. The finger lakes of central New York. Watkins Glen Watkins Glen needs no introduction to Americans. This famous gorge opens directly, on the main street of the village of Watkins. "A few years ago Watkins Glen was taken over by the State of New York and made a state park. It is visited annually by thousands of tourists. Watkins Glen stretches into the hillside for two and one-half miles. Concrete walks and steps built by the state make it possible to explore the beautiful gorge. Ivike its sister city, Ithaca, Watkins is the cen- ter of improved highways which radiate Into the beautiful
. The finger lakes of central New York. Watkins Glen Watkins Glen needs no introduction to Americans. This famous gorge opens directly, on the main street of the village of Watkins. "A few years ago Watkins Glen was taken over by the State of New York and made a state park. It is visited annually by thousands of tourists. Watkins Glen stretches into the hillside for two and one-half miles. Concrete walks and steps built by the state make it possible to explore the beautiful gorge. Ivike its sister city, Ithaca, Watkins is the cen- ter of improved highways which radiate Into the beautiful lake country- Watkins is within a few miles of Lyamoka, Kayutah and Wauneta Lakes, three little patches of silver on the map of the region. Mineral Water Springs Although mineral water springs of more or lesj^ importance are found throughout the lake coun- try, Watkins has the distinction of being the only place where the healing properties of the waters have been used on a large scale in the treatment of disease The Glen Springs, a mineral springs health re- sort and hotel, is more than a commercial organ- ization; it is a national institution. Americans may obtain in Watkins all the medicinal and nat- ural advantages of the European Spas. Long before the white man came into the lake country the Indians knew of the value of the springs at the head of Seneca Lake, It wa^ a custom for the Seneca Indians to visit the locality to partake of the health giving waters. So, deep rooted was the habit that even within the last quarter of the nineteenth century descendants of the Senecas who once held the land came to Watkins for the purpose. The most celebrated of the springs at Watkins is Deer Lick. Other springs are Nauheim, Glen Kissing- en, Salubria and Senega. Page eighteen Watkins is located over one of the most pro- fitable salt veins in the United States. Thou- sands of tons of salt are refined annually from the brine pumped from the earth. Cayuga Lake Cayuga Lake with Ithaca at
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