. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . interval it ispossible to walk through the gorge from the staircase nearthe hotel to the Rocky Heart, and to gain even a vivid im-pression of the Falls ; but this hurried visit is by no meansthoroughly satisfactory. It seems almost sacrilegious togulp down, as it were, in one brief day the rare beautiesof this exquisite shrine of nature. To fully appreciate it,one should see the scenery by the rich light of late after-noon and early t^vilight, an
. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . interval it ispossible to walk through the gorge from the staircase nearthe hotel to the Rocky Heart, and to gain even a vivid im-pression of the Falls ; but this hurried visit is by no meansthoroughly satisfactory. It seems almost sacrilegious togulp down, as it were, in one brief day the rare beautiesof this exquisite shrine of nature. To fully appreciate it,one should see the scenery by the rich light of late after-noon and early t^vilight, and, if possible, by moonlight these two days will not allow time enough to visitthe places of interest in the vicinity, and a week is not toomuch for even the transient tourist to devote to this charm-ing locality. If detained over the Sabbath, places of wor-ship will be found at Trenton Village, including the old-est Unitarian church in the State. Expenses.—Mr. Moore, at his first-class hotel, chargesless than in most other hotels of the same rank. By theweek, we believe, the price is $31, and by the day not morethan $4, if as Falls of Minnehaha, Minnesota. d^y SPEINGS AND FALLS. 61 GENESEE FALLS. The Falls of tlie Genesee Eiver, at Rochester, are to bereached either by the New-York Central or the Erie Rail-way. Rochester is 375 miles distant from the metropolisby the former, and 385 by the latter route. A sketch ofthe *Flour City may be found in the article entitledNew-Yokk Central Railway. Hotels: the Osburn,Brackett, Congress, and Clinton; the first most remote,the last a quarter-mile distant, and the other two close tothe Central depot and nearest the Falls. The city horse-cars run to a point below the third fall, about 4 milesfrom the Central depot, and 4|- or 5 from the Erie or Valley depot. The Middle Fall is also, owing to theposition of the road, convenient of access from the greathighway from the city to Lake Ontario, the favorite sum-mer drive of Ro
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