Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ommerce, toNewport, with FalmouthHeights and tho ElizabethIslands on the right, andMarthas Vineijard wilhOak Bluffs and Gaij Headon the left, is truly de-lightful, and cannot failto please. To all these localitiesthe Old Colony Railroadleads. Its branches andconnecting lines of steamers unite all these prominent puints of in-terest with Boston and New York ; and its admirable construction andsuperior equipment render it one of the most popular summer routes inthe countr3^ The original line extended from Boston to Plymouththirty-seven and one-half miles,
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ommerce, toNewport, with FalmouthHeights and tho ElizabethIslands on the right, andMarthas Vineijard wilhOak Bluffs and Gaij Headon the left, is truly de-lightful, and cannot failto please. To all these localitiesthe Old Colony Railroadleads. Its branches andconnecting lines of steamers unite all these prominent puints of in-terest with Boston and New York ; and its admirable construction andsuperior equipment render it one of the most popular summer routes inthe countr3^ The original line extended from Boston to Plymouththirty-seven and one-half miles, and from Fall River to Myricks, twelvemiles. It now comprises a line of three hundred miles extending fromBoston, the metropolis of New England, to Newport, , and to all theprincipal cities, towns, and villages of South-eastern Massachusetts. A glance at the map shows the two routes between Boston and New-port: viz., Via Randolph, Stoughton, Easton, Taunton, Dighton, andSomerset; and via Brockton, Bridgewater, and Middleboro, which. 98 POPULAR RESORTS, AJS^D HOW TO REACH THEM. unite near Fall River ; the line to Provincetown, the end of Cape Cod ;that to Woods Hole, the mainland terminus of the Vineyard and Nan-tucket steamers; the line to Plymouth Rock, passing through theAbingtons, Plympton, and Kingston ; the Sea-Shore Line, throughQuincy, Braintree, Weymouth, Hingham, Nantasket, Cohasset, theScituates, Marshfield (the home of Webster), and South Duxbury, theAmerican station of the French Cable, to, and intersecting, thePlymouth Line at Kingston ; also the suburban Branches, Shawmut,Milton, and Granite.
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