Popular resorts, and how to reach them . es itfrom the main is here that ourchoicest luxuries aregrown. The production ofthis peninsula, ingarden fruits, is POPULAR RESORTS, ANT) HOW TO RKACH THEM. 235 simply enormous. A strawberry patchof fifty or one hun-dred acres, or a• fruit yard of thir-ty or forty thousandlieach-trees, is no un-common sight, uponwliich hundreds ofbusy hands are en-gaged in gatheringand shipping thefruit. Nor do theattractions of thispeninsula end withthe fruits it pro- 2duces ; for it is the ^paradise of sports- ^men. Both fish and 5game abound. Can- ^vas-back d
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . es itfrom the main is here that ourchoicest luxuries aregrown. The production ofthis peninsula, ingarden fruits, is POPULAR RESORTS, ANT) HOW TO RKACH THEM. 235 simply enormous. A strawberry patchof fifty or one hun-dred acres, or a• fruit yard of thir-ty or forty thousandlieach-trees, is no un-common sight, uponwliich hundreds ofbusy hands are en-gaged in gatheringand shipping thefruit. Nor do theattractions of thispeninsula end withthe fruits it pro- 2duces ; for it is the ^paradise of sports- ^men. Both fish and 5game abound. Can- ^vas-back ducks are Pspecially plentiful in qthe autumn: and th^ c/iimmense yield of rnoysters in its bays y,is a notable feature. -At Cristfield, the |great oyster mart, ^fleets of vessels areconstantly arrivingand departing dur-ing the shippingseason. Nearly sur-rounded by water,with the restlesscurrent of the Gulf-Stream flowing alongits coast, the temper-ature is warmer inwinter and coolerin sunamer than inother sections of thesame 236 KESOKTS, ANH HOW TO liEACH THEM. The Branch to the Peninsula diverges from the main line atDelaware Junction, thirty miles from the City of Philadelphia. This road, commenced in 1832 from Baltimore to Port Deposit, wasconsolidated as the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore, andfinished to Philadelphia in 1838, since which time it has steadily im-proved in its character and equipments, and advanced in popular favor. The cars leave Philadelphia from the Companys depot, corner ofBroad Street and Washington Avenue, and also at its New York connec-
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