. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . l-saving worship of the great and goodGod through the never-quiet, never-ceasing roar of the mighty ocean. HARVEYS LAKE, NORTH MOUNTAIN, AND HIGHLAND LAKE. Returning again on the line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey,through the Lehigh Valley, to Wilkes Barre, we find several resorts in thevicinity of considerable local interest. Harveys Lake is twelve miles north-west of Wilkes Barre. It is asmall, deep pool of marvello
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . l-saving worship of the great and goodGod through the never-quiet, never-ceasing roar of the mighty ocean. HARVEYS LAKE, NORTH MOUNTAIN, AND HIGHLAND LAKE. Returning again on the line of the Central Railroad of New Jersey,through the Lehigh Valley, to Wilkes Barre, we find several resorts in thevicinity of considerable local interest. Harveys Lake is twelve miles north-west of Wilkes Barre. It is asmall, deep pool of marvellously clear, cool water. It is approached bya romantic road over the mountains from Wilkes Bai-re, and is a popularresort for the citizens of that place on account of its fishing and boatingfacilities. It is a thousand feet above the Susquehanna, and about twohundred feet deep, and nearly circular in shape, forming a clear andbeautiful mirror for the overhanging Alleghany Mountains. North Mountain is another resort in the neighborhood of WilkesBarre, more distant than Harveys Lake, yet rapidly increasing in pop-ularity, as will be seen by the following 184 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. THE NORTH MOUNTAIN HOUSE. One of the most important problems to det^mine in household mat-ters is, Where shall we spend the hot months of summer ? A changeis required : we must go somewhere. The father has become overtaxedby the cares of business; the mother is wearied by household duties ; thechildren need a respite; the health of all demands this change. Butwhere can we go? are the oft-repeated words. Why, there are places enough, — by the sea, at the springs, or in themountains. The newspajjers teem with notices of them; and booksresound with their praises. At Cape ISIay, Atlantic City, Long Branch,or Newport: at Bt^dford Springs, Saratoga, Watkins Glen, or Niagara ;at the White Mountains, INIount Desert, Mauch Chunk, or Cresson; andat hundreds of other fashionable res
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