. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . IOPULAU KKSOIil U)\\ TO UKACll THEM. ?.m The Illinois Central Railroad crosses our route at Mendota, which placewe reach after three hours ride. Here dinner awaits us, the quality andabundance of which are among the noticeable features; and, what is betterthan all, we have a plenty of time in which to discuss it. Again we areen route; and the train is whirled along an immense prairie region,through fields of corn, studded wit
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . IOPULAU KKSOIil U)\\ TO UKACll THEM. ?.m The Illinois Central Railroad crosses our route at Mendota, which placewe reach after three hours ride. Here dinner awaits us, the quality andabundance of which are among the noticeable features; and, what is betterthan all, we have a plenty of time in which to discuss it. Again we areen route; and the train is whirled along an immense prairie region,through fields of corn, studded with enterprising towns and thriving ?farms. At 6, , we reach Galesburg; yet so evenly ballasted is thisroad that we have not yet thought of fatigue, (ialesburg seems like aNew England town, magically transplanted to a Western State. Thesociety also is said to be unexceptionable; and few jjlaces East or Westexhibit more taste or PLEASANT VALLEY,Pacific produced. For the extremely low sum of seventy-five cents the wantsof the inner man are supplied, — broiled steak and quail, and cakessmoking hot, and no cry of All aboard! from the conductor. In aword, while moving without exertion through the air like a bird ofpassage, we eat, drink and sleep, surrounded by the luxuriant ease andcomforts of home ; and passengers thus sumptuously regaled are lost todistance. With the setting sun we find ourselves approaching theMississippi, which we cross to Burlington; the next morning we reachCouncil Bluffs and at 11, , connect with the Union Pacific Railroadat Onuiha. 340 POIULAU liKSOKTS, AM) HOW TO liEACH THEM. PLEASURE ROUTE No. 31. Omaha and the East to Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,Idaho, Utah, and the Pacific Coast. THK UNION AND CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROADS. To publish a book on the popular resorts of the United States with-out allusion to the many points of interest reached bj the Union andCentral Pacific Railr
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