. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . by east fromBarrington Station, on theWisconsin Division of theChicago & North-Western Railway. An omnibusis in waiting on the arrival of trains, to conve
. The North and West illustrated for tourist, business and pleasure travel : The popular resorts of California, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, northern Michigan and Minnesota. A guide to the lakes and rivers, to the plains and mountains, to the resorts of birds, game animals and fishes; and hints for the commercial traveler, the theatre manager, the land hunter and the emigrant . by east fromBarrington Station, on theWisconsin Division of theChicago & North-Western Railway. An omnibusis in waiting on the arrival of trains, to convey pas-sengers to the Lake Zurich House. The short rideby stage is even more delightful than by rail. Theroad runs through a splendid farming country,teeming with all the exuberant richness of a boun-teous soil, alternating with woodland and prairie,hills and valleys, fields of waving grain, and farmhouses embowered in shrubbery—making one ofthe finest landscapes I have ever seen anywhere. This letter is written at the close of the celebra-tion of our National Anniversary, which has beena glorious day here. Though writing from LakeZurich, yet I do not live here, and have never beenhere before. I have, therefore, no ax to grind andnobodys horn to blow, but am actuated by a desire to let the people of our great city, who may longfor the inexpensive luxury of a brief respite fromthe dust, and din, and heat of the restless, surging. Mineral Dock, Escnnaba, Mich.—page 69. multitude, know what a delightful rural retreat liesupon our very outskirts, where pleasure and restare within the reach of all. I never till to-day sofully realized the force of the expression, Man madethe city, but God made the country; it was. perhaps,because the contrast was so great and so immediate—as the saying is, Out of Purgatory into Paradise. Lake Zurich is belted all around with beautifulgroves of timber, among the openings of which,grass-plats slope down to the pebbled beach, wherethe pure crystal
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