. Here and there in New England and Canada . oveton, up theConnecticut Valley; and a branch line turns in towards the mountains, toBethlehem and the Profile House, Fabyans and Mount Washington, theWhite-Mountain Notch and North Conway. All these points, famousamong summer-tourists, are more fully described in earlier chapters of thisbook. 92 CHAPTER XXI. A GLIMPSE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Sudbury and the Wayside Inn.— Princeton and Wachusett.—The Nashua Valley.— Rutland and Barre.— Belchertown.—Amherst.— Hadley.— NorthamiTon.— Mount Holyoke. THIS route leaves the great Lowell station, in Boston, and
. Here and there in New England and Canada . oveton, up theConnecticut Valley; and a branch line turns in towards the mountains, toBethlehem and the Profile House, Fabyans and Mount Washington, theWhite-Mountain Notch and North Conway. All these points, famousamong summer-tourists, are more fully described in earlier chapters of thisbook. 92 CHAPTER XXI. A GLIMPSE OF MASSACHUSETTS. Sudbury and the Wayside Inn.— Princeton and Wachusett.—The Nashua Valley.— Rutland and Barre.— Belchertown.—Amherst.— Hadley.— NorthamiTon.— Mount Holyoke. THIS route leaves the great Lowell station, in Boston, and at Somervilleturns off to the westward. From Cambridge Junction a branch linediverges to the historic towns of Lexington and Concord, and to thepleasant summer-resort of Bedford Springs. The Central line keepsto the westward, past the aristocratic hill-suburb of Belmont; and Waverly,famous for its venerable oak-groves; and Waltham, the seat of the greatwatch-factory, and close to Prospect Hill; and Weston, with its patrician. Sei-ierville . country-estates; and Wayland, a lovely rural town with a new summer-hotelThere are several stations in the old town of Sudbury, with farm boarding-houses among the fields and woods. Here, also, still stands the quaintWayside Inn, founded in 1666, and immortalized in Longfellows poem: One autumn night, in Sudbury town,Across the meadows bare and brown,The windows of the wayside innGleamed red with firelight through the ancient is this hostelryAs any in the land may be,A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall,Now somewhat fallen to decay. 93 Two other volumes of verse—Dr. T. W. Parsonss The Old House atSudbury and Gerrys book of rural poems — have found their themes inthis pleasant town. Just beyond South Sudbury, we get a glimpse of Sud-bury Centre. The State built a monument here to commemorate the battleof April 21, 1676, when King Philips Indians wellnigh destroyed the village,and annihilated a detachment marching to its
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