. 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 . d by the • Con-cord and Suncook Valley Railroad to Pittsfield, and Gilmanton IronWorks by the Boston and Maine to Alton, and thence by stages. FromTilton the road follows the Winnepemukee River, and the shores of LittleBail and Winnesquam Lake, past Union Bridge, to Laconia. Although undeveloped at present, this region possesses many featurescalculated to make it popular with the seeker after health and La
. 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 . d by the • Con-cord and Suncook Valley Railroad to Pittsfield, and Gilmanton IronWorks by the Boston and Maine to Alton, and thence by stages. FromTilton the road follows the Winnepemukee River, and the shores of LittleBail and Winnesquam Lake, past Union Bridge, to Laconia. Although undeveloped at present, this region possesses many featurescalculated to make it popular with the seeker after health and Lake is some twelve or fifteen miles in length, is beautifulin form and surroundings, and, but for its more pretentious rival Win-nepesaukee, would have, ere this, received the attention which its meritsdeserve. It has long been known as the home for the lake trout, andsomewhat famed for its piscatorial advantages. Two small summerhouses furnish accommodation for visitors, — the Winnesquam at thelower end of the lake, and the Bag Vieir, which is admirably located inthe suburbs of Laconia. The cars pass between it and the lake, andleave passengers when El-issi OPULAK UKSOKTS, AM) HOW KKACIl THKM. 11 The route, which from Concord lies throiinii an foinitry,now fairly enters the lake and mountain region. Ihe scenery does notpossess the grandeui- of the White-Mountain section ; yet it is marked bymany elements of picturesque beauty. Its water-views are fine ; a distantline of mountain-peaks cuts the horizon. It is only five uules, over a goodcountry road, to Mount Belknap, which is easily accessible, and fromwhose barren summit may be had one of the finest landscape-views onthe Atlantic slope. It varies from the Red-Hill pros]iect by having LaLeWiiinepesaukee and the entire group of the White and Franconia Moun-tains in the same view. The steamer Mount Washington can be dis-tinctly seen soon aftt^r it leaves Alton Bay, and traced on its way for morethan
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