\\na miglity stui geon that was sporting beside tlie vessel. When this astonishing\\nmiracle came to be made known to I eter ytuyvesant (tie! governor), he, as may\\nWell be supposed, marvelled exceedingly; and as a monument tliercof, gave the\\nname of Anthony s Nose to a stout jiroinontory in the neighborhood.\\nAbove Anthony s Nose is the romantic Brocken Kill, while opposite is\\nthe grape-abounding lona Island. Nearly opjiosite is the old Poplopen\\nKill, with some remnants of Forts Montgomery (N. and Clinton (S. on\\nthe promontories at its mouth. These Avorks, together with a massive\\nchain and boom across the river, defended by a fleet of gunboats, were\\nintended to close the Hudson against the British. But Sir Henry Clinton\\nadvanced in Oct., 1777, marching over the Dunderberg, and after a sharp\\nskirmish at Lake Sinnijtink (still called Bloody Pond) his forces invested\\nthe forts. After a long struggle in the fog, duriiig which the British Heet\\nmoved up the river, the overpowered gai risons gave Avay and fled to the\\nhills, having lost 300 men. The American gunboats were then destroyed\\nby their crews, and the Briti.sh broke away the chains and obstructions in\\nthe river (which had cost Congress $250,000).\\nTiie Hudson now turns to the N., and Highland Falls are soon seen on\\nthe]., near which is the fashionable and favorite Cozzens Hotel. 1 M.\\nabove is the U. S. I\\\\Ii]itary Aca lemy at West Point. This place was\\nfortified by Parsons s Conn. Itrigade in 1778, and was then called the\\nGibraltar of America. Washington recommended the location of a\\nnational school here, and in 1S12 the school Avas established, since which\\nthe oflicers of the regular army have been educated here. There are\\nbarracks for the 250 Cailets, Avith riding-school, chapel, hosjiital, itc. The\\nacademy building is an extensive stone structure, in Gothic architecture.\\nThere are various trophies (of artillery, c. about the grounds, and a\\nlibrary of 20,000 volumes in tlie main liuilding. Kosciusko s Garden is a", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0414.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "NEWBURG. Route 52. 345\\nbeautiful hanging garden approached from the plain by Flirtation Walk,\\nand containing a marble monument to the lieroic Polish cliieftain, who\\nwas wont to read and meditate here. Near the head of Flirtation Walk\\nis a monument to the troops who were massacred in the Everglades of\\nFloi ida, in 1835. Fort Putnam is on tlie summit of Mount Independence,\\nand commands fine views from its ancient and ruinous bastions. The\\nSiege Battery is a practical work near the river. The Cadets are chosen\\nby the national Congressmen and, after remaining here four years, enter\\nthe U. S. Army as seconddieutenants. The disciiiline is very strict, and\\nduring July and August of each year the corps goes into camp.\\nOpposite West Point is Sugar Loaf Mt., under whose shadow is the\\nRobinson House, Aimold s head-quftrters, and the Beverly Dock, whence-\\nhe escaped to the Vulture. Passing Constitution Island, on the E. is\\nseen Cold Spring, a pretty village near which is Underclitf, the former\\nhome of the poet INIorris. Mt. Taurus looms up on the r., and is named\\nfrom a cei tain wild bull who Avas once the terror of the countryside, until\\nhe was hunted out and broke his neck on the next hill (N. since called\\nBreakneck Hill (1,187 ft. high). On the W. bank. Just above West Point,\\nis CW-jVest (1,418 ft. higli), which is separated from Boterberg by the\\nI icturesque Vale of Tem]je, where some part of the scene of The Culprit\\nFay Ui laid. Boterberg (otherwise called Butter Hill and Storm King)\\nis a bold and imposing mountain 1,529 ft. high, at whose northern slope\\nis the pretty village of Cornwall. Jdlewild, the home of N. P. Willis,\\nis near Cornwall, beyond which the decadent village of New Windsor is\\nseen.\\nNewburgh {Orange Hotel) is a busy city of over 17,000 inhabitants, built\\non the steep slope of a high hill, and showing finely from the river. There\\nare many pretty villas on the heights, and a few very neat churches, while\\nthe water-front is lined with warehouses. The city has some manufac-\\ntories, and a considerable country trade, while immense quantities of coal\\nare brought hei e from Pennsylvania (by a branch of the Erie Railway\\nrimning up the Quassaic Valley to Greycourt, 19 M. distant), and shipped\\nto all parts of the Hudson Valley.\\nS. of Newburgh is the old Hasbrouck Mansion, an antique stone house which\\nwas Washington s head-tiuurters in 1783, wliilethe Continental armj was encamped\\nhere to watch the British at New York. C ertaiu liigli officers of the army, doubt-\\ning tlie feasibility of a republic, circulated an address to that effect, and (indirectly)\\noffered to make Wasliingtou King of America. The noble Virginian spurned tlie\\nproposal, and after he had delivered an earnest address to a council of otticers they\\nresolved unanimously, That tlie officers of the American army view with abhor-\\nrence, and reject with disdain, tlie infamous projiosition contained in a late anony-\\nmous address to the officers of the army.\\nA steam-ferry crosses the river from Newburgh to Fishkill-on-the-Hud-\\nson, on a fertile plain N. of the S. Beacon Hill (from which noble views\\nare alforded). The manufacturing village of Matteawan is about Ig M.\\n15*", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0415.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "346 Route 52. POUGHKEEPSIE.\\ndistant, and the ancient Dutch town of Fishkill is 5 M. to the E. 2 M.\\nN. E. of the river village (the Landing) is the Verplanck Honse, once the\\nhead-quarters of Baron Steuben, and the place where the Society of the\\nCincinnati was formed (in 1783). As the steamer passes N,, there are fine\\nretrospects of Boterberg, Breakneck Hill, and the Matteawan and Shawan-\\ngunk Mts. On the W. bank, opposite the village of Low Point, is a rocky\\nplatform which was named the Devil s Dance-Chamber by Hendrick\\nHudson, after seeing there a midnight pow-wow of painted Indians.\\nBut Knickerbocker, describing Gov. Stiiyvesant s voyage, says, Even now I\\nhave it on tiie point of my pen to relate, liow his crew was most horribly fright-\\nened, on going on shore above the Highlands, by a gang of merry, roystering devils,\\nfrisking and curveting on a huge flat rock which projected into the river, and\\nivliich is called the Duyvell s Dans Kamerto this very day.\\nNew Hamburg, and Barnegat (on the E. shore), Hampton, Marlborough,\\nand Milton (on the W. shore), are small river-villages, which are passed\\nduring the next 15 M. Poughkeepsie {Morgan House) is a city of 20,000\\ninhabitants, situated on the E, bank, 75 M. from New York. It was\\nsettled by the Dutch in 1698, and its name is derived from the Indian\\nApokeepsing safe harbor It is situated on a plateau above the\\nriver, and has some good public buildings and famous schools, with a\\nlarge and lucrative country trade from the rich farm-lands of Dutchess\\nComity. About 2 M. from the city (horse-cars run all the way) is Vassar\\nCollege, the largest and most renowned female college in the world. It\\noccupies a range of imposing buildings secluded amid extensive grounds,\\nand has about 400 students, who pursue the higher classical and scientific\\nstudies, and receive degrees in due form. Among the distinguished resi-\\ndents of Poughkeepsie are Benson J. Lossing, the historian A. J. Davis,\\nthe head of the Spiritualist gect (sometimes called The Poughkeepsie\\nSeer and Prof. S. F. B. Morse (died in 1872), one of the originators\\nof the electric telegraph.\\nNew Paltz is opposite Poughkeepsie, and 5 M. above (E.) is the hand-\\nsome village of Hyde Park, named after Sir Edmund Hyde, a near rela-\\ntive of Queen Anne, who was an early Governor of New York. This land\\nwas bought mid named by his private secretary. The village is near a\\nsharp bend in the river, called by Datch Krom Elleboge ^crooked\\nelbow), and now known as Crom Elbow. 1 M. above is Placentia, the\\nformer home Df James K. Paulding, the essayist and satirist, and Secre-\\ntary of the U. S. Navy (1839-41). The river-banks are now low and un-\\npicturesque, but an air of rich rural peace pervades the coimtry-side, and\\nhandsome villas are seen on the banks. Astor s mansion (W.), Esopus\\nIsland, and Staatsburg (E.) are passed, with the majestic blue peaks of\\nthe Catskills drawing nearer on 1,he N. Port Ewen and Rondout, on the\\nW., are busy towns, with large foreign populations engaged in the manu-\\nfacture of cement and the tian fe/ ti xal, which is brought here in im-", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0416.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "CLERMONT. Route 52. 347\\nrneiise quantities over the Delaware and Hudson Canal. 2 M. inland, on\\nEsopus Creek, is Kingston, wliich was settled by the Huguenots in 1665,\\nand was sacked and biirned by Gen, Vaughan, with 3,000 British troops,\\nin 1777. The first constitution of New York was formed in a legislative\\nsession at Kingston (1777), and here Vanderlyn, the artist, was born\\n(1776). Opposite Rondout is Rhinebeck-on-the-Hudson, 2 M. from the\\nold village which was founded by William Beekraan in 1647. He came\\nfrom the Rhineland, and named his settlement for himself and his old\\nhome river. S. of the Landing is Wilderclift the former estate of the\\neminent Methodist, Freeborn Garretson. Above this place is Ellerslie,\\ntlie home of the Hon. Wm. Kelly (the estate fronts for 1^ M. on the\\nriver), while near the Landing is tlfe old fortress-mansion of the Bcek-\\nnians (built of stone, in the 17th century). Above Rliinebeck is Roke-\\nby, W. B. Astor s residence, which was built by Gen. Armstrong, Secre-\\ntary of War, 1813- 14 and Montgomery Place, the Livingstons man-\\nsion, built by Gen. Montgomery s widow (a Livingston). Above Barry-\\ntown is the estate of Annandale, and in the groves of Cruger s Island\\n(near the W. shore), is a picturesque and truly ancient ruin, which was\\nimported, from Italy some years since. Near Aimandale is an elegant\\nlittle chapel, and St. Stephen s College (Episcopal), endowed by Mr. Bard,\\nthe owner of the estate. Barrytown and Tivoli are the landings for the\\nantiquated inland towns of Lower and Upper Red Hook. Opposite Tivoli\\n(wliich has the old De Peyster Mansion) is the flourishing factory-village\\nof Saugerties, at the mouth of Esopus Creek, and 2 M. above is Maiden.\\nOpposite Maiden is Clermont, the liome of the patrician family of\\nLivingston (descended from the Earls of Linlithgow), which has had such\\ngreat influence in New York State. T!ie old manor was above German-\\ntown, and Chancellor Livingston built a new one on the site of Clermontj\\nbut Vaughan s British raiders destroyed both houses (in 1777). New\\nones were soon erected, and the Chancellor, being a]ii)ointed Ambassador\\nto France, met Robert Fulton in Paris, and became deeply interested in\\nthe new tlieories of steam navigation. In 1787 John Fitch built and\\nworked a steamboat at Philadelphia, and in 1789 one had been operated\\non tlie Clyde (near Glasgow), but both inventors liad given up tlie idea\\nof the feasibility of steam navigation. In 1807 Livingston and Fulton\\nbuilt a steamboat in New York, called the Clermont (but popularly\\ntermed Fulton s Folly which ascended the Hudson to Albany in 32\\nhours, to the great amazement of all the people.\\nThe Catskill Mts. are now seen in the W., witli the famous Mountain Hnnse\\nfar up ou one oftlieir ])eaks, wliite as a snow-drift. From the village of Catskill\\n(with its sn]ieil\u00c2\u00bb ProspfM^t Park Hotel overlooking the river) frequent stages run\\nto the Mountain House (in 3-4 hrs. fare, $2.50), passing through Sleepy\\nHollow, where Rip Van Winkle is said to have taken his 20 years nap. The\\nMountain House is near the edge of a clitf, 2,212 ft. aluiN e the r!\\\\er, and com-\\nmands a view extending over 10,000 s(iuare miles, embracing jiarts of four", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0417.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "348 Route 52. ALBANY.\\nStates, 60 M. of tlie Hi\\\\dson Valley, the distant cities n Albany and Troy, and the\\nsurrounding peaks of the Catskills. The Soutli and North Mts., the Two Lakes\\nand ihe High Falls, and the Stony, Cauterskill, and Plattekill Cloves (noLi-hcs)\\nsliould be visited. There are other hotels among the nits., and tine lishiug is\\nfound on the remote streams. The small villagcof P((/c7irtZ/t lias several boniTling-\\nliouses, much visited by artists. Amid this scenery lived and labored Thomas\\nCole, tlie ]iainter of the thi ee series of impressive allegorical ]jictures i-epresenting\\nThe Course of Empire, The Voyage of Life, and The Cross and the World\\n(the latter was left incomplete at his death).\\n4 M. above Catskill, on tlie E. bank, is Hudson Worth House), a liaml-\\nsome city on a liigli promontory, with a fine river-side avenue called the\\nPromenade, leading to the top of Prospect Hill (200 ft. high) which looks\\nover on the Catskills. The city was founded by 30 Quakers from Provi-\\ndence, in 1784, and now contains 10,000 inhabitants. It is at the head of\\nship navigation, and is the terminus of the Hudson and Boston Railroad\\n(to Chatham). The marble Court-House of Columbia County is located\\nhere, and there are several very neat churches in the city. 4 M. N. are\\nthe Columbia Sulphur Springs, with a large hotel and a picturesque lake,\\nwhile New Lebanon (see page 146) is often visited from this point. A\\nsteam-ferry leads from Hudson to the small village of Athens, Avhence a\\nbranch of the N. Y. Central Railroad diverges to Schenectady. 4 M. N.\\nis Four Mile Point, with its lighthouse, opposite Stuj^esant Landing, 5\\nM. from Kinderhook, where Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the U.\\nS., was born, and where he died, on his estate of Lindenwald. Cox-\\nsackie is a rambling village on the W. shore, and New Baltimore and\\nSchodac are soon passed. Above New Baltimore and near the W. shore\\nis Beeren Island, on whose rocky summit once stood the castle of Rens-\\nselaerstein, pertaining to Killian Van Rensselaer, the Patroon of Albany.\\nThe Helderberg Mts. are seen in the W. as the steamer passes Coeynian sj\\nCastleton is then passed, on the E. the immense and costly national\\ndikes are seen stretching along the shore and the populous hills of Al-\\nbany are rapidly approached.\\nAlbany Delavan House; Kenmore; Stanwix Hall), the capital of\\nNew York, is a prosperous commercial city at the confluence of the Ei-ie\\nand Champlain Canals and the Hudson River, 144 M. from New York\\nCity. It has over 80,000 inhabitants, and is famed for its extensive brew-\\neries and cattle-yards, while the workshops of the N. Y. Central Railroad\\nemploy over 1,000 men. Vast quantities of Western produce pass to and\\nthrough Albany by means of the Erie Canal, which has here a great ter-\\nminal l)asin shielded by a breakwater 80 ft. wide and 4,300 ft. long. The\\nSustpiehanna R. R. (from Binghamton 142 M.), the N. Y. Central R.\\nR. (from Buffalo 297 M. and the West), and the Rensselaer and\\nSaratoga R. R. (from Saratoga, Rutland, and Lake Champlain) converge\\nhere from the W. and N., and are united by 2 double-tracked bridges\\nof stone and iron CI INI. long; costing S 2,500,000) to the great railway\\nlines running S. and E. beyond the liudsun. The city has a couiaiaudiug", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0418.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "ALBANY. Rnite52. 340\\nsituation, and contains many fine public buildings, chief iimoni,^ which is\\nthe new Capitol, tlie larg-est and most expensive granite ijuilding on the\\ncontinent. Begun in 18(50, it has ah-eady cost .1? ]4:,0( {),000, and will cost\\n$3-5,000,000 more. It is of Keiiaissance architecture, 800 by 400 feet in\\narea. The Assembly Chamber is covered by the largest groined arch in\\nthe world. The mural paintings in this room, the only work of the kind\\never done by Wm. M. Hunt, attract a great deal of attention; and the\\nbuilding as a whole is regarded as one of the most interestinir in America.\\nThe .Senate Chamber (finished in marble) is not equalled outside of Venice.\\nAnother much admired i)uilding is the new City Hall, one of Mr. H. H.\\nRichardson s happiest efforts. This is on the same square with the\\nCapitol, The Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a\\ncostly building, with handsome stained-glass windows. A still more\\nelaborate and expensive cathedral for the Episcopal Diocese has just been\\nbegun. The State Museum of Natural History, in Geological Hall, at-\\ntracts many visitors, who are admitted free. One of the pleasantest\\nfeatures of Albany is its Park (take State-St. or Hamilton-St. horse-cars),\\nM. S. W. of the Capitol, 80 acres admirably laid out in drives, walks,\\ngroves, flower-beds, etc. The Rural Cemettry, 4 M. N., should also ])e\\nvisited, if only to see the famous statue of the Angel of the Sepulchre, by\\nE. I). Palmer. The Medical College, the College of Pharmacy, and the\\nLaw School are branches of Union University. The leading industries\\nare stove-making and brewing. There are also large lumber and cattle\\nmarkets. 9 daily newspapers are printed here. (For additional particu-\\nlars consult the Albany Hand-Book.) The spacious Gothic Church of\\nSt. Joseph, on Ten-Broeck St., is worthy of inspection. The State\\nArsenal is a strong castellated building on Eagle St., near some hand-\\nsome churches. 1^ M. S. W. of the city are the buildings of the Alms-\\nhouse, Insane Asylum, Fever Hospital, and Industrial School, all on one\\nlarge farm. On a hill in the N. part of the city, is the Dtulley Obser^\\nvatory, richly endowed by Mrs. Dudley, and furnished with a costly\\ncollection of astronomical instruments and hooks. In the same part\\nis the Van Rensselaer Manor House and its park, an interesting old\\nbuilding on the site first occupied by Kilian Van Rensselaer, Patroon\\nof Beverwyk. This gentleman received from the Dutch king, in 1G37, a\\npatent, covering about 1,150 square miles, embracing most of the present\\ncounties of Albany, Rensselaer, and Columbia, and here he ruled in feudal\\nstate. The family has ever since remained powerful and Avealthy. The\\nScliuyler House is another ancient mansion above the city, which was\\nbuilt by Col. Peter Schuyler, a distinguished colonial leader in the 17th\\ncentury.\\nAlbany was founded by the Dutch in 1614, and in 1623 a fort was built and\\nnamed Fort Orange. The settlement was called Beverwyk, or Williamstadt, and\\nin 1GU4, when the British took the place, it was named Albany in honor of\\ntlie British crown-prince, James, Duke of York and Albany. It was then sur-\\nrounded by timber-walls, witli six gates, parts of which were standing in 1812.\\nIn lt)S6 tlie city was diartered, and in 17^8 it became the capital of tlie State. A\\nprovincial congress, which met here in 1754, formed such a iilan of uiuon for the\\ncolonies that concerted action was possible when later events requirod it. Since\\nthe construction of the P ie and Chainplain Canals and the great systems of rail-\\nroads whicli converge here, Albany has continued to increase in wealth and X ros-\\nperity.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0419.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "350 Route 53. ALBANY TO MONTREAL.\\n53. Albany to Montreal\\nBy the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, running N. from Albany to Saratoea\\nSprings, Wliiteluili, and Rutland.\\nSoon after leaving the city, the Rural Cemetery is passed, and the train\\nreaches W. Troy, tlie seat of the National Arsenal of Watervliet, with its\\n30 buildings and 100 acres of grounds. On the E. is seen Troy {American\\nHouse; Mansion House), a floui-ishing city of nearly 60,000 inhabitants\\nsituated on an alluvial plain 6 M. N. of Albany. It is an important rail-\\nroad-centre, and has many large manufactories (iron foundries, cotton and\\nwoollen gooils, cars, Bessemer steel, c.) fronting on the Hudson. The\\nTroy Hospital, Marshall Infirmaiy, Orphan Asylums, and Warren Free\\nInstitute are tlie pi-incipal charitable foundations while the Rensselaer\\nPolytechnic Institute and other tine academies attest the intelligence of\\nthe citizens. The streets are wide and well i)aved, and tlie marble Court\\nHouse and the line churches (notably those of St. Paul and St. JoJm) are\\nworthy of attention. The city is built near the mouth of the Poestenkill,\\na)id is overlooked by Mounts Ida and Olvinj.us. St. Joseph s Seminary\\nis upon the heights, and is a Catholic institution of high grade and wide\\nreputation. Troy was founded by men of New England, and became a\\ncity in 1816. In 1862 full forty acres of its settled portion was burnt\\nover, causing a loss of S 3,000,000.\\nBeyond W. Troy the train passes Cohoes, a large manufacturing town\\nat the Falls of the Mohawk River, 3 M. above which the Erie Canal\\ncrosses the river in a stone aqueduct 1,137 ft. long, resting on 26 jiiers.\\nThe train now crosses the Moliawk, and follows the r. bank of the Hudson\\nto Meclianicsville, where it turns to the N. W. Stations, Jiaund Lake\\n(near the celebrated Methodist camp-ground) and Ballston, whose mineral\\nwaters were foi-merly much visited. There are several fine sjjrings, the\\nmost valualde of wliich is known as the Lithia Spring. 7 M. beyond\\nBallston the train reaches the village of\\nSaratoga Springs.\\nHotels.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The United States is on Broadway, and has 1,100 rooms (it cost\\nov;t .^1,000,000). Tlio* Grand Union has a fr.)ut on Broadway 1,304 ft. long,\\nwitli 824 rooms. The Windsor is a new hotel opposite the Clarendon. Con-\\ngress Hall is opposite the Grand Union, and has 1,016 ft. of frontage (on three\\nstreets), with hroad piazzas, roof-prouienades, and su])erl) parlors. This liouse\\nWIS built in ISas, and is of an impo.sing form of architect .ire. The Grand\\nCentral llottd is on Broadway, opposite Congress H ill, aud is a superb house,\\nwith over 700 ft. frontage, and Ga) rooms. The *Cli;-endo:i is an aristocratic\\nresort aniid stately elm-groves o; posite Congress Park. The Windsor is\\nnear by. Tlie American (on Broadway) aceommoi.lates oJO guests the Marvin\\nHouse (eorner Broadway and Division Streets), 250; the Continental, 210; the\\nColumbian, 200. B^-si les those ab )ve-n:imed, there are 42 hotels in and near\\nthe village, tog-ther v. ith several great water-(!ure establisli meats under the care\\nof experienced doctors, aud many quiet and inexx)ensive boardiuij-houses. The", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0420.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "SARATOGA SPRINGS. Route 53. 351\\n\u00c2\u00abTnr.;e.s at the prinr-ipil hotels are $4.50-6.00 a lay, or 325 -35.00 a week, wliile\\nevery vaiicty of pri^-e and accoiiimo(hitiou may be found aiuoiig the smaller \\\\m-\\ntels. PloMsaut quarters may be found in the boarding-houses for from $10 to\\n20 a week.\\nCarriages. 50 c. each passenger for a .course within the hounds of the village\\n(ba;4L;a;4(! extra). A coachman and span may be hired for $75.00 a month.\\nAinuseineiitg. The Opera House, attached to the Grand Union House,\\nseats l,5(Ht persons. There are nightly hops in the elegant ball-rooms attached to\\nthe three chief hotels, and grand balls once a week at each of these houses. Guests\\npay S I for admission to the balls, which are the most brilliant on the continent.\\nThe Races come off in July and August (second week), on one of tlie best of the\\nAmerican race-courses (1 M. from Congress Spring). The swiftest horses are\\nentered at these famous contests, and some of the most remarkable races of tlie\\npast decade liave taken place here. Music is discoursed by bands connected with\\nthe liotels, several times daily, and promenades take place in the parks, parlors,\\nand piazzas.\\nChurclies. The Methodist and the Episcopal Societies have fine buildings\\non Waslungton St., near the Grand Union. The Baptist Church is on the same\\nstreet, and the Presbyterian Church is on upj)er Broadway. The Catholics meet\\nat their church on S. Broadway (near the Clarendon), and tiie Congregationalists\\nmeet on Fhila 8t. (over tiie i^ost-Olli -c). The V. V. C. A. reading-room and hall\\nare in the Town Hall (corner of Broadway and Church St.).\\nOmnibuses run frequently to the spnngs beyond the village limits, and to\\nSaratoga Lake. A small steamer plies on the lake.\\nRailroads. From Boston to Saratoga by Routes 22 and 53 by Route 25\\nby Routes 20 and 2S (the favorite route, through trains in 9 hrs.). From New\\nYork bythrougli express (without change) on the Hudson River Railroad, in5|hrs.\\n(ISO M.) or by Route 52 to Albany, and thence by Route 53. Saratoga is 38 M.\\nfrom Albany 274 M. from Philadelphia 412 M. from Wasliington 841 M. from\\nChicago 392 M. from Quebec 311 M. from Niagara 45 M. from l^ake Cham-\\nplain and 2,292 M. from New Orleans. The Adirondack Railroad (station on\\nWashington St.) runs N. from Saratoga to North Creek (57 M.).\\nSai-atoga Springs, one of the foremost of the suniTnev-vesorts of America\\nand of the worhl, is situated in Eastern New York, about midway between\\nAlbany and Lake George. Like Newport by the sea, it is often called\\nthe Queen of American watering-places, and this dual sovereignty is\\ngenerally acknowledged. The village is situated on a plateau a few M.\\nW. of the Hudson River, and has a resident population of about 9,000.\\nThe hotel system of Saratoga is unrivalled elsewhere in the world, and\\nalthough equal to the accommodation of 16-18,000 guests, it is taxed to\\nits utmost capacity during the month of August (the season opens early\\nin June). Broadway is the main street, and extends for several miles,\\nwith the chief hotels near its centre and a succession of costly villas be-\\nyond. Circular St. and Lake Ave. are also famed for their elegant sum-\\nmer-residences, while large medical establishments and boarding-houses\\nare found on the quieter side-streets. The village is at its brightest ixi\\nAugust, when it is thronged l^y visitors from all parts of the republic and\\nfrom Europe, while over 3,000 private carriages, together with the caval-\\ncades from the public livery-stables, join in the parade of fashion on\\nBroadway and tlie Boulevard. Although the greater part of the visitors\\ncome from the central Atlantic States, the number from beyond that dis-\\ntrict is still so great as to give a continental or even a cosmopolitan Havor\\nto the summer society. The merry music of the bands, the regidar pro-", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0421.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "352 Route 53. SARATOGA SPRINGS.\\ncessions of elegant carriages on the favorite (Iri\\\\ es, the ci owds gathering\\nabout tlio springs at the fashionable hours for drinking, the brilliant hops\\nand the world-renowned balls at the grand hotels, and the surging of the\\nmultitude toward the railroad station at the time of the incoming trains,\\nfurnish endless resources for observation and anmsement.\\nCongress Park is a pleasant ground for a ramble, and consists of a\\nlow ridge sweeping around the Congress and Columbian Springs. It is\\nopposite the chief hotels, and is well laid out in ])aths, and adorned with\\nmany of the great elms which are the only natural beauties to be found\\nin Saratoga. N. of the Paik is the Indian Camp, where a band of French\\nhalf-breeds and Indians encamii during the summer, carrying on a lucra-\\ntive trade in bead-work, baskets, moccasins, and other small-wares. The\\nCircular Railway is near the camp, and is supposed to afford visitors a\\nbeneticial exercise. A little way beyond the camp (on the r. side of Cir-\\ncular St.) is the popular Temple Grove Seminary, whose fine building is\\nused during the summer as a boarding-house for families. On the same\\nstreet, and just beyond the Seminary, is the Drs. Strong s Institute (100\\nguests) for the i)i-actice of the water, vacuum, and movement cures.\\nAbout 1 M. N. of the Park (on Broadway) is the race-course and hotel at\\nGlen Mitchell, with finely arranged grounds and shady groves.\\nThe luiiieral springs rise in a stratum of Pntsdajii samlstnne near a great break\\nor lissuri in tlie strata underlying the Saratoga Valley, iind reach the surface by\\nliassing through a hed of 1 lue clay. Most of the s]irings are owned by stock eoni-\\n])aiiies, one of Avliich has a ca] ital of 1,000, 000, andciintrols the Congress, Colum-\\nbian, and Empire Sjirings. The jirocess of boring artesian wells has Vteeu intro-\\nduciid with njuch luotit, and some of the most valuable of the new sources have\\nbeen discovered in that waj Immense (luantities of^thi; waters are sent away to\\nall iiarts of the United States, for the treatment of invalids at home, though the\\n])roc(!Ss of bottling and ]iacking is difficult and costly. In the year lS6(i, H()0,000\\nbottles were sent away I rom the Empire Spring alone. The jirineipal ingredients\\nof the waters are cari)onic-aciil and salt, with bi-cai bonates of lime, magnesia,\\nsoda, iron, and lithia, of which the varying jtroportions cause the })eeuliar ehar-\\nacteristies of the ditlerent springs. The visitor may freely drink at any of the\\nsources, the water being dipi ed up by boys (to whom a small gratuity is some-\\ntimes given) The cathartic waters should be taken before breakfast, three glasses\\nbeing a fair (luantity the alterative waters should be taken in small quantities\\nthroughout the day the tonic (iron) waters must be drunk after midday; and\\nthe diuretic wateis should be taken before each meal.\\nThe Columbian Spring is in Congress Park, near the Congress. It\\nwas discovered in 1806, and is the favorite among the residents of the vil-\\nlage. Tills water contains a perceptible amount of iron, with considerable\\ncarbonic-acid gas, and acts as a decided tonic and diuretic.\\nThe Congress Spring is pleasantly situated in Congress Park, and\\nclose to Congress Uall. It was found by a party of hunters in 1792,\\nand was so named because there was a Congressman among their number.\\nIt was soon after choked by unskilful tubing, and was found again in\\n1804. The exportation of the water began in 1823, and now it has a con-\\ntinental fame, and is also sold in Europe. It contains in each gallon dOO", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0422.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "SARATOGA SrrJNGS. Route 53. 353\\ngrains of chloride of sodium, 143 grains of bi-carhoiiate of lime, and 122\\ngrains of bi-carbonate of magnesia, with 86 grams of other elements.\\nTliis water is cathartic and alterative, and is benetieial in diseases of the\\nliver and kidneys. More of it is drank than of the water of any other\\nAmerican spring, and its vicinity is thronged every bright summer morn-\\ning with health-seekers from the hotels.\\nTlie Washington Spring is in the Recreative Garden of the Clarendon\\nHotel (across Broa lway from the Columbian). It was opened in ISOO,\\nand while being renovated and shafted in 1858 a great flood of water and\\ngas burst fortli into the subterranean tunnel, and i orced the workmen to\\nflee for their lives. Tliis is the most pleasant water in the valley, and lias\\na taste of iron, with strong tonic properties. It is sometimes called the\\nChampagne Spring, and is situated among stately pine-groves.\\nThe Crystal Spring, under the Grand Central Hotels was discovered in\\n1870. It is tainted with sulphuretted hydrogen, and is alterative in its\\neffects. The llathorn Sjrrlng is opposite Congress Hall, on Spring St.\\nIt was discovered in 1868, and is a very powerful cathartic. Each gallon\\ncontains 510 grains of chloride of sodium, 171 grains of bi-carbonate of\\nliine, and 176 grains of bi-carbonate of magnesia, besides an extraordinary\\namount of lithia. The llamiWm Spring is near the Hatlicrn, and back\\nof Congress Hall (corner Spring and Putnam Sts.), It is diuretic and\\ncathartic in its operation, ami is mainly used for diseases of the kidneys.\\nThe Putnam Spring is on Phila St., near the Post-Office, and is tonic in\\nits etfects.\\nThe Pavilion Spring is in a pretty park on Lake Ave., very near\\nBroadway. It was tubed in 1839, and has a wide reputation for its\\ncathartic properties and itsefhcacy in dyspepsia and bilious complaints.\\nOf late years it has iinjiroved in (piality ami in })opnlarity. The United\\nStates Spring is under the same beautiful colonnade, and is tonic in its\\nproperties, while from its sparkling character it is used for giving life and\\nflavor to still wines.\\nThe sources i)reviously mentioned are near each other, in the centre of\\nthe village. The Seltzei High Ptock, Star, Empire, Red, Excelsior, and\\nEureka are in a long line in the N. part of the village. The Seltzer\\nSpring is on tlie old Willow Wcdk, not far N. of the Pavilion. This is\\nthe least saline of the Saratoga waters and closely resembles the Nassiui\\nSpring of Germany. It bubbles up through a liigh glass-tube, agitatcl\\nnow and then by the passage of carbonic-acid gas. It is a pleasant and in-\\nvigorating beverage.\\nThe High Rock Spring is about 150 ft. from the Seltzer, and is tlio\\noldest known of the springs. In 1767 a party of Indians brought Sir Wm,\\nJohnson thither on a litter, and after spending some Aveeks here drinkuig\\nthe medicinal waters, he was cured. The water rises in a cylindrical\\nw", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0423.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "354 Route 53. SARATOGA SPRINGS.\\nopening in a rock of conical shape, 3^ ft. high and 24 ft. around, a\\nnatural curb of tufa which has been formed by the ndneral deposits from\\nthe spring. The water is decidedly saline to the taste.\\nThe Star Spring (formerly called the Iodine) is near the High Rock.\\nThis is tlie favorite nuueral water in New England, and vast quantities of\\nit are shipped in kegs and bottles. It is cathartic in effect, and acid in\\ntaste, and is l)eneficial for rheumatism and cutaneous diseases.\\nTiie Empire Spring is N. of the Star (at the head of Circular St.). It\\nvery much resembles the Congress water in its constituents and effects\\n(cathartic). The Red Syring is just beyond the Empire (on Spring Ave.\\nThis water is chieily (and extensively) used as awash, and is especially\\nefficacious in diseases of the skin and the blood. Dyspepsia is benetited,\\nand salt rheum is cured by this agency. The A Spring (on Spring\\nAve., beyond the Red) is becoming popular as a cathartic agent, having,\\nmoreover, a pleasant taste.\\nThe Excelsior Spring is nearly 2 M. N. E. of Congress Park, and is\\nreadied by Spring Ave., or by a forest-path turning off from Lake Ave.,\\nan l leading through beautiful woodland scenery. The Excelsior water is\\npleasant to the taste, and mildly cathartic in its operations. Near this\\nplace are the Minnehaha, Union, and other sources, fonning a group called\\ntlie Ten Springs. The Eureka Spring is reached l)y following the park-\\nlike valley for a few rods beyond the Excelsior, It is situated amid\\nchanning foi-est scenery, and is gaining popularity as a cathartic agent,\\nbeneficial for cases of dyspepsia, and liver and stomach diseases. Near\\nthis place is the Eureka White Sul})hur Spring, with a copious flow of\\nwater charged with sulpliuretted hydrogen. This is one of the best hepatic\\nsprings in the State, and is efficient in many affections of the glands, skin,\\nstomach, c. It is taken internally and extei-iially, the latter at the\\nbath-houses (50 c. a bath) in the vicinity. Hourly stages run from the\\ngreat hotels to the Eureka Springs.\\nThe Glacier Spouting Spring is 1 M. S. of the village, near the Balls-\\nton road. It was discovered in 1871 by sinking an artesian well, 300 ft.\\ndeep, to the Trenton limestone stratum. The proportion of minei-al\\nconstituents in this water is very large, and it is a powerful cathartic,\\nbeneficial also in diseases of the kidneys and liver.\\nThe Geyser Spouting Spring is not far from the Glacier, near the\\nBallston road and tlie lailroad. It was discovered in 1870 by boring a\\nwell 140 ft, deep, and the water jets up for over 25 ft., being impelled by\\ncarbonic-acid gas. This is the coldest of the waters of Saratoga, and has\\na larger amount of mineral matter than any other. It is strongly cathartic,\\nand is lively and pleasant to the taste. Between the Glacier and the\\nGeyser is the FAUs Spring (chalybeate).\\nSaratoga Lake is about 4 M. from the village, and is reached by the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0424.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "SARATOGA SPRINGS. Rmtc 53. 355\\nfavorite drive cnlled the Boulevard (entered by following the street which\\nlies between Con_;-ress Hall and the Park). This road passes near the\\nrace-course and the trout-ponds. Saratoga Lake is 8 M. long and 2-3 M.\\nwide, and furnishes good tishing and boating. The scenery is tame,\\nalthough the views from Chapman s Hill (1 M. from the Lake House)\\nand Wagman s Hill are pleasing. Laka Lovely is a sequestered pond\\namong the hills near the Boulevard. It is a favorite place for picnics, and\\nhas some line woodland scenery.\\nLake Luzerne is 22 M. N. of Saratoga (by the Adirondack Raih oad), and\\nis a pictures(iue slieijt of water with two good hotels (Rockwell s and the\\nWayside). The I ailvoad exhibits some remarkable engineering and steadily\\nrising grades, while the lake affords good tishing and boating. Stages rmi\\nfrom Luzerne to Caldwell (10 M.).\\nThe battle of Stillwater was fought on Beuns Ileiglits, about 15 M. S. E. of the\\nSprings, and 2 M. from tiie Hudson River. Gen. Biirgoyne marclied south from\\nCanada in June, 1777, with a well-apiiointed British army, strengthened by\\nGeruian, Canadian, and Indian auxiliaries. This force was to meet another\\nBritish army advancing from New York, s(nnewhere on the line of the Hudsou,\\nand thus cut the rebellions colonies in two, to be subdued in detail. Burgoyue\\ntook Fort Ticouderoga, July G, and lost a large detachment of his best Geruiau\\ntroops, who were cut off by the Vernionters at Bennington, Aug. 16. On Sejtt.\\n14 tlie British crossed the Hud.son and encain])ed at Saratoga, near the American\\narmy. Burgoyue made an attack the ne.xt day on the lines at BimhIs Heights,\\nwhich had been fortilied by Kosciuszko, but after a long and indecisive battle, was\\nforced to snsitend his southward march. He fortitied his canip, and waited for Sir\\nHenry Clinton s army to acliieve its northward march and rescue him. His sui\\nlies and outposts were cut off daily, and, on October 7, he advanced for another\\nbattle. Morgan s Virginians attacked his right, the Sth, Dth, and 10th Mass.\\nunder Gen. Poor, were led against his left, while other trooi)s fell on his front.\\nThe British retreated, leaving their artillery, and the Americans stormed the\\nf(nLi lied camj) after despenite fighting. Burgoyne fell back on his old eam] s by\\nFish Creek, but Gen. Fellows, with a New England brigade and batteries, prevent-\\ned his crossing the river, while Gates with 12,000 Continental troo])s and New\\nYork militia faced him on the S. His provisions gave out, the caiup was inces-\\nsantly caimonaded by the American l)atteries, and Clinton s army had failed to\\ncomiect, so. on Oct. 1(3, the British army, consisting of 5,7S l men, with 42 can-\\nnon, and all their stores, surrendered to Gen. Gates. They were held as capti\\\\ es\\nuntil the close of the war (over 5 yeai s), first at Cambridge, Mass., and afterward\\nat Charlottesville, Va.\\nThe Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad nms N. E. from Saratoga, by\\nGansevoort and Moreait to Fort Edward, on the Hudson (two hotels).\\nThis place was fortified in 1709, and in 1755 Fort Edward was built at the\\nconfluence of a broad creek with the river. The ramparts were 16 ft. high\\nand 22 ft. thick, and were provided with 4 bastions and bordered by a\\nbroad wet ditch. It was a very important .station on the old nnlitary road\\nto the N., and in 1777 was held by 5,500 Americans, who retii-ed before\\nthe advance of Burgoyne. About this time the beautiful Jane McRea was", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0425.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "35 G Route 53. SARATOGA SPRINGS.\\nmurdered by Indians, near the village, under circumstaTices which have\\ncaused her story to become one of the saddest in the New World histoiy.\\nPassengers who wish to go to Lake Chanii)lain direct, continue on the train for\\n20 M. farther, passing up the valley of Wood Creek to Whitehall. In going toward\\nWhitehall the Fort Ann Mts. are seen on the 1., and the course of the Chaini lain\\nCanal is followed. Fort Ann Village is on the site of an old colonial fort, near\\nwhich Putnam and 500 Rangers were defeated by the French jiartisan Molaiig, with\\na large French and Indian force. The Rangers suffered fearfully, and Putnam was\\ncaptured. In 1777 the Americans attacked the 9th line regiment of the British\\narmy, in a ravine now traversed by the railroad M. N. of tlie station), but after\\nan obstinate engagement the assailants were forced to withdraw. \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Whitehall\\n{Hall s Hotel) is a ]irosi)erous lumbering village, situated in a rugged ravine under\\nSkene s Mt. It was settled by Col. Philip Skene in 17C5, and a large stone man-\\nsion and military works were erected. It was captured by Herrick and the Green\\nMt. Boys in 1775, and in 1779 was confiscated by the State of New York, on ac-\\ncount of Skene s adhesion to the king, tlie British fleet here engaged the\\nAmericans flying from Tiecmdei Oga, July 7, 1777, destroyed several galleys, and\\ntook 1:^8 cannon and a vast amount of sujiiilies. The name of Whitehall was\\nadoi)ted in place o Skenesborough, and in 1812 the jilace was well fortified. In\\n1814 Maedonough s fleet, with tiie British squadron wliieh it had taken in the\\nuaval battle at Plattsburg, came to this point, and here the Saratoga, Con-\\nfiance, and other vessels sank at their nmorhigs. Whitehall is 24 M. from Fort\\nTicouderoga (by the lake). Whitehall to Rutland, see Route 28.\\nPassengers for Lake George change cars at Fort Edward, and take a\\ntrain whicli passes over a branch railroad to Gle7is Falls (6 M.), a flouiish-\\ning factory-village with about 8,000 inliabitants, which has but lately\\nrecovered from a fire which utterly destroyed it (in 1863). The Hudson\\nhere falls 50-60 ft. over a long and rugged ledge, while the State has\\nbuilt a great dam above, which feeds the Chaniplain Canal. Tlie island\\nbelow the falls is associated with Cooper s Last of the Mohicans.\\nHere, amid the roaring of this very cataract, if romance may be believed,\\nthe voice of Uncas, the last of the Mohicans, was heard and heeded here\\nHawk-Eye kei:)t his vigils here David breathed his nasal melody, c.\\nTrains run from Glens Falls to Caldwell, 9 M. N. About 5 M. beyond the vil-\\nlage the road passes near Williams s Rock, a large boulder which marks the seene\\nof The Bloody Morning-Scout. On Sept. 7, 1755, when the Freneli iirmy of\\nDieskau was marching down from Crown Point against the Anglo-colonial army\\nunder Gen. Johnson, Col. Ei)hraim Williams was sent out with 1,2(.() men to en-\\ngage the P rench van-guard. 200 of his men were Mohawk Indians, under the\\nconunand of their noble white-haired chief, Ilendrick. The detachment ad-\\nvanced into the very centre of the invading army (which was marching in a grea\\nhall-moon curve), and was speedily enveloped and crushed by the enemy. A ter-\\nrible massacre ensued (in a ravine still called the Bloody Defile), and Williauis\\n(the founder of Williams College) and Hendriek fell, with most of their men. The\\nbodies of the slain were thrown into Bloody Pond, a quiet iiool in aglen near Wil-\\nliams s Rock. Dieskau then advanceil rapidly to attack the colonial camp at Lake\\nGeorge. Johnson had fortified his position, and the Indian and Cjniadian auxil-\\niaries in the attacking force were soon put to flight by the tire of the batteries,\\nwhile the French regulars suffered heavily, and were finally re])ulsed with the loss\\nof 700 killed and wounded. Dieskau was wounded and nuiile prisoner, while John-\\nson, though wounded, was made a baronet of Great Britain, and received the\\nthanks of Parliament. Fort William Henry was soon afterwards erei-ted, armed\\nwith 42 cannon, stored with vast sujiplies, and garrisoned l)y 2,500 men. In Au-\\ngust, 1757, this fort was beleaguered by 10,000 FrenchiiH^u and Canadians, under\\nthe Marquis de Montcalm. After a siege of several days duration, having received no\\naid from the colonial army at Fort Edward, the ibrt was surrendered. iVssoou as", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0426.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "LAKE GEORGE. Route 53. 357\\nthe disarmed garrison marclied out, the Indian allies of Montcalm fell furionsly\\nupon them, and a fearful massacre ensued. Hundi eds of tlie defenceless colonials\\nwere put to death under the walls of the fort before the slan^diter could be stayed.\\nAlthouyh Montcalm retired to Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga) with his trojihies and\\nca]itured batteries, the site of Fort AVilliam Henry was never re-oc,cui)ied, a new\\nwork called Fort George, with a central citadel of stone, having been built 1 M. y.\\nE. of the old fort.\\nCaldwell is a dull village at the S. end of Lake George, whicli enjoys a\\nslight local distinction from the fact of its being tlie s])ire-town of Warren\\nCounty, There are two small imis liere, and the Lalvc House (accommo-\\ndating 175 guests, at 3-3.50 a day). The Fort William Henry Hotel\\nis a vast and sumptuous house, on the site of tlie old fort, and amid finely\\narranged grounds. It accommodates 1,200 guests, and charges $5.00 a\\nday for transient visitors. The splendid frontage of the hotel looks out\\nover the lake, which is close at liand. Some renmants of the old fort may\\nbe found here, and Fort George (1 M. distant) is a picturesque ruin.\\nRattlesnake Cobble is an easily ascended hill near Caldwell, which com-\\nmands a broad view down the lake. Prospect and French Mts. are also\\nascended from the village, and give varying views of the lake and its\\nshores.\\nStages run from Caldwell to Lake Luzerne also to Warrensburg,\\nCliester, Schroon Lake, and the southern Adirondacks.\\nLake George\\nwas first visited by Father Jogues, a French Jesuit missionary, whose canoe en-\\ntered its quiet waters on the eve of the festival of Corpus Christi, 1646. In honor\\nof tliat sacred anniversary lie named these bright waters Le Lac du St. Sacre-\\nment (The Lake of the Holy yacraiuent), and then passed on to a heroic martyr-\\ndom at the hands of the Mohawks, fullilling the prophecy which he had made\\nwhen leaving Montreal, Ibo, nee redibo. For a century the lake was known in\\nthe border clironicdes as the path of hostile iucursicins or of religious devotees\\npassing to the land of the fierce Mohawks. Courcelles, Tracy, Scluiyler, Mcnteth,\\nFrench, Dutch, Indians, English, diversified the record. In 17-1:6 Sir William\\nJohnson concluded a league with the northern Indians, on the shores of St. Sac-\\nrement, and in 1755 he led an army to the lake, and named it Lake George, not\\nonly in honor of his Majesty, but to ascertain his undoubted dominion. (This\\nname is growing more and more out of favor year by year, and most people would\\njirefer either the French St. Sacrement, or the Indian Horicon, meaning\\nSilvery Waters, suggested by Cooper.) Johnson s force was soon menaced\\nby 2,000 Frenchmen and Indians under the Baron Dieslcau, but the Bloody\\nMorning Scout was followed by a total defeat of the invading force, in which the\\nFrench regulars were nearly annihilated. Fort William Henry was built soon af-\\nter, and Rogers and Putnam, with their hardy Rangers, scouted over the lake to-\\nward the French fortress at Ticonderoga. In March, 1757, Rigaud destroyed 300\\nEnglish batteaux and several sloops near Fort William Heni-y, and in August the\\nMarquis de Montcalm passed down the lake with 6,000 men in boats and 3,000\\nmen marching on the W. shore. After jncketing the southern roads, Montcalm\\nopened a cannonade on the fort from batteries near the piresent site of the Lake\\nHouse, and soon compelled its surrender. After the ensuing massacre of the dis-\\narmed garrison, the fort was destroyed. But the most imposing spectacles which\\nthis, or any other American lake, has seen, occurred in 1758 and 1759. In the\\nformer year, Gen. Abercrombie advanced up the Inke with 16,000 men, in 900\\nbatteaux and 190 whale-boats, convoyed by gunboats, all brilliant with ricdi uni-\\nforms and waving banners, while the nmsic of numerous regimental bands echoed", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0427.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "358 Route 53. LAKE GEOr.GE.\\namong the hills. (This pageant is finely desrrlberl hy Cooper, in Satanstoe,\\nC liapLeis XXII. XXV.) A tew days later the shuttered .-iiid defeated army i)a.ssed\\nup the lake to Fort William Heniy, having left over 2,()((0 of their number dead\\nand dying under the walls of Fort Carillon (Tieonderoga). In 1758 Gen. Amherst\\nled 11,000 men in another graml martial procession down the lake, and this march\\nended in the Conipicst of Canada. In 1775 the abandoned Forts George and Gage\\n(at Caldwell) were occupied by New York militia, and afterwards liy a detach-\\nment from Hinman s Conn. Reg., and by Col. Van yehaiek s N. Y. Reg. In the\\nsummer of 1777 Fort George was chosen as the army hosi^ital, on account of its\\nsalubrity, and 3,000 sick men were sent here. Hundreds died of the smnll-pox\\nand typhus-fever, and among tliem was the Baron de Woedtke, a Prussian noble\\nwho jiad just accepted a general s commission. In 1777. alter the fall of Tieon-\\nderoga, IA)rt George and the hike were abandoned by the Americans, but were re-\\noccupied after Burgoyne s surrender. In October, 17S0, the garrison of Fort\\nGeorge was defeated and cut to pieces, near Bloody Pond, and the fort and the\\nfleet on the lake were taken by tlie Britisli. Since that day, peace has dwelt on\\nthese tranquil water.s.\\nLake George, the Como of America, is situated in Nortlieastern New\\nYork, near the Adirondack Mts., and is about 300 ft. above the sea. It\\nis 36 M. long, and 1 4 M. wide, and its shores are generally sterile and\\nfringed with lofty and alirupt hills. There are but three petty villages\\non the lake, and a highway passes through them on the W. shore, con-\\nnecting Caldwell ^vith Bolton, Hague, and Tieonderoga. The vicinity of\\nfrowning nits., the great number of islands, the transparency of the \\\\vaters,\\nand the bracing pnrity of the air of the highlands, unite to increase the\\nclaims of Lake George as a sunmier-resort, while its scenery has been lik-\\nened not only to that of Como, but also to Lake Windermere and Loch\\nKatrine,\\nThe steamer Minnehaha leaves Caldwell every morning, and runs to\\nthe N. end of the lake, returning in the afternoon. The steamer Ga-\\nnouskie makes daily trips between Cahhvell, Bolton, and 14-Mile Island.\\nThe steamer leaves its pier (at the great hotel) and crosses to Crosbj/side,\\non the E. sliore, with a large hotel situated in pleasant groves by the\\nshore, and looking across to Caldwell. French Mt. towers to tlie E., and\\nis covered with forests. Tea Island (so named from a tea-house, or arl)or,\\nerected in 1828) is next passed, 1 M. from Caldwell, and then Diamond\\nIsland is approached, \\\\h M. beyond. The name is derived from the beati-\\ntiful quartz crystals wliicli are found here, and the place was inhabited\\nin the early part of this century, the mistress of the family being gen-\\nerally known as the Lady of the Lake. Diamond Island was fortified\\nby Burgoyne in 1777, and was garrisoned by part of the 47th line regi-\\nment imder Capt. Aubrey. It was attacked by Col. John Brown, with\\nthe New England militia who had swept the outworks of Tieonderoga,\\nbut Aubrey repulsed the Americans with artillery, and then drove them\\naway with great loss by an attack with his gunboats. Bro\\\\vii lost\\nall his vessels and cannon, and many men. Dunliani s Bay and Mont-\\ncalm s Bay are passed on the E. the latter being Iteyond Long Island,\\nwhich is passed on the E. (with the Three Sisters islets on the W.). The", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0428.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "LAKE GEORGE. Eoiitc 53. 350\\nTrout Pavilion is a sequestered hotel above Montcalm s Bay, near the\\nbest fishing-grounds, and frequented by fishermen. The Fort Ann Mts.\\nloom up darkly on the E. as the steamer crosses the lake, with the Three\\nBrothers on the W., and Dome and Recluse Islands on the N. This is\\nthe broadest part of the lake, and affords views of rare beauty, with the\\ngracefxil Dome Island (which resembles Ellen s Isle, in Loch Katrine)\\nprominently seen. Recluse Island is a beautiful spot just W. of the\\nDome, with a cheerful summer-villa embowered among trees. This island\\nhas the remains of fortifications which were built by Abercrombie s army\\nin 1758, while the views from its N. and E. shores are exquisitely beauti-\\nful. The steamer now rounds in at Bolton, a small village with a noble\\noutlook over the broadest expanse of the lake. Tliere are two large and\\ncomfortable family hotels here, and in the environs of the village is the\\nquaint old stone Church of St. Sacrament. Tlie terms at the Mohican\\nHouse (directly on the shore) are low, and the accommodations are good.\\nProspect Mt. is back of the village, and commands a broad and delight-\\nful view, embracing the widest part of the lake, Montcalm s and\\nGanouskie (or Nortliwest) Bays, Recluse, Dome, and Green Ids. and the\\nNarrows, and Tongue and Black Mts. in the N. and N. E. Ganouskie\\nBay extends for 6 M. to the N. above Bolton, being separated from the\\nlal;e by the lofty promontory of Tuyigiie ML, where deer abound in the\\nlate fall and winter. As the boat leaves Bolton, Parodi (or Sloop) Island\\nis passed on the 1. (so named because the singer, Signora Parodi, erected\\na cross here in 1851 On the N. are Green and Hog Islands, closing the\\nentrance to Ganouskie Bay, while Tongue Mt. is on the W. and Black\\nMt. on the E., as the steamer crosses toward the lofty palisades called\\nShelving Rock, with the innumerable islands of the Narrows on the 1.\\n1//-Mile Island is just W. of Shelving Rock, and has a neat hotel, which\\nis much visited by city gentlemen for the sake of the fishing in the vicinity,\\nTlie Shelving Rock Fall is about 1 M. S. of the hotel (on the mainland),\\nand is a small and graceful cascade. The island is 14 M. from Caldwell,\\nand the little hotel charges .$2-2.50 a day for board ($10-14.00 a\\nweek). The steamer now enters the Narrows, where the lake is contracted\\nbetween high mts., and a fleet of small islands is anchored in the channel.\\nThese islets were the scene of numerous combats in the colonial days, but\\nare now deserted, save for the visits of sportsmen, who find large trout in\\ntheir cool shadows. Steaming do^v^^ between Tongue Mt. and Black Mt.\\n(2,878 ft. higli sometimes ascended with guides, for the sake of its view)\\nthe Minnehaha passes the Hen and Chickens, Hatchet, Half- Way, and\\nFloating Battery Islands, with the N. peaks of Black Mt., called variously,\\nElephant s Ridge or Sugar Loaf. Ju.st N. of the Floating Battery group\\nis Vicar s Island, with the palisades of Buck Mt. on the W., and tlie\\nhandet of Dresden seen down Bosom Bay, on the E. Sabbath Day Point", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0429.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "3 GO RmiefjS. LAKE GEORGE.\\nis soon approached (on the W. a lonp:, low promontory running out\\nfrom I ich meadows and still retaining the air of peace and restfulness\\nwliich won it the name it bears.\\nIn 1757 a sharp skirmish occurred at Harbor Island, off this Point, and in Jnly\\nof that year the 1st New Jersey regiment was sent on a scout down the lake. De\\nCarbiereand 400 Frenchmen and Indians ambushed the Jersey Bhies in the arclii-\\npelago off the Point, and defeated them with great shuvjliter. 131 of tlie\\nAmericans were killed, 12 escaped, and 180 were made prisoners, many of whom\\nwere put to death with horrible tortures. On the evening of July 5, 1758, the van-\\nguard and centre of Abcrcrombie s grand army (light infaniry and regulars)\\nrested on Sabbath Day Point from sunset until near midnight, waiting for tlie\\nthree lirigades of Provincials and the artillery to eome nji. In 1777 a sharp con-\\nflict took place here between American militia and Tories, and during the present\\ncentiu-y peace has settled along these shores, although the connnunijlace farm-\\nhouses on the Point have marred the natural beauty of the place.\\nThe vast hulk of Black Mt. is pronunent in the S. E., as the Minne-\\nhaha runs N. to the village of Ha ine, situated on a widening of the\\nlake, where it is 4 M. across. Garfield s is a favorite hotel at Hague, and\\nfrom this point parties go to the lakes (abounding in fish), of Pharaoh (12\\nM. N. W Brant, and Schroon. As the steamer gains the niiihlle of llie\\nlake again, the prospect of the pass between Rogers Slide and Anthony s\\nNose, and the retrospect of the Narrows and its island tlotilla allord\\ndelightful views. Friends Point and Islands are passed on the W., and\\nthen Anthony s Nose (on the N. E. pushes out its rocky ledges over Lhe\\ndeepest water in the lake (400 ft.). Rogers Slide is on the W. shore,\\nand the new Rogers -Rock House is at its base.\\nThere is a legend to the effect that Major Roliert Rogers (the chief of the\\nRrnigcrs, and afterwards a dangerous Tory officer) was chased to the verge of tliis\\ncliff by Indians (in the winter of 1758). Suddenly reversing lii.s snow-shoes, and\\ntlirowinghis liaversack down on the ice-bound lake, he retraced his tracks, and\\ngot away down an adjacent ravine before his pursuers arrived. The Indians fol-\\nlowed the tracks leading to the precipice, and saw none leading away, whence\\nthey eonclnde l tluit he had cast hnuself over: and when, a ew minutes later,\\nthey saw him skimming away over the ice toAvard Fort William Henry, they at-\\ntributed his escape to the protection of the Great Spirit.\\nPassing now by Prisoners Island (where the French kept their captives),\\nwith Lord Howe s Point on the 1., the jMinnehaha soon reaches the end\\nof the lake. The terminus is at Baldwin Station, where passengers for\\nLake Cham plain take the cars on a branch railroad which sweeps around\\nMt. Dehance, and meets the main line of the Champlain Division R. R.\\n5 M. distant. At the junction connections are made for Fort Ticonderoga\\nOf Whitehall. To the 1. is the prosperous manufacturing village of Ticon-\\nderoga (two inns), near the falls on the outlet of Lake George (which de-\\nscends 210 ft. within about 4 M.).\\nThe Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. s R. R. runs from Whitehall to\\nFort Ticonderoga, Crown Point, Port Henry, Westport, Port Kent, Platts-\\nburg, and Rouse s Point (113 M.), giving grand panoramic views of Lake\\nChani])lain and the Grt-en and .Xdirondack Mts., and affording easy access\\nto lhe awLicnt fortrcsj-cs and l!ic .Vdirondack region.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0430.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "LAKE CIIAx^IPLAIN.\\nLake Champlaiii\\nwas called by the Iroquois Indians Caniadei i Gnarnnti Tho Gate of the\\nCountry while tlie Alicuaciuis called it Fetoubouque The Waters that lie be-\\ntwecMi i. e. between tlieir laud and tliat of the Iruqui)is) and other Indians\\ncalled it Haranac. For nearly half a century it was called Corlear s Lake by the\\nEnglish and Dutch, in memory of a Dutch .gentleman who was drowned there. In\\ntlie summer of 1009 a small exploring party set out from Quebec under Samuel\\nde (Jhamplain,i tlie Governor of Canada, and ascended the St. Lawrence and\\nRichelieu Rivers to the Chaiubly Rapids, where tliey met a war-party of Ilurotis.\\nAll the Frenchmen save Champlain and two others were sent back to Quebec,\\nand those three joined the war-i)arty. July 4, IGO they entered the lake, and\\non the following day they defeated 200 Iroquois at Crown Point, ChamjiJain\\nhaving shot their chief with his arquebus. Tlie Hurons returned in triumph,\\nwith 60 scalps, and the valiant Frenchman, having found tlie road to the lake,\\nAvas left to make several subsequent ex])lorations and camjiaigns thereon. A\\nscries of war-parties traversed this route for nearly two centuries, antl the lake\\nbecame tlie scene of long campaigns and ilesperate battles. In I oDO, 200 French\\nregul.irs and a swarm of Indians passed up in canoes, and marched to Schenec-\\ntady, which tliey destroyed with 60 of its i)eople, returning with 27 prisoners, and\\n40 horses laden with plunder. Shortly afterward Col. Schuyler and 200 Moliawks\\npas.scd the lake and the Richelieu River, and destroyed the Canadian town of\\nSoi-el. In 161 5 the cliivalrous Count de Frontenac (a relative of jMadame de\\nMai ntenon) launched a fleet of small craft, and passed down to Whitcliall with\\n700 Frenchmen and Algonquins. After a daring foray througli tlie Mohawk Valley\\nand nearly to the forts at x\\\\lbany, he retired safely by Whiteliall, jjursued by\\nSchuyler and the Hudson V alley people. The lake was held by the French and\\nconiiiiaiided by their fortilicatious until 1759, when Lord Amherst built a flotilla\\nin South Ray, with a flag ship mounting IS guns, in which Capt. Loring swept\\nand won this inland sea. The military and naval operatious around the lake will\\nbe considered in connection with the points of action.\\nLake Champlain is a large and picturesque sheet of water, running\\nnearly N. and S. for 126 M., with a breadth of from 1 furlong to 15\\nM, Its waters are clear, and abound in bass, pickerel, salmon-trout, and\\nother fish, -wdiile the deptli varies from 9 to 47 fathoms. There are many\\nLslands in the lake, the largest of which covers an area of 18,600 acres,\\nand has a population of 1,300. Besides numerous pleasant villages and\\ntowns, there is one city on the lake, and the fleets used in commerce here\\nnumber many thousands of tons. There is a large trade done between the\\nrivers, the Hudson being joined to the lake by a canal 04 M. long (to\\nWatervliet), while the Richelieu River affords an outlet to the St.\\nLawrence. The scenery of the Vermont shore is that of a qtiiet pastoral\\nregion, with the Green Mts. rising in the distant E. The New York shore\\npresents a continual succession of barren and mountainous scenery, with\\noccasional foot-hills of the Adirondacks pushed out in promontories, and\\ntlie parent peaks looming blue in the distance.\\nThe steamboats on Lake Champlain are large and eommodions, with state-\\nrooms, dining-salo iiLs, etc. They formerly ran between Whitehall and Rouse s\\n1 Champlain was born of a gnotl family of the province of Snintonae, in n. He became\\na nuval officer, and afterward was attached to t!ie person of Kiiip llcnri 1\\\\ In Ki he ex-\\nplored the St Lawrence Hive n|) to the St. l^onis Rapids, and afterward (until his death in\\nI(i ;.5) he explored the country fnini NMntinket to the liead-waters of the Ottawa. Hi w is a\\nbrave, nr Mcifnl, and zealons eliicf, and held that the .salvation of one s iul is of more im-\\nport nice than the tonnilinfx of a new empire. He cstablisJied strong missious among the\\niiuruiia, fought the Irofiuois, and Ibuuded Quebec.\\nlt", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0431.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "3G2 Route 53. FOr.T TICOXDERCGA.\\nPoint, but now confine their voyages between Fort Ticonderoga and riatlsbnrgh,\\ntoucliing at Port Henry, Burlington, and other harbors. Tiiey nial.e connecticiia\\nat Fort Tieonderoga witii the laiiroad. Thi Chumyilain lUruiuii Uuihvdil nnis\\nfrom Wlnteliall to Fort Ticonderoga (22 Port Henry (iO M.), Port Kent (.77\\nM.), Phittsburgh JO M.), and Rouse s Point (122 M.).\\nFrom Whitehall to Fort Ticonderoga (24 M.), and even to Crown Point,\\nthe lake is veiy narrow, and seems more like a tine river. During the\\nfirst part of *;he journey the hills of Dresden are seen boldly looming on\\nthe W, and Black Mt. is seen beyond, while the Drowned Lands lie\\nalong the shore. Beyond Mt. Defiance the train crosses the outlet of\\nLake George, and reaches\\nFort Ticonderoga\\n(Fort Ticonderoga Hotel, $2.00 a day, an old mansion house near the\\nlake and landing). There is a railway-station about 1 M. N. of the fort,\\npertaining to a branch of the Vermont Central Railroad, which diverges\\nfrom the main line at Leicester Junction. The new route from New York\\nto Montreal (W. of L. Cham plain) all of which is now in working order,\\npasses near the fort on the W. Steamers going each way stop here twice\\ndaily, and the Lake George stages leave early each afternoon. The ruins\\nof the fort cro^vn the high hill near the steamboat pier, and are quite\\npicturesque, and command extensive lake-views. The sally-port where\\nthe Green Mt. Boys entered, the old well, the crum])ling walls of tlie\\nbarracks surrounding the parade, and the well-defined dry ditches beyond\\nthe ramparts may easily be recognized. In one of the E. bastions is a\\ndeep and cavernous vault which it is surmised was the garrison bakery.\\nOn the high point S. E. of the fort is the wcll-] reserved Grenadiers Bat-\\ntery, erected to command the landing-place and to defend the long bridge\\nto Mt. Indej)endence. Tliere is another small battery surrounded by a\\nwet ditch, on the plain to the N., while the forests to the S. and W, are\\nfurrowed with intrenchments and lines of parallels, redoubts, and ritie-\\npits. From the ramparts of the fort Mt. Independence is seen to the S.\\nE., across the lake, and Mt. Defiance to the S. W., across the widenings\\nof the outlet of Lake George. The latter sunmiit is 800 ft. above the\\nlake, and commands a noble view over its placid waters. It is best\\nascended by following the nearly obliterated military road of Burgoyne\\nfrom Ticonderoga village (3 M. from the fort to the sunmiit). Others,\\nwho are fond of the fine rowing which is obtained here, cross the bay in\\na boat, and scramble up through the forest to the summit. A road runs\\nW. from Ticonderoga to Paradox and Schroon Lakes.\\nTiconderoga is a modification of Cheonderogo, the ohl Iro(inois name for this\\nlocality. It meant sounding waters, and ai plied especially to the lalls on the", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0432.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "Fold -out\\nPlaceholder\\n3ld-out is being digitized, and will be inserted a\\nfuture date.", "height": "3115", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0433.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "a=j\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nout is being digitized, and will be inserted at i\\nfuture date.", "height": "3100", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0434.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "FORT TICONDEROGA. Route 53. 3G3\\noutlet of Lake George. Capt. Glen is spoken of as holding this point witli a\\nputket of ;33 men, ni KjOO, and in IGOl it was fortified by Col. Schuyler who wis\\ntlien leading a force against La Prairie. In 1755 the Manjuis de Montcalm occu-\\npied the i.lace with a strong French army, and built extensive works which he\\nnamed Fort Carillon i chime of bells in allusion to the musical cascades\\nin the vicuiity. Gen. Abercrombie, having descended Lake George with 7 000\\nJJritish regulars and 9,000 provincial troops, attempted to storm the fort Jul\\\\- S\\n17;)S. The scouts told Abercrombie that the fort was weak, and he knew that\\nrcinf(n-cements Avere hurrying to the garrison, so an assault was ordered lu ad-\\nvancing through the forest a detachment of 450 Frenchmen boldly eno-a- ed and\\nchecked the van-guard. Israel Putnam and Lord Howe hastened up to the scene\\nof the skirmish, and Howe was almost instantly killed. His manners and his\\nvirtues made him the idol of the army, and in him the soul of the army seemed\\nto expire. Massachusetts erected a monument to this gallant nobleman in\\nWestminster Abbey. The French detachment was exterminated, but the Aii do-\\nAmerican troops became entangled in the forest and began to fire on each other\\nuntil they were withdrawn. 6,000 picked men were led out to storm tlie French\\nworks, which consisted of a breastwork (8 ft. high) and abatis, defended by 4 ;0\\nmen with artillery Four hours of fearless charging and bloody repulses ensued,\\nand the lew men who gamed the parapet died there on tlie verge of victory \\\\t 7\\nin the evening, after three heroic assaults had failed, and several boats had been\\nsunk on the lake with all on board by the artillery of the fort the army re-\\ntreated,^ leaving nearly 2,000 men dead and wounded on the field Lord John\\nMurray s Highland regiment (so distinguished at Fontenoy, 13 years before) lost\\nof Its men and 25 officers. In March, 1758, Rogers Rangers were disastrously\\nrepulsed from the outworks of Carillon. In the summer of 1759 Lord Amher.st\\nadvanced Irom the S. with 11,000 men, and the French garrisr)n weakened by the\\nnecessity of meeting Wolfe before Quebec, evacuated the place after burnin- the\\nbai-racks and exploding the magazine.\\nAt dawn May 10, 1775, the fort was surprised and taken by 85 New En^dand\\nmen, who had crossed the lake on the previous evening. Tliey were commanded\\nby Lthan Allen and Benedict Arnold, who led them through the gate and out on\\nthe parade where (it is said) Allen aroused Capt. de la Place, the commandant\\nand dcnianded the surrender of the fort in the name of the Great Jehovah and\\ntlie Continental Congress. 43 soldiers were surrendered with the fort to^^ether\\nwith 176 cannon and vast supplies of ammunition. When Burgoyne advanced\\nin the su-nmer of 1777, and Arnold s fleet had been defeated on the lake, the de-\\nfrnof J ona Ticonderoga was intrusted to Gen. St. Clair, with 2,600 Continental\\ntroops, 900 nuhtia. and 47 fortress-cannon. He destroyed the works toward Lake\\nGeorge, and strongly fortified Mt. Independence (remnants of the star-fort and\\ngraves ol huuch-eds who dieil of cam]i-disteinper are now found in the young forest\\non the int.) The bridge to Mt. Independence was a i)owcrful floating stmetnre\\nsui.ported by 22 sunken piers and many floats. Burgoyne s fleet was cannonaded\\nand forced to keep out ot gun-shot, but the British succeeded in getting cannon\\nup on Mt pehance, with which a plunging fire was opened on the fort. On the\\nnignt ot July St Clair evacuated the position, and would have esca])ed but that\\nUen de rermoy set fire to his quarters on Mt. Independence. The aroused enemy\\nmade rapid pursuit, defeated St. Clair s rear-guard at Hubbnnlton, and took his\\nartillery and stores at Whitehall, with 200 galleys and the remnant of Arnold s\\nlleet. len weeks later, Col. Brown, of Mass., with 1,000 men of New England\\ncaptured the outworks of Ticonderoga. with 200 batteaux, 298 prisoners 5 cannon\\nand a war-vessel, and delivered 100 American prisoners and a Continental fla^.\\nThe lort was dismantled a few weeks later, and in 1780 was re-occupied by Gen\\nHaldimand witli troops from Montreal. Since the Revolution, Ticondero Va has\\nnot Oeen occuined, and for many years it sufl-ered a gradual demolition, it s well-\\ncut stone and brick being carried away by vessel-loads to the rising villages on\\nt le iaKe._ It is now .sealed from such invasions, and is becoming known as one of\\nthe .lassie and heroic grounds of Amenca. July 18, 1872, the Vermont Historical\\n0(,iety had a field-day here, and there were 10,000 people present. The fort is on\\na l.en.nsula rning I ^c ft. from the lake, with water on three sides and swampy\\nland on the fourth. The peninsula covers over 500 acres.\\nQie bec.^\u00e2\u0084\u00a2^^ CariUof wan old Canadian song, wliich may still be heard in Lower", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0435.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "364 Route 53. CROWN POINT.\\nThe steamer passes through the railway -hriiTge soon after leaving Fori\\nTiconderoga. Beautiful views are occasionally gained of Camel s Ilunif\\nand Mt. Mansfield on the E., and the majestic Adirondacks on the N. W.\\nThe boat stops at Larrahee s Point in the Vermont town of Shoreham,\\nand then at Crown Point (Gunnison s Hotel), 3 M. E. of Crown Point vil-\\nlao-e whence a road runs W. to Paradox and Schroon Lakes and the Adi-\\nrondacks. A short distance beyond this landing, the steamer passes\\nthrough the naiTOws between Chimney Point (on the E.) and\\nCrown Point.\\nThe niins of the fortress of Crown Point occupy the high promontory be-\\ntween the lake and the broad Bulwagga Bay. The point is reached either\\nby boat from Port Henry, or by carriage around the bottom of the bay\\n(6-7 M.). There is a lighthoiise on the point, but otherwise it is aban-\\ndoned to its ancient remains of strength and pride. The immense ram-\\nparts and ditches of the fort, its broad parade, and the thick stone Avails\\nof tlie barracks are richly worthy of attention, while from the walls of the\\nnortliern l)astions are ol)tained superb views of the Green Mts. in the E.\\nand the rugged foot-hills of the Adirondacks in the W., with the lake\\nstretching away for many leagues in the N. The peninsula is about 1 M.\\nwide, and has only a thin robe of earth over limestone ledges, whose cut-\\nting away cost enormously during the erection of the fortress. 200 yards\\nN, E. of the great fort, and near tl;e water, are the ruins of the old French\\nwork. Fort Frederick. In the N. E. bastion is a well cut in the rock, 8\\nft. in diameter and 90 ft. in depth, which was cleared out by a stock com-\\npany in 1324, in the hope of finding treasure. There have been many ex-\\ncavations here with this object, but only old iron and lead has yet been\\nfound. The ramparts are brilliant with blood-red thorn-apples (in their\\nseason) on great thickets of bushes. These peculiar trees are found no-\\nwhere else in the State, and are said to have been brought from France.\\nIn July, 1G09, Chaiuplain, 2 Frenchmen, and 60 Ilurons came up to this Toiut\\nin -24 bark canoes, and here they Liiided and .lefeated tlic Iroquois, after passing\\nthe ni^dit in martial rites and singing the war-song This was 2 nion hs bofo e\\nHendriclv Hudson liad discovered the noble river which lias been n i ned in lii\u00c2\u00bb\\nlionor. In 1G:31 tlie French occu])ied Point a la Chex-elure (opposite this place),\\nbuilt a stone fort and armed it with 5 cannon, and established a farming eoiii-\\nmunity In 1G66 De Courcelles ascended by boats (with COO men) to trow n Point,\\nwhence he marched into the Mohawk country, and on the retreat, some tune al-\\nter, the force halted here several days for their stragglers to come up. le de-\\nstroyers of Schenectady were pursued to Crown Point (in the ^l- J^\\nhere they put on skates an.l escaped. In IT;!! Fort FredeiMck JVi^^Xm\\nthe French, and named in honor of Frederi -k Maurepas, Premier of thej^mgdom.\\nThe shores were then more thickly settled than now, for many miles Is. ami h\\nIn 17.^10 after tlie fall of Ticonderoga, the fort was abandoned, and, the i ouit ou n\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\no. cupied by Lord Amherst, vast fortifications were ererted here, which ost the\\nBritish government .S 10,000,000. In 177:3 the Ivirraeks took tin; and the I ow cle\\nm.aua/.ine blew up, i.artly demolishing the works, and m 17/.. W.-.rn. rs (.iwn 3 t\\nBoys captured the fort. 7.000 Auiericaii.s retreated lieic liom Canada m InO. ana", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0436.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "BURLINGTON. Route 53. 365\\nliunclreds died from small-pox. In 1777 Burgoyne m.ade the fort his main depot\\nof sui plies ill the iidvaiire on Albany. The fort built by Ijord Amherst was 5 M.\\naround, and its ramparts were 25 ft. high and 20 ft. thick. It is stdl in good jirescr-\\nvation.\\nJust beyond Crown Point the steamer stops at Port Henry (two inns),\\na picturesquely situated village, with iron works and mines. Bulwagga\\nBay is seen opening to the S. After leaving Port Henry, a fine view is\\nobtained of the Adirondacks in the W., Bald and Dix Peaks and the\\nGiant of the Valley being foi^eniost in the group. The steamer next\\ntouches at Westport (two inns), on the W. shore, with a road running W.\\ninto the Adirondacks, by Elizabethtown to White Face Mt. On the E,\\nshore are seen the spires of the city of Vergennes, and the ruins of Fort\\nCassin, where Lieut. Cassin, of the U. S. Navy, repelled an attack on\\nMacdonough s fleet, which was being fitted out at Vergennes. Split\\nRock Mt. frowns along the W. shore, and is mirrored in waters of un-\\nknown de]\u00c2\u00bbth. Rounding the lighthouse at the head of the promontory,\\ntlie steamer touches at Essex {Royce s Motel), whence another road leads\\ninto the Adirondacks. The course from Essex is N. E., passing the Four\\nBrothers and Juniper Isles, and approaching and stopping at\\nBurlington\\n{*Van Ness House, 2-3.50 a day), the Queen City of Vermont,\\nbeautifully situated on a long, sloping hill on the E. shore of Burlington\\nBay. It is the largest city in the State, having a population of about\\n12,00U, with 8 churches, 5 banks, 1 daily and 2 weekly newspapers. In\\n1798 Burlington had 815 inhabitants, and between 1860 and 1870 it gained\\n105 per cent in population. It became a city iu 1865, and is now the\\nthird lumber-mart iu America. 3Iost of the lumber is brought from the\\nCanadian forests, and sorted and planed here, after which it is sent by\\nrail to Boston and other Eastern cities. Immense quantities are loaded\\ndirectly from the cars to the vessels (in Boston) which convey them to\\ndistant ports. 100,000,000 ft. of Canadian lumber are imported yearly,\\nand the lumber-yard, 2 M. long, is always covered with immense piles of\\nplank and boards. Several of the churches are fine buildings, especially\\nthe Cathedral, a large und picturesquely irregular structure. St. Paul s\\nEpiscopal Church is an old Gothic building of blue limestone, with stained\\nwindows. This is the church of the Bishop, whose diocese (the State of\\nVt.) has 27 priests and 2,655 communicants. There are also handsome\\nCongregational and Methodist churches, built of Burlington stone. Near\\nthe square in the centre of the city is a fine U. S. building (Post Office\\nand Custom House), and the elegant Court House of Chittenden County.\\nThe Uiilvtri-itti of Vermont occupies an eligible situation on the sum-\\nmit of Burlingion Hill, 1 M. from the Bay and 1)67 ft. above it. This in-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0437.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "3G6 RmdeSS. BURLINGTON.\\nstitiition was incorporated in 1791, and began operations in 1800, the\\nI*resident being the only instructor for the first 6 years, when about 30\\nstudents were entered liere. Its connection with the State is but nominal,\\nand has brought it no emohunent since its foundation, when Vermont\\nendowed it with a grant of 29,000 acres of land. In 1813 the building\\nwas taken by the United States, and retained throughout the war for an\\narsenal and barracks. In 1824 the buildings Avere burnt, and rebuilt in\\n1825, the corner-stone being laid by Gen. Lafayette, an heroic bronze\\nstatue of whom (by J. Q. A. Ward) now adorns the Universit} Park. In\\n1882-83, the old building was torn down and a new and stately edifice\\nerected on its site. The academic department of the University has 11\\ninstructors, 100 students, 32,000 volumes in its library, and 80,000 speci-\\nmens in its museum. There are about 1,000 alumni. The medical de-\\npartment has 20 instructors and 200 students. From the University tower\\na superb view is enjoyed.\\nOn the W., Lake Champlain is seen from below Crown Point on the S. to Platts-\\nburg on the N., with numerous islands surrounded by the bright waters wliich\\nhave become classic in American history. Beyond the lake the Adirondacks till\\nthe horizon, over GO peaks being visible on a clear day prominent among which\\nare Mclntyre, Whiteface, and Marcy, the latter being the highest yjeak betwet n\\nthe White and the Alleghany Mts. Lake Champlain is 10 M. wide here, and near\\nthe middle are seen the islets called the Four Brothers. The plains of Chittenden\\nCo. are seen in the N. E. over the little village of Winooski, and in the E. are the\\nstately Green Mts., the FerLv ilforete for which the State was named. Mt. Mans-\\nfield, Camel s Humj), and other well-known peaks are plainly visible, with a vast\\nexpanse of farm-land filling the foreground. Burlington City is overlooked on\\nthe W., stretching down to the shores of its bay. The sunset over the lake and\\nthe Adirondacks when seen from this point, or from the little park N. W. of the\\ncentral square, is full of beautj Si lendor o landscape is the peculiar boast of\\nBurlington, said Pres. Dwight in 1793 and Fredrika Bremer speaks of the dis-\\ntant mountain forms picturesquely combined with a certain degree of grandeur\\nand boldness. The view looking W. towards a jieak which she calls U lion\\ncouchdiU, slie i)ronounced superior to any lake view which she had ever seen, ex-\\ncepting only one ou Lake Geneva.\\nNear the University is the Green Mt. Cemetery, in which Ethan Allen\\nis biiried, under a Tuscan column 42 ft. high, and a short distance be-\\nyond is the village of Winooski, at the lower falls on the Winooski River.\\nNear this village is a romantic caiion on the river, at the High Bridge,\\nwhere the impetiious stream has cut a gorge through the solid rock 90 ft.\\ndeep and 70 ft. wide. A noble statue of Allen crowns his monument.\\nBurlington has the spacious Howard Opera-Honse, water-works, 7 fire-\\ncompanies, the Fletcher Free Library (18,000 volumes), the home of Sena-\\ntor Edmunds (and those of several wealthy New-Yorkers), and an admiraV.le\\nPhilharmonic Society. The Vermont Episcopal Institute (a sc -.ool for\\nboys) is on Rock Point, 2-3 M from the city. It has a fine marble build-\\ning in the collegiate Gothic architecture, with a small but elegant chapel,\\na massive tower, and a library which is rich in patristic literature. 1 M.\\nS. of the city is the Hume for Destitute Children, and 1 M. N. is St. .lo-", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0438.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "PLATTSBURG. Route 53. 367\\nseph s (R. C.) Orphan Asylum; the first accommodating 100, and the second\\n500, little cues.\\nBurlington was settled about 1775, and named in honor of the Burlin fjimily\\n(of New York), who were among the grantees. It laj^ on the route by the Winoo-\\nski Valley, which had been so often traversed by the northern Indians in their\\nattaclcs on Mass. It was fortified and garrisoned by 4,000 troops in the War of\\n1812, and in the War of 1801-5 sent many soldiers to the national armies.\\nStages leave Burlington daily for the rural towns of St. George and Hinesburg.\\nTwo trains daily leave Buriington for Montreal. From Buiiingttui to Essex\\nJunction it is 8 M. Essex to Montreal, see page 201. Distance, 103 M., in 5^-6\\nhours.\\nLeaving Bnrlington, the steamer runs N. W. across the lake to Port\\nKent (2 hotels), a small village under Mt. TremLleau, and important for\\nits exportation of iron. The old Watson Mansion is seen on a hill over\\nthe village. Stages run from Port Kent to tlie Ausable Chasm, with its\\ngrand succession of cascades and gorges. The Adirondack and Ausable\\nHouses are at Keeseville, near the Chasm. Stages also run to Baker s\\nSaranac Lake House (46 M. W.), while a road diverging to the S. W. at\\nthe Ausable Forks enters the mts. through Wilmington Notch and by-\\nWhite Face and Lake Placid. 6 8 M. N. of Port Kent the steamer\\npasses between Valcour Island and the mainland. In this channel Ar-\\nnold s fleet, consisting of 15 vessels with 70 cannon, was attacked by a\\nBritish squadron of 31 vessels. After a hot day s battle, in which 2 of\\nArnold s and 3 British vessels were sunk, the Americans tried to retreat\\nby night, but were closely pursued. The flagship Congress was sur-\\nrounded by hostile ships, but fought desperately for 4 hours, until the\\nvan and centre of the fleet had escaped. Then Arnold ran her and the\\nattendant galleys ashore below Port Kent, and blew them up (Oct. 11,\\n1776). Grand Isle, or Soutli Hero, is now passed on the E., and the vil-\\nlage of Plattsburg {Fouqiiet s Hotel Cumberland House) is reached. It\\nis a flourishing place at the moutli of the Saranac River, and is the shire-\\ntown of Clinton County (N. Y. and a garrisoned post of the U. S. Army.\\nThere is a railway from Plattsburg to Montreal (63^ M. trains in 4J 5\\nhrs.) also to the Ausable River (20 M. trains in 1|- 2 hrs.). The lat-\\nter road, with the stages which connect at the Ausable River, forms the\\nbest route to the Saranac and St. Regis Lakes, and the lofty central group\\nof the Adirondack Mts. Tlie Long, Raquette, Fulton, and Tupper Lakes\\nare most easily reached by the Adirondack Railroad (fi-om Saratoga).\\nSept. 7, 1814, Plattsburg was menaced by a British army of 14,000 men under\\nSir George Prevost, supjiorted by a fleet of 16 vessels, with 95 guns and 1,000 men.\\nThe defence was conducted by Gen. Macomb, with 3,000 men in the village, and\\nCommodore Macdommgh, with a fleet of 14 vessels, 86 guns, and 880 men. When\\nthe British fleet rounded Cumberland Head for the attack, Macdonough was kneel-\\ning on his deck i)raying. A rooster, who had got loose iji tlie hurry of prepara-\\ntion, flew ui)on one of tlie Saratoga s guns and crowed lustily, upon which the\\nmen gave three cheers and went to work with a will. As the fleets met, tjie two\\nflagshii)3 engaged each other, ;uid the American Saratoga was sadly cut up by", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0439.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "3G8 Route 51 MONTREAL.\\niW more poworfnl British vessel, the Coiifianoe. By a skilFul manoeuvre Mac-\\nd^no ^^h rvvniK^ii s s di^ar^^^ presente.l the uninjure.l side ai.-l battery to\\n\u00c2\u00a3en?mrw o was uiahle to imitate this action, and was speedily forced to\\neld Se^ 2^ hours of incessant cannonade, the ba tie ^t,ff,;fp\\\\!;!\\nliritish who lost all their vessels save a few row-galleys. In ^J e neau t me rie\\nvost was repulsed by the soldiers at Plattsburg, and lost heavily, besides bemg\\nforced to abandon much of his artillery and stores.\\nThe steamboat line terminates at Plattsburg. Another line plies between\\nPhittsburg and Maciuam Bay {Hotel Champlain, $8-lJ a week), 8 M. N.\\n(,f St. Albans, and the W. terminus of the St. Johnsbury and Lake-Cham-\\nplain K. R., for the White Mts. and Portland. Trains for Montreal may\\nbe taken at Plattsburg. The more direct route from Albany to Montreal\\nis by the Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. s R. R. on the W. shore of\\nLake Champlain, from Whitehall to Ticonderoga, Plattsburg, and Rouse s\\nPoint (Albany to Montreal, 9 hrs.).\\n64. Montreal.\\nTTofpU -*The Windsor is a new and sumptuous hotel on Dominion ^q\\nSt lattnce Hah, ou St James St. Hotel llichelieu. S2-3 a day Albiou Hotel,\\n;i^2^)0 a day oarria^e for 1-2 persons, 25c. a course (withui the\\nCiirriages. Jne-lior.se carna_,e, loi i j nn hour. Two-horse car-\\ncitv), 50C. an hour for 3-4 persons, 40c. J; g lV^erLns, 50c. a course.\\nriT cs ibr 1 -2 persons, 40c. a course, 75c. an hour, toi J 4peisuii\\nips!; The most attractive are o\u00e2\u0080\u009e Great Saj\u00e2\u0080\u009et J\u00c2\u00ab ^\u00e2\u0080\u009et^uUris at\\n+1,^ \u00c2\u00bb;h7 r.n rrnisr Bleurv and St. Catharine Sts. also\\nHorse-cars run across th\u00c2\u00ab3 city on Liaig Biemj, an i i^^ St.\\ns ri,\u00e2\u0080\u009eaV ,sfo.\u00c2\u00bb ^.r. I bKriS if ^is;e.-;;;;,^to au t,. Law.\\nrence and Lake ports.\\nby a small colony 01 v rencnmen ^v u^.v e \u00e2\u0080\u00a2;Hotel Dieu) and a colle-e\\nthe Isle of Mount Royal, and f f in the\\nsimneuv(\\nwhen high mass was concumea, ^!1\u00c2\u00ab. \\\\,^,e;si;;,i7,vv the land. You are", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0440.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "MONTREAL. Route 54. 3G9\\nthe western suburbs, and killed 200 of tlio inhabitants, and a short, time after Col.\\nSchuyler destroyed Montreal with troopti lioiii New York, leaving only the ciia-\\ndel, which his utmost eflorts could not reduce. In 1760 Lord xVnUierst and 17,000\\nmen captured tlie city, wliich then had 4,000 inhabitants, and was surrounded by\\na wall witli 11 redoubts and a citadel. In 1775 Ethan Allen attacked Montreal\\nwith a iiandiul of Vermonters, and was defeated and captured, with 100 of his\\nmen. Gen. Preseott sent them to England as banditti, and Allen was impris-\\noiu d in Pendennis Castle. In the fall of 1775 the city was talcen bytlie American\\narmy under Gen. Montgomery. With the close of the War of 1S15, a brisk com-\\nmerce set in, and the city grew rapidlj having, in 1821, 18,707 inhabitants. The\\ncompletion of the Grand Trunk Railway greatly benehted this place, and its in-\\ncrease has for many years been steady, substantial, and rapid.\\nMontreal (142,000 iiiliabitants), the metropolis of the Dominion of\\nCanada, and the Queen of tlie St. Lawrence, is one of the most beauti-\\nful cities on the continent. It is situated on an islan l (at the confluence\\nof the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers) containing 197 square miles, and\\nwlncli, from its fertility, has been called tlie garden of Canada. The St.\\nLawrence is l.j M. wide opposite the city, and the whole 7 iver-front is\\nlined with lofty and massive walls, quaj^s, and terraces of gray limestone,\\nunequalled elsewhere in the world, except at Liverpool, Paris, and St,\\nPetersburg. The commercial buildhigs in the city are generally of stone\\nhi plain and suljstantial architecture, while the number of fine public\\nbuildings is very large. of the population are Catholics, most of whom\\nare French, while the bright siiburban villages are almost entirely in-\\nhabited by Frenchmen. Although Montreal is 800 M. from the sea, it is\\nthe port which receives the greater part of the importations to Canada,\\nwhile its nianufacturing interests are of great extent and importance.\\nThe Victoria Square is a public ground at the intersection of McGill\\nand St. James Sts., in which a statue of tlie Queen has been placed. The\\nnew and elegant Gothic building of the Y. M. C. A. (the oldest associa-\\ntion in America) fronts on this square, and is supplied with comfortable\\nreading-rooms, parlors, etc. Going eastward on Great St. James\\nSt., some fine banks, insurance and commercial buildings are passed,\\nand opposite the beautiful Corinthian colonnade of the Bank of Mon-\\ntreal (beyond St. Frangois Xavier St., the Wall St. of Montreal) the\\nPlace d Armes is seen. Here is the lofty front of the Church of\\nNotre Dame, the largest church on the continent, with seats for 8,000\\nI e;-sons on the floor, and 2,000 in the galleries. It is 255J ft. long and\\n14-1.^ ft. Avide, and has a chancel window of stained glass, 64:X.32 ft. in\\nsize. The interior is not striking, and the pictures are poor. There are\\ntwo towers on the front, each 220 ft. high, and, like the church, in the\\nsimplest form of mediaeval Gothic architecture. One tower has a chime\\nof bells, and in the other hangs Gros Bourdon, the largest bell in\\nAmerica, weighing nearly 15 tons. The tower is generally open (small\\nfee to the doordceeper), and aff ords from its sunnnit a noble view of the\\ncity and its environs (especially of the river, the bridge, and islands).\\nT", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0441.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "370 Route 51 MONTREAL.\\nAlongside the church is the ancient Sennuary of St Sulpice on the site\\nof the Semmary of 1057, as the church is near the sxte of the Lotre\\nDame of 1(571. The present church vvas buiit lb^4-9, and was con.e-\\ncrate.1 hy the Bishop of Tehnesse in partibus. Fronting on the Place\\nd tmes isthe elegant Ontario Bank and the hall of the Grand Lodge\\nof Masons of Canada. A short distance to the K, on Notre Dan.\\nSt an archway on the r. admits one to the extensive and secluded Con^\\nvent of the Black Nuns. Farther on, the Court House is seen on he 1.,-^\\na stately st me huiUling in the Ionic architecture (300 x 12o ft. back of\\nwhich is the Champ dc Mars, or Parade Ground, an open space covermg\\n60,000 square yards, and fronted by the old building of the Donumou\\nMilitary School. Just beyond the Court House, the Jacques Caitier\\nS.iuare opens off Notre Dame St., and is encumbered with a dilapidated\\n.nouumentto Nelson. Tlie Jacques Cartier Normal School (in the ancient\\nFrench Government buildhig) and the Institut Caua.lien (with a fine\\nlibrary) front on the Government Garden, at the head of this square By\\nthe next side-street (St. Claude) to the r., the Bonsecours Market may\\nhe visited. This market is unrivalled in America, and is built of stone,\\nat a cost of $300,000. It is 3 stories high, has a dome, and presents an\\nimposing front to the river. The curious French costumes and anguage\\nof the country people who congregate here on market-days, as well as some\\npeculiarities of the wares offered for sale, render a visit very ;t-esting\\nAlonc^side of the market is the Bonsecours Church (accommodating 2,000)\\nthich was built in 1658. A short distance beyond is tire extensive\\nQ c G^te Barrack, on Dalhousie Square, while the Victoria Pier makes\\normto the stream towards St. Helenas Isle (a fortified depot of ammu-\\nnlllw war..a^eWeZ). To the N., on Craig St. is tbe attractive ^iger\\nGarden with a small conservatory and several fountams, fronting on\\nwhich is Trimty Church (Episcopal), built of Montreal stone m Early\\nEnglish Gothic architecture, and accommodating 4,000 persons. N. of\\nTrhiity, and also on St. Denis St., is St. f-^^f --Vfl e E of Da^\\npointi Gothic style, with rich stained glass. Some distance E. of Da\\nlousie Square on St. Mary St., is Molson s College (abandoned) and St.\\nJ;;rmaf Church (Episcopal), with the great buildings of Molson s brewery\\nand the Painneau Market and Square.\\nMcGill St. is an important thoroughfare leading S. from Victoria Square\\nto the river Considerable wholesale trade ia done here and ip. the inter-\\nsecting^ St Paul St. The Donnnion and Cathedral Buildings are rich and\\nn as i;-e, while pist beyond is the extensive St. Ann s Market, on the site\\nof the old Parliament House. In 1849 the Earl of Elgm signed the un-\\npopular Rebellion Bill, upon which he was attacked by a mob who also\\ndrove the Assembly from the Parliament House, and burnt that budding.\\nCommissioners St. leads E. by St. Ann s Market and tlie elegant C^,sto\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0442.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "MONTREAL. Route 5 It. 371\\nll iuso to the broad promenades on the river- walls. Ottawa St. leads to\\nthe W. to the great masonry of the Lachiue Canal Basins and the vicinity\\nof the Victoria Bridge.\\nRadegonde St. and Beaver Hall Hill lead N. from Victoria Square,\\npassing Zion Church, where the Gavazzi riots took place in 1853. Tlie\\narmed congregation repulsed the assailants twice, and then the troops\\nrestored peace, 40 men being killed or seriously wounded. Just al)0ve is\\nthe Baptist Cliurch, overlooked 1)y the tall Church of the Messiali (Uni-\\ntarian), with St. Andrew s Presbyterian Church on the r. A few steps to\\ntlie r., Lagauclietiere St. leads to 8t. Patrick s Church.^ a stately Gothic\\nbuilding, 240 ft. long by 90 ft. wide, accommodating 5,000 persons, and\\nadorned with a spire 225 ft. high. The nave is very lofty, and the narrow\\nlancet windows are filled with stained glass. A short distance farther,\\non Bleury St., are the massive stone buildings of St. Mary s College\\n(Jesuit), near the front of the Churcli of tlie Gesti. The nave of this\\nchurch (75 ft. high) is bounded l)y rich composite columns, and the tran-\\nsepts are 144 ft, long, while the v/alls are covered with fine frescos.\\nOver tlie High Altar is the Crucifixion, and the Adoration of the Spotless\\nLamb, above which is the Nativity. Against the cokimns at the crossing ni the\\nnave and transepts are statues of St. Mark with a lion, St. Matthew with an ox,\\nSt. LnlvC with a child, and St. John with an eagle. On the ceiling of the nave\\nftre frescos of St. Thomas Repentant, the Bleeding Lamb, and the Virgin and\\nChild amid angelic choirs. Medallions along the nave contain portraits of 8 saints\\nof the Order of Jesus. Over the Altar of the Virgin, in the transept, is a fresco\\nof the Trinity, near which is a painting of St. Aloysius Gonzaga receiving his first\\ncomnumion from St. Charles Borronieo, Cardinal Archbishoj) of Milan. To the r.\\nis a fresco of St. Ignatius Loyola in the grotto of Manresa, and on the 1. is Christ s\\nAppearance to him near Rome, while above is Christ Blessing Little Cliildren.\\nOver St. Joseph s Altar, in the r. transei^t, is a jiainting of the Eternal Father, on\\nthe r. of which is another picture, St. Stanislaus Kostka Receiving Communion\\nfrom Angels. On the 1. is a fresco of the Martyrdom of the Jesuits at Nagasaki\\n(Japan) on the r. is the Martyrdom of St. Andrew Boliola. in Poland and above\\nis the Raising of Lazarus. On the ceiling is the Holy Family at Work.\\nTurning now to the W. on St. Catharine St., one soon reaches Christ\\nChurcli Cathedral, the best representative of Engli.sh Gothic archi-\\ntecture in America. It is built of Caen and Montreal stone, is cruciform,\\nand a stone spire 224 ft. high springs from the centre of the cross. Tlie\\nchoir has a fine window and some carved stalls, and is laid with encaustic\\ntiles, while the pointed roof of the nave (67 ft. high) is sustained by\\ncolumns whose capitals are cai ved to represent Canadian plants. Near the\\nCathedral is a quaint octagonal chapter-house, used also for the diocesan\\nlibrary, and the house of the Lord Bishop (and Metropolitan of Ca7ia:la)\\nis in the same vicinity. A short distance N. is McGill College, or Uni-\\nversity, which was endowed in 1814 and opened in 1828. It is below the\\nreservoir on Mount Royal, from which a charming view of the city and\\nriver may be gained. Some distance W. of the college, and fronting on\\nthe same street (Sherbrooke), is the vast and imposing Seminary of St.\\nSulpice, for the education of Roman Catholic priests. On St. Catharine,", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0443.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "372 Route H. THE LACHINE BAPIDS.\\n(Presbyterian), ami also the Clun cli ol\\nGothic 1 uiUmg^ th an aannraUe towe an,l 1. ji,t,,\u00e2\u0080\u009eu.,t,\\nDorchester St. are the foUownjg Z J,,,^ Preshy-\\na graceful hnihU g ^f^ ct r h bUoklyn, K. Y. and the\\nterian, an exact copy of the lark ,,\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e,.^te,, Gotldc\\narnrch of St. George (Einscopal), J^ ^^/J V,.,!^,,, Un.ber roof,\\narchitecture, with deep t\u00e2\u0084\u00a2^f =\u00c2\u00b0f i\u00e2\u0080\u009e \u00e2\u0080\u009ef thi square is the\\nand flue schooLbuildings attached of L immense\\nPaiace, near which are t \u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e,lel of St. Peter s\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009eew Catholic Cathedr^ \u00e2\u0084\u00a21\u00c2\u00bb^- Xehestcr St., on the\\nat Rome, though _^^^ g the Cray iV\u00c2\u00ab-, (founded\\nr., is seen the vast cmciloim duuui o ^;t^3_\\n,m, with a ronndling Ilosv. al n.,d J f-^^e m\\nMarie is the large bu, dmg VVO^^^^^ ,^^^i^, boarding-school\\nerected for a Bapfst Co loge^ ^,,\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,_ \u00e2\u0080\u009e.,ve, in the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009eder i^ -^-S^ ^f^fJ-^^ ,,a, f\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009endcd by Marguente\\ncity, 07 schools am 1^ W^ p\u00e2\u0080\u009e\u00e2\u0080\u009e,,,t\u00e2\u0080\u009e St. are the flue bu.ldu.gs\\nBourgeoys,nl659) r,^he^ ._^^^ There are many\\nl!r rimll Iml l^^^c buildings in the city, and the streets toward\\nMonnt Royal arc lined with attractive vdlas. tho\\nThere arc pleasant excursions rom M \u00c2\u00bbtjj^^ jj,,\u00e2\u0080\u009e,, Mary,\\nisle desus, o Hochelaga, t^e ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2as U^^cu of^the^^^^^^ y _^^^ ^^^^^^^_\\nand Longrie Pomte; to J a e to the mountain and to the rap.ds.\\ncarriage; but the two *=^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r^* *M Cs^oing out St. Lawrence Main St.,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Around the Mo^ ^^uhe long slopes to the pretty village\\nby the immense Hotel Dieu ami tlicnee, a glorious view is\\nof Cote des Keiges. Aseendmg the n oui ^1^^\\nsoon revealed, embracing the city, 8 J^^ y\u00e2\u0080\u009e, fa \u00e2\u0080\u009ef Vermont\\nbridge, St. Helen s Isle, \\\\Longn\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 amme 1\\nreSbj iLy r \u00c2\u00b0i--^^^^^^\\n_ especially those of the Molson family. ^^^^^.^^_\\nr ,m,s throcsl. k.!.;;Is Sa. tte ste.mer passes out\\ndid your vessel but touch them, \\\\vouiu", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0444.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "MONTREAL TO QUEBEC. Route 55. 373\\ncrash could sound upon the ear did she even diverge in the least from her course,\\nif licr head were not kept straight with tlie course of the rapid, she would be\\ninstantly subinei-ged and rolled over and over. Before us is an absohite preci-\\npice i f waters on every side of it breakers, like dense avalanclies, are thrown\\nhigh into the air. Ere we can take a glance at the scene, the boat descends the\\nwall of waves and foam like a bird, and in a second afterwards you are floating on\\nthe calm, unruffled bosom of below the rapids.\\nThe steamer, just before reaching the city, passes under the Victoria\\nBridge, the longest and costliest bridge in the world. It consists of 23 spans of\\n242 ft. each (the centre one being 330 ft. long) resting on 2-4 piers built of heavy\\nblue limestone masonry, cemented and iron-riveted, witli sharp wedge-faces to\\nthe down current. The tubes containing the track are 19 ft. high by IG ft. wide,\\nand the bridge is approached by abutments 2,600 ft. long and 90 ft. wide, wliich,\\nwith the G,594 ft. of inm tubing, makes a total length of 9,194 ft. from grade to\\ngrade, and over M. from shore to shore. The bridge was begun in 1854, and\\nfinished in 1859 it used up 250,000 tons of stone and 8,000 tons of iron, and co.st\\n86,300,000. The view of Montreal from the bridge is one of the most beautiful\\nimaginable.\\n55. Montreal to Quebec\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The St. Lawrence River.\\nThe large and elegant royal mail steamers of the Richelieu Company leave\\nthe Richelieu Pier (root of Jacques Cartier Square) at 7 p. m. daily, and arrive at\\nQuebec early the next morning. During certain seasons a steamer of the samo\\nline ran twice or thrice weekly between the two cities, leaving at early morning.\\nIt was thought that this day-line would be continued, and if it is, it should be\\npreferred to the evening boats, as enabling the tourist to see the river and its vil-\\nlages. Fares to Quebec, first class (with meals and state-room), 2.00 second\\nclass, -Si. 00. The Grand Trunk Railway runs trains to Quebec in 8-9 hrs., by\\nway of iSt. Ilyacinthe, Richmond, and Arthabaska.\\nAs tlie steamer passes out into the stream, the fortified island of St.\\nHelen is seen in front, and fine views of the Victoria Bridge, Mount Royal,\\nand the city are gained. Just below St. Helen s Isle, on the r. bank, is\\nLongueuil, where there are many villas pertaining to wealthy city people.\\nA short distance below, on the 1. bank, is Longue Pointe, with the Con-\\nvent des Sffiurs de la Providence, and at 9 M. from Montreal Pointe aiix\\nTrembles is passed, with its ancient village, which dates from 1674. The\\nsteamer then enters the channels between the low, marshy islands of Bou-\\ncherville, famous for duck-shooting, and for the ice-dams which form here\\nat the close of winter. Passing Varcnnes on the r., with the bold BeLeil\\nMt. in the S., the mouth of the Pdviere des Prairies is seen on the 1., with\\nthe village of UAssomption beyond. Tliere are valuable mineral springs\\nnear Varennes, from which a steamer nms to Montreal four times a week.\\nThe river now passes between the parishes of Cap Michael, Vercheres,\\nContrecour, and St. Ours, on the r. bank, and St. Sulpice, La Valtrie, La\\nNoraye, and Dautraye on the 1. bank. The spires of Berthier are seen\\non the 1., as another cluster of islands is threaded, and the town of Sore!\\nis reached. This place occupies an important position at the confluence\\nof the PJchelieu and St. Lawrence Rivers, and was fortified in 1G65 by\\nGov. De Tracey. For many years it was the summer residence of the\\nGovernors, and on being visited by Prince William Henry of England (af-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0445.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "374 Route 55. THE ST. LAWRENCE PJVER\\ntevwanls William IV.) an abortive attempt was made to change its name\\nto Wiin-uu Henry. The place has al.out 3,000 inhabitants, and is built\\naronnd a large square, near which are fine Roman and Anglican churches.\\nThe hunting and fishing in this vicinity are of provmcial fame. The\\nsteamer now passes another archipelago, and at 5 M. ^^low Soi;el enters\\nLake St. Peter, a broadening of the river 25 M. long and 9 M wide. The\\nlake is shallow, but has a deep and narrow channel (partly artificia), U\\nwhich is marked out by buoys and poles, and is used by large vessels.\\nImmense lumber-rafts are often seen here, drifting downward like floa ing\\nislands, and bearing streamers, sails, and the rude huts of the lumber-\\nmen\\nand bearing sxreamuib, sano, ^.i^v^i i^^-\\nIn stormy weather on the Ijike these rafts sometimes come to f\\npieces. Soon after entering this broad expanse, the mouth of the St. J\\nFrancis River is seen on the r., with the village of St. Franeu. Below\\nthe shores of Lussaudiere and St. Antoine, the mouth of the Nicolet\\nRiver appears on the r., and farther do^vn (on the 1.) is the vdlage ot\\nFond du Lac. Three Rivers is now approached, and the steamer stops\\nmidway between Montreal and Quebec. This city was founded (as Trois\\nRivieres) in 1618, and has at present 9,000 mhabitants, f^\\nin lun ber, which is brought down the St. Maurice River. The Catholic\\nCathedral, the Ursuline Convent, and other fine buildings adorn the city.\\nThe St. Maurice River waters a district of (jJ^ ^^IJJ^nild?.^!?^\\nabounding in lakes an l in forests, l^^ ^t.^^^^f^ ^^to SeeSvI^wliere\\nhave been visited by the umber en who ^h,\\nthe hiiuber is sawed. About 22 M. aDovc f descent of 150 ft., be- j\\namgan, where the great river plunges ^^^^^.^^If^^f^^^^^^^^ miles above\\ntwee.1 tlie lofty rocks called La %^l^l% canoes and\\nare the Falls of the ^^r \u00e2\u0084\u00a2^\\\\-Mcre- J^ e faj s ai^^^is^^ _ ^^o^^-^^ ^^oyagenrs\\n=l5e^^l;:r^^?iroi:fL clSd S!^l^..^ and stoves. _\\nOpposite Three Rivers is Doucet s Landing, at Beeancor.r the te-umis\\nof a branch of the Grand Trunk Railway (see Route 40), and to the N. L.,\\naro theSt. Maurice, is the thriving village of ^ap ^e la Ma^lehun\\nThe steamer passes Gentilly (on the r.) and stops -t^^^^-- J f^^\\nlow Three Rivers, then passes Ste. Marie and Ste. Anne o a.^\\nSt Pierre on the r. Lotbiniere, on the r., is seen, and then the Mlla e\\no sf C ok s iding on Pointe Platon. Point aux Trembles marks the\\not St. L-ioix, sian(iiu\u00e2\u0080\u009e u i T -.I-p ^t Peter to the lofty summits\\ntransition from the low shores toward Lake ^t- Peter to the lo\\nof the Laurentian Mts. St. Augustin (1.) and St. Antome (^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2)J^J^^J^^\\npassed and then the mouth of the Chaudiere, Cap Rouge, and the Milage\\no St lean Chrysostome. The heights of Point Levi now appear on ho\\nI;/rthart,e walls and spires of Quebec. Travellers by the\\nnV.^httat should make arrangements to be awakened an ^jonr U^oi\\nLhing the end of the route, as the view of Quebec from the ma at\\nearly morning is a thing whicli can never be forgotten.", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0446.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\n)ld-out is being digitized, and will be inserted\\nfuture date.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0447.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\njt is being digitized, and will be inserted at\\nfuture date.", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0448.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "QUEBEC. Route 56. 375\\n^Q, Quebec.\\nArrival. If the traveller has inucli ba-gage, it is best to take the hotel-car-\\nriage to t.ie Upper Town. The caleche is not adaj ted to carrying luggage.\\nHotels. Tiie St. Louis Hotel (near the Uurliaui Terrace) is a large old house,\\naecounno latiiig 4 500 guests, at ^3 8.50 a day. The Albion House (on Pal-\\nace St.) IS Ie.;s pretentious and expensive. Henchey s Hotel, opposite tlie Angli-\\ncan Cathedral, is quiet and moderate (for gentlemen travelling eti qargon). In the\\nLower Town are Blanchard s Hotel and several otliers, two of wh icli are French.\\nCarriages in every variety may be procured at the stables, but the usual mode\\nof r! ling is by the caleche. a singular and usually very shabby-looking vehicle,\\nperclied on two high wheels, with tlie driver sitting on a narrow ledge in front!\\nThese vehicles are drawn by homely but hardy little horses, and are usually drive^x\\nby French Canadians. 1-2 persons may engage a caleche to go to the Montino-\\nrenci Falls, Lorette, or Cap Rouge, for \u00c2\u00a72.00. Horse-cars traverse the riverward\\nstreets in the Lower Town.\\nKeadingr-rooms. The Y M. C. Association, outside St. John Gate, and the\\nelegant library of the Quebec Historical Society (in Morrin College) are open to the\\nvisits of strangers.\\nLanguage. More than half of the citizens of Quebec, and nearly all of the\\ninhabitants of the surrounding villages, speak French as their mother-tongue.\\nVery many of them have a knowledge, more or less perfect, of the English lan-\\nguai-e, while many of the British citizens speak French also. The langu age in its\\nwritten forms (as seen in the numerous French books, magazines, and newspai)er.s\\npubUshed in Quebec) is correct and inti lligil)le, but the speech of the lower classes\\nand of tlie rustics is difficult and often impossible to understand. It is not\\nParisian or even Rouennaise French, but a strong provincial dialect, brouglit\\nfrom the rural districts of Normandy in the 17th century, and enriche l by the\\naddition of later local idioms. (The sliarp, dissyllabic cry with wliich the caieche-\\ndrivers urge tiieir liorses forward, is Marche-donc\\nThe Post-Office is on Du Fort St. The most attractive shops are on Fabrique\\nand St. John Sts., and about the French Cathedral.\\nRailways. The Grand Trunk Radway has its terminal station at Point\\nLevi, 817 M. from Portland, 425 M. from Boston, 586 M. from New York and\\n2,684 M. from New Orleans. There is also a railroad of most ])rimitive construc-\\ntion, with its terminus in the Banlicue, whicli runs slow and infrequent trains up\\nthe valley of the St. Charles for 20-25 M. To Boston, see Routes 24 and 2t\u00c2\u00bb or\\nRoutes 40 and 37.\\nSteamers. Ferry-boats run to Point Levi every Vy minutes also thrice daily\\nto the Isle of Orleans and at varying intervals tothe French river-towns Semi-\\nweekly steamers run to the Sagucnay River fare to Cacouna and return, 8 00\\nto Tadousac, 4.00 to Ha Ha Bay and return, 7.00. Large steamers leave\\nv,..v..,ii.,.v^ ie.lL. iMi iTi. iiiicj i mill V. in; mil II lliiu\\not transatlantic steamers despatches one ship weekly during the summer and\\nearly fall. j o\\nQuebec, the Gibraltar of America, and the second city in the\\nDominion of Canada, is situated at the confluence of the St. Chades and\\nSt. Lawrence Kivcrs, 400 M. from the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and 180 M.\\nfrom Montreal. It has over 75,000 inhabitants, and its chief business is\\nin the handling and exportation of lum] er, of which 5-7,000,000 worth\\nis sent away annually. Tliere are miles of coves along the St. Lawrence\\nshore, arranged for the reception and protection of the vast rafts whicli\\ncome down from the northern forests. A very considerable export trade", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0449.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "376 Route 56. QUEBEC.\\nin grain is also done here, and the city derives nmch henefit from being\\ntlie terminus of transatlantic lines of sliipping, wliicli makes it a depot of\\nimmigration. Quebec is built nearly in the form of a triangle, bounded\\nby the two rivers and the Plains of Abraham, and is divided into the\\nUpper and Lower Towns, tlie former being enwailed and strongly fortified\\nand standing on a bluff 350 ft. high, while the latter is built on the con-\\ntracted strips between the cliffs and the rivers. The streets are narrow,\\ncrooked, and often very steep, while the houses are generally built of\\ncut stone, in a style of severe simplicity.\\nJacques Cartier set sail from St. Malo, in the spring of 1535, with three well-\\narmed vessels, and steering boldly to the westward, he- entered the Gulf of 8t.\\nLawrence and gave it its present name, in honor of the saint on whose festival-\\nday he had made the discovery. He ascended to 8tadacona, an Indian vilhige on\\nthe site of Quebec (whose present name is derived from Quel bee the Norman\\nsailors shout on seeing the lofty precipice, or else from Quebeio, an Algon-\\nquin word meaning strait.) After ascending to Montreal, Cartier returned to\\nQuebec and wintered there, and in 1541 a fort was erected near Charlcsbourg. The\\nplace was then deserted until 1008, when Chami\u00c2\u00bblaiu founded Quebec, and built a\\nfort on its present site. Franciscan monks came to the new colony in 1015, and\\nin 1614 a party of Jesuits arrived. In 162S Sir David Kirk (or Kertk) attacked\\nthe place, ami in 1029, after a long blockade, the English fleet took Quebec. It\\nwas restored to France in l(i32, and in 1635 Governor Champlain died here and\\nwas buried in the Lower Town. In 1065 a large cargo of ladies arrived from\\nFrance, and were all disposed of in marriage within a fortnight. In 1672 the\\nCount de Frontenac was sent here as Governor, and in 1690 he bravely repulsed\\nan attack by Sir Wm. Phipi s s fleet (from Boston), inflicting severe damage by a\\ncannonade from the fort. Besides many men. the assailants lost their admiral s\\nstandard and eight vessels. In 1711 Sir Hovenden Walker sailed from Boston\\nagahist Quebec, but he lo.st in one day eight vessels and 8S4 men by shipwreck\\non the terrible cliffs of the Egg Islands. Strong fortilications were built soon\\nafter and in 1759 Gen. Wolfe came up the river with S,OOo liritish soldiers. The\\nMar. piis de Montcalm Avas then Governor, and he moved the French army into\\nfortified lines on Beauport Plains, where he defeated the British in a sanguinary\\naction. On the night of Sept. 12, Wolfe s army drifted up stream on the risiny\\ntide, and sunceedeil in scaling the steep cliffs beyond the city. They were lired\\nui)on by the French outpost.s but before Montcalm could bring his forces across\\nthe St. Charles the British lines were formed upcni the Plains of Abraham and in\\nthe short but desperate batth; which ensued both the generals were mortally\\nwoimded. The English lost 604 men, and the French lost 1,500. The French\\narmy, which was largely composed of provincial le\\\\ ics (with the regiments of La\\nGuienne, Roval Roussilon, Beam, La Sarre, and Languedoe) gave way, and\\nretreate.l acn tss the St. Charles, and a few days later the city surrendered.\\nIn April, 1700, the Chevalier de Levis (of that Levis family Dukes of Venta-\\ndour\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which claimed to possess records of their lineal descent from the patriarch\\nLevi) led the reorganized French army to St. Foye, near Quebec. Gen. Murray,\\nhoping to surprise Levis, advanced (with 3,000 men) from his fine position on the\\nPlains of Abraham but the French were vigilant, and Murray was deleatcd and\\nhurled back within the city gates, having lost 1,000 men and 20 cannon. Levi:; now\\nlaid close siege to the city, and battered the walls (and es]iecially St. John s ihxh)\\nfrom tlu-ee heavy field-works. Quebec answered with an almost incessant camii ii\\nade from 132 guns, until Commodore Swanton came up the river with a fleet fr(Uii\\nEngland. The British supremacy in Canada was soon afterwards assured by the\\nTreaty of Paris, and Voltaire congratulated Louis XV. on being rid of 1,500\\nleagues of frnzcn country. In the winter of 1775-0 the Americans besieged tlie\\ncity, then conunanded l\u00c2\u00bby Gen. Guy Carleton (afterwards made Loid Dorchester).\\nThe i)rovisioi\\\\s of the besiegers began to fail, their regiments were being depleted\\nby sickness, and their liglit guns made but little impression on the massh^e\\ncity-walls so an assault was orclered and conducted before dawn on Dee. 31, 1775.\\nIn the midst of a heavy suow-storui Arnold advanced through the Lower Town", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0450.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "QUEBEC. Route 56. 377\\nfrom his quarters near the St. Charles River, and led his 800 New-Eiiglanders and\\nVirginians over two or thiee barricades. The Montreal Bank and several other\\nmassive stone houses were tilled with British regulars, who guarded tliea])proaches\\nwith such a deadly fire that Arnold s men were forced to take retuge in the ad-\\nJoining houses, while Arnold himself was badly wounded and carried to tlie rear.\\nMeanwhile Montgomery was leading his New-Yorkers and Continentals N. along\\nChanii)lain St. bythe river-side. The intention was for the two attacking columns,\\nafter driving the enemy from the Lower Town, to unite before the Prescott Gate\\nand carry it by storm. A strong barricade was stretched across Cliamphun \u00c2\u00abt.\\nfrom the cliff to the river but wlicn its guards saw the great masses of the attaclc-\\ning column advancing through the twilight, tliey fled. In all jn-obability Mont-\\ngomery would have crossed tlie barricade, delivered Arnold s men by attacking\\nthe enemy hi the rear, and then, with 1,500 men flushed with victory, would have\\nes ^aladetl the Prescott Gate and won Quebec and Canada, but that one af tlie\\nfleeing Canadians, impelled by a strange caprice, turned quickly Ijack, and fired\\nthe canmni which stood loaded on tlie barricade. Montgomery and many of his\\nofficers and men were stricken down by the shot, and the column broke uji in\\nI-anic, and fleil. The British forces were now concentrated on Arnold s men, wlio\\nwere hnmnied in by a sortie from the Palace Gate, and 426 ottlceis and men were\\nmade i risoiicrs. A painted l)oard has been hung high up on the cliff over the\\nl lai;e m Champlain St. where :M;)ntgomery fell. Montgomery was an ofiicer in\\nWolfe s army when Quebec was taken from the French 1.5 years before, and knew\\nthe ground. His mistake was in heading the forlorn hope. Quebec was the\\ncapital of Canada from 1760 to 1791, and after that it served as a semi-cqiital,\\nuntil the founding of Ottawa City. In 1845 2,900 houses were burnt ami the\\nplace was nearly destroyed, but soon revived with the aid of the great lumber-\\ntrade which is still its specialty.\\nThere is no city in America more famous in the annals of hi.story than Quebec,\\nand few (m the continent of Europe more picturesquely situateil. Whilst the\\nsurrounding scenery reminds one of the unrivalled views of tlie Bosphorus, the\\nairy site of the citadel and town calls to mind Innspruck and Edinimrgh. Que-\\nbec may be best described by su]jposing that an ancient Norman fortress of two\\ncenturies ago had been encased in amber, transported by magic to Canada, and\\nplaced on the summit of Cape Diamond.\\nQuebec, at least for an American city, is certainly a very peculiar place. A\\nmilitary town, containing about 20,000 inhabitants most compactly and perma-\\nnently built, stone its sole material environed, as to its most imi ortant jiarts,\\nby walls and gates, and defended by numerous heavy cannon founded\\nupon a rock, and in its highest parts overlooking a great extent of country\\n3-4(i0 miles from the ocean, in the midst of a great continent, and yet displaying\\nfleets of foreign merchantmen in its fine, capacious bay, and showing all the bustle\\nof a crowdc i seaport; its streets narrow, populous, and winding up and down\\nalmost mountainous declivities situated in the latitude of the finest parts of\\nEurope, exliihiting in its environs the beauty of an European cai)ital, and yet in\\nwinter smarting with the cold of Siberia governed by a people of dilferent\\nlanguage and habits from the mass of the population, opposed in religion, and\\nyet leaving that population without taxes, and in the enjoyment of every privilege,\\ncivil and religious such are the prominent features which strike a stranger ia\\nthe city of Quebec. (Prof. Silliman.)\\nFew cities offer so many striking contrasts as Quebec. A fortress and a\\ncommercial city together, built upon the summit of a rock like the nest of an\\neagle, while her vessels are everywhere wrinkling the face of the ocean an\\nAmerican city inhabited by French cohmists, governed by England, and garri-\\nsoned by Scotch regiments a city of the Middle Ages by most of its ancient\\ninstitutions, while it is subject to all the combinations of modern constitutional\\ngovernment an European city by its civilization and its habits of refinement, and\\nstill close by the remnants of tlie Indian tribes and tlie barren nits, of the North\\na city with about tlie same latitude as Paris, while successively combining the\\ntorrid climate of southern regi(nis with the severities of an hyperborean winter\\na city at the same time Catholic and Protestant, where the labors of our (French)\\nmissions are still uninterrupted alongside of the undertakings of the Bible Society,\\nand where the Jesuits, driven out of our own country, find refuge under the\\naegis of British Pimtanisra. (X. Marmiek -s Lettres tiur VAnicrUiuc, 18G0.)", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0451.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "378 Route 56. THE DURHAM TERRACE.\\nLeavinrc the citadel, we are once more in the European Mifldlc Ages. Gates\\nand posterns, cranky steps that lead up to lofty, gaV)led liouses, with sliarp\\nFrench root s of burnished tin, like tliose of Liege processions of the Host altars\\ndecked with flowers statues of the Virgin sabots blouses and tlie scarlet of\\nthe Britisli linesman, all these are seen in narrow streets and markets that are\\ngraced with many a Cotentin lace cap, and all within 40 miles of the down-east\\nYankee State of Maine. It is not far from New England to Old France\\nThere has been no dying out of the race among the French Canadians. They\\nnumber twenty times tlie thousands tliat they did 100 years ago. The American\\nsoil has left their physical type, religion, language, and laws absolutely untouched.\\nThey herd together in their rambling villages, dance to the fiddle after mass on\\nSundays, asgaylyas once did their Norman sires, and keep up the /ewr-dc-^j/a\\nand the memory of Montcalm. More French than the French are the Lower\\nCanada habitans. The pulse-beat of the continent finds no echo here. (Sir\\nCharles Dilke.)\\nDufferin Terrace is on the riverward edge of the Upper Town, and\\nstands on the buttresses and platform formerly occupied by the Chateau\\nof St. Louis, which was built by Champlain in 1620. The old chateau\\nwas a massive stone structure, 200 ft. long, used for a fortress, prison, and\\ngovernor s palace, and it stood until 1834, when it was ruined by fire.\\nThe terrace is 200 ft. above the river, and commands a view of surjiass-\\ning beauty. Immediately below are the sinuous streets of the Lower\\nTown, with its wharves projecting into the stream. On one side are the\\nlofty, fortified bluffs of Point Levi, and on the otlier the St. Charles River\\nwinds away up its peaceful valley. The white houses of Beauport stretch\\noff to the vicinity of the Montmorenci Falls, while beyond are seen the\\nfarms of L Ange Gardien, extending towards the heights of St. Fereol. Ves-\\nsels of all classes and sizes are anchored in the broad basin and the river,\\nand the rich and verdant Isle of Orleans is in mid-stream below. Beyond\\nand over all are the bold peaks of the Laurentian Range, with Cap Tour-\\ninente towering over the river far in the distance. The Terrace is the\\nfavorite promenade of the citizens, and presents a pleasant scene in the\\nlate afternoon or on pleasant Sundays. At the upper end of the Terrace\\nis a plain stone structure called the Old Chateau, which was built about\\n17S0 for the British governors.\\nThere is not in the world a nobler outlook than that from the terrace at Que-\\nbec. You stand ui^on a rock overlianging city ami river, and look down ujion the\\nguard-ships masts. Acre upon acre of timber comes floating down the stream\\nabove the city, the Canadian boat-songs just reaching you upon the heights and\\nbeneath you are fleets of great shii)s, English, German, French, and Dutch, em-\\nbarking the timber from the floating docks. The Stars and Stripes are nowhere\\nto be seen. (Sir Charles Dilke.)\\nThe Place cVArines is a pretty little park between the Terrace and the\\nAnglican Cathedral, a large, plain building of stone, which has a superb\\ncommunion-set (presented by George III.), and within which is the tomb\\nof Charles, Duke of Richmond, Lennox, and Daubigny, who died while\\nGovernor-General of Canada (1819). The monument of Jacob Mountain,\\nD. D., first Anglican Bishop, is in the chancel. Dr. JNIouiitain was in the\\npresence of King George, when he expressed a doubt as to whom he should", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0452.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "AROUND THE RAMPARTS. Route 56. 379\\nappoint as bishop of the new See of Quebec. Said the doctor, If your\\nMajesty had faith, there would be no difficulty. How so said the\\nking. Mountain answered, If you had faith, you would say to this\\nMountain, Be thou removed into that See, and it would be done. It\\nwas. The Cathedral, rectory, and Chapel of All Saints, stand on ground\\nformerly occupied by the Franciscan (Recollet) monks, and on the same\\ntract the Court House is built, fronting on St. Louis St. Beyond the\\nCourt House is the Masonic Hall, opposite which are the old buildings of\\nthe Commissariat and Crown Lands Departments, and the St. Louis\\nHotel.\\nAround the Ramparts.\\nThe Street des Carrieres runs S. from the Place d Armes to the Govern-\\nor s Garden, a pleasant summer-evening resort, with a monument 65 ft.\\nhigh, erected in 1827 to the memory of Wolfe and Montcalm, and bearing\\nthe elegant and classic inscription\\nMortem. Virtus. Communem.\\nFamam. Historia.\\nmonumentum. posteritas.\\nDebit.\\nIn the lower garden is a battery which commands the harbor. Des\\nCarrieres St. leads to the inner glacis of the Citadel, and by turning to\\nthe r. on St. Denis St., its northern outworks and approaches may be\\nseen. Passing a cluster of barracks on the r., and the Chalmers (Pres.)\\nChxirch on the 1., and turning to the 1. on St. Louis St., the St. Louis\\nGate i;s soon reached. A road turning to the 1. just inside the Gate leads\\nthrough deep entrenched passages commanded by powerful batteries, and\\nby the Chain Gate to the Dalhousie Gate of The Citadel. This immense\\nfortil] cation covers 40 acres of ground, and is situated on the summit of\\nCape Diamond (so called from the glittering crystals found in the vicinity),\\nwhich is said to be the coldest place in the British Empire. Since the\\nevacuation of Canada by the Imperial troops, the Citadel has been gar-\\nrisoned by provincial volunteers, and visitors are usually permitted to\\npass around the walls lender the escort of a soldier. The view from the\\nmost northerly bastion (which contains an immense Armstrong gun) sur-\\npasses that from the Durham Terrace, and is one of the most magnificent\\nin the world. The Esplanade extends to the r. from the St. Louis Gate,\\nand the tourist is recommended to walk along the ramparts to St. John s\\nGate, viewing the deep fosse, the massive outworks, and the ancient\\nordnance at the embrasures. Outside stands the vast new Parliament\\nHouse, on the Grande Allde. The ramparts are broken by the picturesque\\nKent Gate, erected by Queen Victoria. St. John s Gate is a modern\\nstructure, and is both strong and graceful. While rallying his soldiers", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0453.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "380 Route 56. QUEBEC.\\njust outside of this Gate, the Marquis de Montcalm \u00e2\u0096\u00a0vvas mortally wounded\\n(in 1759 )j and Col. Brown (of Mass.) attacked the Gate while Arnold and\\nMontgomery were fighting in the Lower ToAvn. The ramparts must be\\nleft here, and D Auteuil and St. Helene Sts. follow their course hy the\\nArtillery Barracks (built by the French in 1750) to the Palace Gate,\\nclose to which is the Hotel Dieu Convent. This institution was founded\\nby the Duchesse d Aguillon (niece of Cardinal Richelieu) in 1639. In 1654\\none of the present buildings was erected, and most of it was built during\\nthe 17th century, while Talon, Baron des Islets, completed it in 1762.\\nThere are 30- 40 nuns of tlie order of the Hopitalieres, and the hospital\\nis open freely to the sick and infirm poor of whatever sect, witli attend-\\nance by the best doctors of the city. Among the pictures here are, Virgin\\nand Child, hy Coy pel Nativity^ Stdla St. Bruno, hy Le Sueur, the\\nRaphael of France. From Palace Gate to Hope Gate (900 ft.) the ram-\\nparts may be followed, with fine views over the two rivers, the Isle of\\nOrleans, andtlie La\\\\irentian Mts. Tlie walls are built on a lofty cliff, and\\nare very thin, but have lines of loopholes and are guardeil by bastions.\\nHope Gate was built in 1784, and has well-fortified approaches. The\\nramparts may be followed from this point to the Parliament House, pass-\\ning tlie stately Laval University and the Grand Battery, where 22 32-\\npounders command the river, and whence a pleasing view may be ob-\\ntained. The old Parliament House, on the site of Champlain s fort and\\nthe ancient Episcopal palace, was an extensive but plain building, whose\\nglory departed with the decapitalization of Quebec. A short distance be-\\nyond is the Prescott Gate, the main avenue of communication between\\nthe Upper and Lower Towns, and Dufierin Terrace is just S. of the Gate.\\nThe Market Square is nearly in the centre of the Upper Town, and\\npresents a curious and interesthig appearance on market-mornings, when\\nthe French peasantry bring in their farm products. On the E. is the\\nRoman Cathedral of the Ivimaculate Conception, which was built in 1666,\\ndestroyed by cannonading from Wolfe s batteries in 1759, and rebuilt soon\\nafter. Its exterior is quaint, irregular, and homely, but the interior is\\nmore pleasing, and accommodates 4,000 persons. The High Altar is Avell\\nadorned, and the choir of boys from the Seminary is much esteemecL\\nThe most notable pictures are, **The Crucifixion the Christ of the\\nCathedral, the finest painting in Canada), by Van Dyck (on the first pillar\\n1. of the altar) the Ecstasy of St. Paul, Carlo Maratti the Annunci-\\nation, Rp.stoiU the Baptism of Christ, HalU. tlie Pentecost, Yvjnon\\nMiracles of Ste. Anne, Plamondon Angels Waiting on Christ, Restout\\n(in the choir) the Nativity, copy from Annihale Caracci Holy Family,\\nBlanckard. The remains of Champlain, the heroic explorer and founder\\nand first Governor of Quebec, are in the Cathedral. Alongside of the\\nCathedral are the ancient, rambling, and extensive buildings of the Semi-", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0454.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "QUEBEC. Route 56. 381\\nnary, which was founded in 1663 by Fran9ois de Montmorenci Laval,\\nBishop of Quebec from 1658 to 1688. Tiiis institution is divided into Le\\nGrand Senmiaire and Le Petit Seminaire the first being a school of\\ntheology, and the second being devoted to literature and science (for boys).\\nThere are about 400 students, who may be distinguished in the streets by\\ntheir uniform.\\nThe Seminary Chapel has some fine paintings (beginning at the r. of the\\nentraucu) The iSaviour and tlie yaniaritan Woman, La Grenee The Virgin At-\\ntended by Angels, Dicii; The Crucifixion, Monet; The Hermits of the Tliebaid,\\nGuiliot; The Vision of 8t. Jerome, i)7/Hiii ft; *The Ascension, PMllipc de Cham-\\npagne; The Burial of Clirist, Hutin (over the altar) The Flight into Egjjpt,\\nVanloo above which is a picture of angels, Lehruii; The Trance of St. Anthony,\\nParrocel d Avlynoii The Day of Pentecost, P. da Chavipaijne St. Peter Freed from\\nPrison, De la Fosse: The Baptism of Christ, Halle; tit. Jerome Writing, J. B.\\nChampagne; Adoration of the Jlagi, Bonnien. The Cha] el on the r. of the chief\\naltar contams the relics of St. Clement that on the 1. the relics of St. Modestus.\\nAdjoining the Seminary is its goodly child, the Laval University,\\nwhose main building is of cut stone, 280 ft. long and 5 stories high, and\\ncost $240,000. The museum of Huron antiquities, the collection of Ca-\\nnadian birds, the library of nearly 50,000 volumes, the fine scientific in-\\nstruments, the rich gallery of pictures, and the far-viewing, enrailed\\npromenade on the roof are all worthy of a visit. The extensive dormi-\\ntories and the medical college occupy substantial stone buildings in the\\nvicinity.\\nOn the W. of the Market Square stood the great pile of buildings which\\nwere partly erected in 1646, for the Jesuits College. The college was\\nsuspended in 1759 by Gen. Murray, wiio quartered his troops here, and\\nin 1809 the property reverted to the Crown, on the death of the last of\\nthe Jesuit Fathers. Tlie buildings were afterwards used for barracks,\\nwhen used at all. Passing St. Anne s Market and the Anglican Cathedral,\\nGarden St. runs S. to the Ursuline Convent, which was founded by\\nMadame de la Peltrie in 1639. Part of the present buildings were built\\nin 1686, and with the gardens and offices they cover 7 acres. There are\\n40 nuns, who are devoted to teaching girls, and also to working in era-\\nbroidery, painting, c. The parlor and chapel are open to visitors, and\\nin the latter are some good paintings Mater Dolorosa, Van Dyck The\\nSaviour, Chavipagne Christ in Simon s House, Champagne and a\\nsmall picture by Resiout. Within a grave made by a sliell which burst\\nin this chapel, during Wolfe s bombardment, is buried the High and\\nMighty Lord, Louis Joseph, Marquis of Montcalm, and over his remains\\nis the inscription, Honneur a Montcalm Le destin en lui derobant la\\nvictoire I a recompense par une mort glorieuse Morrin College (on St.\\nAnne St.) is a neat stone building, in one of whose halls is the extensive\\nand valuable library of the Quebec Historical Society (open to the pub-\\nlic). There are several other churches and public buildings among the", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0455.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "382 Route 56. QUEBEC.\\nnarrow streets of the Upper To\\\\vn. St. Patrick s, on St. Helen St., liai\\na neat Ionic interior, and the church, manse, and school of St. Andrew\\n(Presbyterian) occupy stone buildings on St. Anne St. At the corner of\\nSt. John and Palace Sts. (second story) is a statue of Wolfe, which is\\nnearly a century old, and bears such a relation to Quebec as does the\\nMannikin to Brussels. It was once stolen by night by some roystering\\nnaval officers, and carried off to Barbadoes, whence it was returned many\\nmonths after, enclosed in a coffin. In the front of the Post-Office, on\\nBuade St., is a figure of a dog, carved in the stone and gilded, under which\\nis the inscription\\nJe guts un chien qui ronge I os I am a dog gnawing a bone.\\nEn le rongeant ie prend men repos. While I gnaw I take my repose.\\nUn temps viendra qui nest pas venu The time will come, though not jret.\\nQue je uiordrais qui m aura mordu. When I will bite him who now bites me.\\nThis lampoon was aimed at the Intendant Bigot by M. Philibert, who had\\nsuffered wrong from him; but soon after the carved stone had been put\\ninto the front of Philibert s house, that gentleman was assassinated by an\\nofficer of the garrison. The murderer exchanged into the East Indian\\narmy, but was pursued by Philibert s brother, and after a severe conflict\\nwas killed at Pondicherry. Near the Post-Office is the large and elegant\\nbuilding of the Bishop s Palace. Mountain St. descends through the\\nPrescott Gate to the Lower Town, with the steep, crowded, and pictu-\\nresque Chamjjlain Stejjs on the r., near whose foot the remains of Cham-\\nplain were recently found, in the vault of an ancient chapel.\\nThe Montcalm and St. Jolm Wards extend W. from the city walls to\\nthe line of the Martello Towers. In the latter ward is the large Church\\nof St. John (Catholic), and also the Gray Nunnery (70 sisters), with a\\nlofty and elegant chapel. Above the Nunnery and fronting on the glacis\\nis the Convent of the Christian Brothers. The steep street called Cote\\nd Abraham descends thence to the Jacques Cartier Ward of the Lower\\nTown, beyond which, on the banks of the St. Charles, is the Marine\\nHospital, a large and imposing modern building in Ionic architecture\\n(with 6 acres of grounds) and the General Hospital, an extensive pile\\nof buildings, founded by De Vallier, second bishop of Quebec (in 1693),\\nand conducted by 40 -50 nuns of St. Augustine. The churches of St.\\nSauveur {in the Banlieu) and *S^. Roch are large structures, with many\\ninferior pictures, and the Black Nunnery is near the latter, St. Roch s\\nWard is mostly devoted to manufactories and to shipbuilding (on the St.\\nCliarles shore). St. Paul St. runs E. between the fortified cliffs and the\\nriver, to St. Peter St., wliicli turns S., and near which are the chief banks,\\nwholesale houses, and harbor offices. At the neighboring wharves are the\\nships and ocean-steamers, with many small and dirty steamboats whicli\\nply to the neighboring river-towns. The Custom House (near Pointe a\\nGarcy) and the Champlain Market are in this quarter, and are fine stone", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0456.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "CAP ROUGE. Route 56. 383\\nbuildings. Tlie Church of Notre Dame des Victoii es is a plain old struc\\nture near the market, which dates from before 1690. It was so named,\\nand was decorated with trophies, in gratitude for the defeat of Sir Wni.\\nrhipps attack in 1C90, and the terrible disaster to Admiral Walker s ex-\\npedition at the Egg Islands. The Queen s Fuel Yard is below the Palace\\nGate, and occupies the site of an immense range of buildings erected by-\\nBigot, 13th and last Royal (French) Intendant. Here he lived in all the\\nfeudal splendor of the old French noblesse, on the revenues which he ex\\ntorted from the oppressed province. In 1775 the palace was captured by\\nArnold s Virginia riflemen, who so greatly annoyed the garrison that tho\\nbuildings were set on fire and consumed by shells from the batteries of\\nthe Upper Town.\\nEnvirons of Quebec.\\nPoint Levi is across the river from Quebec, and is a rapidly growing\\nplace, where the Grand Trunk Railway terminates. Upon the steep\\nbluffs are two neat churches, and a short distance to the E. is a series of\\npowerful earthw(jrks, intended to prevent the establishment of hostile\\nbatteries within shelling distance of Quebec. 10 M. from Point Levi are\\nthe Falls of the Chaudiere, where that river dashes, in a sheet 850 ft. wide,\\ndown a precipice 135 ft. high. The Chaudiere descends from Lake Me-\\ngantic, near the Maine frontier, passing through the Canadian gold-fields.\\nArnold s hungry and heroic army followed the course of this river from\\nits source to its mouth. (See page 313).\\nCap Rouge is 9 M. from Quebec, and may be reached by the Grande\\nAllee, passing out of the St. Louis Gate. The road leads by the Canada\\nMilitary Asylum, Parliament House, and the jail, and near the toll-\\ngate (on the 1.) is seen a monument inscribed, Here died Wolfe, Vic-\\ntorious. The scene of the Battle of the Plains is on either hand, and the\\nPlains of Abraham stretch away to the S. There are four Martello Towers\\non the neighboring fields, each built in a circular form and of heavy\\nmasonry, while the massive stone jail, being provided with long lines of\\nloopholes, is an efficient outwork. About 2 M. out, the Mount Herman\\nCevietery is passed, with the elegant Chapel of St. Michael, and the\\nwhole distance between the city and Cap Rouge is lined with fine old\\nvillas of the noblesse and gentry of Lower Canada. Redclyffe Mansion is\\non the cape, near where Roberval wintered in 1541, and in the same\\nvicinity batteries were erected by Montcalm and Murray. In returning\\nto the city, it is best to turn to the 1. at St. Albans, and gain the Ste. Foy\\nroad. The broad and smiling valley of the St. Charles is overlooked from\\nthis road, and Lorette may be seen in the distance. As the city is nearly", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0457.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "384 Route 56. FALLS OF MONTMORENCL\\napproached, on the is seen a moniimental colnnin surmounted by a statue\\nof Bellona (presented by Prince Napoleon), which marks tlie site of the\\nfiercest part of the Second Battle of the Plains, when De Levis defeated\\nMurray (1759). The monument was dedicated with great pomp in 1854,\\nand stands over the grave of many hundreds who fell in the fip ht. Pass-\\ning now the handsome Finlay Asylum and several villas, the suburb of\\nSt. Jolm is entered.\\nIndian Lorette is 9 M, from Quebec, by the Little River Road. It is\\nan ancient village of the Hurons Catholics and allies of France and\\nthe present inhabitants are a quiet and religious people in whom the\\nIndian blood predominates, though it is never unmixed. The men himt\\nand tish, the women make bead-work and moccasins, and the boys earn\\npennies by dexterous archery. Tlie Lorette Falls, near the village, are\\nvci-y pretty, and a few miles farther inland are tlie Lakes of Beauport\\nand St. Charles. The latter is 4 ]\\\\I. long, and is famed for its red trout\\nand for its remarkable echoes.\\nCharleshourg, 4 M. from Quebec, is an ancient village, with two\\nCatholic churches, situated on a pleasant and picturesque road. In the\\nvicinity is the Hermitage, or Chateau Bigot, a gray and romantic ruin at\\nthe foot of Mt. des Ormes, where Bigot, the last intendant of Canada,\\nkept and visited a lovely Algonquin girl, until his wife discovered the\\nsecret, and soon thereafter the Indian maiden was cruelly murdered.\\nTlie Falls of Montmorenci are about 8 M. from the city, by a road\\nwhich crosses the St. Charles River, passes several fine old mansions, and\\ntraverses the long, straggling village of Beauport, with its stately church\\nand roadside crosses. The falls are 250 ft. high and 50 ft. wide, a solid\\nand compact mass of water incessantly plunging over a precipice of black\\nrock, with clouds of mist and a deafening roar. The Montmorenci flows\\ninto the St. Lawrence a short distance below. Near the falls is Haldi-\\nmand House, formerly occupied by the Duke of Kent, Queen Victoria s\\nfather; and on the cliffs T)y the river are seen the towers of a suspension\\nbridge which fell soon after its erection, hnrling three persons into the\\nfatal abyss below. A small fee is charged for entering the fields to view\\nthe falls, and the tourist must be careful, not only to visit the pavilion\\nnear the falls (which commands also a chamiiiig view of Quebec), but to\\ninsist on being conducted to a position low down on the shore, from which\\nthe stupendous plunge of the Montmorenci may best be seen. About 1^\\nM. above the falls are the Natural Steps, where the river has cut the\\nledges into a similitude to steps, meanwhile contracting its channel. The\\nviews on the road back to Quebec are very beautiful. At the foot of\\nthese falls an immense ice-cone (sometimes 200 ft. high) is formed every\\nwinter, and here the favorite sport of tobogginning is carried on.\\nSte. Anne is 24 M. below Quebec (tri-weekly steamers), and has a small", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0458.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "THE SAGUENAY RIVER. Route 56. 385\\ninn. 6-7 M. from the inn are the beautiful Falls of Ste. Anne, below\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which the river of the same name dashes down through a dark and sombre\\nravine. Tlie Falls of St. Fereol, the Seven Falls, and other remarkable\\nobjects, are in this vicinity, while just W. of the village is Mt. Ste, Anne,\\na picturesque summit 2,t)87 ft. high. Lake St, Joachin is a few miles\\ndistant and abounds in trout, while 6-8 M, below is the bold niountain-\\njiromontory called Cap Tourmente. Within the village is the beautiful\\nlittle pilgrimage-church of Ste. Anne, where it is said that many surpris-\\ning miracles have been wrought by relics of La Bonne Ste, Anne (which\\nare kept in a crystal globe). Crutches and other helpers of the sick and\\ndeformed are hung upon the walls of the sacristy, their owners having\\nbeen made whole, while numerous rude votive pictures adorn the chapels.\\nChateau Richer is S, of Ste, Anne, and has the ruins of a Franciscan\\nmonastery on a bold point over the river. This monastery was built hi\\n1695, and was so sturdily defended against Gen. Wolfe (even the monks\\nfought) that he was obliged to destroy it by cannonading. From the\\nparish-church, near the ruins, beautiful views are gained of L Ange\\nGardien, Cape Diamond, and the Isle of Orleans, the Garden of Lower\\nCanada, This isle is 20 M. long and 5-6 M. wide, and is famed for its\\nrich soil. Cartier, in 1535, named it tlie Isle of Bacchus, and m 167G it\\nwas made into the Earldom of St. Laurent.\\nThe Saguenay River (Tadousac) is 134 M. from Quebec, and\\nsteamers run send-weekly. Below the St, Marguerite Islands (of which\\nGoose and Crane are the largest), the St, Lawrence attains and keeps a\\nwidth of about 20 M, with 18 ft, tides, and with seals, porpoises, and\\nwhales playing in tlie cletir salt water. The Isle of Orleans is passed on\\nthe N., and the quarantine stations on Grosse Isle are seen, near the vast\\npromontory of Cap Tourmente, Tlie Isle aux Coudres has a population\\nmore purely Norman in its blood and habits than any other in Canada.\\nSte. Anne, on the S. E. shore, has a Catholic College (Frencli), and\\nMalhaie (Murray Bay), 80 M, from Quebec, is a favorite summer-resort\\nfor the better classes of the French Canadians, The steamer crosses to\\nRiviere du Lnuj), the terminus of the Grand Trunk Railway on the E.\\n6 M, from which is Cacouna (St, Lawrence Hall, c,), the Newport of\\nCanada, where thousands of visitors enjoy sea-bathing during the heats\\nof sunmier. Tri-weekly stages run from Riviere du Loiip to the Grand\\nFalls of the St. Jolm River, whence stages connect with route 49 (see\\npage 323), The steamer now crosses the wide river to Tadousac (large\\nsummer-hotel), a post of the Hudson s Bay Company at the month of the\\nSaguenay River, Tadousac was early fortified by the French it was the\\nresidence of Pere Marquette, who explored the Mississippi Valley; and it\\nnow has a venerable Catholic church, which is said to be more than 2^\\ncenturies old. The vast canon. Ihrough which the Saguenay rolls its black\\n17 Y", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0459.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "386 Route 56. THE SAGUENAY RIVER.\\nwaters is now entered, and lofty peaks and palisades tower on either side.\\nAfter passing La Bouia and the Profiles, 34 M. above Tadousac, the\\nmajestic Cape Trinity and Cape Eternity rise on the S, to the height\\nof 2,000 ft. eacli, guarding the entrance to Trinity Bay. The water at\\nthe base of these peaks is over 600 fathoms deep.i\\nSuddenly the boat rounded the corner of the three steps, each 500 ft. high, in\\nwhich Cape Eternity climbs from the river, and crept in under the naked side of\\nthe awful clilf It is sheer rock, springing froui the black water, and stretcliino-\\nupward with a wearj effort-like aspect, iu loug impulses of stone marked l y deep\\nseams from space to space, till, 1,5UU ft. in air, its vast brow beetles forward, and\\nfiowuswitliascatteniig fringe of pines The rock inllyjustities its attributive\\nlieight to tlie eye, which follows the upward rusli of the mighty acclivity, steep\\nafter steep, till it wins tlie cloud-capt sunuiiit, wlien the measureless mass seems\\nto swing and sway overhead, and the nerves tremble with the same terror that\\nbesets hnn who looks downward from the verge of a lofty precipice. It is wholly\\ngrim and stern no touch of beauty relieves tlie austere majesty of that presence.\\nAt the foot of Cajie Eternity the water is of unknown depth, and it spreads, a\\nblack expanse, in the rounding hollow of shores of unimaginable wildness and\\ndesolation, and issues again in its river s course around the base of Cape Trinity.\\nThis is yet loftier than the sister cliff, but it slopes gently backward from the\\nstream, and from foot to crest it is heavily clothed with a forest of i)ines. The\\nwoods that hitherto have shagged the hills witli a stunted and meagre growth,\\nshowing long stretches scarred by fire, now assume a stately size, and assemble\\nthemselves compactly upon the side of the mountain, setting their serried stems\\none rank above another, till the summit is crowned with the mass of their dark\\ngreen plumes, dense and soft and beautiful so that the spirit, perturbed by the\\nspectacle of the other cliff, is calmed and assuaged by the serene grandeur of this.\\nFrom W. D. Howells s A Chance Acquaintance.\\nStatue Point and Les Tableaux are next passed, and then Ha Ha Bay\\nis reached, witli its two small villages, 35-40 M. above which is\\nCMcoutwii, at the head of ship navigation. 60 M. farther W., in the\\nbosom of a vast and desolate wilderness, is the reservoir of the Sagnenay,\\nthe great Lake of St. John.\\nFrom Quebec to Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, and New York,\\nsee Route 24. From Quebec to Boston, by Lake Memphrenmgog, White\\nRiver Junction, and Concord, see Routes 24 and 29 to Boston, by way of\\nGorham, Portland, and the sea-shore, see Routes 40 and 37 or by way of\\nGorham, Portland, and Lawrence, see Routes 40 and 3S.\\n1 In recent maps and descriptions the name of Eternity has been given to tiie\\nN. ca] e, and Trinity to tlie f)ther. This is not correct, for tlie N. cape; was\\nnamed La Trinite by tlie .Jesuits, on account of its union of three vast sections\\ninto one mountain. It is known by that name among the old pilots and river-\\npeojtle.", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0460.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "SCHENECTADY. JRoute 57. 387\\n57. Boston to Niagara Falls.\\nBy the Boston Albany R. R. and the N. Y. Central Hudson River R. R. in\\nb07^ M. Fare, $11.85 fare by Pullman parlor-cars to Rochester (where the lii st\\nand only change of cais occurs $2.25 extra.\\nThis route has long formed one of the favorite excursions from New England,\\nand passes througli a fine diversity of scenery. The densely populated Eastern\\ncounties of Mass. are su(-.ceeded by the rich agricultural lands of Worcester Coun-\\nty and the chief inland cities of the Bay Stale Worcester, ypringheld, and\\nPittsheld are passed in succession. Beyond the jiicturesque scenery of the Berk-\\nshire Hills, the line descends into the fair Hudson River valley, and crosses the\\nbroad Hudson ;it Albany.\\nChiief Stations. Boston; S. Framingham, 21 M. Worcester, 44; W.\\nBrookheld, (i-.t ralmer, S3 Springfield, OS We.sthcld, 108 Chester, 12G Pitts-\\nfield, 151 Cliiilham, 177 Albany, 202. N. Y. Central R. R. Albany Schenec-\\ntady, 219 M. (lYoni Boston) Amsterdam, 2o5 Fort Plain, 260 Little Falls, 275^-\\nUtica, 297; Rome, 311 Oneida, 324 Syracuse, 350J Weedsport, 371 Palmyra,\\n40Si Rochester, 430^^ Speneerport, 440 Holley, 453 Medina, 471 Gasport,\\n481 Lockport, 487 Suspension Bridge, 50G Niagara Falls, 5072-.\\nFor a description of the route from Boston to Springfield, see Eoute 24\\n(page 124); and from Springfield to Albany, see Route 22 (page 141).\\nAlbany, see page 348. The routes and cities between Albany and Niagara\\nFalls, and thence to Montreal, are more fully described in Osgood s Mid-\\ndle-States Hand-Book, pages 152 to 214 inclusive (with maps of Rochester,\\nBuff alo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal).\\nThe N. Y. Central R. R. traverses the garden of N. Y. State, rich in\\nagricultural and industrial resources, and teeming with a lai ge poj^ula-\\ntion. Beyond the great cattle-yards of W. Albany the train reaches the\\nMohawk River and the city of Solienectady {Given s Hotel), a quaint old\\nplace, with 14,000 inhabitaiits and large iron-works. It was founded in\\n1662, and was destroyed by tlie Frencli in 1690, after a terrible massacre\\nof the citizens. On the r. are seen the buildings of Union University\\n(formerly Union College), an old and richly endowed institution over\\nwhich Eliphalet Nott presided from 1804 luitil 1866. Beyond the alluvial\\nplains of Glenville the train reaches AmsterdctDi (Arnold House), a thriv-\\ning factory- village of 10, 000 inhabitants, situated in a fertile country.\\nTribes Hill was the council-ground of the valiant Mohawks, who aided the\\nearly Engiisli and Dutch settlers, and waged sanguinary v/ar against the French,\\neven to the extent of destroying Montreal. In this vicinity were the mansions of\\nthe powerful .Johnson family, whose influence over the Indians was almost bound-\\nless. Sir William Johnson commanded tlie forces at tlie Battle of Lake George\\n(see page 35G) and Sir John declared against America at the outbi eak of the\\nRevolution, and led his tenantry and Indian allies in destructive raids through\\nCentral New York.\\nFonda {Fonda Hotel) is a pleasant village of Dutch origin, and is the\\ncapital of Montgomery County. A branch railroad runs thence 10 M. N.\\nby Johnstown to Gloversville, which is failious for its glove-manufactories.\\nThe train passes the high hills called The Noses, and at Palatine Bridge\\n(settled by Palatine Germans in 1713) the pretty hamlet of Canajohaiio", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0461.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "388 Routes?. Tr.EXTON FALLS.\\nis seen on tlie 1. bank of the Mohawk. Daily stages ntn thence 12 M. S.\\nto the favorite summer-resort of Sharon Springs the Baden Baden of\\nAmerica Fort Plain (Union Hal!) is a large village in the centre of a\\ndistrict which is rich in the history and legends of the old Avars. After\\ncrossing the E. Canada Creek the line traverses the Manheim intervales\\nand reaches Little Falls {Benton House), a busy factory village pictiir-\\nes(iiiely Imilt in tlie narrow gorge where the rapi l Mohawk breaks through\\na locky rislge 5 GOO ft. high. Great quantities of rich cheese are for-\\nAvarded from this point, and also from the next station, Herkimer (the\\ncapital of Herkimer County). Ilion is tlie seat of the Remington rifle-\\nfactory, where large armaments have been made for Egypt, Japan, Rome,\\nDenmark, Spain, Sweden, and the S. American repuldics. During 7\\nn)onths of the Franco-Prussian War the works ran night and day, and\\nmade 15r),000 rifles for France. Crossing the Mohawk River the train\\nreaclK^s Utica Battcrjield House Bagcjs Hotel), a thriving city of\\n30,000 inhabitants, with 31 churches, 5 banks, and 3 daily papers. There\\nis a large Welsh and German population here; and the manufactures of\\nthe city are manifold and lucrative. In the W. suburb are the imposing\\nbuildings of the State Insane Asylum.\\nTrenton Falls Moure s Trenton Falls Hotel) are 17 M. N. W. of\\nUtica Ijy the Utica Black River R. R. (hi 40 nun. fare, 75c.), and are\\nof rare and picturescpie beauty. They are formed by the W. Canada\\nCreek, whicli here descends in a profound limestone ravine, and have a\\nsingular appearance by reason of the amber color of the water. Tlie hotel\\nand falls are 1 M. from the station (carriages, 50c.). The Sherman Falls\\nare the first approached, and 800 ft. beyond are the High Fcdls, the\\nfinest point in the series. Above this place is the great romantic rock-\\nhall called the Alhambra and still fai ther \\\\ip the creek is the Prospect\\nFall. The railroad runs N. from Trenton Falls to BoonviUe and Lovjville,\\nthe favorite entrances to John Brown s Tract (see Osgood s J/iVZtZZe States^\\npage 1-.^,)-\\nSiclifield Sprir-^jG Sjjring House American) is reached from Utica\\nby the D., L. W. R. R. in 35 M., and is one of the chief summer resorts\\nof Central N. Y. The sulphur-waters of Richfield are unpleasant to the\\ntaste, l)ut are very efficacious in ameliorating cutaneous disorders. The\\nvillage is pleasantly situated in Otsego County, near Schuyler Lake and\\nOtsego Lake, the home of Cooper (see O.sgood s Middle States, page 323),\\nand has summer quarters for 2,500 guests.\\nBeyond Whitesboro and Oriskany the train enters the city of Rome\\n{Stanwix Hall American), a manufacturing centre with 11,000 inhabi-\\ntants, at the confluence of the Erie and the Black River Canals. Rome is\\non the site of Fort Stanwix, which sustained an heroic siege in 1777; and\\nto the E. occurred the L.tal battle of Oriskany, where th.e valley militia", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0462.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "ROCHESTER. Route 57, 389\\nwere ambuscaded by the Indians and suffered heavy losses. Stations,\\nVerona, near the Verona Springs, and N. of the Oneida Reservation\\nOneida (Eagle Hotel), at the crossing of the Midland R. R., and just N.\\nof the Oneida Community Canastota, celebrated for its manufacture of\\ndelicate pliilosophical instruments and Chittenango, where many sum-\\nmer visitors sojourn in order to avail themselves of the celebrated mag-\\nnesia and sulphur waters (White Sulphur Springs Hotel).\\nSyracuse 6r^o e Hotel; Vanderhiit House) is midway between Al-\\nbany and Buffalo, and is situated at the foot of Onondaga Lake. It has\\n54,122 inhabitants, 40 churches, and 9 banks; and is the seat of exten-\\nsive manufactures. On the heights to the S. are the spacious new build-\\nings of the Syracuse University, a well-endowed Methodist institution and\\nfine views of the city and lake are enjoyed from their vicinity. The Salt\\nSprings are N. W. of Syracuse, near the shore of tlie lake, and are worthy\\nof notice. There are 24 wells of brine (from immense subterranean de-\\nposits of rock-salt) belonging to the State, and yielding 8-9,000,000\\nbushels of salt yearly. Onondaga Lake is a narrow and unattractive\\nelieet 6 M. long and 361 ft. above the sea. Its history is full of interest\\nftnd is diversitied with the adventures of the French, Spanish, English,\\nand Onondaga sojourners in this region. Beyond Syracuse the train\\ncrosses Wayne County, famous for its peppermint; and from Lyons {Con-\\ngress Hall) 100,000 pounds of peppermint oil are shipped yearly. Near\\nPalmyra arose tlie sects of tlie Mormons and Spiritualists, so extensively\\nknown in recent times.\\nRochester {*Osburn House; Brackett Hotel; Congress Hall) is a\\nhandsome modern city of 90,000 inhabitants, favorably situated on the\\nGenesee River. It is called the Flour City on account of its flour-\\nniills, which are the largest in the world (having an annual capacity\\nof 1,000,000 barrels); and also the Flower City, by reason of its im-\\nmense nurseries covering thousands of acres with masses of brilliant\\nflowers (fruits and plants to the value of ^2,500,000 are exported hence\\nannually). The Poioers Buildings are the finest commercial buildings\\nbetween New York and Chicago, and contain a large gallery of average\\nAmerican paintings. From the tower (175 ft. high) on their top is gained\\na line view of the city and the lake. Near the Powers Buildings are the\\nfine structures of the City Hall, Court House, and High School. The\\nUniversity of Rochester has new stone buildings fronting across a verdant\\ncampus on University Ave. and its geological cabinets are the best in the\\nU. S. This institiition pertains to the Baptist Church and the same sect\\ncontrols the Rochester Theological Seminary, whose rich library (15,000\\nvolumes) includes the library of Neander, the German churcli-historian.\\n1 M. N. of the city are the extensive buildings of the Western House of\\nRefuge, for the reformation of youthful criminals. The Erie Canal crosses", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0463.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "390 Route 58. NIAGAr.A FALLS.\\ntlie Genesee (near tlie Buffalo St. Bridge) on a fine aqneduct of cut stone\\nwhich cost S 600,000. The Mount Hojk Cemetery is a beautiful and at-\\ntractive burying-ground S. of the city, near the river; and has picturesque\\nliills and groves, and a far- viewing observatory-tower. The Genesee Falls\\nare within the city, and are interesting in an industrial point of view.\\nThe upper fall has 96 ft. of depth, and is jucturesque in higli water. The\\ngreat water-power dei ived from this fall gives Rochester its importance\\nas a manufacturing city. The middle falls are 1^ M. below, and are 25\\nft. deep; while the lower falls descend 84 ft., and are the most pic-\\nturesque of the series. Steamboats run from the lower falls (and trains\\nfrom the R. R. station) to Charlotte, the i)ort of Rochester, pleasantly\\nsituated on Lake Ontario, 7 M. distant.\\nThe Niagara train runs W. from Rochester along the line of the Erie\\nCanal, passing Brockport, famous for its large State Normal School\\nHolley, near salt-springs A Ibion, the capital of Orleans County, with a\\nhigh dome on the Court House; Medina, enriched by prolific quarries of\\nred sandstone; and Lockport (Judson House), a city of 15,000 inhabi-\\ntants, surrounded by a fine agricultural country, and made active by nu-\\nmerous manufactories. On the 1. from the train are seen the 10 massive\\nlocks which give the city its name, and by whose aid the Erie Canal as-\\ncends 66 ft. from the Genesee Level to the Erie Level. The train passes\\non rapidly over a wide rural district, and soon reaches Suspension Bridge\\nand Niagara Falls.\\n58. Niagara Falls.\\nHotels. Cataract House, and Intcniational Hotel, each 84.50 a day, lo-\\ncated near the Raijids. Siieiieer House, ()i)i\u00c2\u00bbosite tlie station, open all the year\\n($3.50 a (lay) i ark Plaec Hotel. On the Canadian sliore is tlie Clifton House,\\n$3.50 a day (U. S. money) also the Victoria Hall, on the heights above Clifton.\\nThe Cli ton coininands the liiiest view of the Falls. The Moiiteagle Hotel is at\\nSusiieiision Bridge (.-#12-15 a week)-\\nCarriages. The luieknien of Niagara have been a source of continual annoy-\\nance to visitors by tlieir importunity and extoi tion. They may easily l.e sliaKeu\\noff by a prompt and lirm refusal and gentlemen who wisli to ride \\\\vit)i theiK\\nshould make an ex])lieit verbal contract before starting, \u00e2\u0080\u0094in whicli the i Iaces to\\nbe visited, tlie time to be taken, and tlie compensation should be diiitiuctly\\nunderstood by both parties. Tlicre is tlien ])at little danger of trouble. Tlie\\ntoll.5 on the bridges and roads are paid by the touri.-^t. No reliance sliould bo\\n].l,ice(l on the hackman s stiitement of distances. The tarilf for carriages is y 2 aa\\nhour, but s]ieci:il contracts maybe made at lower rates ior visiting speciliel points.\\nTliese r;ites varv witli the men t!ie season, and tlie size of the party. A buggy\\nand driver may lic hired for o a day. The trip on the Canadian side includes the,\\nTabh Uock, the l^uniing S]iriiig, Lundy s Lane, tlie lower Suspension Bridge, and\\nthe Whirljiool (and sometimes Brock s monument on Que ;nston Heiglits). Tiieie\\nis but little need of a carriage on the Amcri -an shore urdess Niagara City is\\nvisited, \u00e2\u0080\u0094Goat Island and Prosjiect Park being more easily and leasantly trav-\\nerseil on foot. A carriage and span may be hired (outside the hotels) for sp) a\\n(1 :y to cirry -l-. iH isons to all points of interest on both shores. incbidiiig\\nthe Suspension Bi idgo and Queenston Heights. Tolls and entranco-fees ai c not\\nin -luded in this lu-ice. Guides may be obtained in the village, but tucre is no\\nli.-ced tariff.", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0464.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "NIAGARA FALLS. Route 5S. 391\\nShops for t!ie sale of bead-work, baskets, fans, photographs, minerals, spar\\nand agate jewelry, etc., abound in various parts of the village. Many of these\\naitiiles are mauufartured by tlie Tuscarora Indians, v^iio live on a reservation 7\\nM. distant. Indian si^uaws are seen at diilerent points selling these wares, which\\nare generally pretty and inexpensive.\\nThe extortions at Niagara have become worM-famed, and are much exaggerated.\\nIt is true tliat the tourist is called \\\\\\\\\\\\n)u to pay at nearly every step in the vicinity\\nof the Falls (on the American side), but then he is continually using facilities\\nand improvements which have cost large amounts of mouey and are only remu-\\nnerative for a few months in the year. Tiie Falls and their surroundings are fre-\\nquently done by ]!arties in a single day and as juany rare and curious olyects\\nai-e seen as would be found in weeks of ordinary travel. The i)aynient nuist be in\\nsome degree commensurate. Tourists who reiuain several days or weelcs at Ni-\\nagara can avail tliemselves of season-tickets to various jioints at low rates, and\\ntheir expenses need be no greaier than they would be at New York or Newport.\\nMuch of the exti-a expense at Niagara is due to t!ie fact that the majority of tour-\\nists here indulge in luxuries wliich are neither necessary nor custcnnary. Nowhere\\nare carriages so needless as here, since tlie distances are short and the roads ai-e\\nnnraistakable. A gentleman travelling en gar(;on may speiid 2 days here ior less\\nthan .$10, by avoiding some of the less interesting (yet always expensive) locali-\\nties by being satislied with comfm table, instead of luxurious, hotel-acconnnoda-\\ntions and by walking, as he would at home. Arriving at the Falls in the morn-\\ning, the day should be devoted to the American side and principally to Goat\\nIsland (good diuiug-saloon in the village). Cn)s ing to the Canadian shore at\\nevening, the second day sliould be given to that side.\\nIt was not until 1 came on Table Rock, and looked Great Heaven\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on\\nwhat a fall of bright green water! that it came upon me in its full might and\\nmajesty. Then, when I felt how near to my Creatt r 1 was standing, the fli st\\netlect, and the enduring one instant and lasting of the tremendous sjiectacle\\nwas Peace. Peace of Mind Trampiillity calm recollectiuus of the Dead:\\nGreat Thoughts of Eternal Rest and Plappiness nothing of Gloom or Terror.\\nNiagara was at once stam]icd uifon my heart, an Ivjiage of Beauty to remain tliere\\nchangeless and indelible until its jiulses cease to beat forever I think iu\\nevery quiet season now, still do those waters roll and le;ip, and roar and tumble\\nall day long still are the rainbows spanning them a hundred feet below, ytill,\\nwhen the sun is on tliem, do they shine and glow like molten gold. Still, when\\nthe day is gloomy, do tliey fall like snow, or seem to crumble away like the trout\\nof a great chalk cliff, or roll down the rocic lilce dense wliite smoke. But always\\ndoes the mighty stream seem to die as it comes down, a;id always from the un-\\nfathomable gulf rises that trememlous ghost of spray and mist wluch is never\\nlaid, which has haunted ttiis place with tlie same dreail solemnity since darkness\\nbrooded on the deep, and that lirst flood before the deluge Light came rush-\\ning on creation at the ^yord of God. (Dickens.)\\nNiagara Falls are sitttated on tlie Niagara River, 22^ M. from Lake\\nErie, and 13^ M. from Lake Ontario. The river is the outlet of the great\\nlakes of the West, and has a width of aljout 4,000 ft. at this point. It is\\nheld by scientists that the Falls formerly occupied a position near Lewis-\\nton, but have receded to their present location in about 30,000 years, by\\nwearing out the ledges with incessant beating. Remarkable displays of\\nice-cones and icicles are witnessed here in winter; and in 1818 the Falls\\nwere nearly di-ied up by reason of an ice-dam which held back the river\\nat the efflux from Lake Erie.\\n*Goat Island (entrance, 50c.; season-ticket, $1) is 5 min. walk from\\nthe R. R. station, and is reached by an iron carriage-bridge IGO ft. long,\\nwlience is gained a fine view of the wliite and turbulent Rai)ids, which\\nfall 51 ft. iu a course of M., and attain a velocity of 30 M. an hour,", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0465.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "302 Route 5S. NIAGARA FALLS.\\nlike a battle-charge of tempestuous waves, animaterl aud infuriated\\nagainst tlie sky. Beyond Bdh Island (witli the Tribune Paper Mills)\\nthe road reaches Goat Island, wliose sequestered groves are the goal of\\nthat great circle of newly wedded bliss, which, involving the whole land\\nduring the season of bridal tours, may be said to show richest and fairest\\nat Niagara, like the costly jewel of a precious ring (see Howells s Their\\nWedding Journey The path to the r. from the bridge leads (in 5 min.)\\nto tlie foot of the island and the verge of the Centre Falls, whence a\\nfoot-bridge conducts to Lima Island, a rocky islet between the Centre\\nand American Falls. The American Fall stretches away from Luna\\nIsland for 1,200 ft., with a perpendicular plunge of 164 ft. and the visi-\\ntor can stand within a span of its curve. Fine lunar bows are seen here\\non niglits when the moon is full. At this end of Goat Island is a stairway\\nleading to the level of the river below the Falls. Guides and water-proof\\nclothing are here furnished ($1.50) for persons who wish to enter the\\nCave of the Wlnds^ a damp grotto, whose W. side is formed by the blue\\nwater of the massive Centre Fall. Double and triple concentric circular\\nrainbows may be seen in this vicinity on a bright afternoon. The road on\\ntlie summit of the cliff passes the bridges to the islet on which stood the\\nTerrapin Tower. The view of the Horse-Shoe Fall from this point is\\none of the grandest about Niagara. The width of the Fall is nearly 2,100\\nft., witli a height of 158 ft. (6 ft. less than the American Fall). IS ear its\\ncentre is the smooth dark-green current which marks the deepest water\\nof the Falls, over 20 ft.\\nThe term Canadian Fall is often applied to the waters W. of Goat Island, bul\\nit is inexact, since the national boundary passes down tlie centre of the Horse-\\nyiioe, leaving fully half ol the W. Falls iu the domain of the Ilepublic. The out-\\nline of this Fall has been so changed that the liorseshoe curve is less apjiarent\\ntlian formerly. In reeent years large sections of the adjacent clilfs if Goat island\\nhave fallen into the abyss below, aud Gull Ishmd, near tlie curve of the Falls, has\\nbeen washed away. In 1S27 the condemned ship Michigan was sent over the\\nHorse-Shoe Falls witli a cargo of animals, one of which, a sagacious bear, deserted\\nthe ship in the midst of the rapids, and swam ashore. In ISIO a salt-boat sunk\\noff Chippewa, aud 3 of the crew were carried over the Falls; in 1821, a scow ar-l\\n2 men went over; in 1S25, 5 more, 3 of v/hom were in canoes in 1841, a sand\\nscow and 2 men, and 2 smugglers in 1847, a young boy, who tried to row across\\nabove; in 1848, two children were playing in a skirt, when it got loose, the\\nmother, Avading out, saved one, but the other was swejit over, grasjiing the beat\\n(in each side. In 1871, S strangers tried to row across far al)0ve, but the current\\n(bewtheni in, and carried them down and in 1873, a newly married couple, while\\nrowing about near Chippewa, were drawn into the central current, and passed\\nover tlie Falls in each tither s arms. Many other disasters have occurred above\\nanil below the Falls, as if to verity the Indian tradition that Niagara demands 2\\nvictiiiis yearly. Two bull-terrier dogs have made the plunge over the American\\nFalls without harm. One of them lived all winter on a dead cow which it found\\non the rocks Itelow and the other trt tted up the ferry-stairs, very much aston-\\nished and grieved, within an hour from the time when he was thrown from Goat\\nIshmd Bridge.\\nThe Three Sisters are rugged and romantic islets S. W. of Goat\\nIsland, aud are reached by 3 pretty suspension-bridges connected with the", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0466.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "NIAGAEA FALLS. Rmie 5S. 393\\nroad leading from Terrapin Bridge. Tliey afford the best view of the\\nRapids at tlic^ir widest, deepest, and most tumultuous part, where the\\nbase of their licaviest whirl is wreathed witli mist. A light bridge leads\\nto another picturesque islet near the third Sister. The Three Sisters\\nare mere fragments of wilderness, clumps of vine-tangled woods, planted\\nupon masses of rock; but they are parts of the fascination of Niagara\\nwhich no one resists.\\nFrom the head of Goat Island, 1 M. up the river, is seen the white house which\\nstands on tli\u00c2\u00ab site of I uit 8chlosser, near which, at tlie mouth of Caj uga Cruek,\\nFather Hennepin and La Salle spent the winter and spring of 1678-70. They\\nbuilt here a GO-ton vessel, the Griffin, and sailed up the great lakes to Green Bay\\n(Wisconsin). Fort du Portage was afterward erected at Schlosser, and was taken\\nby tliB English in 1759, aftt-r a siege, in which the French garrison destroyed their\\narmed store-ships in Burnt Ship Bay. On Kavi! Island (near Schlosser)the Cana-\\ndian insurgents of lSo7 had their head-quarters, and connnunicated with the\\nAmerican shore by the steamer Carolhie. A Britisli force 1)oarded the Caroline\\nby night, and after a short struggle lieat off tlie crew. The vessel was then set on\\nlire, and drifted down, blazing througli the darkness, to the cascades below Goat\\nIsland, where she went to pieces (some say that she plunged over the Falls in a\\nmass of flame). Col. Allan McNab, who ordered tins attack, was soon afterwards\\nknigiited. Grand Island is above Navy Island, and is 12 M. long and 2-7 M. wide\\n(containing 17,240 acres). In 1820 Mordecai M. No: ,h emleavored to make this\\nisland a home for the scattered Helirews througiiout the wtn-ld. After much\\nlegislation and wide correspondence with his comjiatriots, he put up a monument\\non the island, inscribed, Ararat, a city of refuge for the Jews, etc. But the\\nEuropean Raltbins denounced the movement, and the project was abandoned.\\nProspect Park entrance, 20c. season-ticket, 50c. entrance and\\nferriage over and back, 50c.) is on the mainland, by the side of the\\nAmerican Fall. Its chief point of interest is a platform, inwalled by a\\nlow parapet, on the very verge of the Fall, whence the deep abyss and the\\nbroad curve of the waters may be observed in security. A railway 360\\nft. long, and inclined at an angle of 33\u00c2\u00b0, leads from the Park to the river\\nbelow. Tlie cars are drawn by an endless cable, which is worked by\\nwater-power. Paths lead from the base of the cliff into the spray toward\\nthe Falls also to Point View, and to 2 small caverns nearly 1 M. distant\\n(the path is rugged and dangerous). Near the foot of the railway the\\ntourist enters a large rowboat, which is tossed about as if on a stormy sea\\nby the tumultuous waters. The view of the Falls from mid-stream (or\\nof the way across) is awe-inspiring, and gives the full idea of their great\\nheight, wlui h is not obtained from the banks above. This ferry was es-\\ntablislied in 1825, and no accident has ever occurred on it. The passage\\nof the river takes 10 niin., and the depth of the water on the line of transit\\nis 180 ft. A road M. long leads from the landing to the top of the cliff,\\nnear the Clifton House (carriages are in waiting).\\nThe *New Suspension Bridge 2 ic. for pedestrians) is G-SOO ft. be-\\nlow the Falls, of wlucli it gives a grand panoramic view from the be-\\nginnmg of the American Fall to the farthest limit of the Horse-Shoe, with\\nall the awful pom]) of the Ptapids, the solemn darkness of the wooded\\n17*", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0467.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "394 Route 58. NIAGARA FALLS.\\nislands, the mystery of the vaporous giilf, the indomitable wildness of the\\nshores, as far as the qjq can reach up or down the fatal stream\\nOf all the bridges made with hands it seems the lightest, most ethereal\\nit is ideally graceful, and droops from its slight towers like a garland.\\nThat apotheosis of industry, the white and slender fall called the\\nBridal Veil, is seen on the American shore, and is the end of a poor\\nbut respectable mill-race which has devoted itself strictly, to business, and\\nhas turned mill-wheels instead of fooling around water-lilies. It can afford\\ntliat \\\\iltimate finery. The bridge was finished in 1869, at a cost of\\n175,000, and is the longest suspension-ljridge in the world, being 1,190\\nft. from cliff to cliff, and 1,268 ft from tower to tower. The American\\ntower (10c. for the ascent) is 100 ft. higli; and the Canadian tower\\n(ascended by an elevator; 25c.) is 105 ft. high, and commands a noble\\nview of the Falls and the great ravine. The terminus is near the Clifton\\nHouse, a spacious first-class hotel which faces the entire range of the\\nFalls. Passing from the Clifton House toward the Falls, a continuous\\nand majestic prospect is afforded. The Museum (50e.) is soon approached.\\nIt contains collections of coins, minerals, Egyptian relics and mummies,\\ncasts from Ninevite sculptures, a line of grotesque wax figures, and an\\nextensive array of stuffed birds and animals arranged in a forest-scene.\\nThere is a pleasant prospect from the upper balconies, and in the hall\\nbelow is a large salesroom for bijouterie characteristic of Niagara. Live\\nbuffaloes are kept in the yard. Oil-cloth suits and guides are furnished\\nhere 1) for the passage under the Horse-Shoe Fall. Termination Rock\\nis reached near the edge of the Fall, and visitors, blinded by the spray,\\nand deafened by the roaring of the waters, will be satisfied to return\\nspeedily. 300 ft. above the Museum is Table Rock, from which is given\\nthe grandest front view of the entire Falls and time should be un-\\nlimited at this point.\\nIn 1850 a section of this ledfje, 200 X 60 ft., and 100 ft. tliick, broke aMMy, and\\nplunged into the chasm below with a tremendous roar An onmibus wiiicli was\\nstanding ni)on it went down also, and was shivered to atoms, the driver I arely\\ne:-ifapiiig by the warning of the splitting rocks. The renMuning part of Tal)le\\nRock is thought to be destined to remain Arm, as tliere is but little overhang;\\nalthough a crack 125 ft. long and 60 ft. deep was left when the great crash took\\nplace.\\nThe Burning Spring is 2 M. above Table Rock, and should be ap-\\nproached by the river-road, which affords a fine view of the Great Ox-Bow\\nRapids and the broad river above. Just above is the fine mansion and\\npark formerly owned by Mr. Street, a retired bachelor and fervid lover of\\nNature, who won the ill-will of the inhabitants of this section and the\\ngratitude of all tourists by refusing to allow mills to be erected on his\\nwide riverward domains. The Burning Spring (40c. admission) is highly\\ncharged with sulphuretted hydrogen gas, which burns with an intermit-", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0468.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "NIAGARA FALLS. Route 5S. 395\\ntent pale-blue flame when ignited. The water is in a state of ebullition,\\nand the spring- house is kept darkened to increase the effect. A tub with\\na long iron pipe through the bottom is inverted over the water, and a\\nconstant stream of gas passes througli it, aflbrding a jet of tianie over 3\\nft. high. The spring is at the water s edge, and overlooks the wliite rapids\\nto Goat Island while nearer at hand is Cynthia Island, joined to the\\nStreet domain by a pretty footbridge. It is best to return to the Falls by\\nthe parallel road on the heights, near the Loretto Convent, from which good\\nviews are gained, including the best overview of tlie Horse-Slioe. By all\\nodds, too, the most tremendous view of the Falls is afforded by the point\\non this drive whence you look down upon tlie Horse-Slioe, and Ijehold its\\nthree massive walls of sea rounding and sv/eeping into the gulf togetlier,\\nthe color gone, and the smooth brink shov.dng black and ridgy. A road\\ndiverging to the 1., near tlie Falls, leads to the handet of Drumviondoille\\n(1^ M. from Table Rock), on whose heights is a tower which overlooks the\\nbattle-field of Lundy s Lane and a great extent of country^, from Bi ock a\\nmonument on Queenston Heights to Buffalo and Lake Erie.\\nTlie Suspension Bridge which connects Niagara City (so called) and\\nClifton, and sustains the track of the Great Western Railway^ is about 2\\nM. N. of the Falls. It was built in 1852, under the direction of John A.\\nRoebling, and cost $500,000. It is 800 ft. long, and 230 ft. above the\\nriver, and weigl* 800 tons, being fitted to sustain a maximum weight of\\n7,309 tons. The first wire was drawn across by a sti ing which had been\\ncarried over on a kite. 18 ft. above the carriage-way is the railway-floor\\nover which the heaviest trains pass safely, causing a deflection in the curve\\nof but 5-10 inches. On the S. W. the New Suspension Bridge and the\\nFalls are seen, while on the N. are the white and terrible Whirlpool\\nRapids. Just beyond the Monteagle House (American side) is a double\\nelevator (50c. which leads from the top of the bank 300 ft. down to the\\nverge of these marvellous rapids, where the waters of the great lakes are\\ncompressed into a narrow gorge, and rush down with such fury that the\\ncentre of the stream is 30 40 ft. higlier than the sides. June 15, 18G7,\\nthe intrepid pilot Robinson guided the steamer Maid of the Mist as she\\nshot these rapids, like the swift sailing of a large bird in a dowiiward\\nflight. Her smoke-stack was beaten down, and the vessel was tossed\\nlike a leaf on the huge surges, but speedily reached the calm water below\\nLewiston in safety. About 1 M. below the rapids is the Whirlpool,\\nsituated in a circular bend of the river, and bounded by cliffs 350 ft. higli.\\nLogs and other tilings wliicli are drawn into these concentric currents\\nwhirl al)Out there for many days.\\nQueenston is an insignificant Canadian hamlet 6 M. N. of the Falls\\nabove which a lofty monunient was erected on the place where Gen. Brock\\nfell in the battle of Queenston Heights. This was Ijlown up by a scoun-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0469.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "396 Route 5S. NIAGARA FALLS.\\ndrelly refugee in 1840 and in 1S53 the present noble monument was\\ndedicated. On a base 40 ft. square and 20 ft. high are 4 colossal lions,\\nbetween which rises a lofty fluted shaft of sandstone. On the Corinthian\\ncapital is a relief of the Goddess of War, and above this is a dome which\\nsupports a colossal statue of Gen. Brock. The monument is 185 ft. high,\\nand is ascended by an inner spiral stairway of 250 steps. The view from\\nthis point is extensive, and includes the tower on Limdy s Lane, a consiil-\\nerable sweep of the river, and the broad lake.\\nIt is probable that the fearless Franciscan monks and the adventurous fur-\\ntradeis of France had often seen the Falls at a very eiirly day. But the first de-\\nseriiitiiiu (with a sketch) was made by Father Henneiihi in 1(378, who gave them a\\nheight of GOO ft., saying also Betwixt the Lakes Erie and Ontario there is a\\nvast and prodigious cadence of water which falls down a surprising and astonish-\\ning height, insonuich that the univei se does not afibrd its parallel The\\nwaters which fall from this horrible xirecipice do foam and boil after the most\\nhideous manner imaginable, making an outrageous noise, more terrible than that\\nof thunder for when the wind blows out of the S. their dismal roaring may be\\nheard more than 15 leagues. The river Niagara, having thrown itself down this\\nincredilile precipice, continues its imiietuous course for 2 leagues together\\nwith an inexi ressil)le rapidity The two brinks of it are so ])r(Kligious high\\nthat it would make one tremble to look steadily ui)on the water rolling along with\\na rapidity not to be imagined. Belbre this visit the peaceful Kahkwa trilie\\n(called the Neuter Nation) had been driven from the region, and the Senecas had\\nreplaced them, but did not dwell near the cascades (Hennepin thinks they feared\\nto be made deaf by the horrid noise of the Fall In 1GS7 the Baron La\\nHontan visited the Falls, and reported them to be 7-SOO ft. high and U M. wide.\\nThe name Niagara is said to mean Thunder of Waters. In 1G78 La Salle en-\\ntered the river (with IG men, in a 10-ton brigantine) singing the Te Deuvi, and\\nthe next year sailed from above the Falls in tlie first vessel on the Great Lakes.\\nIn 1G87 a fort was built at Niagara by the IMarquis I)e Nonville and in 1750 Fort\\ndu Portage was erec^ted above Uie Falls. This was taken in the year of the Con-\\nquest of Canada, and was strengthened under the name of Fort Schlosser. In\\n17G3 occurred a horrible massacre at Devil s Hole, Sk M. S. of the Falls, when a\\nlarge force of Kenecas ambushed a commissary-train- with a strong escort, on the\\nshore of Bloody Run. But 2 of the train-guards escaped, while the ^ui)]iorts\\nwhich Avere hurried from Lewiston to the sound of the firing were nearly all ut\\nto the tomahawk in a second and)ush. Many of the victims were cast alive from\\nthe lofty clifls into the boiling Niagara, and their horses and wagons were hurled\\ndown alter them.\\nO er TTuron g wave the sun was low. And while the phantom chained his sight,\\nThe wearv soldier watched the bow Ah! little thought he of the tiplit,\\nFast fading from the cloud below The horrors of the dreamless night,\\nThe dashing of Niagara. That posted on so rapidly.\\nThe Battle of Niagara Falls, or Lnndy s Lane, was fought July 25, 1814, on the\\nlieights U M. W. of the Falls. Several days after the victory at Chii)]iewa, Scott\\nadvamed with 1,200 men, and engaged the British at Lundy s Lane. He supposed\\nthat but a small force was before hhn, but in reality it was the whole hostile army.\\nJessup s 25th Regulars charged through the lines of AVellington s veterans and\\ncaptured Gen. Riidl and Ins staff, and at 9 in the evening the rest of the army\\nreinforced Scott. A little later. Col. IMiller and tlie 21st Reguhirs advanced up\\nthe heights in the moonlight and stormed the British batteries above. After a\\nterrible hand-to-hand contest with the infantry supports. Miller held the hill, with\\n7 pieces of British artillery, and rejiulsed 4 charges of the enemy. When the last\\nBritish assault was disastrously repulse(l, the Americans iem,-.ined in ]iossessioii\\nof the enemy s jiositioiis and guns. Later in the night they retired a short dis-\\ntance iVom tiie liehl and battery, which were reoccu])ied by the royalists. There\\nwere 2,000 Americans in this l)attle (of whom 852 were lost), and 4,500 British (of\\nwhom 878 were lost). The Battle ol Ni;igara Falls lias few iiaialkls in history", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0470.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": "TORONTO. Route 69. 397\\nin its wealth of gallant deeds. It was fought wholly in the shadows of a summer\\nevening between sunset and midnight Above was a serene sliy, a placid\\nmoon in its wane, and innumerable stars, a vision of Beauty and Peace below\\nwas the sulphurous smoke of battle out of which came the quick flashes\\nof liglitning and the bellowing of the echoes of its voice, a vision oi Horror and\\nStrile. Musket, rocket, and cannon, cracking, hissing, and booming and the\\nclash of sabre and bayonet, with the cries of human voices, made a horrid din\\nthat connningled with the awful, solemn roar of the gi cat cataract hard by, whose\\nmuffled thunder-tones rolled on, on, forever, in infinite grandeur when the puny\\ndram had ceased to beat, and silence had settled u])on the field of carnage. There\\nthe dead were buried, and the mighty diapason of the flood was their requiem.\\n(LOSSING.)\\n59. Niagara Falls to Toronto and Montreal.\\nThe St. Laiorence River.\\nSome tourists prefer to go to Hamilton or to Charlotte (Rochester) by-\\nrail, and there to take the steamer; and numerous other combinations of\\nrail and water navigation are made. Perhaps the favorite route is by-\\ncars (twice daily) along the profound gorge of the Niagara to Lewiston,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0whence a steamer descends the river, with fine retrospects of the gorge\\nand the monument-crowned heights of Queenston. At the mouth of the\\nriver the American and Anglo-Canadian forts are seen and fronting on\\nthe lake is The Queen s Royal Niagara Hotel, a favorite summer resort\\nfor the aristocracy of Toronto. Running thence N. W. for 30 M. across\\nLake Ontario, the steamer reaches\\nToronto.\\nHotels. *Rossin House, $3 a lay Queen s Hotel, Front St., $3 Mansion\\nHouse, corner King and York Sts., $1.50- 2 Revere American AlV ion. Amvse-\\nmentA at the Roy-d J^yceum Theatre, and at Sliaftesbury Hall. Post-Oflicc, on\\nAdelaide St., at the head of Toronto. Y. M. C. A., corner of King and James\\nSts.\\nRailways. Grand Trunk, to Montreal (333 M.) or Detroit (231 M.) Great\\nWestern, to Niagara Falls (82 M.)and Detroit (225 M.) Northern, to Orillia, (on\\nLake Simcoe S 3 M.) and Meaford (on Georgian Bay 115 M.) Toronto, Grey,\\nBruce, to Owen Sound (on Georgian Bay 178 M.); Poronto Ni]iissing, to (Ji )i o-\\nconk (88 M.). Steamers leave semi-daily for Hamilton and for Montreal; once\\ndaily for Lewiston and once daily for Port Dalhonsie.\\nCarriages, 25c. a course S 1 an- hour. Horse-Cars traverse King, Yonge, and\\nQueen Sts. to Trinity College and the Lunatic Asylum.\\nToronto, the capital of the Province of Ontario and the Queen City\\nof the West, is situated on a low sandy plain on the N, W. shore of\\nLake Ontario, between the Don and Hnmber Rivers. Tlie harbor is safe\\nand commodious, and is protected by a sandy bar (7 M. long, and 2h M.\\nfrom the shore) which terminates at Gibraltar Point. Toronto is the\\ncliief city of Upper Canada, and has 80,000 inhabitants, .54 churches,\\n10 banks, and 5 daily papers. There are 3 large grain-elevators on the\\nwater-front; and the most conspicuous ol)ject to a traveller ajiproaching\\nby water is the fine building of the Union Railway Station, with its tall\\ntowers. The principal streets are King and Yonge (the latter of which\\nruns N, for 33 M.), and the city is laid out with great regularity.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0471.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "398 Route 59. TORONTO.\\nThe University is reached from Queen St, hy College Ave., which is\\n4,000 ft. long and 120 ft. wide, and is lined with double rows of shade-\\ntrees. The buildings (open 2-5 P. M.) form the 3 sides of a quadrangle\\n250 ft. square, and are of gray ruhble-stone, trimmed with Ohio and Caen\\nstone. The University is the finest specimen of Norman architecture in\\nAmerica, and is bold and imposing in its outlines. In the centre of tlie\\nS. front is a massive tower 120 ft. high, with the main portal and great\\nwindow covered Avith all the wealth of Norman decoration. The massive\\ncolumns of the vestibule, and the Convocation, Library, and Museum\\nhalls, v/ith their pointed oaken roofs and grotesquely carved corbels, ai i\\nworthy of notice. To the E. is the Queen s Park, a pleasant domain of\\n50 acres, which has been leased to the city for 999 years. It is adorned\\nwith a costly monumerxt to the Torontonians who were killed during the\\nFenian foray in 1S6G; and also with a fine bronze statue of Queen Vic-\\ntoria, near the trophy-cannon from Sebastopol.\\nSt. James Cathedral is a stately Episcopal church on the corner of\\nKing and Church Sts. It is in the early English Gothic architecture, and\\nis pleasantly secluded among fine old trees. The massive tower has been\\ncrowned with a spire 325 ft. high, and the open timber roof is 70 ft.\\nabove the floor of the nave. The stained glass of the lancet-windows in\\nthe chancel is very brilliant. Opposite the Cathedral, and beyond St.\\nLawrence Hall and jNIarket, is the City Hall. To tlie N., beyond the Col-\\nlege of Technology and the Mechanics Institute, is the elegant and ornate\\nbuilding of the MptropoUtan Wesleyan Church, near St. Michael s Cathe-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Iral (Catholic). The Xormal School occupies a fine Palladian building,\\nand is near the Model Schools and the Educational IMuseum, surrounded\\nby Ih acres of finely adorned grounds. The new Post-Ojffice is at the\\nhead of Toronto St., and the Masonic Hall (on Toronto St.) has a costly\\nand ornate front of Ohio stone. Osgoode Hall is a stately Government\\nbuilding (on Queen St. in classic architecture, and is used for the Superior\\nCourts of the Province. Near the Union Railway Station are the old\\nProvincial Parliament Buildings, and the homely halls of the Upi^^r\\nCanada College.\\nTrinity College is W. of the city (Queen St. horse-cars), and has\\ngaljled and tui i-eted buildings in 15th-century pointed architecture, situ-\\nated in a park of 20 acres which overlooks the bay. It was founded by\\nBishop Strachan in 1851. In this vicinity is the spacious buihling of the\\nPromncial Lunatic Asylum, surrounded by 200 acres of ornamental\\ngrounds, S. of which is the exposition building called the Crystal Palace.\\nThe General Hospital is a large building on the E. of the city, near the\\nVictoria Medical College. The Loretto Abbey (45 nuns on Wellington\\nPlace) and the Convent of the Most Pre(;ious Blood (on St. Joseph St.)\\nare interesting Catholic institutions.", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0472.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "KINGSTON. Route 59. 399\\nThe Canadian Navigation Co. s steamers leave Hamilton daily at a. m., and\\nToronto at 2 i*. m. Tliey i-eacli Port Hope at G.aO p. m.; Kingston at 5.30 A. m.;\\nGananoque at 7 a. m. Brockville at 9.30; Prescott at 10.30; Cornwall at 1.20\\np. M.; and Montreal at G.45 p. m. State-rooms should be secured as early as\\npossible and travellers should be awakened on leaving Kingston, in order to see\\nthe Thousand Islands.\\nPassing the Scarboro Highlands and Darlington port and harbor at\\nabout supper-time, the steamer reaches Port Hope {St Laiu-rence Hall),\\na pretty village of Durham County. It is located in a narrow valley\\nwhich is overlooked by the hill of Fort Orton, and is surrounded by a\\ngood farming country. There are 5,400 inhabitants, 7 churches, and 3\\nweekly papers; and the buijdingis of Trinity College are seen on the hill\\nto the E. The Midland Railway runs thence N. W. to Beaverton and\\nOrillia (66 and 87 M.), on Lake Simcoe also 40 M. N. to Lakefield,\\nwhence steamers ascend a chain of beautiful lakes stretching N. half-\\nWay to the Arctic Sea. Cobourg is reached at late twilight, and is a\\npretty town of 4,000 iuhal/itants, with a large trade in shipping lumber,\\niron ore, and grain to the U. S. In the N. is Victoria College, a pros-\\nperous Wesleyan university (150 students), with neat buildings in a park\\nof 9 acres. A railroad runs 13 M. N. to Harwood, on the many-islanded\\nRice Lake, whence steamers ply (on Rice and Marmora Lakes) to Peter-\\nborough (tri-weekly; 30 M. N. and Blairton. Daily steamers run from\\nCobourg to Charlotte (see page 390). After leaving Cobourg the Montreal\\nsteamer passes well out into the lake to avoid the peninsular county of\\nPrince Edward. At early dawn Amherst Island is passed, and by day-\\nlight the broad harbor of Kingston is entered.\\nKingston {British American Hotel) is the chief city of Frontenac\\nCounty, and is favorably situated at the confluence of the Cataracqui\\nand St. Lawrence Rivers, at the foot of Lake Ontario, and above the head\\nof the Thousand Islands. It has 13,000 inhabitants, 12 churches, 2 small\\ncathedrals, 2 daily papers, and numerous manufactories. It ranks, as a\\nfortress, next to Quebec and Halifax, and its harbor is defended by strong\\nbatteries, tlie chief of which is Fort Henry, on Point Frederick. Tlie\\nbay is very broad and deep, sheltered by Wolfe and Garden Islands and\\nthere are provisions for making here an extensive naval depot in time of\\nwar. W. of the city is the Queen s University, a Presbyterian mstitution,\\nwith faculties of arts and theology. The Catholic College of Regiopo-\\nlis has handsome buildings, and the Royal College of Physicians has 11\\nprofessors and good collections. The Penitentiary is 2 M. W., and has\\n5-600 convicts and the Rnckioood Insane Asylmn is a national institu-\\ntion in fine buildings near by. Kingston was founded by De Courcelles\\nin 1672, and after the British occupation it was made the capital of\\nUpper Canada. Just beyond Kingston begins the Lake of the Thousand\\nIslands, which is diversified by over 1,800 islands and islets, afi ording the", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0473.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "400 Houtc CO. OTTAWA.\\nmost picturesque and romantic scenery (see imge 193, Osgood s Middle\\nstates). The claef sunuiier resort of tlie Thousand Islands is Alexandria\\nBay, a village of N. Y. State, where there are A hrst-cluss hotels Thou-\\nsand Islands House Crossinon House). After traversing the narrow-\\nchannels of the archipelago for 40 M., the steamer reaches Brockville, a\\nlarge Canadian village whence lumber and iron are shipped to the U. S.\\nSmall steamers run from this point through the Thousand Islands and a\\nsteam ferry-boat crosses every half-hour to Morristown, a N. Y. liandet.\\nBelow Brockville the open river is entered, and is followed, by Maitland,\\nto Prcscutt (Daniel s Hotel), a sombre stone-built village near the dilapi-\\ndated bastions of Fort Wellington. On the opposite shore is the pros-\\nperous American city of Ogdensburg {Seymour House; Woodvian\\nJlouse.), with 12,000 inhabitants and great flour and lumber mills. The\\ncity is at the confluence of the St. Lawrence and Oswegatchie Rivers, and\\nis regularly laid out and handsomely built, its streets being so completely\\nlined with trees as to have won for it the name of the Maple City.\\nThe St. Jean Ba})tistc church, the dome of the U. S. Post-Office, and\\nthe lofty elevator which terminates the long wharves are prominently\\ns.^en from the river. Ogdensburg was founded as a mission-station, in\\n17-18, by the Abbe Piquet, the patriarch of the Five Nations, was surren-\\n\u00c2\u00ablered to the U. S. in 1796, and was captured by Canadian troops in 1813.\\nThe St. Lawrence Ottawa E, K. runs 54 M. N. from Prescott, tlirougyi an un-\\nintevestiug region of forests and ru;^ge l clenrings, and re.iclies Ottawa (II ii ssell\\nllotei), tho capital of Canada. The Canadian Parliament House is situated\\non a lofty 1 lull over tliu Ottawa llivtr, and is tli\u00c2\u00ab linost speLinien ot Italian Cothie\\narclntecture in America ov the world. The great ictoria tower in the centre\\nor llio fac;.ade is imposing in its proportions and the i)olygonal building of the\\nU.iiiiiniou Library in tha rear of the buildings. The halls of the Senate and\\n(lianilRTof Comn)ons are worthy of a visit, and are adorned with stained-glass\\nwindows and marble columns. In the Senate is a statue of Queen Victoria, and\\nniiLV ttie vice-regal tliione are busts of the Prince and Princess of Wales, The\\nl( l)artniental buildings which flank the Parliament House are stately structures\\nin harmonious architecture, and of the same kinds of stone. The Cathedral of\\nKotrc Datue und the nunneries of the lower town are interesting; also tlie new\\ncliurclies of the middle town (which, like the rest of the city, is still undergoing\\na formative process). The Cliaiicliere Falls are just above the city, where\\nthe broad Ottawa River plunufs down over long and ragged ledges. In ttiis\\nvicinity are inimcnse lumlier-yards, with the connected industries which snpjiort\\ntlie French Canadians, wlio form the majority of the citizens here. S. of tlie city\\nare the i)retty ludcau Falls, feteiuuers depart frecpiently for Montreal, and f(jr\\nthe remote forests of the N.\\nOttixwa and the Ottawa River, see Osgood s Middle States, jwige 128.\\nThe steamer passes out from Prescott, and leaves Fort Wellington and\\nthe historic Windmill Point on the 1. 3 M. below Prescott it passes\\nChinniey Island, the I.sle Rayale of the French, who built here Fort\\nLe\\\\ is, with 35 cannon. Tins work cheekeil .Lor;l Amherst s army of\\n10,000 men, and was only reduced after a bombardment of 5 days dura-\\ntion (1700). Off Point Cardinal the steamer enters the \u00c2\u00abU(qx s Ii%jnds\\nand lieyond Point Iroquois the Rajnde da Plat is dcsceude l, a.Tid the boat", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0474.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "LONG SAULT RAPIDS. Route GO. 401\\npasses between Morrisbixrg and Waddington. 30 M. helow Ogdensbiirg\\nis Lmdsville, whence stages run 7 M. E. to the Massena Springs {Hat field\\nHouse). On the N. shore, below Gooseneck Island, is Chryslcfs Farm,\\nwhere 6,000 Americans, under the incompetent Wilkinson, were defeated\\n(Nov. 11, 1813) by an inferior British force, and were obliged to give np\\nthe advance on Montreal. The Americans lost 339 men, and retreated to\\ndreary and fatal winter quarters at Fort Covington. The steamer soon\\nreaches Dickinson s Landing, and enters the Long Sault Rapids, which\\nfall 48 ft. in 9 M., where reaches of level water alternate with white and\\nbillowy inclines, and a long chain of islands divides the river into 2\\nchannels. At the foot of the rapids is Cormoall (Dominion Hotel), a\\nvillage of 2,500 inhabitants, which was settled by loyalists and Hessians\\nafter the Revolution. A ferry runs to St. Regis, a large Indian village ou\\nthe S. shore (see Osgood s Middle States, page 198).\\nBelow St. Regis both shores are Canadian, and the river expands into\\nLake St. Francis (5^ M. wide and 25 M. long), which is dotted with islets.\\nOn the N. shore is Lancaster; and at the outlet is the sombre French vil-\\nlage of Coteau du Lac, at the head of 11 M. of Rapids (83 ft. fall), called\\nthe Coteau and the Cedar Rapids and the Cascades. At their foot is the\\nvillage of Beauhamois, where up-bound vessels enter the Beauharnois\\nCanal (S. shore 11 M. long, with 9 locks). Opposite this point is the\\nmoutli of the Ottawa River, and the Isle Perrot, where Amherst encamped\\nin 1700, after losing 64 boats and 88 men in the Cedar Rapids. Here the\\nsteamer enters Lake St. L^ouis (12 x 5 M. passes St. Clair, Chateaugay,\\nand the Nuns Island; and opposite Caughnawaga shoots the Lachine\\nRapids (see page 372), beyond Avhich the boat sweeps under the Victoria\\nBridge and reaches Montreal (see page 368).\\n60. Quebec to Pictou and Cap9 Breton. The Gulf of St.\\nLawrence.\\nThe boats of the Quebec Steamship Co. leave Montreal on Monday,\\nand Quebec on Tuesday, and touch at Father Point, Metis, Gaspe, Percd,\\nSunnnerside, P. E. I., Charlottetown, and Pictou, reacliing the hitter\\npoint on Saturday. Tlu^y connect at Perc(5 with smaller steamers which\\nrun up the Bay of Chaleur. At Pictou connection is made with railways\\nfor Halifax, St. John, and other parts of the Eastern Provinces. The\\nboats no longer visit Chatham, Shediac, Newcastle, etc., but tliey ma^ be\\nreached by the Intercolonial Railway. See Osgood s The Maritime\\nProvinces: a Handbook fur Travellers.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0475.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "402 Route GO. ISLE OF ORLEANS.\\nOn leaving Quebec the attention is concentrated on tlie beautiful ret-\\nrospect of the loft} city and its embattled walls. On tlie r. ai-e the\\nheights of Point Levi and the valley of the St. Cliarles is soon seen open-\\ning on the 1. The Isle of Orleans is next coasted on the N. side, and is\\na fertile district, 20 M. long by 5 6 M. wide, insulated by the N. and S.\\nchannels of the St. Lavv rence, and famous for its lovely rural scenery. It\\nwas originally named the Isle of Bacchus and received its present title\\nI in honor of the royal family of France. There are five parishes on the\\nisland, and its chief villages are St. Laurent and St. Jean d Orleaus (1,436\\ninhabitants). On the N. bank of the i-iver, beyond the long village of Beau-\\nport, with its stately church, the Montmorcnci Falls are seen, whitely\\ngleaming against dark cliffs 250 ft. high. The steamer next passes the\\nhigh and picturesque shores of Ange Gardien, Chateau Richer, St. Anne,\\nand St. Joachim (see page 384).\\nBelow the Isle of Orleans the Laurentian Mts. are seen on the 1., ter-\\nminating on the river in the bold promontory called Cap Tourmente.\\nThe steamer now enters the broader waters of the Lower St. Lawrence\\n(20 M. wide), and passes Grosse Isle, Isle aux Coudres, Murray Bay,\\nCacouna, and Tadousac, at the mouth of tlie Saguenay River (pages 385\\nand 38G). 16 M. below Riviere du Loup en has is Isle Verte, with a town\\nof 1,134 inhabitants, containmg the public buildings of Temiscouata\\nCounty. From the lighthouse a cannon is fired every half-hour during\\nsnow-storms and fogs. 40 M. farther down is V Islet an, Massoxre (3 x f\\nM. in area), whose name is derived from the fact that here, some 2 centu-\\nries ago, 200 Micmac Indians were surprised by the hostile Iroquois. The\\nMicmacs were sleeping at night in a large caveni near the beach and\\nthe enemy surrounded its entrance witli fagots which they set on fire.\\nNearly all of the unfortunate Nova-Scotians were massacred amid the\\nflames or were suffocated by the smoke.\\nIn shore from the islet is the village of Bic, on the Intercolonial Rail-\\nway; and 9 M. below is RinwiisH, with its sunnuer hotels (sea-batliiiig),\\nspacious cathedral, and the public buildings of Rhiiouski County. The\\nhills of Bic and Rimouski are quite picturesque.\\nWednesday morning the steamer reaches Father Point, a small hamlet\\nnear the mouth of the Rimouski River (famous for its fisheries). At the\\nlighthouse on the Point is a marine telegraph-office, and outward-bound\\nvessels leave their pilots here. This vicinity is much frequented by\\nsportsmen, on account of the multitudes of Canada geese, ducks, and\\nbrant that are found here. Beyond Father Point the steamer passes tlie\\nmaritime hairdets of Metis and Matane, and begins to round the great\\npeninsula of Gaspe, a vast vialderaess whose shore is dotted at wide\\ndistances with small fishing-stations. On the N. shore is the bold and\\ndangerous Pointe de Monts, with its fog-guns and lofty lighthouse and", "height": "3050", "width": "1793", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0476.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "BAY OF CHALEURS. Route GO. 403\\nthe highlands of Gaspe are passed on the r. N. E. of the vessel s\\ncourse, but only visible in dearest weather, is the Island of Anticosti,\\na cold and mountainous land, with vast peat-bogs and marl-beds. Its\\narea is 2,G0O square M., and its popnlation is 102. Bear-hunting in the\\nnits., and the pursuit of seals in the bays, form arduous but profitable\\nemployments and salmon and trout, cod and herring, are found in great\\nabundance. Rounding Cape Rosier, with its lofty lighthouse, and passing\\nCape Gaspe, the steamer reaches Gaspe, a rude village of 726 inhabitants,\\nsituated on the edge of the trackless wilderness, and supported by the\\ncod and mackerel fisheries. Back of the town is Fort Ramsaif, on a tall\\nhill wliicli overlooks the deep, silent bay called the Gaspe Basin. Cartier\\nlanded at this point July 24, 1554.\\nThe steamer tiien passes in sight of tlie tremendous and fatal cliffs of Cape\\nDtscspuiv, and leaves the remarkable rocks at the mouth of the May; and\\nreaches Perce, a hshing village of 1,743 inhabitants, situated amid roman-\\ntic but desolate scenery, and containing the public buildings of Gaspe\\nCounty. Opposite the village is Le Rocker Perce, a remarkable rock\\nwhich rises from the water to the height of 288 ft., witli a precijiitous\\nfront 1,200 ft. long. It is pierced by a natural tunnel or arch, through\\nwldi-li small Hsliiug-smacks can sail under the rock to the water on either\\nside. On its lofty and inaccessible summit myriads of sea-fowl (gannets,\\ncormorants, gulls, etc.) build their nests, and the neighboring fishermen\\nclaim that the rock is haunted by a spirit {Le Genie de VIslo Pcrci).\\nLeaving Perce at 8 A. M., the steamer passes Bonaventure Island {V.j x\\nM. in area), a Catholic settlement facing the surges of the Gidf of St.\\nLawrence, and in winter resembling an iceberg. The trend of tlie coar.t\\nis followed to the S. W., and at 2 P. M. (Thursday) the pretty handct of\\nFaspebiac is reached. The view now opens at the Bay of Chaleur for\\n58 M., with rugged mountains to the N., and small tishing-settlements\\nnear the strand. At the W. end of tlie Bay is Dalhou ie, a port of entry\\nwitli 2,400 inhabitants and several churches, situated on a hue harbor at\\nthe mouth of the Restigouche River (draining 4,000 square M. The\\nchief industry of Dalhousie is in preserving and shipping salmon and\\nlobsters. The Old Woman is a singular column of rock rising from\\nthe water-level near this place; and on an adjacent hill is a conspicuous\\nobelisk, erected over a naval ofhcer s grave. Steamers ascend the Resti-\\ngouche 16 M. to the village of Camphellton, the chief station in the N.\\non the Intercolonial Railway, and favored with a large trade m lumber\\nand fish. Sldppujan Island {2i) X 10 INI. in area) is seen in the W. Vessels\\nascend Miramiclii Bay and Piver for IG M. to Chatham, a handsome sea-\\nport town with 0,000 inhabitants, 4 cliurches, a catliedral, and a college.\\nTlie streets are lighted with gas, and the harbor can accommodate the", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0477.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "404 Route GO. PEINCE EDWARD ISLAND.\\nlargest ships. Immense quantities of lumber and fish are exported thence.\\nSteamboats cross to Newcastle (6 M. 30 min.), an active village of 4,200\\ninhabitants, finely situated on the Miramichi River, and the capital of\\nNorthumberland County. The railroad cars may be taken at Point du\\nChene, running S. W. to St. John, 108 M. Bangor, 314 M. and Boston,\\n560 M. (also S. to Pictou, 181 M.; and Halifax, 190 M.).\\nThe journey from Point dn Chene to Pictou usiially occupies 10-13\\nhrs., with Prince Edward Island on the 1., and New Brunswick and\\nNova Scotia on the r. Passing between Capes Tormentine ami Traverse,\\nthe course is laid to the S. E., down the Northumberland Straits; and at a\\nlittle after noon on Saturday the steamer reaches Pictou, a place of about\\n4,000 inhal)itants, situated in a fertile country. Large quantities of coal\\nare mined about 12 M. back of Pictou, and are shipped from this port to\\nEngland and (in limited quantities) to the United States.\\nSteamers leave Pictou tri-weekly (Mon., Wed., and Fri. on the arrival\\nof the morning train from Halifax, and run to Charlottetown (in 3-4\\nhrs.), the capital of Prince Edward Island, a prettily situated town\\nwith 12,000 inhabitants, 9 churches, 7 weekly papers, 3 banks, St. Dun-\\nstan s, the Prince of Wales, and the Methodist Colleges, a neat Govern-\\nment House of Nova Scotia stone, and several broad, shady, and dull\\nstreets running to a deep and tranquil harbor. The steamer Heather Bell\\nnms thence up the Hillsborough River, through pretty scenery, to Mount\\nStewart, a flourishing shipbuilding hamlet 18 M. distant (leaves at 3 P. M.,\\nand returns in tlie evening). Steamers leave Pictou Saturdays for George-\\ntown, P. E. I. and the popular resort at Summer side {Island Park Hotel)\\nis reached by boat from Shediac or (tri-weekly) from Charlottetown (whence\\nalso by railroad).\\nSteamers leave Pictou every Tuesday and Thursday on the arrival of\\nthe morning trsun fi om Halifax, and run N. E. to Hawkeshury or Port\\nHood, maritime villages of the island of Cape Breton. Stages run thence\\nto Whykokomagh^ a rural hamlet picturesquely situated at the foot of the\\nBras d Or, a sheltered salt-water lake 50 M. long, which is broken by\\npromontories into deep and narrow bays. Tlie steamboat descends the\\nBras d Or amid beaiitiful scenery to Baddeck (see Charles Dudley Warner s\\nBaddeck, and that Sort of Thing the capital of Victoria County, with\\n400 inhaVntants, and a considerable trade with Newfoundland. 20 M. be-\\nyond Baddeck tlie Xi pltme readies the hamlet of Little Bras d Or then\\npasses the rich Sydney coal-mines, near the Atlantic. 20 M, beyond the", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0478.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "ITINERARY. 405\\nnines, tlie boat reaches S. Sydney, situated on a noLle liarbor, and fa-\\nmous for its coal-shiijnients (also as being tlie French naval station for N.\\nAmerica). It lias 3,000 iuliabitants, 6 cliurclies, and 2 weekly papers.\\n24 M. S. E. of S. Sydney, is the former seat of French domination in\\nAmerica, the port of Louishourg, whei-e France erected fortifications\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which cost over $6,000,000, and established a prosperous commercial\\ncity. After several sieges and battles the fortress was demolished by the\\nBritish in 1763; and there now remain a few fishermen, dwelling amid\\nancient ruins which front the Atlantic.\\nSUPPLEMENTARY\\nNEW-ENGLAND ROUTES.\\n61. Boston to Lexington and Concord.\\nBy the Middlesex Central R. R., in 40 -60 minutes.\\nStations. Boston Elm St. Lake St. Arlington Arlington Heights Lexing-\\nton Bedford Concord.\\nThe train leaves the Boston, Lowell Nashua station, and passes out\\nover the Charles River, with broad views of the cities on either side. It\\nthen traverses parts of the manufacturing suburb of E. Cambridge and\\nthe long city of Somerville, which has 21,868 inhabitants, with 12\\nchurches, a paper, and a valuation of about 30,000,000. It has manufac-\\ntories of muslin-prints, glass, brass-ware, bricks, and hollow-ware. There\\nare several far-viewing hills in the vicinity and the buildings of Tufts\\nCollege stand on Walnut Hill, to the N.\\nSoon after leaving the main line tlie train reaches Arlington {ArUng-\\ntdii J/ouse)^ a pleasant hamlet near the picturesque Spy Pond This town\\nhas 3,906 inhabitants, with 6 churches, a savings-bank, paper, higli-\\nschool, and library. It contains many market-gardens, where vegetables\\nan i small fruits are raised for the Boston market. J. T. Trowbridge, the\\nauthor, lives near Spy Pond and the old summer-home of Edward\\nEverett was near Mystic Pond. Arlington stands on the ancient Indian\\ndomain of Menotomy, subsequently called W. Cambridge. It sent 295\\nsoldiers to the Secession War. S. of the village is the old Russell house,\\nwhere the Essex-County minute-men attacked Lord Percy s troops in the\\nretreat from Lexington. 11 Americans were killed in this house.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0479.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "406 Route 61. LEXINGTON.\\nArlington Heights (Barnard House, used as a pninmcr-resort) i? a mod-\\nern village on the hills N. W. of Spy Pond, havinp; several pretty villas\\nand summer-residences. The OHver-Warner mansion is near the crest.\\nThe Heights are often visited for the sake of the noble view enjoyed\\ntherefrom, which includes Boston and its environs, the harbor and its\\nislands, the ocean, the adjacent lakes and villages, and a vast area to the\\nN. and W., including Mts. Wachusett and Monadnock.\\nBevond the hamlet of K Lcxinyton the train reaches Lexington (see\\npage 28), the chief place in a town of 2,505 inhabitants, with a savings-\\nbank, high-school, paper, and 5 churches. The fine forests and pictu-\\nresque hill-country around the village have been much admired. Not\\neven a church-spire pierces through the green boughs, and yet this is in the\\nheart of the most densely populated State of the Union. The Green is a\\nwell-shaded park of two acres, on which the fight of 1775 occurred, and at\\none end of it is a modest monument erected by the State in honor of the\\nmen who fell that day. At the other end of the Green is the Memorial\\nHall which was built in honor of the Lexington soldiers who fell in the\\nCivil War. It is a handsome brick building, in which are statues of the\\nMinute-Man of 1776, the Volunteer of 1861, and the Revolutionary heroes,\\nJohn Hancock and Samuel Adams. Beyond the rotunda is the Gary\\nFree Library. The streets in the ricinity are shady and pleasant, and\\ncontain many comely residences and ancient historic estates. Theodore\\nParker was born in this town.\\nStation, Bedford (Bedford House), in a farming and dairy town of 896\\ninhabitants. The village has two churches, and is on high ground, with\\npleasant streets shaded with immemorial elms. 2 M. N. is the ancient\\nsummer-resort of Bedford Springs 10 a week), near medicinal sulphur,\\nsaline, and iron springs, groves, and a lake.\\nThe line next sweeps around into Concord (see page 28), which may\\nalso be reached by the Fitchburg R. R. The Middlesex Hotel is pleasantly\\nsituated on the Common, and is much frequented in summer. The town\\ncontains 2,676 inhabitants, with 170 productive f-irms, 3 churches, a public-\\nlibrary, high -school, lyceum, bank, and a valuation of about $2,500,000.\\nOn the common is a plain monument in honor of the 34 soldiers of Concord\\nwho died in the Secession War. The riihlic Library is a quaint and\\nmany-angled modern building near the centre of the village.\\nThis structure contaius a large and well-selected library busts of Plato, Errcrson,\\nAtrassiz, Mann, Hawthorne, and Brown; large portraits of Emerson ashington\\nopied from Stuarfs), and Colmnbus (copied from Titian s, by Raphael Mengs),\\nmanuscript vohmies, etc, of Washington, Motley, Lowell Ihe Cathedra\\nHolmes, Thorcau Walking and Enieison C Culture collections of the llora\\nand Indian relics of Concord, coins and u^edid., .:olu.i., pes, a Bible of 159J and\\nother curiosities. The Concord A n v( cont ins a narble bust of ilhani Jliinroe,\\nthe donor of the building. a d i^ devoted to the books aid newspapers written oy\\npeople of this town, beginning in 1646 Among the literary rotables who ba c\\nlived in this village are Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry D. Thore:ui,the Hawt^ioriie^,\\nA B Alcott, Louisa M. Alcott, E. R Hoar, l-rederick Hudson, Dr. Folsom.Wilham", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0480.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "CONCORD. Route 62. 407\\nEllery Channing, William Whiting, Jane G. Austen, Frank Sanborn, Edward\\nEverett, Horace Mann, George Bartlett, Elizabetli Peabody, Margaret Fuller, George\\nV/illiam Curtis, Ezra Ripley. John Phoenix, and others. In Concord, it is\\ndangerous to turn a corner suddenly for fear of ruauing over some first-class saint,\\nphilosopher, or sage.\\nA short walk M.) from the village-green along the Lexington road\\nleads to the tree-surrounded and many-gabled yellow house (1. side of the\\nroad) formerly occupied by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The fir-lined path\\ntoward? the river and the ridge to the rear were his favorite walks and\\nhis study was in the top of the tower, where he inscribed Tennyson s line,\\nThere is no joy but Calm. The house is now owned by Mr. D. Lo-\\nthrop, the Boston publisher. An avenue of larch-trees leads hence to\\nthe quaint and picturesque house called Apple Slump, occupied by\\nthe Alcott family, Amos Bronson Alcott, the philosopher, Louisa May\\nAlcott, the author, and May Alcott, the artist. Nearer the Common, at the\\nintersection of the Lexington and Boston highways, is the spacious white\\nhouse of Ralph Waldo Emerson, on low ground, with limited outlook,\\nand on the skirt of the village. Walden Pond is about 1 M. S. E. of\\nConcord, by Walden St. Its shores were the scene of Thoreau s lonely\\nstudies, and are now used as a picnic-ground.\\nThe battle-ground is on the other side of the village, a few minutes walk\\nfrom the Common, near the Concord River. On one side of the bridge\\nare the battle monuments and the graves of the British soldiers and on\\nthe other shore is a noble bronze statue representing the Minute-Man of\\n1776 (made by Daniel M. French, and cast at Chicopee). Near this point,\\niu the fields, is an ancient gambrel-roofed house, from whose windows\\nParson Emerson watched the battle. Here Ralph Waldo Emerson was\\nborn and lived for years and at a later day Nathaniel Hawthorne dwelt\\nand wrote in this Old Manse. The lowly graves of Hawthorne and\\nThoreau are in Sleepy Hollow, the village cemeter} Get Bartlett s\\ncapital Concord Guide Book (illustrated).\\n62. Boston to Swampscott and Marblehead.\\nBy the new Swampscott Branch of the Ea ;tern R. R Boston to Swampscott, 40\\nminutes. Fare to Swampscott, 35 c. to Marblehead, 50 c\\nStations. -Boston to Somcrville, 2 M. Everett, 3 Chelsea, 5; Revere, 6; W.\\nLynn, 10; Lynn, 11 Swampscott, 13 Phillips Beach Beach Bluff; Clifton; Dev-\\nereux Marblehead, 17.\\nBoston to Swampscott station, see pages 248-251. Barges and car-\\nriages from hotels meet the trains at the station on the main line. The\\nLincoln House (170 guests) is beautifully situated on Fishing Point, about\\nli RL from the station the Ocean is near the short beach on the E. the\\nGreat Anawan is on a high hill beyond, among pleasant groves and nearly\\nhidden from the closely adjacent sea; and the Little Anawan is near the\\nshore, towards Ocean Avenue (see also page 251). The two first-named\\ncharfie $15-25 a week; the others are more niodci iite. Nearer the", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0481.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "408 Route 62. SWAMPSCOTT.\\nstation arc the large summer boarding-houses of Mrs. Page, Mrs. Adams,\\nand Messrs. Blaney, Page, Slierwin, and others. The feature of summer-,\\ncottages prevails here to a great extent, and some of the villas are costly\\nand beautiful. The topography of Swiimpscott is remarkably varied and\\ninteresting, since it is a hilly and rocky town, fronting to the S and E. on\\nthe ocean, and giving from its high promontories broad marine views, in-\\ncluding also Egg Rock, Nahant, the Scituate blufTs, and the Blue Hills of\\nMilton. There are three beaches, Blaney s and Whale, short strips\\nnear the village, and Phillips Beach, which faces to the E., and is 1 i\\\\I.\\nlong, with Phillips Pond inside and the rocky heights of Phillips Point on\\nthe S., covered with villas. The town has 2,128 inhabitants, with 4\\nchurches, and a fleet of about 20 vessels, employed in the fisheries. Most\\nof the adjacent towns are supplied with fish from this point.\\nThe Phillips- Bench station is convenient to the great beach, though well\\ninland. The line is now on a high grade, and gives fine views of the mas-\\nsive blue sea, over rich green fields and the gardens of villas. On the 1.\\nare tree-crested hills. Bedch-Blujf station is near the Addison-Child\\ncottages; and about M. distant, on a high bluff over the sea, are the\\nHotel Preston and The Upland, two first-claes summer-hotels ($12-20\\na week). The view from this headland was commended by Lieut.\\nMaury as the noblest on the Eastern coast. The wh te ledges of Ram\\nIsland and Tinker s Island are plainly seen, with Phillips Point on the r.\\nand Marblehend Neck on the 1. Pleasant sea-views are gained as the train\\npasses on to Clifton, near which is the Clifton House, an old hotel which\\nhas lately been somewhat remodelled and improve l. It is near the sea;\\nand its rates are lower than those of the Preston. Dererevx station is\\nnear the large summer boarding-house called the Devereux iMansion, and\\nthe shore is lined with the dainty villas of city merchants and the snug\\ncabins of up-country farmers. As the train advances the spires of Mar-\\nbleliead apjjear in front, and the terminal station is soon reached.\\nMarblehead (two small inns) now has 7,G77 inhabitants (see page 255),\\n8 churches, a paper, a high-school, 2 banks, and a valuation of over\\n$4,000,000. It has aliout 25 vessels, with a snug little harbor sheltered by\\nthe Marblehead Great Neck. In May, 1876, a handsome granite monument\\n(near the station) was dedicated to tlie memory of Capt. Mugford, of this\\nport, who, in 1776, captured a British ship off Boston Harbor, laden with\\n1,500 barrels of powder, 1,000 carbines, and other military stores. He\\nsent her in to Washington s ill-provided army, and was killed the same\\nday, while repelling a British attack on his vessel. From the old ruined\\nfort on a headland S. of the town a pleasant view is atTorded, including\\nthe harbor, the Neck, Lowell and Baker s Islands, the S. shore of Cajie\\nAnn, the graceful curve of Marblehead Beach, and the Swampscott shore.\\nFori Sfwall is on a point to the N. E., over Little Harboi*. The hilly\\ncharacter of the streets and the evident antiquity of the houses give an in-", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0482.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "WINTHROP. Ihnde 03. 409\\nteresting appparance to the town On the Common is the brick-and-\\nbrownstone building of Abbott Hall, with a great library and a tower\\nwliich may be seen for many miles.\\nMarblehead Neck is a hilly peninsula, 11 M. long, between the harbor\\nand the ocean, and has numerous summer-villas and the headquarters of\\ntlie Eastern Yacht Club. It is reached over the low isthmus of J/rtr6^e-\\nhend Btack M. long). At its N. end is the lighthouse, 1{ M. from\\nLowell Island; and Tinker s Island lifts its white rocks on the S. Just\\nS. of Nashua Village are the remains of an ancient Indian cemetery.\\nThe Nanepashemet, a magnilicent new summer-hotel, overlooks the sea\\nand Tinker s Island. A steamboat plies between Marblehead and the\\nNeck.\\n63. Boston to Revere Beach and Lynn.\\nThe new narrow-gauge railroad on this route has met with a great measure of\\nsuccess, and is convenient for excursions to the adjacent sea-shore. It has light\\ngrades and Jong curves and is equipped with Fairlee locomotives and neat httle\\ncars, some of which are open at the sides. Boston to Lynn, 34 minutes.\\nStations. Boston; E. Boston; Wood Island Harbor iew Winthrop Junc-\\ntion Beachmont Crescent Beach Atlantic Oak Island Point of Pines W. Lynn\\nLynn.\\nHorse-cars run from Tremont and Washington Sts. to the station on\\nAtlantic Ave., Boston, whence a ferry-boat crosses to the Island Ward of\\nE. Boston, where much of the heavier shipping of the port is moored. On\\nthe r., during this transit, are S. Boston, Fort Independence, and Fort\\nWinthrop (on the nearest high green island). Passing the great elevators\\nin E. Boston, the boat enters the slip, and passengers take the waiting train,\\nAvhich soon runs through a tunnel 474 ft. long, after which it traverses\\nthe long sea-wall, and crosses the basin on a pile-bridge, 2,005 ft. long.\\nE. Boston is seen on the 1., with its many spires, and the train runs along\\nWood Island, over the flats, and reaches Breed s Island by a pile-bridge.\\nFrom Winthrop Junction a branch line diverges to Ocean Spray {The\\nShirley; Ocean Spray; etc.), a prett} beach-colony; Great Head (St.-\\nLeonard s Hotel); and Point Shirley, for now nearly forty years the seat\\nof Taft s Hotel, famous for rich game dinners. All these stations are in the\\npicturesque peninsular town of Winthrop, bet^yeen Boston Harbor and the\\nsea, with its sliores and bold headlands lined Avith summer-cottages. It is\\nwithin easy drive of Boston, and has the ancient Deane-Winthrop house\\nand other curiosities.\\nBeyond Beachmont the line reaches the crest of the beach, which is fol-\\nlowed for several miles. This beach is of sand, sloping very gradually, free\\nfrom undertow, and with a light surf, being partly embayed by Nahant\\nand Winthrop. It is ninth visited b} the working-people of Boston, especially", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0483.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "410 Route 6^. REVERE BEACH.\\non Sundays, and all the hotels (save one) are devoted entirely to transient\\nbusiness and the furnishing of meals. The level strand also makes an\\nadmirable drive-way, at low tide, and is much used for that purpose. Tlie\\ntrain stops first at the Pavilion, in the quadrangle of the new summer-\\nhotel. This handsome edifice opens about July 1, and will take perma-\\nnent boarders. It is adorned with four towers, and is built around tlie\\nfour sides of a hollow square.\\nThe next stopping-place is at the Atlantic and Robinson-Crusoe Houses,\\nwhere the horse-cars from Chelsea reach the shore. These hotels and the\\nRevere House (farther up the strand) furnish fish dinners, chowders, and\\nother refreshments, to people visiting the beach. As the train advances,\\nfine views are given over the sea, including Nahant and the bluff Winthrop\\nHead; while to the 1., across the marshes on which the Eastern R. R. runs,\\nis the lofty Soldiers Home (on Chelsea Highlands), which overlooks a\\nvast expanse of sea.\\nWhere Pine Point trends to the N. E. the line leaves the beach, and soon\\nstops near the Point of Pines, where there is an immense and ornate\\nsummer-hotel, looking out on Lynn outer harbor. The line now crosses\\nthe Saugus River, near its mouth, on a bridge 1,344 ft. long, runs througli\\nthe skirt of Lynn, and soon reaches the terminal station on the main street\\nof the city.\\nLynn, see page 250.\\n64. Boston to Acton and Nashua.\\nBy the Fitchburg R R- and the Nashua, Acton Boston R. R. in lJ-2 hrs.\\nFare, i? 1.35.\\nStations. Boston to Concord Junction, 22 M. Acton, 24; N. Acton, 26i\\nK. Littleton, 30i Westford, 32; Graniteville, 33; E. Groton, 37; Dunstable, 40;\\nNashua (Main Street), 45i Northern Depot, 46^.\\nThe train leaves the Fitchburg station in Boston ard runs for 22 M. over\\nRoute 25 (pages 175-176). At Concord Junction (W. Concord) the\\nNashua, Acton, Boston R. R. diverges to the N. W. W. Concord has\\nsmall factories for making flannel and pails. Acton {Monument House,\\na comfortable old hotel, fronting on the Common) is the chief village in a\\nrural town of 1,708 inhabitants, and is pleasantly situated on high ground.\\nThe streets and Common are quiet and well-shaded, and there is a Con-\\ngregational cliurch. A tall shaft of granite masonry has been erected on\\nthe Common, in memory of the captain of the Acton minute-men, who was\\nkilled at the Concord fight. S. Acton (American House) is a busy and\\nprosperous manufacturing village of 500 inhabitants, 2 M. S. W. on the\\nFitchburg R. R.\\nN. Acton is near the pretty Nagog Pond, and the line thence ascends\\nthe Nashoba valley by the Nashoba Hill (on the 1.) to E. Littleton, in a\\nquiet old farming and dairy town of 950 inhabitants, with 3 churches and", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0484.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "WESTFORD. Route 05. 411\\nseveral picturesque ponds, abounding in perch and pickerel. It occupies\\nthe site of the Indian village of Nashoba, where a Christian church was\\nformed by the Apostle Eliot, Aliatawana being the local chieftain. The\\nshooting of Nashoba Hill is a singular rumbling sound which often\\nissues from that eminence.\\nForr/e ViUn(/e has a large nail-factory.\\nWestford Centre is 1^-2 M. E., and is a handsome village with a\\nlibrary, academy, and 2 churches, on a high ridge which commands views\\nof Mts. Wachusett and Monadnock, the White Mts., and a vast area of\\nthe hill-towns. The town has 1,933 inhabitants, and sent 135 soldiers into\\ntlie Secession War. It was the birthplace of Bishop T. C. Brownell and\\nWillard Hall. The train now crosses the Stony-Brook R. R., and at\\nGraniterille passes large quarries of the so-called Clielmsford granite.\\nTraversing the E. part of Groton, Bear Hill and Horse Hill are seen, with\\nthe th nly settled region around them. Dunstable is at the centre of an\\nancient and decadent farming town of 452 inhabitants, and has 2 small\\nchurches and 90 farms. It was settled in 1673, and was the centre of sev-\\neral bold campaigns against the heathen.\\nSoon after passing Flat-Rock Hill (on the 1.) the train enters the State\\nof New Hampshire, and reaches Nashua (see page 191).\\n65. Boston and Worcester to Mt. Wachusett and Mt.\\nMonadnock.\\nBy the Boston, Barre Gardner and Monadnock R. R which was constructed in\\n18 J9-74. Boston to Mt. AVachusi-tt, GO M to Mt. MouaJnoi-k, 95 M.\\nStations. \\\\Voirc.ster to Lincoln Sqii.u-e, 1 M Barker s Crossing, 3 N.\\nWorcester, 4^ Chaffiirs, 6; Ilolden, 8 .letfersoirs, 9i North Woods, 11; Brookj\\n13; Princeton, 13 Ilubbardstou, iO Waite s, 23; Gardner, 2G Iley wood s, 27\\nWinchendon, 36 Rindge, 42 Jaifrey,46i Peterborough, 53.\\nAfter passing out from the streets of W^orcester, and beyond Lincoln\\nSquare, the Worcester Nashua R. R. is seen diverging to the r., and the\\ntrain tlien runs along the shore of North Pond, near ihe modern villas and\\ncountry-seats of N. Worcester. Winter Hi!l appears on the 1., over tiie\\npond, and glimpses are gained of the more distant Asnebumskit Hill\\n(1,407 ft. high). Beyond the hamlet of Chaffinville the train reaches\\nIlnhlen Ce??\u00c2\u00ab?-e (Eagleville Hote^), the chief place in a hilly farming and\\nmanufacturing town of 2,180 inhabitants, with 7 villages. 1 M. N. of\\nHolden Centre is the proposed crossing of the Mass. Central R. R.\\nVa-Ktoni Summit House) in a rural town S. W. of Holden, among picturesque\\nhigtilands, wit.h a soldiers nionnnient (to 21 dead). Stages leave Jefferson s on\\nthe arrival of the late afternoon train, for Rutland (4 M. N. W.), Coldbrook Spring.s,\\nami Rarre. Jiutlaiid (Armington House) is in a rich fanning and dairy town of\\n1,080 inhabitants, with 3 villages, and several ponds. This was the Indian domain\\nof Nnquag. and was often attacked by the savages. Gen. Bnrgovne -s captive Brit-\\ni-h army was quartereil here for some time, on Barrack Hill ;i\u00c2\u00bbl 1l\u00c2\u00bbr\u00c2\u00aboIc\\n^}.\u00c2\u00bbr nss is a summer-frequented spa and Harre is on the Uart- River R R.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0485.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "412 Route 65. MOUNT WACHUSETT.\\nThe train runs N. from Holden by several small stations, to Princeton,\\nnear which is Wliittaker s summer-hotel, in a high and far-viewing loca-.\\ntion. Stages run from the trains 2 M. E. to Priuceton Centre IVncJui^\\nsett House, spacious and comfortable, with billiards, bowling, liverj -stable,\\netc.; Prospect House; and several boarding-houses). This is a pleas-\\nant village on a high plateau, surrounded by a lake-strewn highland\\nregion through which good roads pass in every direction. The town was\\nfounded about the middle of the last century; was named in honor of the\\nRev. Thomas Prince, the historian; sent 80 soldiers to the Civil War; and\\nwas the birthplace of Leonard Woods, D. D., the theologian. 2^ M. N.\\nis the Mountain House (Mt. Wachusett Post-office), on the S. E. slope of Mt.\\nWachusett, 1,200 ft. above the sea. It has a large farm, livery-stable,\\nbowling-alley, etc. and stages run to Princeton station twice daily. The\\nrates are 7 10 a week.\\nMount Wachusett\\nis 2,480 ft. high, and is prominently seen from vessels off the ^lass. coast.\\nIt is ascended from Bolton s, on the N. from the Pine-Hill House, on the\\nE. and from the Mountain House. The latter is the favorite path, and\\nis 1 M. long, following the line of the old Coast-Sui vey road, M. over\\npastures, and then through a forest, with several sharp curves. On the\\ntop is the small Summit House, where visitors can pass the night or get\\nrefreshments. On its roof is an observatory, provided with a telescope\\nand field-glasses. Little Wachusett flanks the mountain on the S. A\\ncapital carriage-road leads to the summit of Wachusett.\\nThe Vietv. It is claimed that 300 Tillages and parts of 6 States are seen from\\nthis summit. The section towards the coast is best seen in the latter part of the\\nafternoon, and in the clear weather of June or October. Mt. Monadnock is\\nN. N. W well-defined and vast, over Westminster and Meetinj^-IIouse Lake.\\nSnnapce Mt is beyond Monadnock, on its r and the round Watatic Mt is\\nnearer, with Temple Mt. and Pack Monadnock be.vond Far away over these is\\nthe blue spire of Mt. Kearsaro;e, with the disk of Moosilauke back of it, 120 M. N.\\nThe twin Uncanoonucs are on the r. of Pack Monadnock, over which Mt. Washin;.;-\\nton and the White Mts may be ^ecn on clear days, 140 M. distant, with Mt. Ik l-\\nknap to the r. and nearer Fitchburg and Lunenburp^ are nearly N E with the\\nvarious hamlets of Groton and Towusend and farther to the r. are Leominster,\\nHarvard, and the Actons. Then come E. Princeton, the Lancaster villages, ou-\\ncord, Prospei-t Hill at Waltbam (S. of E.), S. Boston, and the Charlestown Navy-\\nYard The Blue Hills of Milton arc to the r., and a wide reach of the ocean opens\\nbeyond, often dotted with shining sails. Next are seen the white villages of Clinton\\nand Berlin, Marlboro, Sonthboro, and Ashland, the Boylstons, high-placed Ilopkin-\\nton, Shrewsbury, and Grafton, with many a lakelet glisteninir between. Worcester\\nis plainly discerned, E. of S., with the forest-hamlet of Hnlden to the r., over\\nPrinceton Quinnipo.xet Lake and Flagleville are 5 M. S., with the highland villages\\nof Connecticut far beyond Kutland, Paxton, Oakham and N. Brookfield next\\nappear; and over white Barre is the crest of Mt. Tom. Be\\\\on l the near Moose-\\nhoru Lake are Dana, Prescott, and Ilubbardston and over Ueiidell is lofty Grey\\nI ick (80 M distant), beyond tlie IIoosjic range. Then come Tenipleton and other\\nvillages to the N W with Mt. Stratum and others of the Green Mrs. far beyond.\\nThis view is miinitel\\\\ analy/ed and de.-^crilicd (lo pages) in BuUard s Guide to\\nMt. Wachusett, which every visitor should get.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0486.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "MOUNT xMONADNOCK. Route C5. 413\\nBeyond Princeton the train runs N. W., with views of Wachusett on the\\nr., soon passing the picnic-station near Mooseborn Lake. Hubbardston\\n{Crystal House; and several summer boarding-houses) is M. S. W. of its\\nstation, and is in a prosperous and picturesque farming town of 1,440\\ninhabitants, with 3 churches and a library. At Gardner (two hotels)\\nthe Hoosac-Tunnel Line is crossed (see Rout\u00c2\u00ab 25). The town of Gard-\\nner has 3,730 inhabitants, with 4 churches, a paper, a bank, valuable\\nforests, and rich farms. It makes more chairs than any other place in\\nthe world, employing 2,000 workmen in this industry.\\nThe line next runs along the E. shore of the beautiful Crystal Lake,\\nand runs N. N. W. through a thinly settled country, with views of Mt.\\nWatatic on the r. At Winchendon American House) it meets the\\nCheshire R. R. and the Ware-River R. R. This town has 3,762 inhabit-\\nants, with a paper, library, bank, 6 churches, and manufactories of pails,\\ntubs, chairs, shoddy, and cotton goods. It contains several lakes, and\\nMiller s River gives a valuable water-power.\\nThe line now enters the State of New Hampshire, and crosses the lake-\\nstrewn town of JRindf/e, which has 1,107 inhabitants (less than it had in\\n1790). Rindge village (Rindge House) is 1^ M. S. E. of W. Rindge station,\\nand manufactures wooden-ware. E. JaiFrey {Granite-State Hotel; and\\nsummer boarding-houses) is a pleasant village, with manufactories of\\ncotton, knives, wooden-ware, and 2 banks and 3 churches. Over 800\\nsummer-tourists visit this town yearly. 2 M. N. W. is Jaffrey Centre\\n(daily stages), with 2 inns.\\nMount Monadnock,\\nor the Grand Monadnock, is visited from E. Jaffrey, whence the Mountain\\nHouse is 5 M. distant. The path thence to the summit is about 1 M.\\nlong, leading through shady forests and then out on the rocky crest. The\\npeak is 3,186 ft. high, and commands a noble view. The White Mts.\\nare seen in the N. N. E., beyond the great Merrimac Valley, with Mt.\\nWashington highly pre-eminent. Farther to the r., to the 1. of Crotched\\nMt., is Mt. Belknap, near Lake Winnepesaukee Joe-English Hill and the\\nUncanoonucs are E. N. E. and on the E. are the New-Ipswich Mts. with\\nthe Temple range and Pack Monadnock. Watatic is S E., and Wachusett\\nis S. S. E. The view then sweeps over the hill-country of Massachusetts,\\nby many lakes and villages, and falls on Pocomtuck Mt., in the S. W. It\\nis also claimed that Greylock and Hoosac Mt. are seen, in the W. S. W.\\nTo the W and N. W. are many of the Green Mts. of Vermont, in broken\\nand picturesque outlines; and towards the N, are Lovewell s Mt, Suna-\\npee Mt., Kearsarge, and Moosilauke. There are many lakes and hamlets\\nvisible in this broad circuit, giving a rare diversity and beauty to the\\nlandscape (see also pages 179-180).\\nPeterborough {French s Hotel; and summer boarding-houses) is a", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0487.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "414 Route 66. PETERBOKOUGH.\\nprosperous manufacturing village, at the confluence of the Contoocook\\nand Nubanusit Rivers, with 2,400 inhabitants, 2 banks, a paper, a Hbrary\\nof 4,000 volumes, and 5 churches. Tlie manufactures are of cotton, trusses,\\npiano-stools, thermometers, paper, lumber, etc. The streets are pleas-\\nantly shaded with trees and the village has a large country -trade. Many\\nsummer-visitors sojourn here, attracted by the pleasant scenery of the\\nPack Monadnock range, on the E.\\nThe Peterboro and Hillshoro R. U. runs N. 18 M. across Antrim {Carter\\nHouse several summer boardiog-houses) and Bennington. Hillsborough, see\\npage 196.\\nTiie Manchester and Keene li. 11. intersects this route at Hancock Junction.,\\nand is famous for its magnificent hill-scenery. It was opened in 1880, from Green-\\nfield to Keene, 30 M.\\nDaily sraf^es from Peterboro to Dublin (summer boarding-houses of T. Morse,\\nH. H. Leffingwell, Morse, G. A. Gowiug, J. H. Mason, S. Adams, Jr.), 1,500 ft.\\nabove the sea, with 300 summer- visitors, uear the lovely Mouaduock Lake and moun-\\ntain, with grand Scottish scenery.\\n66. Worcester to Portland.\\nBy the TVorcester, Nashua and Rochester, and Portland and Rochester Railroads.\\nTrains connect through. A considerable amount of travel to the White Mts. also\\npasses over this route. Worcester to Rochester, US M., fare, 3.10. Rochester to\\nPortland, 52 M., fare, 1.65.\\nStations. H^orcestfr Nashua R. R. Worcester to W. Boylston, 9 M Oak\\ndale, 10; Sterling Junction, 12 Clinton, 17; S. Lanca-ster, 18 Lancaster, 19 Still\\nKiver, 23 Harvard, 25 Ayer Junction, 28 Groton, 31 l\u00c2\u00bbcpperell, 36 Hollis, 39\\nNashiia, 46. Nashua Roduster R. R. Hudson, 49; W. Windham, 53 Wind-\\nham, 57: ilampstead, 63; Sandown, 65; Fremont, 70; Epping. 74 Lee, SO; Rar-\\nrington.SS; Gonic, 93 Rochester, 95. Portland if Rochester R. R. E.Rochester,\\n98; E I^banon, 104; Springvale, 111; Alfred, 115; S. Waterboro, 119; entro\\nAVaterboro, 122^ Hollis Centre, 126^ Saco River, 129 Buxton Centre, 182; Gor-\\nham,137; Saccarappa, 141 Cumberland Mills, 142; Westbrook, 144^ Woodford s\\nCorner, 145^; Portland, 147.\\nFor a description of the line between Norwich, Worcester, and Nashua,\\nsee pages 104-106. For the route between Rochester and Portland, see\\npage 213.\\nThe train crosses the Merrimac River at Nashua, and runs N. W. across\\nHudson, a large farming town with 1,066 inhabitants and 3 churches. It\\nthen crosses the level lands of Mlndham, an ancient Presbyterian town\\nwhich was originally settled by the Scotch-Irish from Londonderry. Tho\\nhamlet of W. VVMndham is M. S. E. of its station; and venerable old Lon-\\ndonderry is a little way to the N. At Windham the present route meets the\\nManchester Lawrence R. R. (see page 279). Crossing Derry, the train\\nreaches flampstead, a thinly-settled town devoted to farming, lumbering,\\nand shoe-making. It was settled in 1728. Stages run 3 M. S. E. by W.\\nIIam])stead to Hampstead, sind thence 6 M. by Atkinson to Atkinson\\nDepot, on the Boston Maine R. R. Picturesque Chester is a few miles\\nN. W.\\nStation, Sandon 7i, In a thinly-settled and r.ninteresting town, whenco\\ndaily stages run to Danville and E. Hampstead. Next conies the level", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0488.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "NASHUA TO GREENFIELD. Route 67. 415\\ntown of Fremont (827 inhabitants), on the Squamscot River. Tri-weekly\\nstages run 5J M. E. to Brentwood, a decadent rural town, and thence 5J\\nM. E. to Exeter. At Epping the train cros?es the Portsmouth R. R., and then\\nfollows the Lamprev River through N. Epping into Lee (776 inhabitants).\\nThe hamlet of Wad leigh s Falls, li M. S. E. of the station, was founded in\\n1657; and near Wheelwright s Pond, in the N. part of the town, two com-\\npanies of rangers nnder Capts. Floyd and VViswell were disastrously de-\\nfeated by the Indians, in 1690. Stages run 4 M. N. W. to Nottingham\\nSquare (Rockingham House), a pleasant old village on a high and pleasant-\\nviewing hill. A short distance S. W. is the picturesque and island-studded\\nPawtuckawav Pond, covering 4^ square miles. The triple-headed Paw-\\ntuckaway Mt. is also iu this town and Saddleback Mt. is to the W. in\\nNorthwood.\\nThe train runs rapidly across the pond-strewn town of Barrington to\\nGonic, a pleasant village devoted to the manufacture of woollen cloths.\\nThe next station is Rochester (see page 213).\\n67. Nashua to Greenfield.\\nBy the Wilton Branch R. R., which has recently been prolonged 11 M.,by Lynde-\\nborough to Greenfield. -_ yt-cu-^^\\nStations. Nashua to S. Merrimac, 7 M. Amherst, 11; Milford,l5; Wilton,\\n18 Lyndeborough, 21 Greenfield, 26.\\nNashua to Wilton, see page 192. Wilton has about 1,200 inhabitants,\\na savings-bank, library, 3 churches, and several summer boarding-houses.\\nIt manuftictures carpet-yarn, carpets, furniture, boots, and leather. Daily\\nstages run 8 M. N. W. to Lyndeborough also to W. Wilton. Tri-weekly\\nstages run 7 M. up the Souhegan Valley to Greenville (Columbian House;\\nsee also page 176), a pleasant village with cotton and furniture manufacto-\\nries. Semi-daily stages pass thence 3 M. S. W. to New Ipswich Clark s\\nHotel; Appleton House), a quiet summer-resort among high hills, contain-\\ning also the ancient Appleton Academy, a library, savings-bank, 3\\nchurches, and small factories. It was settled in 1749, under the name of\\nIpswich- Canada; and lost 26 men in the Civil War. Temple {Central\\nHouse) is 7 M. from Wilton, and contains the rugged and far-viewing Tem-\\nple Mts.\\nBeyond Wilton the train reaches S. Lyndeborough, where glassware is\\nmade from quartz rock. To the N. is Lyndeboro, a summer-haunt for city-\\npeople, near Centre Mt. From Greenfield station daily stages run S. W.\\nto Peterborough, 7 M.; Hnrrisville, 15; Ndsun, 19; and Munsonville 22.\\nAlso W. 6 M. to Hancock (Jeiferson House), in a rugged farming town,\\nstudded with ponds; 13 M. to S. Stoddard (Weeks s Hotel); 19 M. to Stod-\\ndard (Central House), in a hilly farming region; 25 RL to Marlow (Forest\\nHouse), a rural village on the Ashuelot River; and 35 M. to Alstead (Hum-\\nphrey House), near Bellows Falls. Stages connect at Marlow for agricul-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0489.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "41 G Route GS. MANCHESTER TO NORTH WEARE.\\ntural Lempster (Forest House), 10-12 M. N.; also for Glbum (7 M. S. W.)\\nand Surrey (Carpenter House), a rich old fsirming town. Daily stages also\\nrun N. W. from Greenfield to Bennington (Washinston House), 4 M. dis-\\ntant, with cutlery and paper factories; Antrim k\\\\)\\\\i\\\\^Un\\\\ House), 6 M.,\\nmanufacturing sewing-silk and seed-sowers; N. Branch, 10 M. Ilills-\\nhoroiKjh (St. Charles Hotel), 13^ M. IF. Deering, 11 M. and Hills-\\nhorouyh Bridge (Valley House), an active village on the Contoocook River,\\nwith a bank, a paper, 2 churches, and manufactures to the extent of\\n$350,000 a year (see also page 418). Stages run daily thence 12^ M. W.\\nto Waslnngton (Lovel House), under Lovewell s i\\\\It. Daily stages run\\nfrom Greenfield 4^ M. N. E. to Francestown Francestow^n Hotel), a pleas-\\nant village with broad and well-shaded streets, a bank, academy, library,\\nand church. It is near the dark heights of Crotched Mt.\\n68. Manchester to North Weare.\\nBy the Manchester N. Weare R. R., in 1 hr. Fare, 60 c.\\nStations. IManchester to Bedford, 1 M. Goffstown Centre, 6 Goffstown,9;\\nParker s, 10 Oil Mills, 11 Raymond s, 15 E. Weare, 16 N. Weare, 19.\\nThe train crosses the Merrimac River, giving a fine view of the city of\\nManchester and its great factories. Bedford was one of the towns granted\\nto and settled by the veterans of the Narragansett wars, and now supplies\\nManchester with milk and vegetables. Frequent views of the singular\\nTJncanoonuc Mts. are given as the train advances. Goffstown (New-\\nHampshire Central Hotel) is a wealthy farming toAvn of 1,656 inhabitants,\\nin whose S. \\\\V. part are the remarkable hills called the Uncanoonucs,\\nfrom whose crests the White Mts. are visible, with a wide sweep of the\\nMerrimac Valley.\\nDaily stages run 5 M. S. W. from Parker s station to Netv Boston\\n(Columbian Hotel), a beautiful hamlet in a rural town of 1,241 inhabitants.\\nNear the village is the bold Joe-English Hill, 572 ft. high, one of wdiose\\nsides is formed by a rocky cliff. The summer-frequented towns of Mt.\\nVernon and Lyndeborough are on the S. Stages also run on ^londay,\\nWednesday, and Friday to Francestown. From Oil Mills stages run to\\nS. Weare (Dearborn House) and Deering Centre. The terminus is at\\nN. Weare (Collins House). Weare has 1,800 inhabitants, with 3 villages,\\n5 churches, and a public library. It has many valuable farms, producing\\nhay, wheat, and apples and manufactories of woollen goods, boots and\\nslioes, etc. The scenery is pleasant, and attracts about 200 summer-visitors\\nannually. Daily stages run W. to Henniker. A large summer-business\\nis done along this line, and the Scribner-Hill and Shirley-Hill Houses, near\\nGolfstown, are favorite resorts. Shirley Hill overlooks Manchester and\\nthe valley. The Devil s Fuljnt is a very interesting locality in Bedford.\\ni", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0490.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "PITTSFIELD, N. 11. Route 70. 417\\n69. The Suncook Valley.\\nBy the Suncook -Valley R. R., in li hr.\\nStations. Hooksett to Suncook, 21- M. Allenstown, 7; Short Falls, 10^;\\nEpsom, 12^ Chichester, 15 Webster s Mills, 17 Pittsfield, 19^.\\nThe train leaves the main line of the Manchester Concord R. R. at\\nHooksett and ci-osses the ]\\\\Ierrimac River. Suncook {Suncook House;\\nPembroke) is a prosperous manufacturing village near the confluence of\\nthe Suncook and Merrimac Rivers, with cotton-mills employing 1,100\\nhands, and using a capital of $1,700,000. It has 2 churches, a savings-\\nl)ank, and a high-school. To the N., on the railroad to Concord, is PeTn-^\\nbroke, a high-placed and decadent hamlet, with a wide street parallel with\\nthe river. Allenstoion is a dull rural town of 1,300 inhabitants, beyond\\nwhich the course of the Suncook River is followed through an uneven\\ngrazing country. Epsom (Suncook- Valley House) is a iarming town of 900\\ninhabitants, near Nottingham Mt, and Chichester (800 inhabitants) is\\nalso devoted to forming. Pittsfield Washington House) has about 1,200\\ninhabitants, a bank, paper, academy, library, and 4 churches. It manu-\\nfactures boots and shoes, cotton cloth, and boards, and is prolific in wheat\\nand milk. To the S. E. is the long ridge of Catamount Mt. (1,450 ft.\\nhigh), whence the ocean may be seen, together with the great mountains\\non the N.\\nDaily stages run from Pittsfield to the hamlets of Barnstead (Shackford House), a\\nrich agricultural town on the N. also to Gilmnnton Iron- fVorks (Central House),\\nnear Alton Bay and Lougee s Pond; and Gilmnnton Arnderny (Washington House),\\na pleasant vilhtge near the Suncook Mts., with a venerable academy. The view\\nfrom Peaked Hi i I is grand; and the Peaked-Hill House is i M. from the village.\\nMany summer-visitors sojourn in this town (which is also reached from Tiltoa\\n(10 M.) on the B., C. M. R. R.). Tri-weekly stages also run E. to Strafford and\\nDover; and N. E. to Alton.\\nDaily stages run 6 M. E. from Epsom to Nortliwood (Harvey Housp), a pic-\\nturesque town, which is much visited by summer-tourists. It contains numerous\\nponds, and on the S. is the dark Saddleback Mt. The main road crosses Clark s\\nHill, whence the ocean is visible, and Brown s Hill is another favorite view-point.\\nThe village is on high ground, and has 3 churches, a library, academy, and semi-\\nnary. In 1873 Northwood celebrated the centennial of her foundation.\\n70. The Contoocook Valley.\\nBy the Concord Claremont R. R. to Hillsborough Bridge.\\nConcord to Contoocook, see page 196. At this point the valley line\\ndiverges to the S. W., and soon i-eaches W. llopkinton. To the E. is tlie\\nbeautiful village of Hopkinton, in a rich farming town of 1,819 inhabit-\\nants, prolific in corn, oats, potatoes, and dairy products. It was settled in\\n1735, and came near being the capital of the State. Concord is 7^ M. E.;\\nand Contoocook is 3 M. N. W., with 3 churches, an academy, a prosper-\\nous antiquarian society, and several factories. Putney Hill is 1 M. W.\\nof llopkinton village, and is crowned by an ancient cemetery and the\\nruins of the Putney Fort. It is 500 ft. above the town, and gives a view\\nis* A A", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0491.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "418 Route 72. HTLLSBOROUGH BRIDGE.\\nof the Contoocook and Merrimac Valleys, with their many villages, Mts.\\nSunapee, Monadnock, Kearsarge, Whiteface, Chocorua, Belknap, and\\nothers of the White Mts.\\nStation Henniker {National Hotel), a neat and pleasant village, with\\nshady streets, 2 churches, an academy, and a library. The fair rural\\nscenery in the vicinity makes this a quiet summer-resort. Crany Hill is\\nto the S., and Long Pond is 1 M. from the village. Henniker has many\\nprofitable farms and several factories. Hillsborougli Bridge Valley\\nHouse) is a prosperous factory-village, with 2 churches, a paper, and a\\nbank, and is surrounded by pleasant hill-scenery. Stages hence to K.\\nWashington, 11 M.; Hillsborough; and Wasliington. The railroad runs\\nS. to Antrim, Bennington, and Peterborough, connecting at Hancock\\nJunction for Keene and Nashua.\\nAt Hillsborough Bridge is the mansion of Gov. Pierce, where Franklin Pierce was\\nbom in 1804. He practised law in Concord for some years, was U. S Senator,\\n1837-42, and Brig. -Gen. in the Mexican War. At the Democratic Convention of\\n1852 he was nominated (on the 40th ballot) for the Presidency, and defeated Gen.\\nScott, the Whig candidate, by 254 electoral votes out of 296. During his adminis-\\ntration Arizona was annexed, Kansas and Nebraska were opened to slavery, and the\\nOstond Manifesto (to Spain) was issued. Mr. Pierce favored the proslavery party,\\nand sympathized with the Secessionists in the war of 1861-5.\\n71. Portsmouth to Dover.\\nBy the Portsmouth Dover Branch of the Eastern R. R., which was built\\nbetwen 1872 and 1874, at a cost of 700,000. The line is singular on account of\\nits numerous pile-bridges, on and near the Piscataqua River, one of which is 1,906\\nft. long.\\nIn leaving Portsmouth the train runs through Newington, a small farm-\\ning town of 414 inhabitants, with good soil near the surrounding waters.\\nThis town was formerly known as Bloo ly Point, in memory of a dis-\\nastrous attack made upon it (in 1G90) by Hopehood and his merciless\\nIndian bands. Newington station is 4 M. from Portsmouth, and beyond\\nit the train crosses the Piscataqua Uiver to the Dover-Point station, which\\nis near the site of the earliest European settlement in New Hampshire.\\nCushing s station is near the Gushing estate; and Sa?w?/er s is near Saw-\\nyer s Mills. The train next runs through a more thickly settled region,\\nand soon reaches the terminus of the route.\\nDover, see page 281.\\n72. Portsmouth to Manchester and Concord.\\nBy the Portsmouth R. R in 2^-3 hrs. Fare, l.CO. The station in Portsmouth\\nis near that of the Eastern 11. R.\\nStations. Portsmouth to Greenland, 4 M. Brackctt s Stratham, 8; New-\\nmarket .lunction, 10; K. Epping; Epping, 18; W. Epping Raymond, 23; Candia,\\n20 .\\\\uburn, 33 Massabesic, 36 Manchester, 41 Hooksett, 51 Concord, 59.\\nThe line soon crosses the Eastern R. R., and runs S. W. to Greenland\\n(Brackett s Hotel), a rich farming and fruit-growing town, which is much\\nvisited in summer. There are 695 inhabitants here, being less tluin there\\nwere a century ago. The village is f M. from the station. The train", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0492.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "SALEM TO LAWRENCE. limiteTS. 419\\nnext runs near the broad and land-locked salt-water lake called Great\\nBay, and crosses the level and fertile fruit-raishig town of Stratham.\\nStratliani Hill overlooks Great Bay and the ocean, and views the White\\nMts., in the N. Beyond the Squamscot River the line crosses the Boston\\njMaine R. R. at Newmarket Junction. 1 M. S. is S. Newmarket\\n(Shute House), with large iron, machine, and engine works; and 2 M. N.\\nis Newmarket (Washington House), a large trading village, on the Piscat-\\naqua River, where clothing, cotton cloth, and boots and shoes are made.\\nEi^Tping (Pawtuckaway fMise) is a pleasant village in a good farming\\nregion, with small fiictories and three churches. 1 M. N. is the ancient\\nmain street, with several antiquated mansions. Epping has been declin-\\ning in population for over a century. At this point the track is crossed\\nby the Nashua Rochester R. R. W. Epping has two small mills.\\ni2a\u00c2\u00ab/niore(f Central House Eagle) is in a farming town of 1,121 inhabit-\\nants, and has 3 churches and an academy. A short distance S. W. is\\nChester (stages from Derry), a bright and pleasant village where visitors\\nfrom the cities find summer-rest.\\nStation, Candia, whose village is on a high ridge whence may be seen\\nthe White Mts., Mt. Wachusett, the Plum-Island lights (at night), and the\\nocean. This town was first named Chnr ruing fare, on account of its pleas-\\nant location; and its present name was given in honor of Gov. Wentworth,\\nwho was once in captivity on the Mediterranean island of Candia.\\nSemi-daily stages run N. to DeerfleW, a large and fertile farming and orchard\\ntown of 1,768 inhabitants, where numerous city-people rusticate. It was settled in\\n175i), and lost 18 men in the Revolution and 48 in the Rebellion. There are several\\nfish abounding ponds, and some picturesque mountains, the chief of which are Paw-\\ntuckaway, Saddleback Mt., and Fort Mt. Gen. B. F. Butler was born here, in 18itt.\\nBeyond Auburn station the train passes the summer-resort at Lake\\nMassabesic (see page 193) and soon enters the city of Manchester. From\\ntliis point the train follows the Concord R. R. (page 194) up the Merrimac\\nRiver to Concord.\\n73. Salem to Lawrence.\\nBy the Lawrence Branch of the Eastern R. R.\\nStations. Salem Peabody Danversport Danvers Swan s Crossing; Mid-\\ndletou Boxford Sutton s Mills Lawrence.\\nOn leaving Salem the train follows the course of the North River to Pea-\\nbody {Simonds s Hotel), a prosperous town of 8,000 iidiabitants, with 2\\nbanks, 6 churches, a paper, and the richly-endowed Peabody Institute,\\n(see page 253). The valuation is about S 6,000,000; and the chief industry\\nis tanning and currying hides, in which 400 men are employed. George\\nPeabody was born here, in 1795, in a house wiiich is still preserved; and\\nthe town was named in his honor in 1868. The village is pleasant, and in\\nits vicinity are several high hills and small lakes. Near this station the\\nS. Reading and Salem Lowell Railroads diverge to the 1.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0493.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": "420 Route74. DANVERS.\\nThe Lawrence line runs N. over Crane Brook, to Danversport, a coal\\nand lumber shipping-point on Porter s River. Danvers station is at the\\nshoe-manufacturing village of Danvers Plains, where the Newburyport R.\\nR. is ci ossed. The Peabody Institute is in Peabody Park, on Sylvan St.,\\nand has a public library and lecture-hall. In this vicinit} is the Walnut-\\nGrove Cemetery, beyond which is Danvers Centre, wiih its carpet-factory.\\nOpposite the town-hall is the soldiers monument. The town contains\\nover 6,000 inhabitants, with 8 churches, a paper, bank, high-school, and\\nabout 150 farms, famous for prolific apple-orchards. The ancient witch-\\ncraft delusion arose in this town (see page 254).\\nThe new Massacliusetts Hospital for the Insane is on a bold hill near\\nthe S wall s- Crossing station, and is reached by a sinuous and costly mac-\\nadamized road 6,000 ft. long, with a grade of 3J ft. in 100. It is a con-\\nnected pile of ten immense brick buildings, in Elizabethan architecture,\\nwith several towers, double walls, cement floors, zinc roofs, fan ventila-\\ntion, and steam heating-apparatus. It is 200 ft. above the adjacent town,\\nwith abundant sunlight and air, and commands a superb view, including\\nthe ocean, the environs of Boston, and scores of villages and cities, with\\nWachusett, Monadnock, and other conspicuous mountains in the W. and\\nN, W. The buildings and furniture cost $1,620,000, and are fitted for 600\\npatients, who are housed and fed far more luxuriously than the average\\ntax -payer and citizen.\\nThe train next crosses the Ipswich River to MidcUeton, a small hamlet\\nwith one church, in a farming town of 1,092 inhabitants. The diversified\\nrural town of Boxford lies to the N. of the line, and has 834 inhabitants.\\nThe train next enters iV. Andover, passing the bold Woodchuck Hill and\\ncrossing the outlet of Great Pond; meets the Boston Maine R. R. at Sut-\\nton s Mills and crosses the Merrimac River to Lawrence.\\nLawrence, see page 278.\\n74. Boston to Amesbury.\\nBy the Eastern R. R. and its Amesbury Branch. Boston to Newburyport, 37 M.\\nSalisbury, 39 Amesbury, 43.\\nBoston to Newburyport, see pages 248-258. The Amesbury train is\\ntaken at the Eastei*n station, and crosses the Merrimac River on a high\\nbridge, whence the city and the ocean are visible on the r. The first sta-\\ntion is near the ancient hamlet of E. Salisbury, whence stages run to Salis-\\nbury Beach (see page 260). The train now diverges from the Eastern\\nlino, and runs W., Avith views of the upper part of Newburyport on the 1.\\nTlie Salisbury-Point station is near the boat-building vilhige of the same\\nname, and also near the quaint and ancient Pocky-Hill church.\\nAmesbury {American House) is a prosperous manufacturing village on\\nthe falls of the Powwow River, with large woollen and cotton mills and\\nother industries. It has 4 churches, 2 banks, a paper, and a high-school.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0494.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "PALMER TO WINCHENDON. Route75. 421\\nand the adjacent farms are prolific in milk and vegetables. The town\\nhas about 3,000 inhabitants, and the adjacent town of Salisbury has\\nabout 3,800. Powwow Hill is just N. of the village, and is 323 ft, high.\\nIt commands a famous view, including the ocean, Cape Ann, the\\nIpswich hills, the long strip of Plum Island, the picturesque city of New-\\nburyport, the Isles of Shoals, Mt. Agamenticus, the long curves of the\\nblue Merrimac River, and a great area to the N. and W., including even\\nthe distant White j\\\\Its. Daily stages run from Amesbur}^ to the carriage-\\nmanufacturing village of W. Amt bury (5 M. W.), near Kimball s Pond\\nand Brandy-brow Hill. A brunch railroad runs thence to Newton, on the\\nBoston IMaine R. R.\\nJohn Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker Poet (born at Haverhill in 1807), has\\nlived in Amesbury since 1840. His earlier years were spent iu farming and journal-\\nism and he was a fearless pioneer of the cause of Antislavery, to whose advance-\\nment his life was devoted. He is peculiarly the poet of New England, and has writ-\\nten admirable descriptions of its rural life and scenery. The ancient towns of Essex\\nNorth and the surrounding seas have been richly illustrated by his Icgeudaxy\\npoems, especially by Suow-Bouud, The Tent ou the Beach, and The Ballads\\nof New England.\\n75. Palmer to Winchendon.\\nBy the Ware-River Railroad in 49 M. Fare, S1.55 time, 2-3 hrs.\\nStations. Palmer to Thorndike, 4 M. Ware, 12; Gilbertville, 16 Old Fur-\\nnace, 21 Barre Plains, 24 Coldbrook, 27 Williamsville, 33 Templeton, 39 Bald-\\nwinsville, 43 Waterville, 47 Winchendon, 49\\nThe line runs N. through the pleasant glens of Palmer, and the New-\\nLondon Northern Railroad .soon diverges to tlie 1. The course of the Ware\\nRiver is followed, and beyond the hamlet of Thorndike the Pattaquattic\\nPonds and Hill are seen on the r. Rounding the latter the train soon\\nreaches Ware {Hampshire House), where 900 operatives are engaged in\\ncotton and woollen mills. The village is picturesquely situated near the\\nfoot of Colonel s Mt. (1,172 ft. high) and other bold highlands. This town\\nhas 4,142 inhabitants, 6 churches, a bank, a library, and a grange.\\nThe soil of Ware is singular, even in New England, for its hardness and sterility.\\nIt was granted to a comirany of tlie veterans of King Philip s War, but after due\\nexamination they sold it for two cents an acre. President Dwight rode through the\\ntown, nnd said of the land, It is like self-rightcousuess the more a man has of it,\\nthe poorer he is. The poetic account of the genesis of Ware asserts that\\nDame Nature once, while makin? land,\\nHad refuse left of stone and sand\\nShe viewed it well, then threw it down\\nBetween Gov s Hill and Bolchertown,\\nAnd said, Yi)u paltry stuff, lie there.\\nAnd make a town, and call it Ware.\\nThe line next traverses a long valley, and enters Hardwick (Hardwick\\nHouse), a large dairy-town with several prosperous paper and woollen\\nmills. Gilbertville is a manufacturing village under Mt. Dougal, whence\\nstages run N. to Hardwick Centre in 2^ M. Beyond Old Furnace the train\\nsoon i-eaches Barre Plains {Afassasoit Hotel), whence stage?- run to Barre,\\n3 ^I. N. This town has 2,400 inhabitants, 5 churches, a library, news-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0495.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "422 RoxdelG. SPRINGFIELD TO ATIIOL.\\npaper, high-school, and soldiers monument. The soil is good, and there\\nare many dairy and pasture farms and valuable forests. The factories\\nmake cotton and woollen goods, boots and shoes, and palm-leaf hats.\\nDaily stages run from Carre to Dana, 7 M. W. and to Pfters/mrn, 8 M. N. W., a\\nlofty and ancient farming town where Gen. Lincoln defeated Shays s rebel forces, in\\n1787, and where Samuel Willard (the musician) and Dr. Austin Flint were born;\\nalso from Coldbrook station to Coldljrook Springs (\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Sanitarium), J M. S. E\\nvaluable mineral-waters in the picturesque town of Oakham.\\nThe line now runs N. up the valley of the Burntshirt River, through a\\nhilly and thinly-settled region, passing William sville and soon reaching\\nTempltton Centre (two hotels), the chief village of a farming town of 2,764\\ninhabitants, with 6 churches, a high-school, and several small factories.\\nStages run 4 M. W. to Phillipston, a highly diversified farming town with a pub-\\nlic library and a soldiers monument (to 13 dead) also 4 M. E. to E. TnnjilUon\\nand S. Gardner. Tenipleton was granted to veterans of the Narragansett War.\\nAt DaUhvinsville the Fitchburg Railroad is crossed, and the train runs\\nN. by Waterville to Wincheiidon (see page 413), where it meets the\\nCheshire Monadnock and the Boston, Barre Gardner Railroads.\\n76. Springfield to Atliol.\\nstations. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Springfield to Indian Orchard, 6^ M. Ludlow, 7i Collins, lOJ\\nRed Bri lgo; Three Rivers, 16| Barrett\\\\s Junction, 17^ Pondsville, 19 W. Ware,\\n19; Enfield, 27; Smith s, 28: Greenwich, 30^; Greenwich Village, 32; N. Dana,\\n38; New Salem, 40; S. Athol, 43; Athol, 48^.\\nThe line runs out from Springfield to the N. E., and soon reaches the\\npleasant village of Indian Orchard, beyond which it crosses the Chicopee\\nRiver, near Jenckesville, a prosperous factory-village. Ludlmo is 3 M. N.\\nof its station (daily stages), in the centre of a farming town of 1,222\\ninhabitants, with a handsome soldiers monument. The train follows the\\nChicopee River, and slowly rounds the massive ]\\\\Iinechoag Mt. (on the 1.).\\nBeyond Three Rivers it intersects the New-London Nortliern Railroad\\n{Honlo 12), at BarreWs Junction, and ascends the Swift-River valley by\\nBondsville, through a rolling country. Enfield (SwMft-Rivcr House) is a\\nnu-al hamlet in a farming and dairy town of 1,065 inhabiiants, among\\nhigh and wooded ridges.\\nTri-wecklv stages run N. W. to the failing moiintnin-hamlcts of Prrsrott (b M.)\\nand Pdhfmi(^^].). ]Mt. Ell and Rattlesnake Mt. are in Prescott and in relham\\n(Pelham Hotel) i.s Mt. Lincoln.\\nGrfiniwirh (Greenwich Hotel) is just N. of Mt. Lizzie, in a rural town of C06\\ninhabitants, occupying the old Indian domain of Quabin. The line next traverses\\nthe hill-country to iY Dana (small hotel), near Neeseponsett Pond. Daily stages\\nrun S. E. to Dana (f) M.) and ]5arrc (12 M.). From Ncw-Salem station daily stjipea\\nrun N. W. to Aew Salnn (Xew-Salem llous a highlnnd hamlet ncnr the lolty\\nPackard s Mt Deyond R. Athol the tniin readies Atliol (Siimvnl Hotel, a large\\nsmnmer-rcsorl), at tlie iiitersectiuii of (he Fitililuirg Ilailrond. Athol is a pretty\\nand growing village, witli 2 banks, 5 thnrclies, a ingh sclnu 1, and several fire resi-\\ndences. The water-power of Miller s River is utilized for manufactories of cotton\\nand wnoilcn goods, pahi\\\\-lc if li its, paper, scyt^Kis, castings, slioes, and other articles.\\nThe town has nearly 2 .t0 productive larui\u00c2\u00bb, with 4,134 inhabitants.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0496.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "MILFOKD SPRINGS. Route 77. 423\\n77. Nashua to Keene.\\nSf-ations. Nashua to S. Merrimack, 5 M. Amherst, 8 Milford, 11 Wilton,\\n15; S. Lyndeboro, 19; Greenfield, 26; S. Lenuington, 30 Hancock .Function, 31\\nHancock, 35; E. Harrisville, 39 ilarrisville, 42 \\\\V. Harrisville, 45 Jlarlboro 49\\nKeene, 56. See also page 192. Semi-daily stages run from Amherst station to the\\nvenerable village of Amherst {Amherst House), 3 J M. N. W., with a soldiers\\nmouument ou its ceutral common. Stages also from Amherst station, 1^-2 M. to\\nt*^ 3 Milford Springs\\nHotel Ponemah, built in 1883, and run by Barnes and Dunklee, of the\\nHotel Brunswick, Boston), high up on the hills, and commanding an ex-\\ntensive view down the Merrimack Valley, and over lines of distant hills and\\nleagues of forests. The medicinal virtues of these springs were discovered\\nin 1818, after a series of angelic apparitions near their site (such is the\\nrural legend). They became very popular as a remedy for cutaneous\\ndiseases, rheumatism, debility, dyspepsia, and other maladies, and were\\nvisited annually by thousands of invalids.\\nThe old hotel still stands at the foot of the hill, upon which the Hotel\\nPonemah was built in 1883, with all the luxuries of a first-class house,\\nwide piazzas, airy halls, open fireplaces, gas lights, electric bells, barber-\\nshop, billiards, livery-stable, etc. There are pleasant rambles in the adja-\\ncent forest, beyond the quaint little pavilions over the springs. Vast\\nquantities of the Milford water are sent to the cities, and used medicinally\\nor for a table-water. The Ponemah water has but 3 grains of mineral\\nmatter in a gallon, and is one of the purest waters known, of great virtue in\\ncases of dyspepsia, rheumatism, and other organic troubles. The Milford\\nis another very pure spring, rich in natural salts and carbonic acid and\\ntlie Iron and Magnesia Springs are tonic, and recuperative in their prop-\\nerties. The Hotel Ponemah is 700 ft. above the sea, amid fragrant pine-\\ngroves, and near a charming country hill-road.\\nMont Vernon {Conant Hall, GO guests Bellevue House, 50 Stmset House\\nCampbell s, Deacon Sterrett s. etc., 5? 6 10 a week), 4 5 M. from Milford station\\n(seuii-daily stage), and 7 M. from the Ponemah, is a pretty bill-top hamlet, 1,000 ft.\\nabove the sea, with grand views and interesting drives (see also page 192). It has\\nmany summer- visitors and is but 4 M from Joe-English Hill, in New Boston.\\nA pleasant drive of 5^ M. leads from the Ponemah to Hollis, the an-\\ncient Nissitisset, a deeply embowered farming-village. There are other\\nattractive drives to Amherst, 4^ M. Nashua, 9 Barnes Falls, 9 Lake\\nBaboosic, 10; Lake Potonapa, 7; Purgatory Falls, 8; etc.\\nFrom Amherst station the train ascends the Souhegan valley, by the\\nbusy village of Milford, to Wilton station, whence daily stages run to\\nWilton, 2i M.; W. Wilton, 4; and Greenville, 8 M.\\nWilton to Greenfield, ste \\\\yci i\u00c2\u00a3 i 415.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0497.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "424 Route 78. LEOMINSTER.\\n78. Fitchburg to Providence and New Bedford.\\nThis is a favorite route between Vermont and New Hampshire, on the\\nN., and Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Martha s Vineyard, and\\nNantucket, on the S. and E. Trains from Fitchburg to New Bedford in\\n1 i 2 hrs.\\nThe train runs S. E. from Fitchburg down the picturesque Nashua\\nvalle} to Leominster {Leominster Hotel), an ancient and attractive manu-\\nfacturing village among the hills. From PratVs Junction a branch diverges\\nto Sterling and Worcester; and the present route runs S. E. to carpet-\\nmaking Clinton {Clinton House), where it crosses the Worcester, Nashua,\\nand Rochester Railroad. From Bolton Depot semi-daily stages run 3 M.\\nN. E. to Bolton, famous for its rural beauty, rich farms, and far-viewing\\nhills. In Berlin (Belmont House) the moribund JNIass. Central R. R. is\\ncrossed. The next station is Northborouyh (Norlhborough Hotel), sur-\\nrounded by noble hills, and containing several churches and a soldiers*\\nmonument. Marlborough {Central House) is a rich farming and shoe-\\nmaking town of D, inhabitants, with 2 papers, 7 churches, and sol-\\ndiers monument. Here stood a village of Eliot s Christian Indians; and\\nKing Philip s warriors attacked the place in 167G. (Branch line hence\\nto S. Acton.) Southborough is a lovely rural hill-town, with a soldiers\\nmonument on the green in front of the Congregational Church. Here is\\nthe Episcopal St. Mark s School, with its handsome stone chapel; and\\nnear the village is Burnett s famous Deerfoot Farm. Fayville is a shoe-\\nmaking village. Frainingham, see page 125. At S. Framingham, the\\nline crosses the Boston and Albany R. R. (Route 21), and other routes\\ndiverge to Milford (see page 125), and Lowell (see page 125). The New-\\nBedford train runs S. E. 3 M. to Sherborn, an apple-bearing town, near\\nthe Woman s Prison of Massachusetts. The train next crosses the Charles\\nRiver, and at Medfield Junction intersects the N. Y. N. E, R. R.\\n(W^oonsocket Division). Medfield {Medjield Hotel) is a handsome vil-\\nlage, where straw hats and bonnets are made (see page 120). At Walpole\\n(Walpole Hotel), formerly a part of Dedham, the N. Y. N. E. R. R.\\nmain line is crossed. Beyond S. Wnlpole and the Neponset River is\\nFoxborough {Cocasset House), manufacturing straw goods, and adorned\\nwith a granite memorial hall. At Mansfield, the Boston and Providence\\nR. R. is crossed and the train runs thence S. E. across Norton to Taun-\\nton, and Weir Junction, connecting there for Cape Cod or Fall River;\\nand thence to New Bedford (see page 90).", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0498.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "CAMDEN. Route 79. 425\\n79. The Maine Sea-Coast.\\nCamden {Bay-View House Ocean House) is a beautiful seashore resort\\n8 M. from Rockland (daih communication by Boston and Bangor steam-\\ners), with costly summer-villas, large boarding-houses, and pleasant islands\\nand beaches. Here, also, are several shipyards and the largest anchor-\\nfoundry in America. Near by is \u00c2\u00a3l range of very picturesque and lofty\\nmountains, visible from far off at sea, and affording amid its defiles fine\\nbits of Tyrolese scenery. The precipice-fringed Mt. Megunticook, 1,205\\nft. high, commands a vast sea-view; and Mt. Batty overlooks Penobscot\\nBay as far as Mt. Desert and Matiuicus. The scenery about LlncolnvUle\\nFond, Ragged Mt., and elsewhere on the inland drives, is full of beauty\\nand interest.\\nKockport (Carleton House, $7-10 a week), 1-2 M. from Camden, is\\na rugged ship-building and lime-burning hamlet, with charming marine\\nscenery, and drives to Beech Hill, Jameson s Point, and Camden (tine\\nscenery on the shore-road). Within a few years Camden and Rockport\\nhave become well-known as summer-resorts, and have many handsome\\ncottages on their hills and headlands (see also page 317).\\nNorthport Waverley House), a summer-port of the Boston and Bangor\\nand other steamers, is a sea-fronting bluff crowned by hundreds of summer-\\ncottages, between the pretty hamlet of Saturday Cove and Belfast, and\\n1 M. by carriage-road from the sea-viewing summit of INIt. Percival. This\\nlocality was occupied as a Methodist camp-meeting ground in IS^S, and\\nis still the site of enthusiastic camp-meetings (in August).\\nMonhegan {Mrs. W. L. Albee^s boarding-house) has a lighthouse (200\\nft. above the sea), a chapel, a schoolhouse, and HO inhabitants. It covers\\nabout 1,000 acres (1| by 1 M.), and has very bold shores, looming nobly\\nabove the adjacent seas, and several leagues from the nearest point of the\\nmainland. Several vessels are owned by the islanders. There is much\\nnotable scenery here, and very impressive rocky and surf-beaten shores,\\nwith views from the hills over a vast circuit of blue sea. The Monhcgau\\nmail-boat sails from S. St. George every Tuesday and Friday; the Booth-\\nbay steamboats often make excursions to it and Mrs. Albee, on receiv-\\ning a few days notice, will send a boat to the mainland for guests.\\n(See also page 316.)\\nSquirrel Island {Chase Hotise, 75 guests) is reached by small steamers,\\nrunning several times daily from Bath, 15 M., through a delightful archi-\\npelago, and down deep salt-water fiords, by VYestport, Five Islands, and\\nother quaint little stopping-places. Boothbay {BuotJibay House Wey-\\nmouth), the terminus of the route, is a gray-wharved old fishing-village,\\nwith a romantic history. Out in its harbor the steamer tuuches at Capitol", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0499.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "426 Route 79. LOWELL.\\nIsland (Sidney House) and Mouse Island (Samoset House, 150 guests,\\n$7 -15 a week), small islets favored by many summer-visitors. Squirrel\\nIsland, 3 M. from Boothbay, and fronting the sea, has 1,000 inhabitants\\nin summer, all of them pleasure-seekers, who find rare entertainment in\\nboating and fishing, and rambling about the picturesque shores and\\nbeaches. The Squirrel-Island Squid is a bright summer newspaper, in\\nwhich the gossip of the place is printed, and the fascinating legends of the\\nadjacent coasts. Ocean Point {Ocean-Point House; Millnoket), on the\\nadjacent main, 6 M. from Boothbay, has many summer-cottages.\\nSamoset Island, Saioyer^s Island (Sawj er s-Island House), and other\\nlocalities in this region receive many summer-voyagers.\\nThe fare from Boston, by boat, to Bath and Boothbay and back, is ^2.50.\\nFort Popham and Hunnewell s Neck, at the mouth of the Kennebec\\n(steamboat from Bath), are the sites of new summer-cottage colonies, with\\nthe Eureka House (75 guests; $7-10 a week) as their centre. Farther\\ndown, at Small Point, is the Allaquippa House ($5-7 a week). Mere\\nPoint, running into the sea below Brunswick, is another newly developed\\nresort; and the inns of Harpswell (daily stages from Brunswick), have\\nmany summer-guests, attracted by the scenery, which Harriet Beecher\\nStowe says has more varied and singular beauty than can ordinarily\\nbe found on the shores of any land whatever.\\nGrand Manan (Marble-Ridge House, at North Head; and many inex-\\npensive boarding-houses), a Canadian island, 22 M. long and 3-6 M. wide,\\nwith 3,000 inhabitants, 10 schools, 8 churches, and valuable fisheries, is\\nreached by steamboat in 2 hrs. from East port, connecting with the Inter-\\nnational steamers. It has wonderful cliff and coast scenery, good trout-\\nfishing and hunting, many legends, good roads, several quaint hamlets,\\nand other interesting objects, which attract numbers of artists here every\\nyear. It was settled by Loyalists from Massachusetts.\\nCampobello (*The Owen; The Tyn-y-Coedd, large and luxurious new\\nsummer-hotels, built by Boston capital) is a Canadian island, 8 by 3 M. in\\narea, with 1,600 inhabitants, two fishing-villages, picturesque beaches,\\nheadlands, uplands, evergreen forests, and sea-swept coves. The island\\nwas granted in 1767, by England, to Admiral Owen, whose family occu-\\npied the domain for over a century. The traditions of this regime are full\\nof vivid interest, and meet one at every turn. In 1880 the last of the\\nOwens abandoned the manor-house and the island was purchased by an\\nAmerican syndicate, and liberally advertised as a summer-resort, great\\nhotels having been built, new roads opened, and cottages erected. Hourly\\nsteamers run between Campobello and Eastport.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0500.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "AN\\nITINERARY OF NEW ENGLAND.\\nSHOWING THE STATIONS AND DISTANCES ON THE\\nCHIEF RAILROADS.\\nBoston to Newport and New York.\\nRoute 3. Page 36. The Old Colony R. R.\\nStations. Boston to Savin Hill, 3 M. Harrison Square, 3|; Neponset, 5;\\nAtlantic, 5^; Wollastou, 6^; Quincy, 8; Quincy Adams, 8} Braiiitree, 10; S.\\nBraintree, 11^ (branch to Plymouth, 37^}; Holbrook, 15; E. Stoughtou, 16| N.\\nBridgewater,* 2(); Campello, 21^; Mattield, 23 J; E. and W. Bridgewater, 25;\\nBridgewater, 27 Titicut, 30 Middleboro 34 Lakeville, 36 Myrick s, 42 As-\\nsonet, 45 Fall River, 49 Tiverton, 54 Bristol Ferry, 56 Newport, 68 New-\\nYork (by steamer), 230.\\nBoston to Duxbury.\\nRorite 4. Page 48. The Old Colony and S. Shore R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston to Braintree, 10 M. E. Braintree, 11 Weymouth, 11^\\nN. Weymouth, 13; E. Weymouth, 14^; W. Hingham, 1G| Hingham, 17i; Old\\nColony House, 18; Nantasket, 19; Cohasset, 21^; N. Scituate, 23; Egypt, 24;\\nS.cituate, 26; S. Scituate, 28; E. Marshtield, 30 Sea View, 31; Marshfield Centre,\\n32; Marshfield, 34; Webster Place, 36; Duxbury, 38; S. Duxbury, 39.\\nBoston to Plymouth.\\nRoute 5. Page 51. Old Colony R. R.\\nStations. Boston S. Braintree, llj M. S. Wej month, 15; N. Abington,\\n18; Abington, 19 S. Abington, 21^; N. Hanson, 231; Hanson, 24|; Halifax,\\n28i Plympton, 30 Kingston, 33i Plymouth, 37^.\\nBoston to Cape Cod.\\nRoute 6. Page 54. Old Colony R. R.\\nStations. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Boston; Middleboro 34 M. Rock, 39; S. Middleboro 42; Tre-\\nmont, 45 S. Wareham, 47 Wareham, 49 Agawam, 61 Cohasset Narrows, 54", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0501.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "428 ITINERARY.\\n(l)rancli to Wood s Hole, 72) Monument, 55 N. Sandwich, 58 W. Sandwich,\\n59 Sandwicli, G2 W. Banistahle, 69 Barnstal)le, 73 Yarmouth, 75 (branch to\\nHyannis, 79); S. Yarmouth, SO; S. Dennis, 81; N. Harwicli, 83; Hanvich, 84;\\nBrewster, 89; E. Brewster, 92; Orleans, 94; Eastham, 97; S. Wellfleet, 103;\\nWellfleet, 106; S. Truro, 109; Truro, 111! N. Truro, 114; Provincetown, 120.\\nBoston to Martha s Vineyard and Nantucket.\\nRoute 7. Page 58. Old Colony R. R. and Stemners.\\nStations. Boston; Cohasset Narrows, 54 M. N. Falmouth, 61; W. Fal-\\nmoath Falmouth, 68 Wood s Hole, 71 (steamer to) Martha s Vineyard, 78 j\\n(steamer to) Nantucket, 116.\\nBoston to Providence and New York.\\nRoute 8. Page 62. Boston Providence, Stonington d: Providence, New\\nHaven, New London fc Stonington, and N. Y. fc New Haven R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston Roxbnry, 2 M.; Jamaica Plain, 3^; Forest Hill, 5;\\nReadville, 8.} Canton, 14 Sharon, 17^ E. Foxboro 21| Mansfield, 24 W.\\nManslield, 26; Attleboro 31 Dodgeville, 32; Pawtucket, 39; Providence, 43^\\nAuburn, 49 Hill s Grove, 53 Greenwich, 58 Wickford, 64 Kingston, 71\\nCarolina, 77 Richmond Switch, 80 Niantic, 84 Westerly, 88 Stonington, 94\\nMystic, 97; W. Mystic, 98; Noauk, 102; Poquonnock Switch, 103; Groton New\\nLondon, 106. Shore Lme. Waterford, 109; E. Lyme, 113; S. Lyme, 118;\\nLyme, 122 Conn. River, 123 Saybrook, 125 Westbrook, 128 Clinton, 133\\nMadison, 136; Guilford, 140; Stony Creek, 145; Bran ford, 148 Fairhaven, 154\\nNew Haven, 156. N. Y. New Haven Division. West Haven, 15S| Milford,\\n165; Naugatuck Junction, 168; Stratford, 170; Bridgeport, 173 Fairfield, 178\\nSou thport, 180 Westport, 184; S. Nor^valk, 187 Darien, 191; Noroton, 192^\\nStamford, 195 Cos Cob Bridge, 199 Greenwich, 200 Port Chester, 203 Rye,\\n205; Mamaroneck, 208; New Rochelle, 212; Mount Vernon, 215; Williams\\nBridge, 218 New York, 230.\\nBoston to New Bedford.\\nRoute 9. Page 90, Boston h Providence and Neio Bedford R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston Mansfield, 24 M. Norton, 28 Crane s, 31 Whittenton,\\n84; Taunton, 35; Weir Junction, 36; Middlcboro Junction, 39: Myrick s, 41;\\nHowland s, 44 E. Freetown, 46 Braley s, 48 Acushnet, 52 New Bedford, 55.\\nProvidence to Worcester.\\nRoute 10, Page 93. Prov. Wor. R. R.\\nStations. Providence; Pawtucket, 4 M. Valley Falls, 6; Lonsdale, 7;\\nAshton, 9.^; Albion, 11; Manville, 12; Woonsocket, 16; Waterford, 17; Black-\\nstone, 18 Millville, 20 Uxbridge,25 Whitin s, 26 North bridge, 31 Farnum s,\\n33; Saundersville, 34; Sutton, 35; Millbury, 37; Worcester Junction, 42;\\nWorcester, 43.\\nProvidence to Hartford and Waterbury.\\nRoute 11. Pac/c 94. Hartford, Providence, fc Fishkill R. R-\\nStations. Providence Cranston, 4 M. Oak Lavm, 7; Katick, 8; River\\nPoint, 11 C^uidniok, 13 VVashiugtou, 14 Summit, 22 Greene, 24 Oueco, 27", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0502.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "ITINERARY. 429\\nSterling, 29 Moosup, 32 Plainfleld, 35 Canterbury, 40 Baltic, 48 Scotland,\\n51 S. Windham, 55 Willimantic, 58 Andover, 07 Bolton, 73 Vernon, 74\\nManchester, 81 B. Hartford, SS Hartford, 90 Newington, 95 New Britain, 99\\nPlainville, 104 Foiestville, 106 Bristol, 108 Terryville, 112 Hoadley s, 119\\nWaterville, 121 Waterbury, 123.\\nNew London to Vermont.\\nRoute 12. Page 96, New London Northern R. R.\\nStations. New London Waterford, 3 Montville, 6 Massapeag, S Mohegan,\\n10; Thamesville, 12; Norwich, 13; Yantic, 17; Franklin, 20; Lebanon, 23; S.\\nWindhani, 26 Willimantic, 30 Eagleville, 36 Mansfield, 38 Merrow, 40 Tol-\\nland, 44; Stailbrd, 50; EUithorpe, 53; S. Moason, 60; Monson, 61; Palmer, 05\\nThree Rivers, 68 Barrett s, 70 Belchertown, 78 Dwight s, 80 Amherst, 85\\nLeverett, 90 S. Montague, 95 Miller s Falls, 100 Northlield Farms, 103 North-\\nfield, 109 S. Vernon, 111 Vernon, 116; Brattlcboro 121 Montpelier, 249; Bur-\\nlington, 289; St. Albans, 306 Montreal, 369.\\nNorwich to Nashua.\\nRoute 13. Page 104. Nor. cD Wor. and Wor. t Nashua R. Rs.\\nStations. Norwich Greenville, 2 Jewett City, 10 Plainfield Junction,\\n16 Central Village, 20 Wauregan, 21 Danielsonville, 26 Daysville, 29 Put-\\nnam, 34 Thompson, 36 Grosvcnor Dale, 39 N. Grosvenor Dale, 40 Webster,\\n44 N. Webster, 45 Oxford, 49 N. Oxford, 51 Auburn, 56 Worcester Junc-\\ntion, 59 Worcester, 00 W. Boylstou, 69 Oakdale, 70 Sterling Junction, 72\\nClinton, 77 S. Lancaster, 78 Lancaster, 79 Still River, 83 Harvard, 85 Ayer\\nJunction, 83 Groton, 91 Peppereil, 96 Hollis, 99 Nashua, 106.\\nDeep\\nWalkley\\nRocky\\nNew Haven to Northampton.\\nRoute 15. Page 108. Neto Haven t Northampton R. R.\\nStations. New Haven; Ives, 8 M. Mt. Carmel, 9; Cheshire, 15; Hitch-\\ncock s, 20 Plantsville, 21 Southington, 22 Plainville, 27 Farmington, 31\\nAvon, 37 Simsbury, 42 Granby, 47; Southwick, 55; Westlield, 61 Southamp-\\nton. 68 East Hampton, 71 Noi-thampton, 76 (Florence, 79 Leeds, 81 Hayden-\\nville, 83 Williamsburg, 84).\\nBridgeport to Winsted.\\nRoute 16. Page 111. Naugatuck R. R.\\nStations. Bridgeport Stratford, 3 M. Junction, 4 Derby, 13 Ansonia,\\n15 Seymour, 19 Beacon Falls, 23 Naugatuck, 26 Union City, 27 Waterbury,\\n32 (Oakville, 35; Watertown, 38); Waterville, 34; Plymouth, 41 Camp s Mills,\\n46; Litchfield, 49; Wolcottville, 52; Burrville, 57; Winsted, 61.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0503.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "430 ITINERAEY.\\nBridgeport to the Berkshire Hills.\\nRoute 17. Page 114. Housatonic R. R.\\nStations. Bridgepoi-t Stepney, 10 M. Botsford, 15 Newtown, 19 Haw-\\nleyviUe, 23 (iSliepaug R. R. to Lichlield, 5G) Brooktield Junction. 27 (trains to\\nDanbury) Brooktield, 29 New Milfurd, 35 Merwiusville, 42 Kent, 48 Corn-\\nwall Bridge, 57 W. Cornwall, 61 Lime Rock, 65 Falls Village, 67 Canaan, 73\\nAshley Falls, 75; Sheffield, 79; Barrington, 85; Van Deusenville, 87; Housa-\\ntonic, 89 Glendale, 92 Stockbridge, 93 S. Lee, 95 Lee, 99 Lenox Furnace,\\n101 Lenox, 102 Dewey s, 106 Pittsfleld, 110.\\nS. Norwalk to Danbury.\\nRoute 18. Page 115. Danbury h Norwalk R. R.\\nStations. S. Norwalk Norwalk, 2 M. Winnipauk, 3 Wilton, 7 George-\\nto^vn, 11; Branch ville, 13 (branch to Ridgefield); Sanford s, 15; Reading, 17;\\nBethel, 21 Danbury, 24.\\nBoston to New London and New York.\\nRoute 19. Page 117. New York fc New England R. R. Steamboats.\\nStations. Boston Mt. Bowdoin, 4 M. Mattapan, 6 Hyde Park, 8 Read-\\nville, 9 Sprmgvale, 11 Ellis 13 Norwood, 14 Winslow s, 16 Walpole, 19\\nCampbell s, 22 Norfolk, 23 Franklin, 27 Wadsworth s, 30 Blackstone, 36\\nMillville, 38 Iron Stone, 41 E. Douglas, 46 Douglas, 48 E. Thompson, 53 (South-\\nbridge, 70) Thompson, 57 Mechanicsville, 60 Putnam, 61 (Willimantic, 86)\\nDanielsonville, 69 Plainfield Junction, 79 Norwich, 95 New London, 108 New\\nYork (by steamer), about 220 M.\\nBoston to Woonsocket.\\nStations. Boston Brookline, 4 M. Newton Centre, 8 Upper Falls, 10\\nHighlaudville, 11 Needham, 12 Charles River, 14 Dover, 16 Medfield, 19 B.\\nMedway, 22 Medway, 25 W. Medway, 26; N. Bellinghani, 29 Bellingham, 32\\nWoonsocket, 37i.\\nHartford to Salisbury and Millerton,\\nRoute 20. Page 120. Conn. Western R. R.\\nStations. Hartford Bloomfield, 6 M. Scotland Tariffville, 11 Simsbury.\\n15 Strattou Brook, 17 Canton, 22 Collinsville, 25 Pine Meadow, 28 New\\nHartford, 29; Winsted, 35; W. Winsted, 37; Grant s. 41; Norfolk, 45; W.Nor-\\nfolk, 48 E. Canaan, 52 Canaan, 55 Chapinville, 60 Salisbury, 62 Lakeville,\\n64 Ore Hill, 66 P. E. and N. Y., B. M. R. Rs. Junction, 67 Millerton, 69.\\nBoston to Springfield and New York.\\nRoute 21. Page 124. Boston d- Albany and N. Y., N. E. dh Spring-\\nfield R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston Cottage Farm, 3 M. Allston, 4; Brighton, 5; Faneuil,\\n6; Newton, 7; NewtonviUe, 8; W. Newton, 9 Auburndale, 10; Riverside, 11\\nRice Crossing, 12^ Grautville, 13 Wellesley, 15 Lake Crossing, IG Natick, 17\\nS. Framingham, 21; Ashland, 24; Cordaville, 27 Southville, 28 Westborough,\\n82; Grafton, 38; Millbury Junction, 30; Worcester, 44; Worcester Junction, 45;\\nRochdale, 53 Charlton, 57 Spencer, 62 E. Brookfield, 64 Brooktield, 67 W.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0504.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "ITINERARY. 431\\nBrookfieM, 69; Warren, 73; W. Warren, 75; Brimfield, 79; Palmer, 83; Wilbra-\\nhani,89; ludian Oivhard, 92; Springlield, 98; Longmeadow, 102; Thompsonville,\\n107; Warehouse Point, 110; Windsor Locks. 112; Windsor, 118; Hartford, 124;\\nNewington, 129; Berlin, 135 Meritlen, 142; Yalesville, 145 Wallingford, 148;\\nN. Haven, 154 New Haven, 160 Bridgeport, 177 S. Norwalk, 191 Stamford,\\n199 Williams Bridge, 222 New York, 234.\\nThe Berkshire Hills.\\nRoute 23. Page 142. Boston Albany and Housatonic R. Rs.\\nStations.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bost(m; Becket, 135 M.; Washington. 138; Hinsdale, 143 Dalton,\\n146 Fittslield Junction, 149 Pittsheld, 151 Shaker Village, 154 Richmond,\\n159 State Line, 162.\\nHousatonic R. R. Pittsfield, 151 M. from Boston; Dewey s, 155 Lenox, 159;\\nLenox Furnace, 160; Lee, 162; S. Lee, 166; Stockbridge, 168; Glendale, 169;\\nHousatonic, 172 Van DeusenviUe, 174 Barriugton, 176 Sheffield, 182 Ashley\\nFalls 186 Canaan 188\\nPiitsfield N. Adams Branch. Pittsfield, 151 Coltsville, 154; Berkshire, 157\\nCheshire, 160; Cheshire Harbor, 163; Maple Grove, 164; S. Adams, 165; N.\\nAdams, 171.\\nNew York to Quebec.\\nRoute 2L Page 157. A F., JV. II. Hartford, Conn. River, Cen-\\ntral Vermont, Passiwipsic, and Grand Trunk R Rs.\\nStations. New York Stamford, 34 Bridgeport, 56 New Haven, 74 Hart-\\nford, 110; Springfield, 136. Coim. Uiver R. R. Chicopee Junction, 140; Willi-\\nmansett, 143 Holyoke, 144 Smith s Ferry, 149 Mt. Tom, 151 Northampton,\\n153 Hatfield. 157 N. Hatfield, 160 Whately, 162 S. Deerfield, 164 Deerfield,\\n169; Greenfield, 172; Bernardston, 179; S. Vernon, 186. Central Vermont R. R.\\nVernon, 191; Brattleboro 196; Duminerston, 201; Putney, 205; E. Putney, 208;\\nWestminster, 216 Bellows Falls, 222; Charlestown, 230 Springfield, 231 Clare-\\nmont, 240 Windsor, 248 Hartland, 252 N. Hartland, 256 White River Junc-\\ntion, 262. Passumpsic R. R. Norwich, 267 Pompanoosuc, 272 Thetford, 277\\nN. Thetford, 279 Fairlee, 284 Bradford, 291 S. Newbury, 295 Newbury, 298\\nWells River. 302 Barnet, 313 Passumpsic, 320 St. Johnsbury, 323 Lyndon-\\nville, 331; W. Burke, 339; Barton, 352; Coventry, 362; New]wrt, 367; N. Derby,\\n372 Smith s Mills, 377 Massawippi, 388 N. Hatley, 395 Capleton, 398 Lea-\\nnoxvUle, 404 Sherbrooke, 407. Grand Trunk Railway. Quebec, 426 (Montreal,\\n406).\\nBoston to the Hoosao Tunnel.\\nRoute 25. Page 175. Fitchhurg and Vt. d: Mass. R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston Cambridge, 3; Belmont, 6; Waverly, 7; Waltham, 10;\\nStony Brook, 12; Weston, 13; Lincoln, 17; Concord, 20; S. Acton, 25; W. Acton,\\n27 Littleton, 31 Ayer Junction, 35 Shirley, 40 Lunenburg, 42 Leominster,\\n46 Fitchburg, 50. Vt. Mass. R. R. Wachusett, 53 Westminster, 55 Ash-\\nburnham, 61 Gardner, 65 Baldwinville, 71 Royalston, 77 Athol, 83 Orange,\\n87 Wendell, 90 Erving, 92 Grout s Corner, 98 Montagnie, 102 Greenfield, 106\\nShelbume Falls, 119; Charlemont, 128; Zoar, 132; Hoosac Tunnel, 136.\\nBoston to Burlington and Montreal.\\nRo7de 26. Page 179. Fitchburg, Cheshire, and Central Vt. R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston S. Acton, 25 Fitchburg, 50 W. Fitchburg, 51 West-\\nminster, 55 S. Ashbiirnliam, 60 N. Ashburnham, 64 Winchendon, 68 (branch\\nto Peterboro 85) State Line, 71 Fitzwilliam, 77 Troy, 82 Marlboro 86 S.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0505.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "432 ITINERARY.\\nKeene, 00; Keeno,, 02 (lirfuf h to S. Vernon, 116); E. Westmoreland, 100; \u00e2\u0096\u00a0West-\\nmoreland, 104; Walpole, 110; Cold River, 113; liellows Falls, 114. Central\\nVeriiiont R. R. Rockingham, 119 Bartonsville, 123; Chester, 127; Gassett s,\\nIS I; Cavendish, 130; Proctorsville, 138; Ludlow, 141; Healdville, 147; Summit,\\n1;S; Mt. Holly, 151; E Wallingford. 153; Cnttingsville, 157; Clarendon, 160;\\nRuLland, IGG; Sutherland Falls, 173; Pittsford, 17(J; Brandon, 183; Leicester\\nJunction, ISS Salisbury, 193; Middlclrary, 100; Brooksville, 203; New Haven,\\n207; Vergeunes, 213; Ferrisburgh, 215; N. Ferrisburgh, 218; Charlotte, 222;\\nSlielburne, 227 Burlington, 234 Winooski, 237 Essex Junction, 242 St. Al-\\nbans, 207 Montreal, 337.\\nRutland to Bennington.\\nRoute 27. Page 184. Harlem Extension R. R.\\nStations. Rutland Clarendon, 6 M. Wallingford, S. Wallingford, 13\\nDanljy and Mt. Tabor, 18; N. Dorset, 22; E. Dorset, 25; Manchester, 30; Suu-\\ndii-land, 36; Arlington, 30; Shaftesbmy, 44; S. Shaftesbui-y, 49; N.Bennington,\\n51 Bennington, 55 (Lebanon Sprmgs, 81 Albany, 136).\\nRutland to Albany.\\nRoute 28. Page 187. Rensselaer Saratoga R. R.\\nStations. Rutland Centre Rutland, 2; W. Rutland, 4; Castleton, 11;\\nHydeville, IS; Fairhaven, 21; Whitehall, 20; Comstock s, 35; Fort Ann, 39;\\nSmith s Basin, 43, Dunham s Basin, 48; Fort Edward, 51; Gansevoorts, 57;\\nSaratoga, 68; Ballston, 74; Mechanicsville, 88; Albany .function, 04 (Troy, 100);\\nWatcrt ord, 08; Cohoes, 08; W. Troy, 101; Cemeteiy, 103; Albany, 107.\\nRtitlandd Washington Division. Rutland; Castleton, 11 Poultney, IS; Middle\\nGranville, 24; Granville, 26; Pawlet, 20; Rupert, 36; Salem, 45 Shushau, 52;\\nCambridge, 57 Eagle Bridge, 63 Troy, 85.\\nBoston to Lowell, Concord, and Montreal.\\nRoide 29. Page 188. Boston, Lowell, d- Nashua, Northern {N. IL\\\\\\nCentral Vt., and Grand Trunk R. Rs.\\nStations. Boston W. Medford, 5 M.; Winchester, 8; E. Woburn, 9 (Stone-\\nham); Wilmington, 15; Billerica, 10; N. Billerica, 22 Lowell, 26; N.Chelms-\\nford, 20; Tvngsboro and Dunstable, 33 Little s, 30 Nashua, 40; Thornton s,\\n46; Reed s, 40; Goff s Falls, 53; Manchester, 57; Martin s, 62; Hook.set, 66;\\nSuneook, 70 Concord, 75. Northern (N. H.) R. R. Fisherville, 82 Boscawen,\\n85; N. Boscawen, SO; Franklin, 04 (branch to Bristol, 107); E. Andover, 100;\\nPotter Place, 106; W. Andover, 108; Danbury. 114; Grafton, 110; Canaan, 127;\\nEnlield, 134 E. Lebanon, 136 Lebanon, 140 White River Junction, 144.\\nCentral Vermont R. R. SVoodstock, US; W. Hart:ord, 152; Sharon, 157; S.\\nRoyalton, 162; Royalton, 164; Bethel, 169; Randolph, 176; Braintree, 182;\\nRoxbury, 101; Northtield, 108; Montpelier Junction, 207 (Moutpelier, 208);\\nMiildlesex, 212; Waterbiiry, 217; liolton, 225; Jonesville, 227; Richmond, 231;\\nWiUiston, 236; Essex Junction, L 40 (Burlington, 248); Colchester, 244; Milton,\\n251 Georgia, 255 St. Albans, 2G5 E. Swanton, 274 Highgate Springs, 278\\nProvince Line, 282; St. Armand, 283; Moore s. 286; Stan lbridge, 200; Des\\nRivieres, 202 St. Alexandre, 209 St. John s, 308. Grand Trunk Railway. La-\\ncadie, 315 Brousseau s, 823 St. Lambert, 328 Montreal, 335.\\nNasMia to Wilton. Page 192.\\nNashua S. Merrimack, 5 M. Amherst, 8 Milford, 11 Wilton, 15 Lj-nde-\\nboro 19 Greenfield, 26.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0506.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "ITINERARY. 433\\nConcord to Claremont. Page 196.\\nConcord 5 W. Concord, 3^^ Mast Yard, 8 Contoocook, 12 (Henniker, 20 Hills-\\nboro Bridge, 27); Dimond s Comer, 14^ Warner, 18| Waterloo, 21; Roby a\\nCorner, 2;i Melvin s Mills, 25; Bradford, 27i Newbury, 34; Chandler s, 36 1;\\nSunapee,40; Newport, 43; Northville,46 Kelly viUe, 48 Claremont, 54^ Clare-\\nmont Junction, 663.\\nSt. Albans to Richford. Page 206.\\nSt. Albans; Sheldon, 10 N. Sheldon, 13 E. Franklin, 15; Enosburgh Falls,\\n18; E. Berkshire, 24; Kichford, 28.\\nBoston to the Franconia Mts.\\nRoute 30. Page 209. Boston, Loivell d; Nashua, and Boston, Concord d;\\nMontreal R. Rs.\\nStaf inns. Boston Lowe\\nB\\nU\\nAsl\\nW\\n16S,\\nWing Road, I a (Bethlehem, Ay}y)\\\\ iwin mt. iiouse, zu4 raoyau niiust;, .:uj; j\\nWhitefield, 200; Dalton, 203; S. Lancaster, 200; Lancaster, 210; Northumber-\\nland Falls, 215; Northumberland, 220.\\nBoston to the White Mountains.\\nRoute 31. Page 213. Eastern R. R.\\nStations. Boston Salem, IG M. Newburypnrt, 36 Portsmouth, 56; Con-\\nway Junction, 67 S. Berwick, 69; Sahnon Falls, 70 Great Falls, 73 Rochester,\\n79; Hayes, 84; S. Milton, 85; Milton, 87; Unicm, 93; Wolfboro Junction, 97\\n(Wolfl)oro 108) Waketield, 99 E. Wakefield, 103; N. Wakefield, 106 Ossipee\\n111 Centre Ossipee, 115 W. Ossipee, 121 Madison, 125 Conway, 132 N. Con-\\nway, 137.\\nPortland to Rochester.\\nPage 213. P. d- R. R. R.\\nStations. Portland; Morrill s, 2 M. Cumberland Mills, 5 Sacarappn, 6\\nGorham, 10 Buxton Centre, 15 Saco River, IS Hollis Centre, 20 Centre\\nWaterboro 25 S. Waterboro 28 Alfred, 32 Spuing vale, 36; E. Lebanon, 44;\\nE. Rochester, 49 Rochester, 52.\\nBoston to Cape Ann.\\nRoicte 36. Page 245. Pastern R. R.\\nStations. Boston Beverly, 18 M. Beverly Farms Manchester, 24 Glou-\\ncester, 33 Rockport, 36.\\nBoston to Portland.\\nRoute 37. Page 248. Eastern R. R.\\nStations. Boston Somerville, 2 Everett Chelsea, 4 Revere, 5 Lynn,\\n11; Swampscott, 12; Salem, 16; Beverly, 18; N. Beverly, 20; Wenham and\\nHamilton, 22; Ii)svvich, 27 Rowley, 31; Ncwburyport, 36-, Salisbury, 38; Sea-", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0507.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "434 ITINERARY.\\nbrook, 42 Hampton, 46 N. Hampton, 49 Greenland, 51 Portsmouth, 56 5 Kit-\\ntery, 57^ Elliot, 63 Conway Junction, 67 S. Berwick Junction, 70 N. Berwick,\\n74 Wells, 80; Kennebunk, 85; Kennebunkport, 89; Biddeford, 93 Saco, 94^;\\nW. Scarboro 99 Scarboro 101 Cape Elizabeth, 106 Portland, 108.\\nSalem to Lowell.\\nPage 255. Salem d: Lowell R. R.\\nStations. Salem Carltonville, 1 M. Peabody, 2 Proctor s Comer, 4 W.\\nPanvers, 5 Plielps Mills, 6 Paper Mills, 8 N. Reading, 10 Wilmington, 14\\nWilniiugtou Junction, 15; Burtt s, 16; Tewksbury Junction, 18; Tewksbury, 19;\\nMace s, 21 Bleacliery, 23 Lowell, 24.\\nPortsmouth to Concord.\\nPage 267. Portsmouth R. R.\\nStations. Portsmouth Greenland, 4 M. Stratham New Market Junction,\\n10; Littlelield s; Ejiping, 18; W. Epping; Raymond, 23; Candia, 29; Auburn,\\n33 Massabesic, 36 Manchester, 41 Hooksett, 51 Concord, 59.\\nBoston to Portland.\\nRotde 38. Page 275. Boston d; Maine R. R.\\nStations. Boston; Charlestown, 1 M. Somerville, 2; Medford Junction,\\n4 (Medl ord, 5); Maiden, 5; W^yoming, 6; Melrose, 7 ytoneham, 8; Greenwood,\\n9 Waketield Jmiction, 10 Wakefield, 10^ Reading, 12 Wilmington Junction,\\n18; Ballardvale, 21; Andover, 23; S. Lawrence, 26; N. Lawrence, 27; N. Ando-\\nver, 28 Bradford, 32 Haverhill, 33 Atkinson, 37 Plaistow, 38 Newton, 41\\nE. Kmgston Depot, 45 Exeter, 51 S. Newmarket, 55 Newmarket Jimction,\\n68; Bennett Road, 60; Durham, 62; Madbury, 64; Dover, 68; Rollinsford, 71\\n(Great Falls, 73); Salmon Falls, 72; S. Benvick Jimction, 74; N. Berwick, 78\\nWells, 85; Kennebunk, 90 Biddeford, 99 Saco, 100; Old Orchard Beach, 104;\\nBlue Point; Scarboro 109; Lygonia Portland, 116.\\nLawrence to Manchester. Page 279.\\nStations. Lawrence Methuen, 2 M. Messers, 8 Salem, 7 Windham, 12\\nDerry, 15 Wilson s, 18 Londonderry, 20 Manchester, 26.\\nLawrence to Lowell. Page 279.\\nStations. \u00e2\u0080\u0094N. Lavn-ence S. Lawrence, 1 M. Haggett s Pond, 4 Tewksbury\\nJunction, 7 Tewksbury, 8 Mace s, 10; Bleachery, 12 Lowell, 13.\\nHaverhill to Newhuryport. Page 280.\\nStations. Haverhill; Bradford, i; HaverhiU Bridge, 1|; Groveland, 4^;\\nGeorgetown, 7i Bytield, 10|; Newburyport, 16^.\\nWakefield to Newhtm/port. Page 276.\\nBoston Wakefield Junction, 10 M. Lynnfield Centre, 13; W. Danvers, 16; Dan-\\nvers, 19 Topsfield, 25 Boxford, 28 Georgetown, 31 Bjlield, 34 Newburyport, 40.\\nDover to Lake Winnepesaukee. Page 282.\\nBoston Dover, 68 M. Gonic, 76; Rochester, 78 Place s, 82; Farmington, 86;\\nDavis 90 New Durham, 92 Alton, 95 Alton Bay, 96.\\nPortland to the White Mountains.\\nRo2ite 39. Page 284. Portland Ogdenshurg R. R.\\nStations. Portland Westbrook, 5 M. S. Windham, 11 White Rock, 13i", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0508.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "ITINERAEY. 435\\nSehaffo Lake, 16|; Steep Falls, 24| Baldwin, 30 W. Baldwin, 33| Hiram Bridge,\\n3G Browntield, 43 Fryebiirg, 49 Conway Centre, 55 N. Couway, 60 Glen Road,\\n66 Upper Bartlett, 72 Bemis, 80.\\nPortland to Quebec and Montreal.\\nRoute 40. Page 287. Grand Trunk Raihoay.\\nStations. Portland; Falmouth, 5 M. Cumberland, 9; Yarmouth, 11; Yar-\\nmouth Jiuiction, 12; Pownal, 18; New Gloucester, 22; Danville Junction, 27\\nMechanic Falls, 36 Oxford, 41 S. Paris, 47 W. Paris, 55 Locke s Mills, 65\\nBethel, 70 Gilead, 80 Shelburne, 86 Gorham, 91 Berlin Palls, 98 Milan, 103\\nGroveton (Northumberland), 122; N. Stratford, 134; Wenlock, 142; Island Pond,\\n149; Norton Mills, 166 Coaticooke, 175 Richby, 179; Compton,183; Lennox-\\nville, 193; Shei brooke, 196; Windsor, 211 Richmond, 221 (Quebec Branch); New\\nDurham, 231 Acton, 243 Upton, 249 Britannia Mills, 255 St. Hyacinthe, 262;\\nSoixante, 269 St. Hilaire, 275 St. Bruno, 282 St. Hubert, 287 St. Lambert,\\n292 Montreal, 297.\\nQuebec Branch. Pa.ge 290.\\nPortland; Richmond, 221 M. Danville, 233; Warwick, 246; Arthabaska, 253;\\nStanfold, 262 Somerset, 268 Becancour, 276 Lyster, 280 Methot s Mills, 289\\nBlack River, 297 Craig s Road, 302 Chaudiere Curve, 309 Hadlow, 315 Quebec\\n(Point Levi), 317.\\nPortland to Farmington.\\nRoute 41. Page 291. Androscoggin Division, Eastern Maine Cen-\\ntral R. R.\\nStations. Portland; Brunswick, 29 M. Lisbon FalJ- 37; Lisbon, 41;\\nCrowley s, 43 (Lewiston, 48) Sabattisville, 48 Leeds Junction, 55 Curtis Cor-\\nner, 60 Leeds Centre, 62; N. Leeds, 65; Strickland s Ferry, 67 E. Livermore,\\n70 Livermore Falls, 75 Jay Bridge, 77 N. Jay, 81 Wilton, 84 E. Wilton, 87\\nFarmington, 92 (Rangely Lakes, 132 M.).\\nPortland to the Upper Kennebec.\\nRoute 42. Page 293. E. M. G. R. R.\\nStations. Portland; Brunswick, 29; Gardiner, 56; Waterville, 81 Fair-\\nfield, 84 Pishon Ferry, 92 Skowhegan, 100.\\nBangor to Guilford.\\nPage 295. Bangor d: Piscataquis R. R.\\nStations. Bangor Oldtown, 12| Pea Cove, 17; Bennoch Road, 19^; Al-\\nton, 21 Penny s, 25 S. Lagrange, 27 Lagrange, 31 Orney%ille, 34 Milo, 40;\\nS. Sebec, 45| B. Dover, 50; Dover and Foxcroft, 52^ Low s Bridge, 57; Sanger-\\nville, 59^ Guilford, 61.\\nPortland to Rockland.\\nRoute 44. Page 297. Maine Central and Knox Lincoln R. Rs.\\nStations. Portland Brunswick, 29 Bath, 42 Woolwich, 43. Knox\\nLincoln R. R. Nequasset,45 Montsweag, 48.V Wiscasset, 53 New Castle and\\nDamariscotta, 60 Damariscotta Mills, 62; Nobleboro 65; Winslow s Mills, 70;\\nWaldoboro 72; Warren, 79 Georges River, 84J Thomaston, 87 Rockland, 91.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0509.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "436 ITINERARY.\\nPortland to Lewiston and Bangor.\\nRorde 46. Page 307. Eastern Maine Central R. R.\\nStations. Portland; Cumberland, 12 New Gloucester; Danville Jxmrtion,\\n20 Auburn, 33 Lev/iston, 35 Greene, 43 Leeds, 4G Jlonniouth, 49 Wintliroj),\\n65; Keadfield, (il Belgrade, 69; West WatervLUe, 78; Waterville, 84 Bumhani,\\n97 Newport, 111 Bangor, 138.\\nPortland to Augusta and Bangor.\\nRoute 47. Page 309. Eastern b Maine Central R. R.\\nStations. Portland; Woodford s; Westbrook, 5; Cumberland, 12; Tar-\\nmouth, 17 Freeport, 22 Oak Hill; Bnmswick 20; To]isliam; Bowdoinhani\\nIvichmond, 40; Gardiner, 56; HaUowell, 61; Avigusta, 63 Iliverside, 75 Vas-\\nsalboro Winslow, 81 Waterville, 84 Benton, 87; Clinton, 02; Bumhara, 97\\nPiltsiield, 104; Detroit; Newport, 111; E. Newport; Etna, 119; Carmel. 123;\\nHermou Pond, 128 Bangor, 138.\\nBangor to St. John.\\nRoute 49. Page 318. European d- North American R. R.\\nStations. Bangor; Veazie, 5; Basin Mills, 7^; Sidney, 8; Orono, 8^ Web-\\nster, ;s.l Great Works, 11^; Oldtown, 12^-; Milford, 13; Gostigan, IS; Green-\\nbush, 23; Glamon, 27; Passadurakeag, 30; Entield, o*!; Lincoln, 45; Lincoln\\nCentre, 46 Yv inu, 56 Mattawamkeag, 58; Kingman, 66; Bancroft, 70 Danforth\\n88; Jackson Brook, 93; Eaton, 102; Wilderness, 107 Jjambert Lake, 109; Vance\\nboro, 114; St. Croix, 115; McAdam Junction, 120 JIagiiadavick, 129 Harvey\\n139; Cork, 144; Tracy, 15(5; Fredericton Junction, 160; Blissville, 164; Iloyt\\n167; Enniskillen, 170 Gaspercaux, 173 Clarendon, 176 Welsford, 180 Nere]iis\\n186; Westfield, 190; Grand Bay, 194; Sutton, 198; South Bay 199; Fairville\\n202 Carleton, 205 St. John, 206.\\nThe New Brunswick Border.\\nR.oute 50. Page 321. New Brunswick Canada R. R.\\nStations. St. Andrews Chamcook, 5 M. Bartlett s, 11 Waweig, 13 Roix\\nRoad, 15; Hewitt s, 19; RoUijig Dam, 20; Dumbarton, 24 Watt Juncti(\u00c2\u00bbn, 27\\n(branch to Meadows, from Watt, 4 M. Moore s Mills, 11; Maxwell, 14; St. Ste-\\nphens and Calais, 19); Lawi-ence, 29 Barber Dam, 34; McAdam Junction, 43;\\nDeer Lake, 59; Canterbury, 65 Benton, 75; Wickham, 80 Debec Junction, 83\\n(Greenville, 87 Houlton, 91) Hodgdon, 91 Woodstock, 94.\\nWorcester to Mount Wachusett.\\nBoston, Barre d- Gardner R. R.\\nStations. Worcester; Lincoln Square, 1 M. Barbers, 3 N. Worcester, 41\\nChaliin s, 6; Holden, 8; Jefferson s, 9J North Woods, 11 Brook, 13 Prince-\\nton, 10 Hubbardston, 20 Waites, 23 Gardner, 20 Winchendou, 3G.\\nMontpelier to Wells River.\\nPage i200. M. d W. R. R. R.\\nStations. Montpelier E. Montpelier, 6 M. Plainfield, 10 Marshfield, 151\\nKinney s Mills, 17^; Summit, 20; Peabody Station, 21-1; Ricker s Mills, 25;\\nGroton, 28| S. Ryegate, 32 Boltonville, 34^- Wells River, 38.\\nI", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0510.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "ITINERARY. 437\\nW. Concord to Hyde Park.\\nPortland and Ogdensburgh R. R.\\nStations. W. Concord B. St. Jolmsbury, 4 M. St. Jolmsbury, 8 Danville,\\n20; W. Danville, 2.3 Walileu, 28 Greensboro, 36; E. Hardwick, 39 Hardwick,\\n43 Wolcott, 49 Morrisville, 57 Hyde Park, 60.\\nNew York to Albany.\\nRoute 52. Page 340. The Hudson River R. R. or Steamboats.\\nStations. Grand Central Depot; Spuyten Diiyvil, 11 M. Riverdale, 12;\\nMt. St. Vincent, 13 Yonkers, 14^7 Hastings, 19 Dobbs Ferry, 20 Irviugtou,\\n22; Tarrytown (and Nyack), 25 Scarborough, 29; Sing Sing, 30 Croton, 34;\\nCniger s, 37 Montrose, 38 Feekskill, 41 Fort Montgomery, 45 Garrison s (West\\nPoint), 49; Cold Spring, 52 Cornwall Station, 54; D. C. Junction, 57 Fish-\\nkill (Newburgh), 58; Low Point, 62; New Hamburgh, 64; Milton Ferry, 69;\\nPoughkeepsie, 73 Hyde Park, 78 Staatsburgh, 83 Rhinebeck, 88 Barrytowu,\\n94; TivoIi,98; Germantown, 104 Livingston, 107 Catskill Station, 109 Hud-\\nson, 114; Stockport, 118 Coxsackie, 121 Stuyve-sant, 123; Schodack, 129; Cas-\\ntleton, 133 E. Albany, 141^ Albany 142 Troy, 148.\\nAlbany to Montreal.\\nRoiite 53. Page 350. Rensselaer Saratoga and Central Vt. R. Rs.\\nStations. Albany Cemetery, 4 M. W. Troy, 6 Cohoes, 9 Waterford, 11\\nJunction 12 (here the Albany Division joins the main line, coming from Troy, 6\\nM. distant); McchanicsviUe, 18; Round Lake, 24; Ballston, 32; Saratoga, 38;\\nGansevooi-t s, 49 Moreau, 54 Fort Edward, 55 (branch to Glen s Falls, in 6 M.)\\nDunham s Basin, 58 Smith s Basin, C3 Fort Ann, 67; Comstock s, 71 White-\\nhall (Junction, 77 Lake Champlain, 79); Fairhaven, 85; Hydeville, 88; Castle-\\nton, 95 W. Rutland, 102 Centre Rutland, 104 Rutland, 106. Stations on the\\nCentral Vermont R. R. Rutland, 106 M. from Albany Sutherland Falls, 113\\nPittsford, 116 Brandon, 123; Leif-ester Junction, 128; Salisbury, 133 Middle-\\nbur 139 Brooksville, 143 New Haven, 147 Vergennes, 153 Ferrisburgh, 155\\nN. Ferrisburgh, 158 Charlotte, 162 Shelburne, 167 Burlington, 174 Winooski,\\n177; Essex Junction, 182; Colchester, 186 Milton, 193 Georgia, 197; St. Al-\\nbans, 207 St. John s, 250 Montreal, 277.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0511.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0512.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "Fold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nfold-out is being digitized, and will be inserte\\nfuture date.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0513.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab5\\nFold-out\\nPlaceholder\\nlut is being digitized, and will be inserted at a\\nfuture date.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0514.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "See also Suppkmetdari/ Index, on pages 448 and 449.\\nINDEX.\\nAbington, Mass. 51.\\nActon, Mass. 126.\\nAdams, Mt. 236.\\nAddison, Vt. 184.\\nAdirondacks, Routes to\\nthe 357, 364, 365, 367.\\nAgamenticus, Mt. 267.\\nAlbany Basins, Me. 288.\\nAlbany, N. Y. 348, 142.\\nAlburgh Springs, Vt. 207.\\nAlfred, Me. 213.\\nAlton Bay, N. H. 218, 282.\\nAmherst, Mass. 100, 162.\\nAmherst, N. H. 192.\\nAmmonoosuc Falls 233.\\nAndover, Mass. 276.\\nAnnandale, N. Y. 347.\\nAnnisquam, Mass. 247.\\nAnson, Me. 294.\\nAnsonia, Conn. 111.\\nAnthonj^ s Nose 344, 360.\\nArlington, Vt. 185.\\nArrowsic, Me. 297.\\nArthabaska, Can. 290.\\nArthur s Seat, Mass. 178.\\nArtists Falls, N. H. 225.\\nArtists Ledge, N. H. 225.\\nAscutney, Mt. 166.\\nAshbuniham, Mass. 177.\\nAshford, Conn. 118.\\nAshland, N. H. 210.\\nAshley Falls, Mass. 115.\\nAssowamsett Pond 54.\\nAthens, N. Y. 348.\\nAuburn, Me. -^08.\\nAugusta, Me. 311.\\nA u Sable Chasm 367.\\nAvon, Conn. 109.\\nAyer June, Mass. 176, 105-\\nAylmer Lake, Can. 290.\\nBald Head Cliff, Me. 267.\\nBald Mt., N. H. 239.\\nBaldwin, Me. 285.\\nBallardvale, Mass. 276.\\nBallston Spa, N. Y. 350.\\nBangor, Me. 315, 318.\\nBantam Lake, Conn. 112.\\nBar Harbor, Me. 303, 304,\\nBaniet, Vt. 169.\\nBarton, Vt. 171.\\nBash Bish Falls 122, 153.\\nBasin, the 240.\\nBath, Me. 297.\\nBath, N. H. 211.\\nBay, Belfast 317.\\nBoston 20.\\nBurlington 365.\\nBuzzard s 58, 92.\\nCasco 274.\\nFrenchman s 304,\\nFuudy 321.\\nHa Ha 386.\\nMissisquoi 207.\\nNarragansett 65.\\nNarraguagus 307.\\nNew York 48. 329.\\nPassamaquoddy 322.\\nPenobscot 302, 316.\\nSt*. Albans 205.\\nBay View, Mass. 247.\\nBearcamp, N. H. 220.\\nBecket, Mass. 143.\\nBeecher s Falls, N. H. 232.\\nBeech Mt., Me. 306.\\nBelchertown, Mass. 100.\\nBelfast, Me. 317.\\nBellows Falls, Vt. 164, 181.\\nBeloeil Mt., Can. 208.\\nBennington, Vt. 186.\\nBerkshire Hills 142.\\nBerkshire Soda Springs,\\nMass. 152.\\nBerlin, Conn. 140.\\nBerlin Falls, N. H. 289.\\nBernardstim, Mass. 164.\\nBerrj Pond, Mass. 145.\\nBethel, Me. 288.\\nBetiiel, Vt. 200.\\nBethlehem. N. H. 234.\\nBevei-ly, Mass. 245, 256.\\nBiddeford, Me. 269, 2S3.\\nBillerica, Mass. 189.\\nBillington Sea 53.\\nBirmingham, Conn. 111.\\nBlack River FaUs 165, 181,\\nBlack Rock, Conn. S5.\\nBlackstone, Mass. 93, 117.\\nBlackwell s Id., N. Y. 47.\\nBlo(Kly Brook, Mass. 162.\\nBlue Hill, Mass. 62.\\nBlue Hill, Me. 303.\\nBoar s Head, N. H. 262.\\nBolton Falls, Vt. 204.\\nBolton Notch, Conn. 94.\\nBolton, N. Y. 359.\\nBoone Id., Me. 267.\\nBoothbay, Me. 299.\\nBoscawen, N. H. 197.\\nBoston, Mass. 5.\\nAthen?eum 17\\nCathedral 20.\\nChrist Church 10.\\nCity Hall 11.\\nCommon 15.\\nCopp s Hill 9.\\nCustom House 10.\\nFaneuil Hall 10.\\nFirst Church 16.\\nHorticultural Hall 13.\\nHospital 19.\\nKing s ChapellS.\\nMuseum 15.\\nMusic Hall 13.\\nNatural Histoiy Build-\\ning 16.\\nNew Post-Office 12.\\nOdd Fellows Hall 19.\\nOld South Church 11.\\nOld State House 10.\\nPublic Gardens 16.\\nState House 17.\\nU. S. Court House 13.\\nBoston Light 23.\\nBoterberg, N. Y. 345.\\nBowdoin College 310.\\nBoxford, Mass. 276.\\nBradford, Mass. 280.\\nBradford, N. H. 19G.\\nBrain tree, Mass. 38.\\nBraintree, Vt. 200.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0515.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "440\\nINDEX.\\nBrandon. Vt. 1S2.\\nBraiiford, Conn. 76.\\nBrattleboro Vt. 108.\\nBreakneck Hill 345.\\nBrewiter, Mass. 56.\\nBridgeport, Conn. 85, 111.\\nBridgton, Me. 285.\\nBridjiort, Vt. 184,\\nBrighton, Mass. 35, 124.\\nBriiiifield, Mass. 130,99,117\\nBristol, Me. 299.\\nBristol, N. H. 198.\\nBristol, R. I. 66.\\nBristol, Vt. 184.\\nBrookfield, Conn. 114.\\nBrookfield, Mass. 180.\\nBrookline, Mass. 85.\\nBrooklyn, Conn. 118.\\nBrooklyn, N. Y. 48, 339.\\nCity Hall, 339.\\nCyi^ress Hills 340.\\nGreenwood 340.\\nNavy Yard 339.\\nProspect Park 339.\\nBrownfield, Me. 285.\\nBrown University 64.\\nBrunswick, Me. 297, 309.\\nBryant s Pond, Me. 288.\\nBuckland, Mass. 178a.\\nBucksport, Me. 318.\\nBunker Hill, 25.\\nBurlington, Vt. 184, 365.\\nBurnham, Me. 314.\\nBurnside, Conn. 94.\\nBuxton, Me. 213.\\nBuzzards Bay 58, 92.\\nCacoima, Can. 385.\\nCalais, Me. 322.\\nCaldwell, N. Y. 357.\\nCambridge, Mass. 29.\\nCamden, Me. 817.\\nCamel s HumpMt., Vt. 203,\\nCamel s Rump Mt.,Me.289.\\nCampoBello Id.,N. B.322.\\nCampton, N. H. 242.\\nCanaan, Conn. 115.\\nCanaan, N. H. 198.\\nCanton. Me. 287.\\nCap Rouge, Can. 383.\\nCap Tourmcnte, Can. 385,\\nCape Ann, 245. [402.\\nCod 54.\\nElizal)eth, Me. 273.\\nEternity, Can. 386.\\nNeddick, Me. 267.\\nPorpoise, Me. 268.\\nRosier, Me. 303.\\nTrinity, Can. 386.\\nCarolina, R. I. 70.\\nCasco Bay 274.\\nCastine, Me. 302, 317.\\nCastle Id., Mass. 22.\\nCastleton, Vt. 187.\\nCathedral Ledge 224.\\nCatskill Mts., N. Y. 347.\\nCave, Arlington 185.\\nClarendon 182.\\nDorset 185.\\nSalisbury 123.\\nCedarmere, L. I. 340.\\nCentre Harbor, N. H. 216.\\nChabonakongkoraon Lake\\n104.\\nChambly, Can. 208.\\nChamplain, Lake 361.\\nCharlemont, Mass. 178a.\\nCliarlesbourg, Can. 384.\\nCharles Id., Conn. 84.\\nCharlestown, Mass. 24.\\nCharlesto\\\\vn, N. H. 165.\\nChateau Bigot, Can. 384.\\nChateau Richer, Cau. 385.\\nChatham, N. Y. 142.\\nChaudiere Falls 383.\\nChelsea, Mass. 27, 249.\\nClieshire, Conn. 109.\\nCheshire, Mass. 153.\\nChester, Vt. 181.\\nChesterfield, N. H. 103, 180.\\nChestnut Hill, Mass. 35.\\nChesuncook Lake, 296.\\nChicopee, Mass. 157.\\nChicoutimi, Can. 38G.\\nChina, Me. 313.\\nChocorua, Mt. 214, 215, 221.\\nClarcmont, N. H. 197.\\nClarendon Springs 182, 187.\\nClear Stream Meadows 244.\\nClermont, N. Y. 347.\\nClinton, Mass. 105, 126.\\nClinton, Mt. 235.\\nCohasset, Mass. 48.\\nCohoes, N. Y. 350.\\nColchester, Vt. 204.\\nCold Spring. N. Y. 345.\\nColebrook, N. H. 243, 289.\\nColeraine Gorge 178.\\nCollinsville, Conn. 109.\\nColumbia Springs 348.\\nConcord, Mass. 28.\\nConcord, N. H. 194.\\nConey Id., N. Y. 340.\\nConnecticut Lake 245.\\nConway, N. H. 214.\\nConwaj June. Me. 268.\\nCopple Crown Mt. 218.\\nCornwall, Conn. 115.\\nCotuit Port, Mass. 55,\\nCranston, R. I. 65.\\nCrawford House 230. 231.\\nCrotou River, N. Y. 343.\\nCrown Point, N. Y. 364,\\n183.\\nCroydon, N. H. 197.\\nCrystal Cascade, N. H. 227.\\nCrystal Lake, Vt. 171.\\nCummington, Mass. 110.\\nCushing s Id Me. 274.\\nCuttyhunk Id., Mass. 92.\\nDalton, Mass. 144.\\nDalton, N. H. 212,\\nDamariscotta, Me. 299.\\nDanbury. Conn. 116.\\nDanielsonville, Conn. 118.\\nDanville, Can. 290.\\nDanville June, Me. 287.\\nDartmouth College 166.\\nDartmouth. Mass. 92.\\nDay.sville, Conn. 118,\\nDebec, N. B. 323.\\nDedham, Mass. 117.\\nDeerfield Gorge 178a.\\nDeerfield, Mass. 163,\\nDeer Id.. Mass. 20.\\nDeer Isle, Me. 303.\\nDenmark, Me. 285.\\nDerby, Conn. 111.\\nDeny, N. H. 279.\\nDevil s Dance Chamber 346.\\nDiamond Id., Me. 274.\\nDiamond Id., N. H. 217.\\nDiamond Id., N. Y. 358.\\nDighton, Mass. 39.\\nDix Id., Me. 301, 332.\\nDixville Notch, N. H. 243-\\nDobbs Ferry, N. Y. 342,\\nDome Id., N. Y. 359.\\nDorchester, Mass. 36.\\nDouble Beach, Conn. 77.\\nDover, Me. 295.\\nDover, N. H. 281.\\nDuck Id., N. H. 2G6.\\nDunderberg, N. Y. 343.\\nDunmore Lake, Vt. 183.\\nDurham, N. H. 281.\\nDiixbmy, Mass. 50.\\nEagle Cliff, N. H. 239.\\nEagle Lake, Me. 305.\\nE. Audover, N. H. 198.\\nE. Hartford, Conn.94,139b,\\nE. Haven, Conn. 77.\\nE. Rock, Conn. 83.\\nEastern Townships, Can.\\n174.\\nEastham, Mass. 56.\\nEasthampton, Mass. 110.\\nEastport, Me. 322.\\nEcho Lakes, 225, 238.\\nEdgartown, Mass. 60.\\nEgremont, Mass. 153.\\nElgin Spring, Vt. 184.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0516.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "INDEX,\\n441\\nETliot, Me. 268.\\nEllsworth. Me. 318.\\nEnfield, Conn. 133.\\nEntield, N. H. 19S.\\nEnglewood, N. J. 341.\\nErrol, N. H. 244, 289.\\nEssex June, Vt. 204.\\nEssex, Mass. 257.\\nEssex, N. Y. 3G5.\\nEverett, Mass. 249.\\nExeter, N. H. 280.\\nFabyan House, N. H. 233\\n234.\\nFairfax] Vt. 204.\\nFairfield, Conn. 86.\\nFairhaven, Coun. 83.\\nFairhaven, Mass. 91.\\nFairhaven, Vt. 188.\\nFairlee, Vt. 168.\\nFall River, Mass. 39.\\nFalls, Artists 225.\\nFalls Village, Conn. 115.\\nBash Bisli 122, 153.\\nBerlin 229,\\nBlack River 165, 181.\\nBolton 204.\\nChaudiere 3S3.\\n15 Mile 169.\\nFoxwell s 283.\\nGeorgeaana 241.\\nGibl)s s 232.\\nGlen Ellis 227.\\nGlens 356.\\nGoodrich 225.\\nGrand 323, 385.\\nGrand Mer S74.\\nHousatonic 115.\\nJackson 226.\\nLivermore 210.\\nLower Am nioiioosuc 233\\nMontniorenci 384.\\nNorton s 122.\\nRumford 288.\\nSaco 269.\\nScrew Auger 289.\\nShawanegau 374.\\nSte. Anne 384.\\nSt. Fereol 385.\\nSutherland 182.\\nThoni])son s 226.\\nTurner s 178.\\nYantic 96.\\nFalmouth, Mass. 53,\\nFarmiiigton, Conn. 109.\\nFarmington, Me. 291.\\nFarmington, N. 11. 282.\\nFerrishurgh, Vt. 184.\\nFisher s Id., N. Y. 73.\\nFisherville, N. H. 197.\\nFislikill-ou-the-Iludson 345\\nFitch hurg, Mass. 176.\\nFitzwilliam, N. H. ISO.\\nFlorence, Mass. 110, 160.\\nFlume, the, N. H. 240.\\nFlume, tlie, Vt. 171.\\nFlusliing, L. I. 47, 340.\\nForest Hills, 35.\\nFort Ann, N. Y. 356.\\nClinton, N. Y. 344.\\nEdward, N. Y. 355.\\nFairfield, Me. 323\\nHalifax, Me. 314.\\nHill, Conn. 72.\\nKent, Me. 324.\\nLee, N. Y. 341.\\nMassachu.setts 156.\\nMontgomery (new) 207.\\nMontgomery (old) 344.\\nPoint, Me. 317.\\nPreble, Me. 274.\\nTiconderoga 183, 362.\\nWari en, Mas^;. 23.\\nWashington, N. Y. 341.\\nWilliam Henry 356.\\nWooster, Coun. S3.\\n14-Mile Id., N. Y. 359.\\nFoxcroft, Me. 295.\\nFramingham, Mass. 126.\\nFrancestown, N. H. 192.\\nFranconia Mts. 238.\\nFranklin, Mass. 117.\\nFranklin, Mt. 236.\\nFranklin, N. H. 197.\\nFredericton, N B. 319.\\nFreeport, Me. 309.\\nFresh Pond, Mass. 34.\\nFryeburg, Me. 285,\\nGag\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eto^vIl,N. B. 320.\\nGardiner, Me. 311.\\nGardner, Mass. 177.\\nGarnet Pools. N. H. 227.\\nGaspee Point, R. I. 65.\\nGay Head, Mass. 60.\\nGeorgeanna Falls, 241.\\nGeorge, Lake 357.\\nGeorgetown, Mass. 276.\\nGeorgetown, Me. 297.\\nGeorgeville, Can. 173.\\nGeorgia, Vt 204.\\nGiant s Grave, N. H, 233.\\nGibbs Falls, N. H. 232.\\nGilead, Me. 228, 289.\\nGlenburn, Me. 316.\\nGlen Ellis Falls, N. H. 227.\\nGlen House, N. H. 226, 235,\\nGlens Falls, N. Y. 3-56.\\nGloucester, Mass. 245.\\nGoodrich Falls, N. H. 225,\\nGorham, Me. 213.\\nGorham, N. II. 227, 289.\\nGovernor s Id., Mass. 20.\\nGovernor s Id.,N. Y. 329, 48.\\nGrafton, Mass. 126.\\nGrafton, N. H. 198.\\nGranbv, Conn. 109.\\nGrand Falls, N. B. 323. 385.\\nGrand Menan Id. 322.\\nGrand Schoodic Lake 319.\\nGranville, Vt 200.\\nGreat Barrington 152.\\nGreat Falls, N. H. 213.\\nGreat Gidf, N. H. 235.\\nGreat Head, Me. 304.\\nGreenfield Hill, Conn. 86.\\nGreenfield, Mass. 177.\\nGreenland, N. H. 263.\\nGreen Mt., Me. 305.\\nGreen Mts., Vt. 182, 199.\\nGreenville, Me. 296.\\nGreenwich, Conn. 89.\\nGreenwich, R. I. 67.\\nGi-eylock, Mass. 153.\\nGroton, Conn. 72, 73.\\nGroton, Mass. 105.\\nGroton, Vt. 169.\\nGrout s Corner, Mass. 177.\\nGrove Hall, Mass. 36.\\nGuilford, Conu. 76.\\nHaddam, Conn. 106.\\nHadley, Mass. 161.\\nHague, N. Y. 360.\\nHa Ha Bay, Can. 386.\\nHaley s Id., Me. 266.\\nHallowell, Mo. 311.\\nHamden, Conn. 108.\\nHamilton, Mass. 257.\\nHampden, Me. 318\\nHami ton, N. H 262.\\nBeach 262.\\nFalls 261.\\nHanover, N H. 166.\\nHarpswell, Me. 275.\\nHarrison, Me. 285.\\nHartford, Conn. 134.\\nAthemeum 137-\\nCedar Grove 139.\\nChurches 135.\\nOld State House 136.\\nState House 135.\\nHar\\\\ard, Mass. 105.\\nHarvard University 29.\\nHarwich, Mass. 56.\\nHastings-on-Hudson 342.\\nHatfield, Mass. 162.\\nHaverhill, Mass. 279.\\nHaverhill, N. H. 211.\\nHaverstraw, N. Y. 343.\\nHazard ville. Conn, 133.\\nHebron, N. H. 198.\\nHell Gate, N. Y. 47.\\nHighgate Springs, Vt. 207.\\nHighland Light 57.\\nHighlands, the 343.\\nHillsboro Bridge 196.\\nHingham, Mass. 24.\\nHinsdale, Mass. 143.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0517.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "442\\nINDEX.\\nHinsdale, N. n. 102.\\nHiram, Me 2S5.\\nHoboken. N. J. 341.\\nHoll)r()oi Mass. 54.\\nHoUlerness, N. H. 210.\\nHollis, N H. 106.\\nHolmes Hole, Mass. 59, 60.\\nHolyoke, Mass. In8.\\nHodkset. N. H. 194.\\nHoosae Tunnel 154, 179.\\nHopper, the lo7.\\nHough s Neck, Mass. 37.\\nHoulton, Me. 323.\\nHubbardton, Vt. 187.\\nHudson, N. Y. 348.\\nHull, Mass. 23.\\nHyannis, Mass. 56.\\nHyde Park, N. Y. 346,\\nIndian Harbor. Conn. S9.\\nLorette, Can. 384.\\nNeck. Conn. 77.\\nRock, Me. 292.\\nInuleside, Mass. 158.\\nloiia Id., N. Y. 344.\\nIpswich, Mass. 257.\\nIrasbnrtch, Vt. 171.\\nIrvins^ton, N. Y. 342.\\nIsland I ond, Vt. 290.\\nIsland, Blackwell s 47.\\nBlock 71.\\nBoone 267.\\nBrigadier 317.\\nCampo Bello 322.\\nCastle 22.\\nCharles, Conn. 84.\\nConanicut 46.\\nCv-ney 340.\\nConstitution 345.\\nContinental 265.\\nCiane 3S5.\\nCruiser s 347.\\nCush)n;? s 274.\\nCuttyhimk 92.\\nDeer 20.\\nDiamond, Me. 274.\\nDkmond, N. H. 217.\\nDiamond, N. Y. 358.\\nDome. N. Y. 359.\\nDuston s 197.\\nFisher s 73.\\nGoat 46.\\nGoose 3S5.\\nGrand ilenan 322.\\nGovernor s, Mass. 20.\\nGovernor s, N H. 215.\\nGovernor s, N. Y. 329.\\nGrosse 385.\\nlona 344.\\nImu j:, Mass. 23.\\nLons, N. H. 217.\\nLong, N. Y. 339.\\nLowell 256-\\nMartha s Vineyard 59.\\nMonhegan 316,\\nMount Desert 30a\\nTdystic 72.\\nNantucket 60.\\nNauslion 92.\\nNenti-al 322.\\nNo Man s Land 59.\\nOrr s 297.\\nPeak s, Me. 274.\\nPenequeese 92.\\nPlum, Mass. 260.\\nPrudence 66.\\nRainsford s 23.\\nRecluse 359.\\nRhode 46.\\nRichmoiid 270.\\nStage 268.\\nSiaten 340.\\nThaeher s 247.\\nThompson s 22.\\nValeour, Vt. 367.\\nVinalhaven 316.\\nWard s 339.\\nWetinore 317.\\nElizabeth 92.\\nSt. George s 301.\\nThimble 76.\\nIsle aux Coudres 385.\\nDeer, Me. 303.\\nGrand, Vt. 3G7.\\nof Orleans 385.\\nSt. Helens 370.\\nIsles of Shoals 265.\\nIvy Mt.,Coun. 115\\nJackson, N. H. 225.\\nJaffrev, N. H. 179.\\nJamaiVa, L. I. .340.\\nJamaica Plain, Mass. 35.\\nJav, Me. 291.\\nJefferson Hill, N. H. 229.\\nJefferson, Mt. 236.\\nJonesport, Me. 307.\\nJordan s Pond, Me. 304.\\nKatahdin, Mt., Me. 297.\\nKearsan .e. Mt. 198.\\nKeene, N. H. 180.\\nKennebunk, Me. 268.\\nKennebunkport 268.\\nKent, Conn. 114.\\nKiarsarge, Mt. 224.\\nKillingly, Coini. 118.\\nKilHugton Peak, Vt. 182.\\nKillingworth, Conn. 76.\\nKinilerliook. N. V. 348.\\nKineo Mt., Me. 206.\\nKinglield. Me. 292.\\nKingston, N. Y. 347.\\nKingston, R. I. 67.\\nKittery. Me. 265.\\nKnowitou s Lauding 173.\\nLachine Rapids 372.\\nLacenia, H. 209.\\nLafavette, Mt. 239.\\nLake Ashley, IMass. 145.\\nvlmer. Can. 290\\nBeauport, Can. ?S4.\\nBoma.seen, Vt. 187.\\nChabonakongkomon 104.\\nChamplain 361.\\nChesuncooli, Me. 296.\\nChina, Me. 313.\\nContoocook, N. H. ISO.\\nCrystal, Vt. 171.\\nDunmore, Vt. 18.3.\\nEclnj (Conway) 225.\\nEcho (Franconia) 238.\\nEnfield, N. H. 198.\\nGeorge, N. Y. 3.57.\\nGrand Schoodic 319.\\nHeart, N. H. 198.\\nLong, Conn. 113.\\nliong. Me. 285.\\nLuzerne, N. Y. 355.\\nMahkeenac, Mass. 150.\\nMassabesic, N. H. 193.\\nMassawippi, Can. 174.\\nMemphremagog 171.\\nI\\\\Ierrvnieeting 219.\\nMoosehead 294, 295\\nNewfound, N. H. 198.\\nof Seven Isles 323.\\nOnota, Mass. 145.\\nOssijiee, N. H. 220.\\nPoutoosnc, Mass. 145.\\nProfile, N. H. 239.\\nQninsigamond 126.\\nRockland, N. Y. 343.\\nSaltonstall, Conn. 77.\\nSt. Catharine, Vt. 188.\\nSt. Chailes, Can. 384.\\nSt. Joaehin, Can. 385.\\nSt. John, Can. 386.\\nSt. Peter 374.\\nSebago, Me. 284.\\nSinnipink, N. Y. 344.\\nSpectacle (Ponds) 114.\\nSquam, N. H. 21 6, 217.\\nSunapee, N. H. 196.\\nTwin, Conn. 123.\\nUmbagog 244, 2S9.\\nVillage, N. H 209.\\nWankawan 209.\\nWeidiani 256.\\nWilloughby, Vt. 170.\\nWinnepesaukee 215, 82\\nLakeville, Conn. 122.\\nLakeville, Mass. 54.\\nLancaster, Mass. 105.\\nLancaster. N. H. 212.\\nLanesboro, Mass. 153.\\nLanesville, Mass. 247.\\nLawrence, Mass. 278.\\nLead Mine Bridge 228.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0518.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "INDEX,\\n443\\nLebanon, Conn. 98.\\nLebaTion, N. H. 199.\\nLed^ cs, the N. H. 224.\\nLeeds, Me. 291.\\nLee, Mass. 148.\\nLeeds, Mass. 110.\\nLeiiiioxville, Can. 174, 290,\\nLenox, Mass. 147.\\nLevcrett, Mass. 102.\\nLevviston, Me. 308.\\nLexington, Mass. 28.\\nLeyden Gorge 178.\\nlaneoln, Mass. 175.\\nLisbon Falls, Me. 291.\\nLitchfield, Conn. 112.\\nLittleton, N. H. 211.\\nLivermore Falls, N. H. 210,\\nLivennore, Me. 291.\\nLondonderry, N. H. 279.\\nLong Branch, N. J. 340.\\nLong Id., Can. 173.\\nLong Id., Mass. 23.\\nLong Id., N. H. 217.\\nLong Id., N. Y. 339.\\nLong Lake, Conn. 113.\\nLong Lake, Me. 285.\\nLongmeadow, Mass. 133.\\nLongueuil, Can. 373.\\nLonsdale, R. I. 93.\\nLovell, Me. 287.\\nLowell Id Mass. 256.\\nLowell, Mass. 189.\\nLudlow, Vt. 181.\\nLunenburg, Vt. 212.\\nLyme, Conn. 75.\\nLyme, N. H. 167.\\nLyndeborough, N. H. 192.\\nLyu.lon, Vt. 170.\\nLynn, Mass. 250.\\nMachias, Me. 307.\\nMadawaska, Me. 324.\\nMadison, Mt. 236.\\nMadrid, Me. 292.\\nM;igalloway River 244, 289.\\nMagnolia, Mass. 247.\\nMagog, Can. 173.\\nMaine Forest, the 323.\\nMalbaie, Can. 385.\\nMnlilen, Mass. 275.\\nMallet s Bay, Vt. 204.\\nManiaroneek, N. Y. 90.\\nManchester, Conn. 94.\\nManche.ster, Mass. 245.\\nManchester, N. H. 193.\\nManchester, Vt. 185.\\nManhnttanville, N. Y. 341.\\nJIanstield, Conn. 99.\\nManstield, Mt., Vt. 203.\\nMaHilohead, Mass. 255.\\nMarblehead Neck, 256.\\nMarion, Mass. 54.\\nMarlboro, Mass. 126.\\nMarshfield, Mass. 49.\\nMarshpee, Mass. 56.\\nMartha s Vineyard 59.\\nMashapaug Lake 118.\\nMattajioisett, Mass. 54.\\nMattawamkeag, Me. 319.\\nMcAdam June, N. B. 319.\\nMclndoes Falls, Vt. 169.\\nMechanic Falls, Me. 287.\\nMedtield, Mass. 120.\\nMedford. Mass. 275.\\nMegunticook Mts. 317.\\nMelrose, Mass. 275.\\nMeredith, N. H. 209.\\nMcriden, Conn. 140.\\nMerrymeeting Lake 219.\\nMethuen, Mass, 279.\\nMiddleboro, Mass. 54.\\nMiddlebury, Vt. 183.\\nMiddlesex, Mass. 191.\\nMiddlesex, Vt. 202.\\nMiddletown, Conn. 106.\\nMiddletown Springs, Vt.\\n188\\nMilan, N. H. 289.\\nMilford, Conn. 84.\\nMilford, Me. 319.\\nMilford, N. H. 192.\\nMillerton, N. Y. 121.\\nMilton, N. H. 213.\\nMilton, Vt. 204.\\nMinot s Ledge, Mass. 49.\\nMissisquoi Springs 206.\\nMohegan, Conn. 98.\\nMonadnock Mt., N. H. 179.\\nMonadnock Mt., Vt. 243.\\nMonhegau Id., Me. 316.\\nMonkton, Vt. 184.\\nMonroe Mt. 236.\\nMonson, Me. 99.\\nMonson, Mass. 295.\\nMontague, Mass. 177.\\nMontniorenci Falls 384.\\nMontpelier, Vt. 200.\\nMontreal, Can. 291, 368.\\nAround the Mt. 372.\\nBonsecours Market 370.\\nChamp de Mars 370.\\nChrist Church Cathedral\\n371.\\nGesu, Church of the 371.\\nGray Nunnery 372.\\nLachine Rapids 372.\\nMcGill College 371.\\nNotre Dame 369.\\nSt. George 372.\\nSt. Patrick 871.\\nVictoria Bridge 373.\\nVictoria Square 369.\\nMonument Mt., Mass. 151.\\nMoose Chasm, Me. 289.\\nMoosehead Lake 294, 296.\\nMoosetocmaguutic 292.\\nMoo.silanke Mt. N. H. 211.\\nMoriah, Mt., N. H. 228.\\nMorris, Conn. 113.\\nMoultonlioro, N. H. 219.\\nMount Adams, N. H. 236.\\niEolus, Vt. 186.\\nAgamenticus, Me. 267.\\nAnnanance, Vt. 170.\\nAnthony, Vt. 186.\\nAscutney, Vt. 166.\\nAuburn Cemetery 33.\\nBald, N. H. 2; ,9.\\nBelknap, N. H. 209, 219.\\nCarniel, Conn. 108.\\nChocorua, N. H. 214, 22L\\nClinton, N. H. 235.\\nCro -Nest, N. Y. 345.\\nDesert, Me. 303.\\nDunderberg, N. Y. 343.\\nElephantis, Can. 173.\\nEquinox, Vt. 185.\\nEverett, Mass. 152.\\nFranklin, N. H. 236.\\nGreylock, Mass. 153.\\nHayes, N. H 228.\\nHolyoke, Mass. 160.\\nHopkins 157.\\nHope, R. I. m.\\nHor, Vt. 170.\\nIndependence, Vt. 363.\\nJefferson 236.\\nKatahdin, Me. 297, 319.\\nKearsarge, N. H. 198.\\nKiarsarge, N. H. 224.\\nKilburn 165.\\nKineo 296.\\nLafavette, N. H. 239.\\nMadison 236.\\nMajor, N. H. 218.\\nMansfield, Vt. 203.\\nMegunticook, Me. 317.\\nMonadnock, N. H. 179.\\nMonadnoctk, Vt. 243.\\nMonroe 236.\\nMonument, Mass. 151.\\nMoosilauke. N. H. 211.\\nMoriah, N. H. 228.\\nNonotuck, Mass. 160.\\nOssipee, N. H. 219, 220.\\nOwl s Head, Can. 172.\\nOwl s Head, N. H. 211.\\nPassaconaway 220.\\nPinnacle, Can. 174.\\nPinnacle, N. H. 194.\\nPleasant, Me. 285.\\nPleasant. N. H. 236.\\nProfile, N. H. 239.\\nProspect, Conn. 115.\\nProspect, N. H. 210.\\nPulaski, Vt. 108.\\nRagged, N. H. 198.\\nRiga, Conn. 121.\\nRouLUard, Can. 290.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0519.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "4i4\\nINDEX.\\nSte. Anne, Can. 3S5.\\nSt. Vinf\u00c2\u00bbent, N. Y. 341.\\nSugar Loai, Mass. 162.\\nSni i.rise, N. H. 22S.\\nTalxjr, Vt. 185.\\nToby, Mass. 102.\\nTom, Conn. 113.\\nTom, Mass. 160.\\nTom, Vt. 199.\\nVernon, N. H. 192,\\nWaiitastiquet 103.\\nWashington, Mass. 152.\\nWashington, N. H. 234.\\nAscent from Craw-\\nford s 235.\\nAscent from Gorhaui\\n236.\\nCarriage-road 235.\\nRailway 234.\\nView 237.\\nWliitcface, N. H. 220.\\nWilhird, N. H. 231.\\nMountains, Adirondack 3G5\\nAllagash 323.\\nBerkshire 142.\\nCatskill 347.\\nDixville 243.\\nFranconia 238.\\nGreen 182-186,199-204,\\nHi lderborg 348.\\nHighlands 343, 344.\\nLaurcntian 378, 385.\\nLunenburg 212.\\nMagalloway 245.\\nMegunticook 317.\\nPilot 212.\\nSandwich 220.\\nShawangunk 846.\\nWhite 221.\\nMurray Bay, Can. 385.\\nMyricks, Mass. 54.\\nMystic, Conn 72.\\nMystic Pond 189.\\nValiant, Mass. 21.\\nJantasket Beach 23.\\nNantucket 60.\\nNaples, Me. 284.\\nNarragansett Bay 65.\\nNarragansett Fort 69.\\nNarragansett Pier 68.\\nNashua, N. H. 191.\\nNatick, Mass. 124.\\nNatural Bridge 154.\\nNaugatuck, Conn. 111.\\nNau shon Id. 92.\\nNewark, Vt. 171.\\nNeAV Bedford, Mass. 90.\\nNew Britain, Conn. 95.\\nNewburg, N. Y. 345.\\nNewbury, Vt. 168.\\nNewV)uryiiort, Mass. 258.\\nNewcastle, Me. 2 Jd.\\nNewfound Lake 198.\\nNew Gloucester, Me. 287.\\nNew Hartford. Conn. 120.\\nNew Haven. Conu. 77, 141.\\nArt Gallery 81.\\nCemetery 78.\\nEast Rock 83.\\nPublic Green 79.\\nSavin Rock 83.\\nState House 80.\\nWest Rock 83.\\nYale College 80.\\nNew Haven, Vt. 184.\\nNew Lebanon Springs 146.\\nNew London, Conn. 72.\\nNewmarket, N. H.267, 281.\\nNew Marlboro, Mass. 252.\\nNew Milford, Conn. 114.\\nNewport, Me. 314.\\nNew]i(nt, R. I. 40, 66.\\nBellevue Ave. 44.\\nJ irst Beaek 45.\\nFort Adams 46.\\nIslands, the 46.\\nLawton s Valley 44.\\nPurgatory 45.\\nRedwood Library 43.\\nRound Tower 43.\\nState House 42.\\nNewport, Vt. 171.\\nNew Rochelle, N. Y. 90.\\nNewton, Mass. 35, 120, 124.\\nNewtown, Conn. 114.\\nNew York City 325.\\nAstor Library 333.\\nBattery 329.\\nBay, the 329.\\nBible House 333.\\nBoulevard 338.\\nBowling Green 329.\\nBroadway 330, 335.\\nCathedral 336.\\nCentral Park 336.\\nChrist Church 335.\\nCity Hall 332.\\nCooper Institute 333.\\nCourt House 332.\\nCustom House 331.\\nFifth Avenue 335.\\nFive Points 332.\\nGrace Church 333.\\nGrand Central Depot 336.\\nHigh Bridge 338.\\nLenox Library 338.\\nMadison Square 334.\\nNational Academy of\\nDesign 334.\\nNew Post-Offlce 332.\\nNew York University 333\\nPark Row 331.\\nReservoir 335.\\nSt. George 334,\\nSt. Paul 331.\\nPuh-TreasTiry 330.\\nTeui].le Emanuel 336.\\nTombs, the 332.\\nTrinity Church 330.\\nUnion Square 333,\\nWall Street 330.\\nWard s Island 339.\\nY. M. C. Association 33 J\\nNiantic, Conn. 74.\\nNix s Mate, Mass. 23.\\nNorfolk, Conn. 120.\\nNorman s Woe 246.\\nNoroton, Conn. 87.\\nNorridgewock, Me. 293.\\nN. Adams, Mass. 154,\\nNorthampton, Mass. 159.\\nNorUiboro, Mass. 126.\\nN. Conway, N. H, 223, 287-\\nNorthfleld, Mass. 102.\\nNorthtield, Vt. 200.\\nN. Haven, Conn. 141,\\nN. Stratr.u-d, N. H. 243,\\nNorthumberland, N. H.\\n212, 243, 290.\\nN. Yarmouth, Me. 287.\\nNorton s Falls, Conn. 122.\\nNorwalk, Conn. 87.\\nNorwich, Conn. 96, 119.\\nNorwich, Vt. 166.\\nNotch, Bolton, Coun. 94.\\nDixville, N. H. 243.\\nFranconia, N H. 238.\\nGrafton, Me. 289.\\nPinkham, N. H. 226.\\nSandgate, Vt. 186.\\nSnmtigler s, Vt. 202.\\nWhite Mt. 231.\\nWUmington, N. Y. 367.\\nOak Bluffs, Mass. 60.\\nOld Deerfield. Mass. 163.\\nOld Hadley, Mass. 161.\\nOld Orchaid Beach 283.\\nOldtown, Me. 318.\\nOre Hill, Conn. 121.\\nOrford Mt., Can. 173.\\nOrford, N. H. 16S.\\nOrient S])rings, Mass. 102.\\nOrono. Me. 318.\\nOsceola, Mt. 242.\\nOssipee Mt., N.H.219, 220.\\nOssipee, N. H. 214.\\nOtta Quechee Valley, Vt\\n199.\\nOwl s Head Mt, Can. 172.\\nOxford, Me. 288.\\nOxford, Mass. 104.\\nPalcnvllle, N. Y. 348.\\nralisa les, the 341.\\nPalmei-, Mass. 180.\\nParis Hill, Me. 288.\\nPaiinacheue Lake 289.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0520.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n415\\nPnsrpie Id., Mass. 92.\\nrassuct.iuiway Mt. 220.\\nrassiuiipsic, Vt. 109.\\nPatieii, Me. 319.\\nPauMing Manor, N. Y. 342.\\nPawtiicket, R. I. 02.\\nPawtuxL t, R. I. 65,\\nPeaboUv, Ma.ss. 253.\\nPeaccdale, R. I. 68.\\nPeak s Id., Me. 274.\\nPeekskiil, N. Y.343.\\nPelliain Fort, Mass. 179.\\nPeniaquid, Me. 299.\\nPeiiiigewassct Valley 210.\\nPeuequeese Id. 92.\\nPepperell, Mass. 105.\\nPe(iuot House, Conn. 74.\\nPerry s Peak, Mass. 148.\\nPeterboro, N. H. 180.\\nPhillips, Me. 292.\\nPhipsburg, Me, 297.\\nPiennont N. J. 342.\\nPigeon Cove, Mass. 247.\\nPittsburg, N. H. 245.\\nPittsfield, Mass. 144.\\nPittsford, N. H. 182.\\nPlaeentia, N. Y. 34G.\\nPlaiufield, Conn. 94.\\nPlainville, Conn. 109.\\nPlattsburt;, N. Y. 367.\\nPleasant, Mt 236\\nPlymouth, Conn. 112.\\nPlymouth, Mass. 51.\\nBurying Hill 53.\\nForefather s Rock 52.\\nPilgrim Hall 52.\\nPlymouth Forest 53.\\nPlymouth, N. H. 210, 217,\\n242.\\nPocassftt, Mass. 58.\\nPoint Judith, R. I. 69.\\nPoint Levi, Can. 290, 383.\\nPoint Shirley, Mass. 20.\\nPomfret, Conn. 118.\\nPnmpanoosuc, Vt. 167.\\nPool, the N. H. 240.\\nPort Chester, N. Y. 90.\\nPort Henry, N. Y. 365.\\nPort Kent, N. Y. 367.\\nPortland, Me. 270, 283.\\nCity Hall 272.\\nCustom House 272.\\nEvergreen Cem. 273.\\nObservatory 272.\\nPost-Office 273.\\nW. Promenade 271.\\nPortsmouth, N. H. 263.\\nPoughkeei)sie, N. Y. 346.\\nPonltney, Vt. 187.\\nPresque Isle, Me. 323.\\nPrinceton, Mass. 177.\\nProctorsville, Vt. 181.\\nProfile House 238.\\nProfile, the 239.\\nProsj)ect Mt., Conn. 115.\\nProspeft Mt., N. H. 210.\\nProut s Neck, Me. 270.\\nProvidence, R. I. 63.\\nArcade 63.\\nAthemeuni 64.\\nBrown University 64.\\nMonument 63.\\nR. Hospital 64.\\nProvincetown, Mass. 57.\\nPrudence Id., R. I. 66.\\nPulaski Mt., Vt. 108.\\nPutnam, Conn. 117.\\nPutney, Vt. 164.\\nQuebec, Can. 290, 375.\\nCathedral 3S0.\\nCitadel 379.\\nDurham Terrace 378.\\nEnglish Cathedral 378.\\nGoklen Dog 382.\\nHotel Dieu 380.\\nJesuit Buildings 381.\\nLaval University 381.\\nMarine IIosi ital 382.\\nMarket Square 380.\\nMt. Hermou Cem. 3S3.\\nNotre Dame des Victoires\\n383.\\nParliament House 380.\\nPlace d Armes 378.\\nPlains of Abraham 383.\\nPrescott Gate 380.\\nSeminary 381.\\nSt. John s Gate 379.\\nSt. Louis Gate 379.\\nUrsuline Convent 381.\\nWolfe and Montcalm\\nMonument 379.\\nQueen s Fort, R. I. 69.\\nQuincy, Mass. 37.\\nQuinsigamond Lake 126.\\nQuoddy Head, Me. 322.\\nRafe s Chasm, Mass. 247.\\nRagge.l Mt., N. H. 198.\\nRandolph Hill 228, 236.\\nRandolph, Vt. 200.\\nRangeley Lakes 245, 292.\\nRaynhain, Mass. 38.\\nReadfield, Me. 309.\\nReading, Conn. 116.\\nReading, Mass. 276.\\nReadville, Mass. 62.\\nRecluse Id.. N. Y. 359.\\nRed Hill, N. H. 216.\\nRevere Beach, 27.\\nRhinebeck-on-Hudson 347.\\nRhode Island 40, 46.\\nRichford, Vt. 207.\\nRichmond, Can. 290.\\nRichmond Id. 270.\\nRichmond, Me. 311.\\nRidgefield, Conn. 116.\\nRidley s Station, Vt. 203.\\nRindge, N. H. 179.\\nRipton, Vt. 184.\\nRiver, Ammonoosuc 233,\\n290.\\nAndroscoggin 289, 291,\\n308, 310.\\nAroostook 323, 324.\\nChaudiere 313, 3S3.\\nConnecticut 75, 106, 134,\\n157, 169, 211, 243, 245.\\nEast 47, 339.\\nFarraington 109, 143.\\nHousatonic 115, 148, 153.\\nHudson 340, 356.\\nKennebec 293, 311.\\nLamoille 203, 204.\\nMerrimac 189, 193, 197,\\n258, 278, 279.\\nMissisquoi 206.\\nNaugatuck 111.\\nPassumpsic 169.\\nPemigewasset 210, 241.\\nPenobscot 296, 316.\\nRichelieu 207, 368, 373.\\nSaco 223, 231, 269, 285.\\nSaguenay 385.\\nSt. Croix 322.\\nSt. John 320, 323.\\nSt. Lawrence 369, 372,\\n373, 384.\\nSt. Maurice 374,\\nThames 96.\\nWinooski 203, 204.\\nRiverdale, Mass. 246.\\nRivermouth Rocks, 262.\\nRiviere du Loup 323, 385.\\nRochester, N. H. 213, 282.\\nRockland Lake, N. Y. 343.\\nRockland, Me. 301, 316.\\nRockport, Mass. 247.\\nRockville, Conn. 94.\\nRocky Hill, Conn. 140.\\nRocky Point, R. I. 65.\\nRogers Slide, N. Y. 360.\\nRondout, N. Y. 346.\\nRoslyn, L. I. 340.\\nRou.gemont Mt. 208.\\nRouillard Mt. 290.\\nRound Id., Can. 172.\\nRouse s Point, N. Y. 207.\\nRowley, Mass. 258.\\nRoxburv, Mass. 36.\\nRoxbury, Vt. 200.\\nRoyalton, Vt. 200.\\nRumford Falls, Me. 288.\\nRuninev, N. H. 211.\\nRutland, Vt. 181.\\nRye Beach, N. H. 263.\\nRvegate, Vt. 168.\\nRye, N. Y. 90.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0521.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "446\\nINDEX.\\nSabbath Day Point 359.\\nHaecarappa, Me. 213.\\nfeacheiii s Head, Conn. 76.\\nSachem s Phiin, Conn. 97.\\nSa(!0, Me. 269.\\nSaco Pool 269.\\nSage s Ravine, Conn. 122.\\nSayuenay River 385.\\nSt. Albans, Vt. 204.\\nSt. Andrew, N. B. 322.\\nSte. Anne, Can. 384.\\nSt. Charles, Lake 384.\\nSt. Fereol Falls 385.\\nSt. Fi-ancis, Me. 324.\\nSt. George, Me. 301.\\nSt. Hvacinthe, Can. 290.\\nSt. John River 320.\\nSt. Johnsbury, Vt. 169.\\nSt. John s, Can. 208.\\nSt. Johns, N. B. 320.\\nSt. Maurice River 374.\\nSt. Stephen, N. B. 323.\\nSalem, Mass. 251.\\nCourt House 253.\\nCustom House 253.\\nEast India Museum 252.\\nPlummer Hall 252.\\nSalem Neck 253.\\nSalisburv Beach 200.\\nSalisbury, Coun. 115, 121.\\nSalisbury, Mass. 260.\\nSalmon Falls, N. H. 283.\\nSandgate Notch, Vt. 186.\\nSandisfield, Mass. 152.\\nSand Spring, Mass. 156.\\nSandwich, Mass. 55.\\nSandwich, N. H. 219.\\nSankoty Head, 62.\\nSaratoga Springs 350.\\nBattle-field 355.\\nColumbian Spring 352.\\nCongress S])ring 352.\\nCrystal Spring 353.\\nExcelsior Spring 354.\\nGeyser Spring 354.\\nLake, the 354.\\nPark, Congress 352.\\nPavilion Spring 353.\\nSeltzer Spring 353.\\nStar Spring 354.\\nSaugerties, N. Y. 347.\\nSavin Rock, Conn. 83.\\nSavov, Mass. 153.\\nSawyer s Rock, N. H. 230.\\nSaybrook, Conn. 75.\\nScarb(;ro Beach 270, 283.\\nSchoodic Lakes, Me. 322.\\nSchooner Head, Me. 304.\\nScituate, Mass. 49.\\nScrew Anger Falls 289.\\nSeabrook, N. H. 261.\\nSearsport, Me. 317.\\nSebago Lake, Me. 284.\\nSebec Lake, Me. 295.\\nSesacacha Pond 62.\\nSeymour, Conn. 111.\\nSharon, Mass. 62.\\nSharon, Vt. 199.\\nShawanegan Falls 374.\\nSheffield, Mass. 153.\\nSheffield, N. B. 320.\\nShelburne Falls, Mass. 179.\\nShelburne, N. H. 289.\\nSheldon Springs, Vt. 206,\\nSherbrooke, Can. 174.\\nShippan Point, Conu. 89.\\nShoals, Isles of 265.\\nShrewsbury, Mass. 126.\\nSiasconset, Mass. 61.\\nSilver Cascade, 232.\\nSimsbury, Conn. 109.\\nSing Sing, N. Y. 343.\\nSkinner Hollow, Vt. 185.\\nSkinner s Id., Can. 172.\\nSkowhegan, Me. 293.\\nSleepy Hollow, N. Y. 342.\\nSmugglers Notch, Vt. 202\\nSolon, Me. 294.\\nSomerville, Mass. 249, 275\\nSomes Sound, Me. 306.\\nSorel, Can. 373.\\nS. Adams, Mass. 153.\\nS. Braintree, Mass. 38, 51.\\nS. Cornwall, Conn. 115.\\nS. Deerfield, Mass. 162.\\nS. Egremont, Mass. 152.\\nS. Framinghara 125.\\nS. Hadley, Mass. 158.\\nSouthington, Conn. 109.\\nS. Kingstown, R. I. 69.\\n8. Mountain, Mass. 145.\\nS. Norwalk, Conn. 87.\\nS. Paris, Me. 288.\\nSouthport, Conn. 86.\\nSouthport, Me. 299.\\nS. Royalton, Vt. 200.\\nS. Vernon, Vt. 102.\\nSouthwest Harbor.Me. 306.\\nS. Windham, Me. 284.\\nS. Windsor, Conn. 140.\\nSparkling Cascade 232.\\nSpectacle Ponds 114.\\nSpencer, Mass. 130.\\nSpot Pond 189, 275.\\nSpringfield, Mass. 131, 157.\\nCity Library 132.\\nCourt House 132.\\nU. S. Armory 131.\\nSpringfield, Vt. 165, 181.\\nSpringvale, Me. 213.\\nSpuyten Duyvil Creek, N.\\nY. 341.\\nSpy Pond, Mass. 34.\\nSquam Lake 217, 220.\\nSquantum Point 37.\\nStafford Springs 99.\\nStage Id., Me. 269.\\nStamford, Coini. 88.\\nStandish, Me. 285.\\nStanstead, Can. 174.\\nStar Id., N. H. 265.\\nStarks, Me. 294.\\nStockbridge, Mass. 149.\\nStoneham, Mass. 275.\\nStonington, Conn. 71.\\nStony Creek, Conn. 76-\\nStony Point, N. Y. 343,\\nStow, Vt. 202.\\nStraflord, N. H. 282.\\nStratford, Conn. 84.\\nStratford, N. H. 290.\\nStratham, N. H. 267.\\nStratton Gap, Vt. 185.\\nStrong, Me. 292.\\nSudbury, Mass. 125.\\nSugar Loaf Mt. 162.\\nSummit, Vt. 181.\\nSunapee Lake, N. H. 196.\\nSuncook, N. H. 194.\\nSunderland, Mass. 162.\\nSurprise, Mt. 228.\\nSutherland Falls, Vt. 182.\\nSwamp cott, Mass. 251.\\nSwanton, Vt. 207.\\nSwanzey. N. H. 102.\\nSylvan Glade Cataract 232\\nTadousac, Can. 385.\\nTalcott ]\\\\It., Conn. 139.\\nTappan, N. J. 342.\\nTai pan Zee 342.\\nTarrytown. N. Y. 342.\\nTaunton, Mass. 38.\\nTemideton, Mass. 177.\\nTewksbury, Mass. 189.\\nThacher s Id., Mass. 247.\\nThe Forks, Me. 294.\\nThetford, Vt. 167.\\nThimble Is., Co)in. 76.\\nThomaston, Me. 301.\\nThompson, Conn. 104, 117.\\nThompson s Falls, N. H.\\n226.\\nThomiison s Id. 22.\\nThompsonville 133.\\nThree Rivers, Can. 290, 374.\\nThrogg s Point, N. Y. 47.\\nTiconderoga, Fort 183, 362.\\nTilton, N. H. 209.\\nTivoli, N. Y. 347.\\nToby Mt. 102.\\nTolland, Conn. 99.\\nTopsfield, Mass. 276.\\nTroy, N. H. 180.\\nTroy, N. Y. 350.\\nTruro, Mass. 56.\\nTuckermau s Ravine, N.\\nH. 227, 237.\\nTufts CoUege, Mass. 189.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0522.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n447\\nTurner s Falls, Mass. 17S.\\nTwill Lakes, Conn. 12;j.\\nTwin Mt. House 233.\\nUnibagog Lake 244, 2S9.\\nUiidercliff, N. Y. 345.\\nUpper Bartlett 230, 287.\\nUpton, Me. 244, 289.\\nUxbridge, Mass. 93.\\nVan Buren, Me. 324.\\nVanceboro, Me. 319.\\nVarennes, Can. 373.\\nVassalboro, Me. 313.\\nVassar College 34U.\\nVcrgennes, Vt. 184, 365.\\nVernon, Conn. 94.\\nVernon, Vt. 102.\\nVerplanek s Point 343.\\nVersliire, Vt. 107.\\nVineyard Haven GO.\\nVineyard iSound 92.\\nVue de I Eau, R. L 65.\\nWaehusett, Mt. 177.\\nWakefield, Mass. 276.\\nWaldoboro, Me. 300.\\nWallingford, Conn. 140.\\n\\\\Yallingtord, Vt. 184.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\Valy)ole, N. H. 180.\\nWaltliani, Mass. 175.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Ward s Id., N. Y. 47, 339.\\nWaiv, Mass. 99.\\nWarehani, Mass. 54.\\nWarehouse Point 133.\\nWarren, Me. 300.\\nWarren, Mass. 130.\\nWarren, N. H. 211.\\nWarren, R. I. (36.\\nWarwick, R. I. 67.\\nWasliington, Mass. 143.\\nWashin^tiin, Mt. 234.\\nWatch Hill Point 70.\\nWaterburv, Conn 95.\\nWaterbury, Vt. 202.\\nWaterlbnl, Me. 285.\\nWatertown, Conn. 112.\\nWatertown, Mass. 34.\\nWaterville, Conn. 112.\\nWaterville, Me. 309, 314.\\nWaterville, N. H. 242.\\nWaukavvan Lake 209.\\nWaumbek House 212, 229,\\nWauregan, Conn. 119.\\nWebster, Mass. 104.\\nWechawken, N. J. 341.\\nWeir June, Mass. 90.\\nWeirs, N. H. 209, 215.\\nWeld, Me. 291.\\nWellesley, Mass. 124.\\nWellfleet, Mass. 56.\\nWells Beach 268, 283.\\nWells River, Vt. 168, 211.\\nAVenliam, Mass. 256.\\nWentworth, N. H. 211.\\nWestboro, Mass. 126.\\nW. Brookheld, Mass. 130.\\nWestbrook, Me. 284, 309.\\nWesterly, R. I. 70.\\nWesttield, Mas.s. 110, 142.\\nWestford, Mass. 176.\\nW. Lebanon, N. H. 199.\\nW. Medford, Mass. 188.\\nWestminster, Mass. 177.\\nWestminster, Vt. 164.\\nWeston, Me. 319.\\nW. Ossipee, N. H. 214, 220.\\nWest P(nnt, N. Y. 344.\\nWestport, Conn. 87.\\nWestport, Me. 299.\\nWestport, Mass. 92.\\nWestport, N. Y. 365.\\nWest Rock, Conn. 83.\\nW. Rutland, Vt. 182, 187.\\nW. Troy, N. Y. 350.\\nWetherstield, Conn. 139.\\nWeymouth, Mass. 48.\\nWhatelv, Mass. 162.\\nWhiteface Mt. 220.\\nWhitehall, N. Y. 188, 356.\\nWhite Id., N. H. 266.\\nWhite River June, Vt. 166,\\n199.\\nWhite Mt. Notch 231.\\nWhite Mts. 213, 222.\\nWiekford, R. I. 67.\\nWilhrahani, Mass. 130.\\nWillard, Mt. 231,\\nWilley House 231.\\nWilliamsburg, Mass. 110.\\nWilliams College 156.\\nWilliamstown, Mass. 156.\\nWillimantie, onn. 94.\\nWilloughbv Lake 170.\\nWilton, N. H. 192.\\nWinchendon, Mass. 179.\\nWinchester, Mass. 189.\\nWinchester, N. H. 102.\\nWindham, N. H. 279.\\nWindsor, Conn. 133.\\nWindsor, Mass. 144.\\nWindsor, Vt. 165.\\nWing Road, N. H. 212.\\nW^innepesaukee Lake, N\\nH. 215, 282.\\nWinooski, Vt. 204, 366.\\nWinsted, Conn. 113.\\nWinterport, Me. 318.\\nWinthrop, Me. 308.\\nWiscasset, Me. 298.\\nWobum, Mass. 189.\\nWolcottville, Conn. 113.\\nWolfboro, N. H. 214, 218.\\nWood s Hole, 59, 92.\\nWoodstock, Conn. 117.\\nW^jodstock, N. B. 323.\\nWoodstock, N. H. 241.\\nWoodstock, Vt. 199.\\nWoolwich, Me. 298.\\nWoonsocket, R. I. 93, 120,\\nWorcester, Mass. 127.\\nAntiquarian Soc. 128.\\nIndustrial School 127.\\nMonuments 129.\\nYale College, Conn. 75, 8a\\nYantic Falls, Conn. 96.\\nYarmouth, Me. 309.\\nYarmouth, JIass 56.\\nYonkcrs, N. Y. 341.\\nYork, Me. 266.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0523.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY INDEX.\\nActon, Mass. 410, 126.\\nAdams, Mass. 153.\\nAlexandria Bay, 400.\\nAllenstowu, N. II. 417.\\nAmef^bui y, Mass. 420.\\nAndover, Me. 292.\\nAiiticosti, P. Q 403.\\nAntrim, N. H. l .)6.\\nArethusa Falls, N. [I. 233.\\nArlington, Mass. 405.\\nAshfleld, Mass. 163, 178 a.\\nAthol, Mass. 177, 4-22.\\nAttleboro, Mass. 62 6.\\nBaddeck, C. B. 404.\\nBarnstable, Mass. 56.\\nBarre, Mass 411, 421.\\nBartlett, N. H. 230.\\nBay of Ohaleur, 403.\\nBeach Bluff, Mass. 408.\\nBedford, Mass. 406.\\nBelgrade, Me. 308.\\nBeunin ^ton, N. II. 106.\\nBerlin Kails, N. H. 289.\\nBlc, P Q. 402.\\nBirchdale Springs 105.\\n-Blaudford, Mass. 143.\\nBlock Island, R. I 65 71\\nBlue Hills, Mass. 37, 62.\\nBonaventure Island, 403.\\nBoston, Mass. 5.\\nBeacon Uill 16 d.\\nFirst Bapt. Ch 10 C\\nLife Ins. Cos., 12\\nMasonic Temple 12 b.\\nMuseum, bine Arts 16 b.\\nNew Old South 16 a.\\nPublic Library 12 b.\\nSt. James s 12 b.\\nTechnology 16 a.\\nTrinity Church 16 a.\\nUniversity 18.\\nY. M. C. A. 16 c.\\nBoylston, Mass. 104.\\nBradford, Vt. 168.\\nBrant Rock, Mass. 49.\\nBras d Or, C. B. 404.\\nBread-Loaf Inn, Vt. 184.\\nBridgpwater, Mass. 53 b.\\nlirocktuu, Mass. 53 b.\\nAuckland, Mass. 178 a.\\nButtonwoods, R. I. 67.\\nCamden, Me. 425, 317.\\nCampbellton, N. B. 403.\\nCampello, Mass. 53 b.\\nCampobello, N. B. 322, 426,\\nCaudia, N H. 419.\\nCanton, Mass. 62 a.\\nCape Arundel, Me. 283.\\nCape Breton, N. S. 404.\\nCharlemont, Mass. 178 a.\\nCharlottetown, P. E. I. 404,\\nCharlton, Mass. 130.\\nChatham, N. B. 404.\\nCheese Rock, Mass. 189.\\nChelsea, Vt. 200.\\nChester, Mass. 143.\\nChester, N. H. 419.\\nChesterfield, Mass. 110.\\nChesterfield, N. H. 180.\\nChiron Springs, N. H. 198.\\nClifford (The), Mass. 53 a.\\nCochituate Lake, Mass. 125.\\nColdbrook Springs, Mass.\\n411, 422.\\nConanicut, R. I. 46, 65 b.\\nConcord, Mass. 406, 28.\\nConcord Junction 410\\n(^Jontoocook, N. H 417.\\nConway, Mass. 163.\\nCottage Citv, Mass. 59.\\nOrawtbrd House 231, 230.\\nDalhousie, N. B. 403.\\nDana, Mass. 422.\\nDauvers, Mass. 276, 420.\\nDarien, Conn. 87.\\nDedham, Mass. 02 a, 117\\nDeerfield, N. II, 419.\\nDeer Isle, Me. 307 a. 303.\\nDevereux, Mass. 408.\\nDorset, Vt 185.\\nDouglas, Mass. 117.\\nDover, N. H. 418, 281.\\nDowner Landing, 24.\\nDublin, N. H. 414.\\nDudley, Mass. 117.\\nDunbarton, N. II 194.\\nDunstable, Mass. 411.\\nEast Jaffrey, N. II. 413.\\nEdmundston, N. B. 323.\\nEllsworth, Me. 318, 322.\\nEnfield, Mass. 422.\\nEppiug, N. H. 419.\\nEpsom, N. U. 417.\\nEustis, Me. 294.\\nFather Point, P. Q. 402.\\nFernside, Mass. 148.\\nFisher s Island, N.Y. 71, 73.\\nFitz William, N. H. 179.\\nFlagstaff, 3Ie. 205.\\nForks (The), Me. 293.\\nFort Popham, Me. 426.\\nFoxboro, Mass. 62 b.\\nFranconia, N. H. 234 a, 238.\\nGardner, Mass. 413, 177.\\nGasp(5, P. Q. 403.\\nGill, Mass. 102, 178.\\nGilmanton, N. II. 209.\\nGoat Island, R. I. 46.\\nGoshen, Conn. 71. 115.\\nGoshen, Mass. 110, 100.\\nGrand Manan, 426, 322.\\nGranville, Mass. 110.\\nGreen s Landing, Mo. 307 a.\\nGreenville, N. II. 176.\\nGroveton, N. H. 243.\\nHalifax, Mass. 51.\\nIlampstead, N. II. 414.\\nIlardwick, Mass 421.\\nHarrisville, N. H. 414.\\nHawley, Mass. 178 a.\\nHeath, Mass. 178 a.\\nIlenniker, N. II. 418.\\nIlillsboro, N. H. 418, 196.\\nHolbrook, Mass. 53 b.\\nIlolden, Mass. 411.\\nHolliston, Mass. 125.\\nHopedale, Mass. 125.\\nHopkinton, N. II. 417.\\nIlopkinton Springs, 126.\\nHough s Neck, Mass. 53 b.\\nIlubbardston, Mass 413.\\nHumarocks (The), Mass. 49.\\nHyde Park, Mass. 62.\\nIsle an Haut, Me. 307 a.\\nIslesbtiro, Me. 307 a.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0524.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENTARY INDEX.\\nU9\\nKatahdin Iron Works, 295.\\nKatama, Mass. 60.\\nK.-ene, N. II. 179, 102.\\nKeimebunkport, 283, 268.\\nKiarsarge Village, 224.\\nLake-Auburn Spring, 308.\\nLake Buel, 152.\\nLiike iNlaranacook, 308.\\nLake Plefisant, 177.\\nLeicester, Mass. 130.\\nLewiston, Me. 307 b.\\nLexington, Mass. 406, 28.\\nLisbon, N II. 211.\\nLittletun, Mass. 410.\\nLittleton, N. II. 212.\\nLivermure, N. 11. 2-31,242.\\nLouisbourg, C B. 405.\\nLudlow, Mass, 422.\\nLuudy s Lane, Ont. 396, 395.\\nMagnolia, Mass. 245, 247.\\nBlanoinet, Mass. 53 a.\\nMansfield, Mass. 62 b.\\n-M:iplewood. N. II. 231 a.\\nMaquaui Bay, Yt. 204.\\nMarblehead, Mass. 408, 255.\\nMark Rock, R. I. 65 a.\\nMass. Soldiers Home, 27.\\nMendon, Mass. 125.\\nMiddlesex Fells, 189.\\nMiddleton, Mass. 420.\\nMilford, Mass. 125.\\nMiliburv, Mass. 93.\\nMiller s Falls, Mass. 102.\\nMonadnock, 413.\\nMouhcgan, 425, 316.\\nMi.nson, Me. 295.\\nMontgomery, Mass. 143.\\nMont e^non, 423, 192.\\nMoose River, 294.\\nMount Bowdoin, Ma.ss. 36.\\nCardigan, N. H. 198.\\nToby, Mass. 163.\\nMystic Island, Conn. 71.\\nNarragansett Bay, 65 a.\\nNashua. N. H. 191, 411.\\nN;iyatt Point, R. I. 65 a.\\nNew Castle, N. H. 267.\\nNew Hampton, N. 11 209?\\nNew London, N. H. 198.\\nNewmarket, N II. 419,281.\\nNew Marlboro, Mass. 152.\\nNewport, N. II. 196.\\nNew Salem, Mass. 422.\\nNew York City, 325.\\nMetropolitan Museum\\n336.\\nEast-River Bridge, 339.\\nMuseum Nat. History,\\n336.\\nNiagara Falls, N. Y. 390.\\nNonquitt, Ma.ss. 92.\\nN. Duxbury, Vt 203.\\nN. Easton, Mass. 53 b.\\nNorthport, Me. 425.\\nOakland Beach, R. I. 67.\\nOgdeusburg, N. Y. 400.\\nOnset Bay, Mass. 54.\\nOi ange, Mass. 177.\\nOrleans (Isle of), 402, 385.\\nOsprey Beach, 74.\\nOssipee Park, N. II. 219.\\nOtis, Mass. 143. 148.\\nOttawa, Can. 400.\\nPawtucket, R. I. 62 b.\\nI awtuxet, R. I. G5 a.\\nPeabody, Mass. 419, 253.\\nPelham, Mass. 422, 178 b.\\nPeru, Mass. 110.\\nPeterboro, N. II 413. 179.\\nPetersburgli N. Y. 178 b.\\nPetersham, Mass. 422.\\nPhillips Beach, 408.\\nPictou, N. S. 404.\\nPittsfiold, N. 11. 417.\\nPoland Spring, 308.\\nPonemah Spring, N. H. 423.\\nPonkapog, Mass. 62 a.\\nPownal, Vt. 178 b.\\nPowwow Hill, 421.\\nPrince Edward Island, 404\\nPrinceton, Mass. 412.\\nPrudence Island, 65 b.\\nPurgatory, Mass, 93.\\nPutney Hill, 417.\\nQueenston, Ont. 895.\\nRandolph, Mass. 38.\\nRangeley Lakes, 292, 245.\\nRaymond, N H. 419.\\nReadfield, Me. 308.\\nRevere, Mass. 409.\\nRichfield Springs, 388.\\nRichmond, Mass. 146.\\nRichmond, Vt. 204, 203.\\nRimouski, P. Q. 402\\nRindge, N. H. 413, 179.\\nRochester, N. Y. 389.\\nRocky Point, R. 1 65 a,\\nRome, N. Y. 888.\\nRoseland Park, Conn. 118.\\nRoyalston, Mass. 177.\\nRutland, Mass. 411.\\nSalisbury, Mass. 420, 260.\\nSandown, N H. 414.\\nSaxonville, Mass. 124.\\nSchenectady, N. Y. 387.\\nSeal Harbor, Me. 307.\\nSharon, Mass. 62 b.\\nShelburne Falls, 178 a.\\nShippigan, N. B. 403.\\nShrewsbury Peak, 181.\\nSilver Lake, Mass. 51.\\nSilver Spring, R. I. 65 a.\\nSomerville, 405, 24!), 275.\\nS. Acton, Mass. 410.\\nSouthboro, Mass. 424.\\nS. Boston, Mass. 19.\\nSouthbridge, Mass. 117, 99.\\nS. Duxbury, Mass. 51.\\nS. Natick,Mass. 124.\\nSouthwick, Mass. 110.\\nS. Wiiliamstown, 157, 146.\\nSpofford Lake, 180, 103.\\nSquirrel Island, 425.\\nSterling, Mass. 104.\\nStoughtou, Mass. 38.\\nSturbridge, Mass. 117, 99.\\nSuffield, Conn. 133.\\nSugar Hill, 234 a.\\nSullivan, Me. 307.\\nSummerside, P. E. I. 404.\\nSuucook, N. H. 417, 194.\\nSunset Rock, Mass. 86.\\nSwampscott, Mass. 407, 251.\\nSydney, C. B. 405.\\nSyracuse, N. Y. 389.\\nTempleton, Mass. 422.\\nThornton. N. H, 242.\\nThousand Islands, 899.\\nTim Pond, Me. 294.\\nTiverton, R. J. 40.\\nToronto, Ont. 397.\\nTrenton Falls, 388.\\nTroy, N. H. 179.\\nTyngsboro, Mass 191.\\nTyringham, Mass. 148.\\nWachusett, Mt. 412, 177.\\nWaldeu Pond, 407.\\nWales, Mass. 99.\\n^Vallingford, Conn. 141.\\nWare, Mass. 421,\\nWarner, N. H. 196.\\nWarramaug Lake, 113.\\nWarwick Neck, 65 a, 67.\\nWatatic, Mt. 177.\\nWebster, N H. 197.\\nWeir Junction. 39, 00.\\nWentworth (The), 267.\\nW. Boylston, Mass. 104.\\nWcstford, Mass. 411, 176.\\nWestmoreland, N. H. 180.\\nWeston, Mass. 175.\\nWhirlpool (The), 395.\\nWhykokomagh, C. B. 404.\\nWiiichendon, 413, 422.\\nWindham, N. IL 414.\\nWinthrop, Mass. 409, 20.\\nAVolcott, Conn. 96.\\nWollaston Heights. 37.\\nWorcester, Mass. 411, 127.\\nWorthington, Mass. 143.\\nZoar, Mass. 178 a.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0525.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "450\\nINDEX.\\nIndex of Historical Allusions.\\nAlbanv, N. Y. 349.\\nBaii ;oV, Me. 316.\\nBattle of Beniiingtou 186.\\nlUoodv Brook 162.\\nBanker Hill 26.\\nCastiiie 302.\\ntlie Chesapeake and\\nShannon 255.\\nHubbardton 187.\\nthe Indians 150.\\nLake George 356.\\nLexington 28.\\nPeqUHwkct 286.\\nPequot Hill 72.\\nPlattslmrg 367\\nQuebec 376.\\nSaratoga 355.\\nTurner s Falls 178.\\nBiddeford 269.\\nBlock Island 71.\\nBoston 7.\\nBi-aintree, Mass. 38.\\nBridgeport, Conn. 85.\\nBrooktield, Mass. 130.\\nBrunswick, Me. 3n;\\nBurlington, Vt. 367.\\nCape Ann 248.\\nCajie Cod 55.\\nastiue, Me. 302.\\nChanibly, Can. 208.\\nCharlestown, N. H. 165.\\nConcord, N. H. 194.\\nCrown Point, N. Y. 36-1.\\nCuttyhunk, Mass. 92.\\nDanburv, Conn. 116.\\nDeeitield, Mass. 163.\\nDover, N. H. 282.\\nDuxbury, Mass. 50.\\nFort Montgomery, 344.\\nP ort Ticonderoga, 362.\\nF;yebui-g, Me. 286.\\nHadlev, Mass. 161.\\nHampton, N. H. 262.\\nIsles of Shoals 266.\\nKennebunl Me. 268.\\nLake Champlain 361.\\nLake George 357\\nLebanon, Conn. 98.\\nLitchtirld, Conn. 112. 113.\\nLondonderry, N. H. 279.\\nLouisburg Campaigns 7.\\nLynn, Mass. 250.\\nMarblehead, Mass. 256.\\nMarshpee, Mass. 56.\\nMartha s Vineyard 59.\\nMilford, Conn 84.\\nMontreal UiS,.\\nMount Desert 300.\\nNantucket 60.\\nNarj-agansctt F(n-t Figlii\\n69.\\nNatick, Mass. 125.\\nNew Bedford, Mass. 90.\\nNew Haven, Conn. 77.\\nNmv Loudon. Conn. 72.\\nNew Yoik 328.\\nNewbury])ort, Mass. 260.\\nNewijort, II. 1. 40.\\nNon-idgewock, Me. 293,\\nNorthampton, Mass. 159.\\nPemaquid, Me. 299.\\nPhipsburg, Me. 297.\\nPilgrim Compact 58.\\nPlymouth, Mass. 51.\\nPcirtland, Me. 271.\\nPortsmouth, N. H. 264,\\nProvidence, R. I. 63.\\nQuebec 376.\\nRhode Island 46.\\nRye, N. H. 263.\\nSt. John, N. B. 321.\\nSalem, Mass. 253.\\nSalisbury, Conn. 123.\\nSaybrook, Conn. 75.\\nScarborough, Me. 270.\\nSouthport. Conn. 87.\\nSpringheld, Mass. 131.\\notockbridge. Mass. 149.\\nSlonin.uton, Conn, 71.\\niSt.iuy Point, N. Y. 343.\\nSudbury, Mass. 125.\\nThomaston, Me. 3Ul.\\nWarwick, R. I. 67.\\nWells, Me. 26S.\\nWest Point, N. Y. .344.\\nWhitehall, N. Y. 356.\\nWhile Mts. 222.\\nWindsor, Conn. 1.33.\\nWorcester, Mass. 129.\\nYale College 75, 76, 80.\\nYork, Me. 267.\\nIndex of Biographical Allusions.\\nAdams, Charles Francis 38.\\nAdams, John 37.\\nAdams, John Quincy 37,\\nAdams, Samuel 13.\\nAllen, Ethan 201, 363.\\nAllen, William 146.\\nAUston, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Washington 31, 45.\\nAmes, Fisher 117.\\nAuilre, Major John 343.\\nAndrew, Gov. John A. 24.\\nArnold, Benedict 342, 363, 376.\\nBaidis, Nathaniel P. 175.\\nBarlow, Joel 116.\\nBariuirds, the 153.\\nBarnnm, Phineas T. 86.\\nBeecher, Henry Ward 113.\\nBeecher, Lyman 79, 113.\\nBellows, Henry W\\\\ 181.\\nIlerkeley, Dean George 45,\\nPowdoin, James 92, 310.\\nBrentons, the 46.\\nBrooks, Gov. John 189.\\nBrown, Col. John 152, 358, 863.\\nBrown, John 152, 113.\\nBryant, William Cnllen 110, 157, 340.\\nCasey, Gen. Silas 67.\\nCass, Lewis 281.\\nChamberlain, Gov. J. L. 311.\\nChamplain, Sauuiel de 361, 61, 55.\\nChanijilin Com. Stephen 68.\\nChanniug, William Ellery 42.\\nChase, Bishoj) I hilauder 166.\\nChase, Chief-Justice Salmon P. 166.\\nChase, Senator Dudley 166.\\nChoate, Rufus 257.\\nCole, Thomas 348.\\nCopley, John Singleton 31,\\nCrosswell, Harry 79.\\nDane, Nathan 256.\\nDavenport, Aliraham 89.\\nDawes, Henry L. 110.\\nDickinson, Daniel S. 115.\\nDix, John A. 197.\\nDixwell, John 80.\\nDouglas, Stephen A. 188.\\nDownes, Com. John 62.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0526.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n451\\nDudley, Gov. Thomas 36.\\nEaton, Gen. William 130.\\nEdwards, Jonathan 150, 159.\\nEliot. John 36, 120.\\nEllsworth, Oliver 134.\\nEmerson, Raljih Waldo 28.\\nFesseiiden, William Pitt 197.\\nFields, the 150.\\nFisk, Wilbur 103.\\nFoote, Admiral Andrew H. 79.\\nFranklin, Benjamin 11.\\nGarrison, William Lloyd 261.\\nGays, the 24.\\nGoffe, Gen. William 161.\\nGoodrich, C. A. 79.\\nGoodrich, S. G. 116.\\nGorton, Samuel 67.\\nGrants, the 134.\\nGreeley, Horace 192.\\nGreene, Gen. G. S. 67.\\nGreene, Gen. Nathaniel 67.\\nGrow, Galusha A. US.\\nHale, Senator John I 213, 281.\\nHalleck, Fitz Greene 76.\\nHancock, John 38.\\nHaraden, Ca] t. Jonathan 248.\\nHawthorne, Nathaniel 254, 28, 210, 311.\\nHazens, the 280.\\nHolmes, Oliver Wendell 30, 146.\\nHooker, Gen. Joseph 162.\\nHosnier, Harriet G. 85.\\nHoward, Gen. Oliver O. 291.\\nHowe, Ellas, Jr. 130.\\nHudson, Hendrick 55, 340.\\nIves, Bishup Levi S. 140.\\nJudson, Adonirain 275.\\nKnowlton, Col. Thomas 118.\\nKnox, Gen. Henry 301.\\nLander, Gen. F. W. 254.\\nLawrences, the 279.\\nLincoln, Gen. Benjamin 24.\\nLon.trollow, Henry W. 33, 311.\\nliOwell, James Russell 30.\\nLvon, Gen. Nathaniel 118.\\nivfanstield. Gen. J. K. F. 107.\\nMarsli, Geo. P. 199.\\nMead, Larkin G. 103.\\n-Melville, Herman 146.\\nMiautonomoh, 72, 97.\\nMiller, William 146.\\nMills, Samuel J. 15(5.\\nMonis, Rabbi Judah 126.\\nMor.se, S. F. B. 79, 346.\\nMurray, John 246.\\nMurr.iy, W. H. H. 76.\\nNanunteuo 98.\\nNott, Eliphalet 118.\\nOssoli, Margaret Fuller, Countess d 30.\\nPaine, Thomas 90.\\nParker, TJiomas 260.\\nPassaconaway, 194. 220, 222.\\nPepperell, Sir William 265.\\nPercival, James Gates 140.\\nPerrv, Com. Oliver Hazard 68.\\nPliilip, King 66.\\nPhips, Sir William 298.\\nPickering, Timotliy 254.\\nPierce, Franklin 196, 311.\\nPowers, Hiram 199.\\nPreble, Com. Edward 272.\\nPrescott, William H. 254, 105.\\nPutnam, Gen. Israel 119, 89, 254.\\nRale, Sebastian 293.\\nRantoul, Robert, Jr. 256.\\nRumford, Count 195.\\nSt. Castine, Vincent, Baron de 302.\\nSandeman, Robert 116.\\nSaxe, John Godfrey 208.\\nSeabiiry, Bisho] Samuel 74.\\nShaw, Henry W. Josh. Billings 153.\\nSlierman, Roger 79.\\nSilliman, Benjamin 79.\\nSniitii, Joscpii 200.\\nStandish, Miles 51.\\nStowe, Mrs. Harriet Beecher 113,\\nStuart, Gilbert C. 68.\\nThoreau, Henry D. 28.\\nTickuor, George 17, 167.\\nTrumbuUs, the 98.\\nUncas, 72, 97.\\nWard, Gen. Arteinas 126.\\nWai-d, Gen. F. T. 254.\\nWarren, Joseph 27.\\nWashburnes, the 291.\\nWebster, Daniel 49, 287, 197, 210.\\nWebster, Noah 79.\\nWhitefield, George 259.\\nWhitney, Prof. W.D. 159.\\nWhittier, John Greenleaf 261.\\nWilliams, Col. Ephraira 156, 356.\\nWilliston, Samuel 110.\\nWilson, Henry 282.\\nWinslow, Admiral John A. 50.\\nWinslow, Gov. Edward 50.\\nWinslow, Gen. John 50.\\nWinslow, Gov. Josiah 50.\\nWinthrop, John 14.\\nWinthrop, Theodore 79.\\nWolcotts, the 134.\\nWonnolancet 194.\\nYoimg, Brigham 104, 200.\\nIndex of Quotations.\\nAdams, John Quinoy 38, 58.\\nAndrew. John A. 149.\\nBartol, Dr. C. A. 215.\\nBeecher, HeniT Ward 105, 114, 117, 121,\\n122, 147, 148, 149, 151, 152, 153, 205.\\nBerkeley, Dean 45.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0527.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "452\\nINDEX.\\nBiard, Father 307.\\nBremer, Fredrika 2S, 147, 190, 217, 238.\\nBryant, William Cidlen 151.\\nBurke, Edmund 248.\\nOiitadian HanJ-Book 174, 290, 372.\\nC liamplain, JSanniel de 361.\\nChapman, Rev. Dr. IGG.\\nCharlevoix, Father 294.\\nChateavil\u00c2\u00bbrian l ;i44.\\nConiioftieut Legislature 70, 72.\\nCoolidge and Mansfield 191, 192.\\nCooper, J. 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CHEAPEST OFFiGIAL CUIOE.\\nMake no mistake. Ask for the Pathfinder, and insist upon havino; the\\nPathfinder. Sold bv all Newsdealers and on all Trains and Steamboats.\\nSample copy free. Address\\nNew England Railway PuWisliing Co., 67 Federal St, Bos on.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0534.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "A D VE li 1 IS EMEN TS.\\nDAILY LINE OF FIRST-CLASS STEAMERS BETV/EEN\\nOne of the Steamers TKKMONT (new), JOHN BROOKS,\\nor FOREST CUT,\\nLEAVES INDIA WHARF, BOSTON, FOR PORTLAND,\\nEvery Evening (Sundays excepted) at 7 P. M.\\nConnecting, on arrivcal, with Maine Central, Knox Lincohi, Portland\\nOgfhaislmrg, Gran l Trunk, and Portland Rochester Railroads, and\\nwitii Bangor Machias Steamers for lunnts on the Coast of Maine.\\nTliis line aftMi-ds a most lesiral)le Route to LKWIST( OLD OHCIItRD\\nBEAOe, Poland Spring, Raiigeley Lakes, MOUNT DRSKKT, Beihel,\\n(iorliam, N.R., North Cunway, trawJords, Fabjaiis, etc.\\nfinest OceKu Trip on J\\\\}astern Coast and best Ifotrtr to WHITE\\n31 OV M AINS, and Inland and Scasidf Hesotts of 3Iaiitr.\\nTHROUGH and EXCURSION TltKETS at LOW RATES.\\nSTATE-ROOMS SECURED IN ADVANCE.\\nLeave Portland for Boston every evening (Sundaj s excepted) iii 7 o clock,\\nconnecting on arrival with ttio Earliest Trains on all Diverging Lines.\\nWM. WEEKS, Ag t, BOSTON. J. F. LISGOMB, Gen l Ticket Ag t, PORTLAND.\\nJ. B. COYLE, General Agent, PORTLAND, MAINE.\\ne-S\u00c2\u00a3NRY IRVING S liVIPRESSiOI^S OF AMERECA. Narrated in\\na Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations. By Joseph\\nHatton. 1 vol. 12mo. $1.50.\\nOne of the most edifying books of the year. INlr. ITatton travelled recently\\ntliruuRh the states in conipriny with the great English actor, and their odd exi)eri-\\nen IS and aciitc observations m the American cities afl ord a vast fimd of aiimse-\\nnient and interest.\\nOSGOOD S AiV aERICAN GUIDE-BOOKS. Kew England, White\\nftSountains, Rflaritime Provinces. Each iu 1 vol. 16mo. With\\nscores of mai)S and i)lans. $11.50.\\nThese standard guides have just heen thoroughly revised, at great cost,\\nand are invaluable to all summer tourists. Prices of all rotttes and hotels;\\nlegends, T\u00c2\u00bboems, and histories of localities; descriptions of scenery and\\narchitecture.\\n^he Osgood guide-books are much the best we have ever had in this country,\\nand they can challenge comparison with Baedeker s, whicli are the liest in Europe.\\nhe volume devoted to the White Mountains is full, precise, compact, sensible, and\\nhonest, Ntw-rork Tribune.\\nOSGOOD S COMPLETE POCKET GUIDE TO EUROPE. Re-\\nvised and enlarged etlition of 18(^4. With new and complete alpliabeti-\\nc.il dictioTiary of Kuropean summer resorts and health resorts, nnd\\ntheir distances and fares from Paris. 1 vol. 32mo. With six maps.\\n1 .50.\\nInfinite riches in a little room. Nejo- York Mail arid E.rpress.\\nA gem of comprehensiveness, compactness, and good taste. New-York\\nTribune,\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0535.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "AD VER T1.SEMEN TJS.\\nHOTEL PONEMAH.\\nThz s new tiJtd attractive House, ha tdso7nely furnished, ajid provided with modern\\ni} ifrp7 eme7tts, offers rare indiiceinents to those who appreciate the comforts of a first-class\\nhotel, located on high ground and commanding vie70s of great extent and rare beauty.\\nThe grounds embrace nearly forty acres of land, beautifully -lucoded 7vith groves of\\nvzaple, oak, pine, and chestnut trees of magmjicrnt gycivth, and contain the celebrated\\nMilford Sprinsr, and the recently-developed but already-popular Pone?nah Spruig.\\nPlans of hotel nay be seen and roo7fis secured, on application to hAJ^-i^\\nLFF, Proprietors of Hotel Brims-wick, Boston, or C. A. GLEASON, Matiager, at the Hotel.\\n{P. O. Addi-ess, A 7n/ierst Station, N. H.)", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0536.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMENTS.\\nESTABLISHED 1841.\\nNATIONAL EXPRESS CONIPANY,\\nBOSTON.\\nMain Office, 300 Washington Street\\n(Where Travellers and Visitors to the City will find Desk-room.)\\nBRANCH OFFICE, 91 KILBY STREET.\\nReaches a large part of New York State, Pennsylvania, New\\nJersey, and alljwints icest of Buffalo, as far as the Pacific Coast and\\nGulf of Mexico. Special rates and arrangements, of great advantage\\nto Shippers. Quick Time; rates as low as any; every possible accom-\\nmodation and just treatment guaranteed. Express and General Tele-\\nplione in office.\\nCalls made for shipments as late as 8 p. m., and later when neces-\\nsar}\\nIf employes are not prompt and courteous, please report to me.\\nMERRET SEELEY, Superintendent.\\nCHARMING NEW TRAVEL-VOLUMES.\\nOVER THE BORDER.\\nBy Miss E. B. Chase. 1 vol. 12mo. Illustrated with Ileliotype\\nEngravings from Original Drawings. $1.50.\\nA charming description of recent summer travel in Nova Scotia, with\\npiquant sketches of life and manners in Acadia, the land of Evangeline,\\nand descriptions of the grand scenery and singular people about the\\nBasin of Minas.\\nA New Volume of Shtrhes by Mr. IloweU.s.\\nTHREE VILLAGES.\\nBv William D. HowELLS. 1vol. 16mo. Little-Classic size. $1.25.\\nIn this pleasant record of close and kindly observation, Mr. Ilnwells\\ngives descriptions and reminiscences of three peculiarly inten-.-ting\\nAmerican communities and their people, making rare and delightful pen\\nsketches, as dainty and delicate as his Venetian Days and Italian\\nJourneys. The villages are Gnadeuhiitten, in Ohio, and Lexington\\nand Shirlev, in Massachusetts.\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0537.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "AD VEUTitiEMEJSi TS.\\nBOSTON HOME JOURNAL,\\nT H El\\nSociety aM Literary Paper of Boston.\\nContaining accurate reviews of the Society Events,\\nMovements in Literary and Art Circles,\\nMusical and Dramatic Criticisms,\\nHotel and Tourists Notes.\\nDuring the Summer Months a special feature of the paper\\nis its chronicle of doings at the fashionable resorts.\\nSubscriptions received at the oflBce of\\nBOSTON HOME JOURNAL,\\nMarlboro Building, 403 405 Wasliington Street, Boston.\\nW. WALLACE WAUGH, Manager.\\nSPECIAL NOTICE.\\nFREQUENT application to us for information regarding Ho-\\ntels and Summer Resorts led us several years since to\\nopen a\\nHOTEL AND TOURIST DEPARTMENT,\\nin connection with our paper. Our rooms are elegantly fitted up,\\nand we have secured full and authentic intelligence in regard to\\nthe location, accommodations, cliaracter, prices, and attractions\\nof the LEADING HOTELS AND SUMMER RESORTS, and timc-tahles,\\nCIRCULARS, and official statements from the railroad and steam-\\nboat lines. This information will be cheerfully furnished with-\\nout CHARGE to all applicants, so that persons about to travel\\ncan select their routes and arrange all the details of their journey\\nat our office.\\nApply or address, with stamp,\\nW. WALLACE WAUr.lT. Mnnager,\\n403 Wasliingtoii SUetit, Boston, INIass.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0538.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "jiDVE li TJS EM EN TS.\\nIS^CT- KlIISrEO HCOXJSE,\\nMOOSE HE AD LAKE, MAINE.\\nThe favorite summer resort of Northern Maine. For descriptive circulars, address\\nO. A. DENNEN. Manager, Kineo, Maine.\\nWOODS AND LAKES OF MAINE.\\nA Trip from Moosehcad Lake to New Brunswick in a Birch-Bark\\nCanoe. By Lucius L. Hubbakd. IManv new and exquisite illus-\\ntrations by Will L. Taylor. Cloth, $3.00; half calf, $5.50; tree\\ncalf or antique morocco, $8.00.\\nThe book is full of beautiful bits of nature-painting. All lovers of the\\nfiner kinds of out-door literature will find this a most charming book.\\nWheelman.\\nA gentleman s book in every sense. Literary World.\\nThis book also contains a large and valuable topograjihical map of\\nNorthern Maine, loith its lakes, mountains, rivers, roads, and villages.\\nNANTUCKET SCRAPS;\\nOr, The Experiences of an Off-Tslander, in Season and out of Season,\\namong a Passing People. By Mrs. Jane G. Austin. 16mo. $L50.\\nA piquant chronicle of the peculiarities and drolleries of the inhab-\\nitants of The Purple Island, the secluded land of noble and antique\\nvirtues and old-time manners and traditions.\\nPleasant reading by the winter fire, as well as in the salt summer\\nbreezes of the island itself. Transcript.\\nThis charming book comes to us with the freshness of a breeze from\\nNantucket, its ozone being as healthy as it is invigorating. The book\\nfascinates from cover to cover. Frank Leslie s Ilhistrated Netospaper.\\nFor sale by Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the\\nPublishers,\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0539.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "AD VEIITISEMENTS.\\nTHE INDEPENDENT,\\nNo. 251 Broadway, New York.\\nA FAMILY NEWSPAPER\\nOF THE\\nFIRST CLASS.\\nSUBSCRIPTION, 13.00 PER YEAR.\\nEvery reader of OSGOOD S NEW-ENGT.ANI GUIDE-\\nBOOK is requested to send a postal card\\nfor a free Specimen Copy.\\nADDRESS\\nTHE INDEPENDENT,\\np. O. Box 2787,\\nNE^^^ YORK.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0540.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMENTS.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nSTOCKBRIDQE, BERKSHIRE CO.,\\nMASSACHUSETTS.\\nBRILLIANT NEW NOVELS,\\nJUST PUBLISHED BY\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., BOSTON,\\nAnd sent, postpaid, on receipt of Price.\\nMISS LUDINGTON S SISTER. By Edward Bellamy.\\nI vol. i6mo. #1.25.\\nA brilliant and vivid story by the author of the famous novel, Dr.\\nHeidenhoff s Process.\\nWHERE THE BATTLE WAS FOUGHT. By Charles\\nEgbert Craddock. i vol. i2mo. ^1.50.\\nA delightful novel by one of the foremost of the new Southern writers,\\nwhose Tennessee stories have aroused a wide-spread interest and appre-\\nciation.\\nSTRAY LEAVES FROM STRANGE LITERATURE.\\nBy Lafcadio Hearn. i vol. i6mo. ^1.50.\\nA series of rare ind entertaining stories, from the ancient classics of\\nAsia.\\nA MIDSUMMER MADNESS. By Mrs. Ellen Olney\\nKirk, i vol. i6mo. ^1.25.\\nMrs. Kirk s novels (of which this is the latest) are widely known for\\ntheir sparkling life.\\nEUSTIS. By Robert Apthorp Boit. i vol. i2mo. ^1.50.\\nA strong and well-sustained novel of Southern life and character.\\nAT DAYBREAK. By A. Stirling, i vol. i6mo. gi.25.\\nAn idyl of rural life in New England.\\nAN AVERAGE MAN. By Robert Grant, i vol. i2mo.\\n^1.50.\\nThe author of the Confessions of a Frivolous Girl has in this\\nbright novel scored another notable triumph.\\nTINKLING CYMBALS. By Edgar Fawcett. i vol. i2mo.\\n^1.50.\\nModern American society is here depicted with grace and insight,\\nby one of our foremost novelists.\\nMINGO, and other Sketches in Black and White. By Joel\\nChandler Harris, i vol. i6mo. ^1 25.\\nA groujj of entertaining stories of Southern life, by the immortal\\nUncle Remus.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0541.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "10\\nA D VEIl TISEM EN TS.\\nBOSTON S PALATIAL HOTEL,\\n\u00c2\u00aeD5l!iai7\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nfl -5it Jl. g. \u00e2\u0080\u00a24 r\\nCOMMONWEALTH AVEHOE AND DAOTMOOTH STREET.\\nA superb white-marble hotel, fronting on Com-\\nviojnucalth Avenne, tJie Champs Ely sees of Amer-\\nica^ Open fire-place, steam-heat, and ventilators\\nin every room. Magnificent parlors, dining-Jiall,\\nand rotunda. Two passenger elevators. Entirely\\nfire- proof.\\nBy the aitthor of the Stoddard Lectures\\nA IMAGr. IFICENT VOLUME OF TRAVELS.\\nRED-LETTER DAYS ABROAD.\\nBy JOHxN L. STODDARD.\\nOne fine octavo volume, with 130 beautiful illustrations. Magnificently\\nbound, witii full gilt edges and bevelled boards. In box. Price, in\\ncloth, ^5.00; in tree calf or antique morocco, ^10.00.\\nIt IS not easy to say which are the most interestine:, the finely written\\naccounts or the pictorial views themselves; but each wonderfully helps the other\\nit is like actual travelling. Hartford Ti}nes.\\nThe picturesque and peculiar features of the countries have been selected\\nwith taste and judgment, the descriptions are vivid and animated, the diction\\nsmooth and ,L;raceful, and the relation varied and strengthened by anecdotes\\nillustrative and personal. Good Literature.\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0542.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "AD VEItTlSEMENTS.\\n11\\nALL TOURISTS WANT IT,\\nCJ)\\no\\no\\no\\nCD\\nM\\nCO\\n,UT|_M.Gjxi\\nMKiHally Frit|k4 \u00c2\u00a9f\\\\/it\\\\^ p|)^r\\n.V.\\n^Tc2i^ily q-powiQ^i to be\\ngivtj 5y?py Jei/cp o\u00c2\u00ab/t- l\u00c2\u00b0oe It/^. ^1^\\n^Ity I\u00c2\u00ae n^k^ Big II\\npfeMiu*^ list to\\n1-3\\ncro\\np3_\\nera\\n-J-J\\ncro\\n5 a\\nl=CJ\\nGood Lileratiiro for Ewflioflj.\\ns::i3", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0543.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "12 ADVER TIS KM EN TS.\\nThe WOMAN S Journal.\\nA Weekly Newspaper, published every Saturday in Boston, de-\\nvoted to tiie interests of Woman, to her educational, industrial, legal,\\nand political Equality, and especially to her right of Suffrage.\\nLUCY STONE,\\nH. B. BLACKWELL, Ediiors.\\nALICE STONE BLACKWELL,)\\nT. W. HIGGINSON, Editorial\\nJULIA WARD HOWE.iConiributors.\\nMARY A. LIVERMORE,\\nMrs. FRANCES D. GAGE,\\nMrs. H. M. T. CUTLER,\\nLOUISA M. ALCOTT,\\nELIZABETH STUART PHELPS,\\nMARY F. EASTMAN,\\nOccasional\\nContributors.\\nSUSAN C. VOGL, Business Manager.\\nTerms $2.50 a year, $1.25 for six months, 65 cents for three\\nmonths, in advance; 6 cents for single copy.\\nClub Rates 5 copies, 1 year, $10.\\nBo.sTON Office No. 5 Park Street, where copies are for sale and\\nsubscriptions received.\\nHENRY JAIVIES S LATEST WORKS.\\nEach in One Volume. l2mo. $1.50.\\nTHE SIEGE OF LONDON.\\nFull of cleverness, and provokes comparison with some of the best things of\\nThackeray. New- York Star.\\nDAISY MILLER.\\nThe movement is brisk, the language is exquisite, and the plot has a simple\\nsufQciency which makes the ensemble very attractive. Boston I ranscript.\\nPORTRAITS OF PLACES.\\nA very delightful series of papers on Venice and Florence, Turin and\\nGenoa, ilheims and Laon, Kouen and Etretat, Oxford and C antcrliury,\\nEi S()m anil Ventnor, Warwick and JNIoumouth, Niagara and Saratoga,\\nNewport and Quebec.\\nDelightful reading. London Graphic.\\nGrace, defniileness, full light, are the artistic qualities here shown full of\\nthe pleasantest rvmml!^cenccs. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Atlantic Monthly.\\nIhe book is worth having and keeping. P. G. Hamerton, in The Academy\\n(London).\\nMr. James nurses his souvenirs until they shine like mellow wine holds thom\\nin his warming hand as a jeweller does an opal, until all their iridescence comes\\nout, all their secret chanu and suavity breathe forth in most melodious speech.\\nThe Critic.\\nTALES OF THREE CITIES.\\nDelightful stories of the three chief cities of Cliristendom, full of\\npiquancy and delicate finish.\\nJAMES K. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0544.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEM ENTS. 1 3\\nSUCCESSFUL BOOKS.\\nA FAMILY FLIGHT THROTJQH SPAIN. 4to, jjilt, $2.50. It is sufficient to say of this\\nattractive book that it possesses all tlie rare cliarin of lescription, the piquant style, the\\nnovelty and freslmess, wliicli characterize tlie 1-light through France, Germany,\\nNorvk ay, and Switzerland, and the Flight over Egypt and Syria, by Fdwakd\\nEverett Hale and Miss Susan Hale. Like the books last named, its illustrations\\nare happily chosen and well e.xecuted.\\nALL ABOARD FOR THE LAKES AND MOUNTAINS. By Edward A. Rand, author of\\nAll Aboard for Sunrise Lands, Pushing Ahead, Roy s Dory, Tent in the Notch.\\nc., c. Boards. $1.75; extra, cloth, bevelled and gilt, $2.25. Mr. Rand writes of\\nfamous lakes and mountains in the most entertaining and instructive manner. The two\\nboys, Ralph and Rick, are important personages in the present story, and their journey\\nis made all the more realistic by the nearly 200 pictures which illustrate the book.\\nAMERICAN EXPLORATIONS IN THE ICE ZONES. By Prof. J. E. NoURSH, U. S. N.\\n577 pp. $V30. Scholarly, graphic, and intensely interesting, this must be regarded as\\nthe standard book upon the subject of which it treats. Accompanied by numerous\\nillustrations and a large circumpolar map in three colors, showing the route and highest\\nposition reached in each hemisphere.\\nOUR BUSINESS BOYS. What Eighty-three Business Men say. 60 cents.\\nTHE GREAT COMPOSERS. By HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH. Illustrations by Lungren.\\n$1.00.\\nHEALTH AND STRENGTH PAPERS FOR GIRLS. By Dr. Mary G. Safford and\\nMary E. Allen. 60 cents.\\nHELPFUL THOUGHTS FOR YOUNG MEN. By THEODORE D. WOOLSEY, D. D., LL. D.,\\nlate President of Yale College. 60 cents.\\nTHE TRAVELLING LAW SCHOOL. By BENJ. Vaughan ABBOTT. Interesting Studies\\nof the Principles of Government and Laws relating to Business. $1.00.\\nPLEASANT AUTHORS. By AMANDA B. HARRIS. Biographies of Distinguished Authors,\\nfor Young People. $i.oq.\\nA HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. By ARTHUR Oilman. Sixth thousand.\\ni2mo. $1.50.\\nLIFE OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. By E. E. BROWN. i2mo. $1.50.\\nWILD FLOWERS, AND WHERE THEY GROW. By Amanda B. Harris. Sixty illus-\\ntrations by Miss L. B. Humphrey. 8vo, extra, cloth, beautifully bound, gilt edges.\\n$3.00. A charming chronicle of the rambles, explorations, antl merry-makings of a gay\\nhousehold.\\nYOUNG FOLKS LIBRARY. Issued monthly, in strong manilla paper bindings, at TWENTY-\\nFIVE Cents per volume, $3.00 per year. No second edition will be printed in this\\nstyle. Each volume represents some favorite American author. Libraries will do well\\nto order several copies of eacli volume, as these choice books will be published in cloth\\nbindings at from $1.25 to $1.75 a volume. Those who forward $6.00 for two subscriptions\\nfor one year, or lor 24 volumes as they may select, will receive a copy of each of D.\\nLothrop Co. s four magazines. Now ready Tip Lewis and his Lamp, by Pansy;\\nMargie s Mission, by Marie Oliver; Kitty Kent s Troubles, by Julia A. Eastman.\\nOther volumes announced as ready.\\nFor sale by all booksellers, or sent, postpaid, o i receipt oj price, by the publishers.\\nPOPULAR MAGAZINES.\\nBABYLAND. For Babies. 50 cents a year.\\nOUR LITTLE MEN AND WOMEN. For Younger Readers. $1.00 a year.\\nTHE PANSY. For Boys and Girls. 75 cents a year.\\nWIDE AWAKE. For Young Folks and all the Family. $3.00 a year\\nr REJE: FOii T^ATO is ioisrmis 1\\n.-je name of the\\nstrated, and will\\nA new periodical of the highest character will be issued in July, under th\\nCHAUTAUQUA YOUNG FOLKS JOURNAL. It will be finely illust\\ncontain articles covering the field of science and literature, by English and American autliors\\nof high reputation. The very acceptable supplementary readings contained in WIDE\\nAware will also appear in this periodical, which will be sent for two months free to those\\nmaking early application.\\nCatalogue 0/ upwards 0/1,000 choice books for home reading sent on application.\\nD. LOTHROP CO., Publishers,\\nFranklin and Hawley Streets, Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0545.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "14 Al) VEU TISEMEJS 7 .S.\\nHOLD I\\n^2.50 a year 5 cents single copy.\\nSPECIMEN N JiVIBEaS FORWARDED FREE ON APPLICATION.\\nA Representative New England Weekly Journal!\\nBOSTON COMMONWEALTH.\\nPolitics, Literature, Comment, Art, and News\\nOFFICE, NO. 25 BROMFIELD STREET, BOSTON\\nCHAS. W. SLACK, Editor and Proprietor.\\nLATEST WORKS OF W. D. HOWELLS.\\nA WOMAN S REASON. DR. BREEN S PRACTICE.\\nA MODERN INSTANCE. A FEARFUL RESPONSIBILITY.\\nEach in 1 vol., I imo, %\\\\M. The four volumes in a neat box, $G 50.\\nThere has been no more rigidly artistic writing done in America since Hawthome\\ntime. The Ci itic {New York).\\nExquisite pieces of workmanship. Neto-Orlcans Democrat.\\nA LITTLE GIRL AMONG THE OLD MASTERS. Introduction and\\ncomment by W. D. HoWELLS. 56 illustrations. $2.00. Bound in parchment,\\n$:].00.\\nCurious sketches, by a bright little maiden, sojourning at Florence, Siena, and\\nother ancient Italian cities.\\nIts cliiirm is irresistible. It ought to hnve a pl. ice by the journal of Pet Marjorie, as\\none of the rare and attractive exotics of literature and art. Boston Traveller.\\nMR. HOWELLS S PLAYS.\\nTHE REGISTER. 32mo. 50 cts.\\nTHE SLEEPING CAR. 32mo. 50 cts. THE PARLOR CAR. 50 cts.\\nWritten nith all the exquisite liternry skill of which Mr. How lis is so thoroughly a\\nmaster, and every page sparkles with bright touches of dainty humor. Syracuse Journal.\\nOUT OF THE QUESTION. 18mo. $1.25.\\nA COUNTERFEIT PRESENTMENT. ISmo. $1.25.\\nCHOICE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES. Each with aTritical and P.iocraphical E. say\\nby Mr. IIowells. 7 vols. Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, .Margravine of Bai-\\nreirth (Vols. I. and 11.). Lord Herbert of Chcrbury, and homas Ellwood\\n(III.). VittoTio Alflori (IV.). Carlo Goldoni (V.). Edward Gibbon (VI.).\\nFran ^ois Marmontel (VII. and VIII.).\\nLittle-classic size. $1.25 a volume.\\nMost fascinating. Worcester Spy. Each is a literary gem. The Independent.\\nFor sale by Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers,\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0546.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMExW TS. 1 5\\nTHE SARATOGA LINE.\\nBEiAWARE 11 \\\\mm urn m 1 1\\nTHE ONLY COMFORTABLE ROUTE TO\\nTHE ADIRONDACKS,\\nAND THE ONLY LINE TO\\nSARATOGA,\\nLAKE GEORGE,\\nSHARON SPRINGS,\\nHOWE S CAVE, AND\\nCOOPERSTOWN.\\n77?^ Shortest Route to IVIontreal and the Provinces.\\nTO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS\\nvia Saratoga, Lake George, Lake Cliamplain, and Burlington.\\nNo otlier route can offer as great attractions, for by special ar-\\nrangement all-rail tickets reading via Delaware and Hud-\\nson Canal Company s Railroad are accepted on the\\nLake Champlain Steamers.\\nSEE THAT YOUR TICKETS EEAD VIA THIS EOUTE.\\nTickets and time-tables at all the principal railroad ticket offices\\nin the United States. For information apply to\\nD. M. KENDRICK,\\nAlbany, N. T. General Passenger Agent.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0547.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "IG ADVERTISEMENTS.\\nA FIRST-CLASS FAMILY MAGAZINE.\\nLIPPmCOTT S KlAGAZIf^E,\\nA POPULAR MONTHLY OF\\nGENERAL LITERATURE.\\nAmong the chief periodicals of the country, Lippincott s Maga-\\nzine has ac(iuired the distinctive reputation of being eminently\\nreadable. The special aim of its conductors is to secure such treat-\\nment of the great variety of topics embraced within its scope as shall\\nrender it attractive to the general mass of intelligent readers, a favorite\\nin the family circle, and a means of culture as well as of entertainment.\\nWhile fiction, in the form of serials and of short stories, holds a\\nprominent place in its pages, it has gained particular notice by its\\nsketches of travel and adventure, studies of life and character, and\\narticles on natural history and similar topics, written with the freshness\\nthat comes from personal observation and experience, in a lively style,\\nand with abundant auecdotical illustration.\\nWHAT IS SAID ABOUT LIPPINCOTT S MAGAZINE.\\nPome of the most interesting serials of the day appear in its pages, and its\\nwriters are among the best known in current literature. Chicago Evening\\nJournal.\\nMaintains an even excellence which renders it a favorite with its constitu-\\nency of readers. In the department of short stories this magazine is particularly\\nfortunate, having many fresh, readable, and popular contributions. Its descrip-\\ntive papers are of the best quality. Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.\\nLippincott s is delightful from cover to cover. PhUaclelj)kia Ledger,\\nIs a welcome and attractive monthly visitor to our study. It furni hes\\nannnrdly a va.\u00c2\u00abt fund of entertaining and instructive literature at a couijiaratively\\nnominal prico. It can be safely introdnccnl into every family, and will prove a\\nfavorite everywhere. /^i?it ro?i/, iV ?r York.\\nFull of fresh, entertaining, and instructive matter, and is unusually well\\nillustrated. Providence Journal.\\nFOR SALE BY ALL BOOK AND NEWS DEALERS.\\nTERMS Yearly Subscription, $3-00. Single Number, 25 cents.\\nLiberal Club Eates.\\nSPECIMEN NUMBKR mailed, postpaid, on receipt of 20 cents. (Postage\\nStamps afford a convenient form of remittance.)\\nJ. B. LIPPINCOTT CO., Publishers,\\n715 and 717 Market Street, PMadelpliia.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0548.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "AJ) I ERTISEMENTS. 17\\nFLORENCE KNITTING SILK\\nWhy is it so Popular?\\nBecause it is the most durable of any textile known.\\nBecause full weights and measures are always given.\\nBecause it is PURE SILK.\\nBecause no poisonous dyes are used for the purpose\\nof obtaining an artificial lustre.\\nBecause it is soft finish and easy to knit.\\nBecause it is uniform in size and correctly numbered.\\nBecause it is positively the only Silk suitable for knit-\\nting, which will bear washing without injury to color or\\ntexture.\\nSOLD BY LEADING DEALERS.\\nOur latest Book on Knitting (No. 5), with samples of\\nKnitting and Etching Silk, sent on receipt of three 2-cent\\nstamps.\\nNONOTUCK SILK CO.,\\nFLORENCE, MASS.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0549.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "18\\nAU VER TIS EMEJS I i\\nILLUSTRATED BY\\nW. HAMILTON G-IBSON.\\nThe Heart of the White Mountains their Legend and Scenery.\\nBy Samuel Adams Drake, Author of Nooks and Corners\\nof the New England Coast, Captain Nelson, o. AVith\\nillustrations by W. Hamilton Gibson. 4to, clotli, illumin-\\nated, gilt, $7.50 also, Tourist s Edition, 8vo, cloth, $3.00.\\nMr. Gibson fairly outdoes himself, and the result is a volume filled with the\\ndaintiest and most beautiful pictures and legends and stories. iV. V. C otnmtr-\\ncial Advertistr.\\nA book that is as deligjlitful as a literary work as it is exquisite as a work of\\nart. J.V. Y. Eoening Express.\\nNOOKS AND CORNERS\\nor THE\\nNEW ENGLAND COAST.\\nBy Samuel Adams Drake. With numerous Illustrations.\\nSquare 8vo, cloth, \u00c2\u00a73.50; half calf, -$5.75.\\nMr. Samuel Adams Drake does for the New England coast such service as Sir.\\nNordhoff has done for the Pacific. His Nooks and Corners of the New Englaml\\nCoast, a volume of 459 pages, is an admirable guide both to the lover of tlie\\npicturesque and the searcher for historic lore, as well as to stay-at-home travellers.\\nThe Preface tells the story of the book it is a sketch map of the coast, with\\nthe motto, On this line, if it takes all summer. Suuuner began with Mr.\\nDrake one Christmas-day at Mount Desert, whence he went South, touching at\\nCastine, rema(iuid, and Monhegan Wells and Airamenticus, tlie ancient city\\nof York Kittery Point J he Shoals Newcastlt; S.ilem and Marblehcad\\nriymouth and Duxbnry Nantucket, or Nautican Newjwrt, which monopo-\\nlizes fifty pages Mount Hope New London Norwich and Saybrook. What\\nnature has to show and history to tell at eich of these jtlaces, who were the\\nheroes and worthies all this Mr Drake gives in pleasant talk and nearly three\\nhundred wood-cut views, maps, and portraits add very much to the interest of\\nhis text. N. Y. Tribune.\\nPublished by H4RPER BROTHERS, New York.\\nEither of the above ivorJcs sent hi/ mail, postage prepaid, to any part of\\nthe United States, on. receipt of the price.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0550.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMEN TS. 19\\nTHOS. COOK SON,\\n(ESTABLISHED 1841\\nCfflEF OFFICES if i ^l New Jork.\\n(Ludgate Circus, London.\\nI\\\\lew England Office, 191 Washingion St., Boston.\\n\u00c2\u00bb0^\u00c2\u00ab!4CK)\\nTOUBIST TICKETS\\nFOR IKDIVIDUAIi TRAVELLEBS TO\\nAll parts of the United States and Canada,\\nAVAILABLE BY THE\\nBEST KOUTES FOR PLEASURE TRAYEL,\\nISSUED IX MANY CASES AT\\nSINGLE JOURNEY AND ROUND TRIP TICKETS\\nTO ALL PARTS OF THE\\nWhite Mountains, Mount Desert, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay\\nRiver, Niagara Falls, the St. Lawrence River; the Mari-\\ntime Provinces, including Prince Edward Island\\nand Newfoundland; also to all parts of the\\nWestern States, including\\nCOLORADO AND CALIFORNIA.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00944\\nProgrammes sent free on ai^jtlication. Address\\nTHOS. COOK SON,\\n261 Broadway, New York.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0551.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "20 ADVERTISEMENTS.\\nParker House\\nCorner of School and Tremont Streets,\\nBOSTON, MASS.\\nConducted on the European Plan,\\nAND\\nCENTRALLY LOCATED.\\nACCOMMODATIONS FOR FAMILIES.\\nParlors and Bedrooms, en suite or single. Rates for\\nRooms, $1 to $3 per day for Single Rooms.\\nROOMS WITH AND WITHOUT BATH.\\nSPECIAli ATTENTION IS GIVEN TO\\nPRIVATE DINNERS, WEDDING RECEPTIONS, AND CLUB DINNERS.\\nCUISINE UNSURPASSED.\\nH. D. PARKER CO., Proprietors.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0552.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMENTS. 21\\nMake your Summer Excursion in the Mountains wisely, econom-\\nically, and happily by the Aid of\\nTHE STANDARD GUIDEBOOK.\\nTHE WHITE MOUNTAINS.\\nA Guide to the Peaks, Passes, and Ravines of the White Moun-\\ntains of New Hampshire, and to the adjacent Railroads,\\nHighways, and Villages, with the Lakes and Mountains of\\nWestern Maine; also Lake Winnepesaukee and the Upper\\nConnecticut Valley. More than 400 pages of thorougli and\\npractical descriptions Prices and Locations of all Hotels\\nand Boarding-houses, and Routes. Six Maps; Six Fine\\nPanoramas from the Mountain Tops. $1.50. Thoroughly\\nRevised in 1884, with Large Additions.\\nInvaluable to one who wishes to journey intelligently. Churchman.\\nWith such an aid the mountains become doubly attractive. Cinchi\\nnati Times.\\nAltogether, in plan and workmanship, this guide-book is as perfect a\\nthing of its kind as could weU be produced. It is simply indispensable to\\naU who visit or sojourn among the White Mountains. Congregationalist.\\nWe have not only read these books with delight and studied them with\\nprofit in the seclusion of the library, but we have travelled with them and\\nby them on the sea and land. At every point they meet you with just the\\nfacts you wish to know they repeat to you the old legend associated with\\nthis locality they tell you the story of the battle fought there they hum\\nto you the song, or murmur the lines in which some poet has enshrined\\nevents by which a spot has become memorable. A condensed literature of\\ngreat variety and richness is stored up within their pages. They are simply\\nindispensable to tourists in the regions named, and those who have sallied\\nforth without them have omitted really the most important part of their\\nequipment. Literary World.\\nHighly commended by the Ziondon, Times, the Revue\\nInternationale {of Florence), the Bulletin of the Italian\\nAlpine Club {of Turin), etc, etc., etc,\\nSent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., BOSTON.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0553.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "22 AD VER TISEMENTS.\\nThe Pearl of the Monthlies*\\nThe Manhattan.\\nILLUSTRATED.\\nVolumes of this most beautiful of magazines begin with\\nthe January and July Numbers. Subscriptions can begin\\nwith the volume at any time.\\nTo have constant variety, and every subject\\ntreated by those best adapted to it, are the rules\\nof its publishers.\\nTRAJAN,\\nNow running in the 3Ianhattan,\\nis one of the most remarkable novels of the day. From every\\nstand-point, whether literary, political, or social, this serial will be\\nfound to possess an absorbing interest. Founded on an episode\\nin the social history of New York, the action carries the reader\\nthrough the brilliant Court of the Empress Eugenie to the siege\\nof Paris and the reign of the Commune. All the characters are\\nlife-studies, and many will be readily recognized. It will be illus-\\ntrated by leading artists here and in Europe.\\nSubscribers commencing with the July Number will receive the\\nMay and June Numbers, containing the first two instalments of\\nTrajan.\\nTERMS: $3.00 a Year, postage free; 25 cts. a Number.\\nTHE MANHATTAN MAGAZINE CO.\\nTEMPLE COURT, NEW YORK CITY,\\n40 CHARING CROSS, I.ONDON.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0554.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "THE MARITIME PROVINCES.\\nA Guide to the Chief Cities, Coasts, and Islands of the Maritime\\nProvinces of Canada, and to tlieir scenery and historic attrac-\\ntions vvitli the Gulf and Kiver of St. Lawrence to Quebec and\\nMontreal also Ne^vfoundland and the Labrador Coast with\\nmaps and plans of\\nTHE MARITIME PROVINCES, THE LAND OF EVANGELINE, HALIFAX,\\nNEWFOUNDLAND, MONTREAL, QUEBEC, ST. JOHN, THE\\nST. LAWRENCE AND SAGUENAY RIVERS.\\nThis handbook contains full descriptions of the natural and\\nartificial attractions of the Eastern British Provinces, their cities\\nand rural districts, the tranquil beauty of the St. John River and\\nthe Annapolis Valley, the noble scenery of the Basin of Minas\\nand the Bras d Or, the majesty of the sea-repelling mountains of\\nNewfoundland and Labrador, the grandeur of the Lower St. Law-\\nrence, and the gloomy weirdness of the Saguenay. It also\\ndescribes St. John, the Liverpool of Canada, Halifax, the\\nGateway of the Sea, St. Johns, The Capital of Fish-and-Fog\\nLand, Quebec, the Walled City of the North, Montreal, the\\nQueen of the St. Lawrence, and all the other cities and villages\\nof these Provinces and devotes considerable space to the fishing\\nand hunting grounds among the Nova-Scotia Lakes, the New-\\nBrunswick and Quebec rivers, and in the interior of Newfound-\\nland. There are many quotations, illustrating various points of\\ninterest, from Longfellow, Thoreau, Howells, Warner, and other\\nmodern authors, and from Charlevoix, Lescarbot, and other\\nancients and compact but thorough historic sketches of the my-\\nthology of the Nova- Scotia Indians, the discovery and settlement\\nof the Provinces, the Jesuit missions and martyrdoms, the wars\\nbetween the New-Englanders and the French, and the sieges of\\nPort Royal, Louisburg, and Quebec.\\nThe handbook is modelled after the famous European guide-\\nbooks of Karl Baedeker, enhulating their simplicity, compactness,\\nand practical character. It states the distances, times, and fares\\non the railway, steamboat, and stage lines, and gives lists of the\\nhotels, with their situations and prices. By such aid the tourist\\ncan readily estimate the cost of a tour in the Provinces, and can\\npass an enjoyable summer of travel with the greatest possible\\neconomy of money, time, and temper. This volume is, beyond\\ncomparison, the fullest and most complete guide-book, of this coun-\\ntry, yet produced, and is indispensable to one who wishes to make\\na pleasant and intelligent tour through the Maritime Provinces.\\nBy its intrinsic value, copiousness of information, and impartiality, il\\nis likely to take the place of all other guides or handbooks of Canada which\\nwe know of. Quebec Chronicle.\\nIn graphic and picturesque description, in completeness and fulness\\nof information, and in clear insight in^o a traveller s needs and perplexities,\\nthis guide-book is not to be excelled. Boston Journal.\\nRevised Annually. Price 1.50.\\n*4* For sale by all Booksellers, or sent, post-paid, on receipt of price,\\nby the Publishers,\\nJAMES R. OSGOOD CO., Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0555.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "AD VERTISEMENTS.\\n[From the Boston Globe,]\\nSince Mrs. Frank Leslie assumed\\nthe sole management, the brilliancy and\\nsuccess of the Leslie publications have\\nwon for them even greater popularity\\nthan they previously had. Her editorial\\nability is granted by the press, and is\\nshown in the variety and excellence of\\nthe matter promptly placed by her before\\nthe public. It is her policy to produce\\nat the earliest possible moment, regard-\\nless of expense, whatever of moment\\ntakes place in any section of this coun-\\ntry. She relies for assistance upon a\\ncorps of the best artists, who, with pen\\nand pencil, are scattered here and there\\nto illustrate the most interesting scenes.\\nEach issue of Frank Leslie s paper faith-\\nfully pictures the most important events,\\nand a bound volume is an invaluable\\nhistory of the year. Democrats owe\\nthis publication their fealty, for it is a\\npowerful auxiliary, now as in the past,\\nin their efforts for reform and good\\ngovernment. It has done them in-\\nvaluable service, and will continue to\\ndo so.", "height": "3055", "width": "1853", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0556.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "AD VER TISEMENTS.\\n2 Coi;scf^vAToi\\\\for/Ausic\\nJ rat^kli 17 square Sostop\\nTHE LARGEST AND BEST-APPOINTED\\nSCHOOL OF MUSIC, LITERATURE, AND ART\\nIN THE WORLD.\\nm:xjs I c\\nIs taught in all its departments, Instrumental and Vocal, including Piano-\\nforte, Organ, Vioiiu, and r^ Orchestral and Band Instruments Voice Culture and\\nSinging, Harmony, The- y and Orchestration. Church Music, Oratorio and Chorus\\nPractice, Art o i Conducting; also, Tuning and Repairing Pianos and Organs. All\\nunder the very best t ^ichers, in classes and private, ihere have been more than\\n1,900 students in attendance the present school year.\\nART DEFAR-TJMElSrX.\\nDrawing, Painting:, and Modelling from Casts anrl from Nature, in\\nCrayon, Water, and Oil Colors; Portraiture and China Decorating, with\\nsome of the best artists in the country. In classes and private. There have\\nbeen 125 students in attendance in this department in a single tenn.\\nE:]S GrIL.ISH: LITERi^TXJRE:.\\nCommon and Higher Branches, Elocution and Dramatic Action. Modern I,an-\\nguacres: German, French, Italian, and Spanish, Avith the best native and forei^^n\\nprofessors. Students can here pursue their literary studies in connection with\\nmusic, thus acquiring that higher and broader culture which is now required of\\nprofessors of music. Send for new Calendar, beautifully illustrated, free.\\nTHE :n^k^v iiom:e\\nIs located in the heart of Boston, confessedly the IMusical, Literary, and Artistic\\nCentre of Amoricu,\u00e2\u0080\u009e :.;o beautiful Park in front, and tlie surrounding broad streets,\\nmdice it both hcaltLful :vnd delightful. It is splendidly equipped for both Home and\\nthe Schools, furni- i T:- Home Accommodations for 500 lady students, and Class\\nAccommodation itr jpOOOladyand gentlemen students.\\nFall Term opens September 4th, 1884.\\nTuition S5 to \u00c2\u00a3.::0 per term of ten weeks.\\nBoard and Room Rent, L,isylit and Heat, 04.50 to S7.50 per week.\\nE. TOURGEE, Director, Franklin Square, Boston.", "height": "3105", "width": "1854", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0557.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 042 647 7", "height": "3181", "width": "1878", "jp2-path": "englandhandbo00swee_0558.jp2"}}