. Lake Chautauqua . J AMESTO WN. NE of the short flights the summer flitter at the lakeside may take withpleasure and profit is to wing his way to the smiling little city, a few milesdistant, that spreads herself comfortably evermore hills than Rome boasted inher proudest days. There the truant outlet, having escaped from the lake andlost its way. with half a mind to turn back, emerges from its tortuous wander-ings thi-ough dense, overhanging swamp-wood, only to find itself confi-ontedby dams and water wheels that condemn the runaway to hard labor. On allsides of the picturesque country are to
. Lake Chautauqua . J AMESTO WN. NE of the short flights the summer flitter at the lakeside may take withpleasure and profit is to wing his way to the smiling little city, a few milesdistant, that spreads herself comfortably evermore hills than Rome boasted inher proudest days. There the truant outlet, having escaped from the lake andlost its way. with half a mind to turn back, emerges from its tortuous wander-ings thi-ough dense, overhanging swamp-wood, only to find itself confi-ontedby dams and water wheels that condemn the runaway to hard labor. On allsides of the picturesque country are to be seen the homes of a busy, prosperouspeople, who have no reason to go elsewhere for comfort when the torrid dog-days cause the city birds of passage to migrate. For the bracing, ozone-freighted breezes that make existence on the lake rare as a day in June, arealso enjoyed to the fullest by Jamestown. She is poised some 1,400 feet above the oceans level, wheremalaria abides not, where ague has no power to shake, and where the
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