Rand . complete list of boarding houses may be secured by addressingthe general passenger agent of the Ulster & Delaware Railroadat Rondout, also from the general passenger agent West ShoreRailroad, 5 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. T-wo principal entrances to the Catskill Mountains exist, butboth admit to the two lines of valleys in which the tourist mayfind nearly all of the hotels, and the great body of summer traveland residents. One of these entrances is along the route of theUlster & Delaware Railroad from Kingston west across the south-ern part of the group; the other is from
Rand . complete list of boarding houses may be secured by addressingthe general passenger agent of the Ulster & Delaware Railroadat Rondout, also from the general passenger agent West ShoreRailroad, 5 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City. T-wo principal entrances to the Catskill Mountains exist, butboth admit to the two lines of valleys in which the tourist mayfind nearly all of the hotels, and the great body of summer traveland residents. One of these entrances is along the route of theUlster & Delaware Railroad from Kingston west across the south-ern part of the group; the other is from Catskill by rail to theresident parks and Tannersville, and thence down Stony behind the line of peaks which form the eastern front of tharange. The latter (see the next chapter) is the older approach,!but the former comes first in our progress up the river. | The Ulster & Delaware Railroad has a terminal station inSRondout, at the water-side, where passengers arriving or depart-. HAINES FALLS. f THE TOUR OF THE CATSKILLS 157 ing by the Rhinebeck ferry, can change to and from the cars with-out trouble. It skirts old Rondout on high ground, giving a goodview of the old town, and stops at the junction station of the WestShore Railroad, a mile inland, where passengers from thatline are received in the union station. A third halt is thenmade at Fair Street, the upper city, or Kingston station railroad then finds its way across the southern part of themountains, through the valley of the Esopus on the east and theheadwaters of the Delaware on the west. Its devious coursegives as good an idea of the scenery of the range as can easilybe obtained. The Hudson-Delaware divide is crossed near thesummit of Pine Hill, at Grand Hotel station, 1,886 feet abovetide-water, after which the line bends northward along the water-shed of the Delaware and ends at Hobart, seventy-eight miles fromKingston. From Hobart to Bloomville, nine miles beyond, alittle road has been b
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