S999 Qass. Book_ S>m^ l^i^BM^^iA^M p •HE) , iciui1:^vsciiie Illustrated from Ori^iaal o)KetGhe£. by Copeland "loun^- E)ricl2.eman-aad-Golh\^ US-SuED BY f.Ai3EN0ER DEPARTMENT OF Th£ Boston &. Maine Railroad. e/c/>/? U/Sandorn. Da/ta c/ /7dnae/s>. i/ffier^/ /hsienger and pckefy^^ent. 'a^^-^t^ ^■j.ii-jm .jj.^n. ii,| Wfim-^^i CorvKiciiT IS92. Dana J. Flanders. Kan,i<^vgry Supply Co., Boston. ^rr)A o[ tF)e fSor"tf)laQd, QeCeT _yet' ,Were lakeA i'q lov^elier vjalley'^ sel% (Ejla-SsioS l:F)e (O^i'aoite and the pi'oes "fhjat n)ark [Sco; H^^'Op-'^bii'^'"' n)our)taio liiK-S. '^- iAod Qot less fair tlje Tjjiodio_^ waVA j^ 0f Casco and ^eQobscot Jiays. j^_ I 'ffey 5eel<^ for })appier sI^oi'ca Iq v*air) ''■^^^^rf^-"/''-^-" "' wh)0 leav^e the .suioioer isles of (^\dioe! p^ 1 ri", l)(.aiilitnl coast of New I^ngiand is the marine i)leasurc-i)ark of the Western world. Here are combineti, as nowhere else, the pleasant ele- ments of historic and poetic interest, the charms of beautiful and majestic scenery, anil an omnipresent comfort ami lu.\iny for the visitor, in his travel- ling or his sojourning. Northward and eastward of Boston, the .-Vtlantic coast, which has been but a long succession of low sand-banks from the Straits of l-'lorida to Nanta>ket lleach. changes to a sea-fronting margin of rocks and cliffs, hemming in many a firm beach of white or golden sand, with tlie snowv surf booming in on one sitle, and on the other side perfumed forests of ]iine. or wind-swept waves of wild flowers. The traveller lias liardly passed out of sight of tlie golden dome of the Massachusetts Slate House and the grav ol)elisk of lUmker Hill, l)efore the wide blue sea emerges on the eastern iKirizonT flecked with silvery sails, and throwing its arms around the ' "' "^ - lone rocky peninsula of Nahant, for many years the home of Long- - ^ _i^. fellow and Agassiz, Prescott and Motley. Beyond the multitudinous shoe- ~ *tPt/\-. factories of Lynn a branch line runs seaward, past the thronged and brilliant beaches of Swampscott, to the quaint old port of Marblehead, famous in long-past times for its weird traditions and its heroic sailors, and in modern days for its assemblages of yachts, among which appear the Puj'itan, the Mayfio7tier, and the ]'oliiJitccr, the swiftest on all seas. Salem fronts the ocean, with memories of the witches, of Hawthorne, and of the great East- Indian trade ; and from Beverly another eastward- flying railway swings out among the rocks and roses of Cape Ann, with many a glimpse of the wide blue sea, the rugged isles off shore, the villas of the wealthy summer-colonists, and the invincible •* wildernesses of Ictlgy liills ami sca-i»iuuii woods which constitute the greater ixirt of the ''>t! 1 J^ "^ '"~^' *^-'^^t^ir P'^^^ ^'^'-' •"'• '^ \illas and ijreal hotels ol Man- '"'Ah4,,. , cheste^^Ci^ aMagiioha, lo Clloucester. the foremost fishing-pori in the world. Still fiirther out the surges are heaten hack by the rocks of I kind's Ijid and Pigeon Cove. North of Salem the steel rails traverse the am ient I'urilan villages of W'en- hain and Ipswich, and the venerable and beautiful sea-city of Xewlniryport ; and so on, by the beaches of Hampton and Rye, to (|uaint Portsmouth, close by Newcastle and Kittcry. The railway to the summer-villages on the beaches of \'()rk. leaving the main line at this point, swings around among the K)w rocky hills and ancient farms of Kittery, and alongside the bright waters of many a tiilal lagoon and salt-water creek, and gives views of the l'iscata(|ua. the navy-yard, York Harbor and River, the elm-embowered village -of Vurk. A .?«i6(^ "-^^-TJ^ an'fl the magnificent sweep of the Long Sands, with leagues of ocean opening away, to the dim eastern horizon. Newcastle, one of the oldest fortresses and maritime villages of the New England coast, is adorned by the immense summer-hotel, The Went- worth, commanding noble sea and harbor views on every side. From Portsmouth, steamboats run out to sea, half-a-dozen miles or more, to the Isles of Shoals, a little fleet of rock}' islets anchored in the deep outer ocean. Farther toward the North Star comes Wells, with its sea-swe])l beath. And the lovely hamlet of Ogun(|uit, where travellers go on their way to >"»i, S. Bald Head Cliff. On the hanks of the Kennel )unk port River, the ancient maritime village of Kennebimkport nebiles around its mossy shipyards; and close by it, out on bold Cape Aninikl.. stands a number of summer-cottages. - '! Still northwanl, through Biddeford and Saco, to the flimous Uld-Orcfiard- lieach. the most popular ot' all the great summer-resorts that line the coast of hundred-harbored Maine, h extentls from the mouth of the Saco River to Scarborough, a distance of six miles, a magnificent wliite esplanade of hard sand, shelving gradually away under the sea. The great crescent of the beach looks straight out to sea, with the houses at liiddeford Fool on the right, and on the left Front's Neck, running out by Stratton's Island and l5luff Island. On one sitle are forests of fresh green pines, anil on the other open measureless vistas over the salt blue sea. Fassing Fine i'oint and Scarborough Beaches, Port- land, the beamiful i-'oresl City, is reached, with its exiiuisile views over Cascu -^' _ , .-^^ '■ F^ay. Hundreds of wooded islands here gein the bosom of one of the fairest of bays, .,; :■ and are overlooked by the cottages and hotel on 'i-i'f- ( ushing's Island. The labyrinth of the sea surrounds "with its blue channels many an islet of flower-like beauty, from whose tree-shaded capes the view reaches far out over the salty main, or inland to the White Mountains. Some of these islands are occupied b)- summer-cottages and estates ; others have comfortable hotels and boarding- houses ; and still others, in the quiet tenancy of Nature, are awaiting their fortunate human discoverers. Steamboats run many times daily down thS]: beautiful fortified harbor of Portland, and up CascojB'ay, their voyages sometimes reaching as far as classic Harpswell. Foremost among the summer-resorts of the hill-country of !Nfftim stands Poland Sirring, eight hundred feet above the level of the r sea, on a breezy plateau wliich looks out on the Ossipee t^aiige'and the While Mountains and across leagues of lowlands, amid which i;hniniers many a silver lakelet. The glorious ^Jaine coast fringes away to the eastward, with its fiords and >ounds, its rugged islands and capes, its sea-re|)elling mountains ant\\ to Moosehead Lake, a distance of seventy- five miles, is one of the best lish and game jireserves in the Republic, and is visited every sunnner by thousands of enthusiastic sportsmen from the cities, l-'arther into the northern forest they fmd a more ])rimitive life at Kennebago Lake and I^ake I'armachenee. and other lonely forest-seas near the Canadian frontier. I'here is much beau- tiful scenery about the Rangeleys. especially where MduiU .\/iscoos ami the '^Vltt' •_-'Ke>.aL4K? noble White Mountains loom distantly across their quiet waters, rising above the mur- muring, pine-forests which over arch hundreds of silvery trout-streams. The seashore is the play-ground of New England; the mountains fdrm its sanitarium. There the air is light and bracing and invigorating, and acts as a perpetual tonic for weary brains, or oppressed lungs, or nerves jangled out of tune. The languid and enervated citizen there exchanges his heavy lowland air, tainted with sewers and factories, for a rarer and finer atmosphere, perfumed by illimitable pine-woods, and cooled along the austere brows of the mountains. This magic and effordess "air cure " goes on night and day, until the weak grow strong and tlie vigorous are filled wit more abounding life. There are adventurous rambles through leagues of silent forests; darkling trout-pools in hundreds of merry brooks ; paths to lone and far-viewing peaks ; and in hundreds of hostelries, large and small, merry-makings of all kinds, from the hay-ride to the german. Since 1784, when Dr. llelknap's exploring party entered the pathless high- lands by this route. North Conway has been the favorite gateway to the White Mountains. It is only an easy afternoon's railway ride from Boston, or half an afternoon from the seashore by Portsmouth, along the Boston & Maine Rail- road, to this Braemar of the West, whose score of comfortable inns look across the inimitable meadows of the Saco to the red rock-crowns of Moat Mountain, the pyramid peak of Mount Kiarsarge, and the solemn and serene heights of the Presiden- tial Range. im;. From the dreamy charm of North Conway, " a land in \vhi( h it seems always afternoon." the traveller traverses the long defile ot the Crawford (or Whitc-Monntain) Umtayoo.-Lil^''- Notch, on lotty and far-viewing galleries, past the FCHite to beautiful Jackson and the Glen House, and out to the cool plateau where the C'rawford House and l'"al)van House lift their hospitable walls amid the forests, '{"his ride through the Notch is one of the most mag- nificent and impressive in America, and presents a succession of many-shaped and famous mountains. From Fabyans diverges the track whi(-h connects with the wonderful railwav to the top of Moimt Washington, "the Crown of New England." with its arctic hamlet of hotel. news|)aper-office, signal- station, and other buildings. ^- *'^'>i., It is hut a few minutes' ride from Fabyans to the divergence of the raihvay to Bethlehem, high-placed on an always cool ridge, and looking out on the Presidential Range and the broad northern valleys. Abounding in hotels and all summer joys, this lofty village is the chief resort on the west side of the range. Another railway climbs around the rugged shoulders of Mount Lafayette to the famous Profile House, high up in the Franconia Notch, and near the world-renowned Profile, or Old Man of the Mountain. From I-abyans. also, the vacation-tourist may visiffhe dee|) glens of P'ranconia, the bold isolated ridge of Sugar Hill, or the brisk village of Littleton, each of them with its summer-colony of hundreds of contented guests. The railway passes on ■m^Wf^ i^^ from Fabyans to Whitefield and the Green Mountains of Vermont ; and also up to Jeffer- son Hill, whose mountain-side street, with its group of inns, commands the noblest attainable view of the Presidential Range, with its long sierra bathed in the richest colorings. The line continues on to Lancaster, a bright and ( ulli\'ated county capital, on the rich meadows (;f the ('onnecticut, and commanding artistic views of the White Mountains. Northward, still, the railroad runs to Colebrook, whence a stage-route passes to the strange serrated cliffs and ])innacles of Dixville Notcli, <- leading down to the Umbagog and ^'{ Rangeley Lakes. '&0 Several interesting routes lead to the great Canadian capitals of Quebec and Montreal. The first named, the Walled City of the North, and the metrop- olis of French America, lifts its gray and historic towers and citadel on a crag liigh over the broadening St. Lawrence River, and with its embattled gates and consecrated monasteries, its Angelus chimes and sunset guns, its stone barracks and bastioned walls, its robed priests and Norman peasants, seems like some old French or Italian city, transplanted across the sea. Mon- treal, bright, solid, modern, fronts the noble St. Lawrence with gray stone quays and blocks of buildings, and is rich in great Catholic churches and convents, busy shopping streets, colleges of wide fame, parks of unusual beauty, and a profitable ocean commerce. A favorite route from the White Mountains to Montreal lies westward to St. John-.- m- /f bury, thence passing up the Passumpsic Valley, within ■ • , ' '^ reach of the wonderful Willoughby Lake; and from _^^^^jjjj_Newport, at the head of Lake Meniphremagog, runs over the C'anadian Pacific line, through Richford and St. John's. , The same route up the Passumpsic Valley leads in anotlier direction from Newport along the shores of Memphrema- i.^^ tfog, and also along the l^eautiful Lake >Lissawippi, to 1^ Sherbrooke, on the most direct line to (Quebec. ( )r we may t(lr&;i'J^Br#ard from St. [ohnsbur) and ride by railway across the (ireen Moun- tains, witli many a famous view of the White-Mountain peaks as the line climbs the long grades toward Danville (Ireen. Beyond the remarkable liorseshoe curve at Greensborough IScnd, the line descends the Missiscjuoi Valley. From Camliridgi' (unction, trains run quickly to Burlington, "The Queen City of I Champlain " ; or the direct line leads on to summer- hotel at Maquam , Bay, whence steamboats run up Lake Chami)lain daily. The lake may also be reached from Bos- ■^ ~ ton by the interesting route leading by Concord and White-River Junction. For over a hundred miles Lake Champlain flows between the quiet pastoral shores of Ver- mont and the rugged promontories of New York, with the unbroken wall of the Green Mountains on one side, and tlie dim blue Adirondacks on the other. Its waters bear large commercial fleets, squadrons of yachts, handsome steamboats, and the vagrant boats of sportsmen seeking the bass and pickerel that ,ake the fine \. l.c*^ haunt these transparent deeps. Its ports. Turlington and I'lattsburg, Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and others, are full of modern interest or liistoric charm. The country between Concord and White- Ki\cr Junction, traversed by the Concord Division, includes many points of scenic and liistoric interest. On Duston's Island, near the track, is the statue of Mrs. Duston, who here tomahawked her Indian captors and escaped. Iioscawen I'hiin was the birth- jjlace of John A. l)ix, and near Franklin. Daniel Webster was born. Farther on there are impressive views of Mount Kearsarge I OiAtlllllfe^'oiO- ■-'•^.^-fi.^rr^'^^v and Mount Cardigan, and the pleasant lakes cif 'Canaan "and I'nlifcfJ. The railway crosses the Connecticut River into Vermont. From White-River Junc- tion the line, running to the nortiiward, passes near the seat of Dartmouth College, and tra\erses the outlying mountains of the Franconia Range, follow- ing the graceful windings of the Connecticut River for many miles, through rugged gorges and along the edges of l)road and fruitful meadows. Ik'yond St. Johnsbury this ])leasant route reaches the serene beauties of Lake Mem- phremagog, far up in the cool Northland. Lake Winnepesaukee. envelo])ed in the southern spurs of tlie White Mountains, and witli its ]iorts of Alton lia}' and Wolfeborougli, within hardly more than tliree hours of Boston, is one of tlie peerless lakes of the world, its >i>\)' sapphire-blue waters lapsing arouml hundreds of pleasant islands, and winding among the rugged ranges in far-extending and mirror-like bays. It covers seventy square miles of water, but its coast-line winds for hundreds of miles along the deep-green forests, the sunlit farm-lands, and white summer-resort villages like Wolfeborough and Centre Harbor and Weirs. Large and com- modious steamboats continually ply up and down this fair inland sea, over the far-viewing Hroads, past the green hills of Long Island and the Necks, and through the mimic archipelago of the l"'orties, with entrancing views of the ()ssi])ee and Sandwich Mountains, the lofty Belknap Range, and the distant Mount Washington, often bearing its crown of virgin snow even in the summer days. Sunapee Lake, thirty-four miles west of Concord, by an easy railway jour- ney, has been called "the Loch Katrine of America." It winds for three leagues among wooded heights and tree-tufted islands, with many an inspiring ^t\l£v ^iM, / .^ , Z-Vi?^ ^^ Kearsarge, Croydon, Cardigan, and other liigh mountains; and steamboats thrice ilaily traverse its hmpid waters, and visit the hill-girt jjorts, each with its summer-hotel and ^colony of cottages. Down in Southwestern New Hampshire tliere is another cluster of charm- ing hill-villages — Amherst, with the health-giving Ponemah Springs; Mont Vernon, overlooking \ast horizons from its high plateau ; and a score of others, each visited in summer b\' hundreds of lovers of pure air and beauti- ful scenery. The sovereign of all this countrN- is the grand Monadnock Moun- tain, whose rugged rocky crest looks down on tlie bright mirror of Dublin Pond and the patrician summer-resort of 1 )ul)lin. surrounded by handsome villas. A short run westward from Boston, through the heart i)f the Bay State. c)pens up many episodes of interesting scenery and reminiscence, and leads to the pastoral beauty and richness of the Connecticut Valley, the (ianlen of New England, or tcj the nol)le I^erkshire Hills, "the Piedmont of America." The grand avenue from Boston to these localities is the Central Massachu- setts line, i)assing through scholastic Cambridge; ^Valtham, the birth-place of millions of watches; Sudbury, where still stands Longfellow's "Wayside Inn " ; ( )akdalc, connecting for Worcester ; Jefferson, near Movmt Wachusett ; the highland resorts of Rutland and IJarre ; and the famous old college-town of Amherst. Only two miles from tlie colleges and libraries and elm-lineil avenues of Northampton rises Mount Holyoke, the watch-tower of the \alley, from whose summit the j)rospcct extends over scores of miles of winding river and mosaic-like meadows and sharp moun- tain-] )eaks, '• the loveliest view in all New I'jigland." l-'rom Northampton '^^MWfVrsnBiVfiKW* 1 ^'■ the summer-idler may visit the historic hamlets of Hatfield and Hadley, dream- ing on their serene meadows ; or the ancient Mount-Holyoke College, sacred to American maidens ; or 1 )eerlield. famed in olden border romance; or the clear crests of Mount Toby or Mount Tom, / amoris overlooking white villages, j^laided meadows, and (-loud-cai)ped mountains. All these charming jileasure-resorts, and hiuidreds of others, " by moun- tain, field, and flood," are reached b\" the mighty network of the l)OS- ton & Maine Railroad, with I'ull- - -— .•^o^.rciisJp- man vestibuled trains, perfect train '/W^MJi-^-i? service, speed, and safety. And the\' offer e\-ery grade of accommodation. ■ ' ^*^v 'P'Ky-'^, from the immense five-dollar-a-day hotels, where every hixury is i>rese 'i ^g^ Pf.'-''^ ^" ^'^^' quiet and sechided five-dollar-a-week farm boarding-houses, u ■'f-^r^ 41 their siniDlc fnrc .iiid fnniishin.". ( )n reccint of ten cents in st.iinDs t';ii sent, ith their simple fare and furnishing. On receipt of ten cents in slaui|)s each, the Passenger Department of the Boston i\; Maine Railroad will send, post- jjaid. its copiously illustrated descriptive books, Nkw-Knci-AXD Skashori:, Ai.t, Ai.oNi; Shokk, Amonc thk Moi'ntains. and T.akks and SrRKAMs : and its FlxccRSioN Book of routes and rates, and lists of hotels and boarding- houses and their prices, is sent free to all applicants. Whoever takes his New-England summer-outing in this easy and sensible way will often recall its manifold delights, the Indian and ^aaafc' mttMI^'l^' ■ W^ colonial legends hallowing many a silvery lake and rock-crowned peak, " the Italian blue of the Northern seas, the dreamy •*'*''^^fei^ light over the Conway inter\-ales, the roar of the surf among"-vT^^-:«..'— : the rocks of Maine, the restful glens amid the emliowered highlands' and the glorious and lonely mountain-paths, " Ishmdetl in immeasurable air. FACTS WOf^TH KHOWirJG. 'VII A T I'lirouf^h riilhnan Vestibukii Cars run daily IhluhYii Washington, Philadelphia and Boston <'ia the Poughkcepsie Bridge Route. lea-.'c IVas/iiiigfoii, B. vV O. R.K., at 2..^j />.fn., Philadelphia, P. iS^ R. R.R., 6.4§ p.m., airi^'ing at Boston 8.20 a. in in Union Station loith all East and XorlJihouud trains. A'o transfer aeross t/ie eitv of Boston. Leave Boston for Washington, Boston <^ .Maine R.R.,Sonthern Di:i- sion Station, at j.4j p.tn., arri7'ing Philadelphia ".00 a.m., IVashiiigton 11.20 a.m. 'pHA T Through Sleeping Cars run daily lietiueen Minneapolis, St. Paul dnd Boston 7'ia the Soo Line, lea'.'ing Minneapolis y.jj p.m., St. Paul d.jj p.m., arriri)ig at Boston 8.0J a.m., fourth day, Union Station with all East and Northbound trains. Leave Boston for Minneapolis and St. Paul j./j p.m., Boston e.^ Maine A'.R., Southern Division Station. 'JTHA T, commencing June 2jth, a Special Fast Express will run betioeen Boston and Chicago, via Montreal, lea7'ing Boston, Southern Division Station, Boston i^ .Maine R.R., at i i.oo a.m., daily, except Sunday, and arrix'ing in Chicago early the ne.xt evening. Veslibnled Buffet .Sleeping Cars. / ^ti^vl- I