. Summer vacation tours . lllitfiMMiii^^ Mount Washington and the Presidential Ran^,e, White Mountains silvery Horicon, to Baldwin, the terminus ofanother branch which rejoins the main line atFort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. THE ROMANTIC HUDSONThe Hudson River. European tourists haveoften told us that we do not appreciate our HudsonRiver. That most accomplished of travelers, Bay-ard Taylor, it is true, told us years ago that thereis one river which, fromits source to the ocean,unrolls a long chain oflandscapes wherein thereis no tame feature, buteach successive view pre-sents new combinatio
. Summer vacation tours . lllitfiMMiii^^ Mount Washington and the Presidential Ran^,e, White Mountains silvery Horicon, to Baldwin, the terminus ofanother branch which rejoins the main line atFort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain. THE ROMANTIC HUDSONThe Hudson River. European tourists haveoften told us that we do not appreciate our HudsonRiver. That most accomplished of travelers, Bay-ard Taylor, it is true, told us years ago that thereis one river which, fromits source to the ocean,unrolls a long chain oflandscapes wherein thereis no tame feature, buteach successive view pre-sents new combinationsof beauty and majesty,which other rivers maysurpass in sections butnone rival as a whole—and its name is theHudson. From quaint old Al-bany, the capital city,. View jrom Paul .Smiths, Adirondacks whose English charter more than two centuries agoreferred to our ancient city, the city founded inthe time of William, Prince of Orange, and namedby the Dutch in his honor, whose magnificent capi-tol, librar}, and museum are worth traveling acrossa continent to see, one goes past the old whalingport of Hudson; past Catskill, with the Blue Moun-tains behind it, rich in traditions of Rip Van Winkleand Hendricks crew; past Kingston, the colonial capital; past Pough-keepsie, the home ofBenson J. Lossing, withits Vassar College; New-burgh, with Washing-tons headquarters; pastWest Point, which, tothe American soldier,marks the bravery ofmany and the foul trea-son of one; through theHighlands, perhaps themost beautiful spot onthis most beautiful of riv-ers, past half a hundred 59 60 Michigan Central Summer Tours Michigan Central Summer Tours
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