. Here and there in New England and Canada . villas and hotels; andpeaceful rural Wenham, beside its world-renowned lake; and Hamilton, thecountry-home of Gail Hamilton; and the tall spires and weather-stainedhouses of Ipswich, one of the quaintest of the old Puritan towns. Then thepanorama changes again, and savors of Old-World Holland, with its longlevels and moorlands, bordered for leagues by the weird sand-hills of PlumIsland, through whose sierra-like notches gleams the vivid blue of the this drowned land Xewburyport rests along her breezy hills, fannedby the ocean-winds, and,
. Here and there in New England and Canada . villas and hotels; andpeaceful rural Wenham, beside its world-renowned lake; and Hamilton, thecountry-home of Gail Hamilton; and the tall spires and weather-stainedhouses of Ipswich, one of the quaintest of the old Puritan towns. Then thepanorama changes again, and savors of Old-World Holland, with its longlevels and moorlands, bordered for leagues by the weird sand-hills of PlumIsland, through whose sierra-like notches gleams the vivid blue of the this drowned land Xewburyport rests along her breezy hills, fannedby the ocean-winds, and, like Venice and Amalfi, dreaming of a long-lost 14 maritime commerce, when her white sails were blown into a thousand strangeforeign ports. As the train rum+)les across the high bridge, you may lookup the broad Merrimac to the hills around Whitticrs home, and down theriver, beyond the gray old wharves, to the light-houses on Plum Island, andthe level horizon of the Atlantic. Another half-hour leads across brave old Rockingham County, in New. Hampshire, by the Hamptons, with their picturesque salt-marshes andfavorite beaches, and the sea glimmering beyond Boars Head. Portsmouth,the old-time Strawberry Bank, with its long streets of houses of the Georgianera, comes next, and offers the lure of summer joys at Newcastle and Kitteryand York Beach and the Isles of Shoals. Here the broad and swirling Pis-cataqua is crossed, and away off toward the unseen ocean the high walls of 15 the Hotel Wentworth cut the sky-line, while nearer are the antiquated ship-houses of the Kitter}- navy-yard, and perhaps a glimpse of the spars of theworld-renowned Constitiitioii. A few miles beyond, and our many-wheeled procession turns its back onthe coast, and begins the long climb into Middle Xew Hampshire, passing aline of prosperous manufacturing-towns,— Salmon Falls and Great Falls andRochester. Here, on the Norway Plains, sadly famous in by-gone centuriesfor Indian forays, we shall cross the railw
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