. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . he villages andtowns on the shores of the lakes of Westmoreland, in England,and by the several bourgs on those of the different waters ofSwitzerland. The above is from The Chronicles of Cooperstown, edited andmostly written by Fenimore Cooper, in 1838. Now that Cooperstown is brought within about four hours ofAlbany, Utica or Binghamton; that steamers are plying severaltimes daily around the lake, in connection with cars for all points ;and that the beau
. The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route . he villages andtowns on the shores of the lakes of Westmoreland, in England,and by the several bourgs on those of the different waters ofSwitzerland. The above is from The Chronicles of Cooperstown, edited andmostly written by Fenimore Cooper, in 1838. Now that Cooperstown is brought within about four hours ofAlbany, Utica or Binghamton; that steamers are plying severaltimes daily around the lake, in connection with cars for all points ;and that the beautiful shores are offered by their various ownersfor building sites, large or small; the prophesy of Mr. Cooperseems approaching fulfillment. Lake G-limmerglass in The Deerslayer. In his Deerslayer, he gives a more poetic picture of the lake,as a broad sheet of water so placid and limpid that it resembleda bed of the pure mountain atmosphere compressed into a settingof hills and woods. Cooper owed a part of his inspiration, said Edward Everett, to the magnificent nature which surrounded him; to the lakes,forests, Indian traditions, LEATHER STOCKING Cooperstown, N. Y THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 127 N. P. Willis, the Poet, once wrote an elegant and character-istic description of the beauties of this lake and village, which istoo lone to insert here. t> Historic Associations. In 1783, Washington wrote a friend that he had visited theeastern branch of the Susquehanna and viewed the Lake Cooper, in The Chronicles of Cooperslown, quotes the firstnumber of The Otsego Herald, April, 1795, that Otsego wasoriginally the name of the lake, from which the town and countywere named ; and that the term, among the aborigines, signified aplace of rendezvous and of friendly greeting. Others say it sig-nified The Beautiful Water The second newspaper ever published west of Albany—TheOtsego Herald—was commenced here by Elihu Phinney in files are still pr
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