. Book of the Royal blue . - <$&? I STAIN LAKE IAKk. the accommodation of guests in thesplendid Mountain Lake Park Hoteland the Loch Lynn Heights these there are six or sevensmaller hotels and many good boardinghouses which help to take care of thesummer guests. There are also nearlytwo hundred cottages which are occu-pied throughout the entire summer. Oakland enjoys the highest altitudeof these sister resorts. It is on the verycrest of the Alleghenies at the westernend of The Glades. It also boastsof a splendid hotel with spacious groundsand most delightful accommodations for
. Book of the Royal blue . - <$&? I STAIN LAKE IAKk. the accommodation of guests in thesplendid Mountain Lake Park Hoteland the Loch Lynn Heights these there are six or sevensmaller hotels and many good boardinghouses which help to take care of thesummer guests. There are also nearlytwo hundred cottages which are occu-pied throughout the entire summer. Oakland enjoys the highest altitudeof these sister resorts. It is on the verycrest of the Alleghenies at the westernend of The Glades. It also boastsof a splendid hotel with spacious groundsand most delightful accommodations forseveral hundred people. The town ofOakland has a regular population of fif-teen hundred people and is a thrivinglittle business city. It contains manybeautiful homes and is a most pictur-esque mountain city. There are innu-merable lovely private cottages in the. THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS. portant point in favor of these resorts isthe enjoyable scenery through which thevisitor must pass in order to reach from the west the railway com-mences its mountain climbing at Graf-ton, West Virginia, and for forty-eightmiles the scenery along the Cheat Riveris the grandest and wildest in the Alle-gheny Mountains. The road entwinesthe mountains side like a serpent, and for a hundred and fifty miles. What atreat for the traveler! The Potomac laysbefore him, a beautiful illustrated bookof history from whose rippling waters,old-fashioned bridges and mountain-ous banks the traveler reads page uponpage of American history covering acentury and a half. When the railroad reaches the foot-hills of the Alleghenies near Harpers
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