. Routes and rates for summer tours . al toward heaven, the loftiest water mirror ofthe stars, beseeching, not in vain, from each low, driftingcloud some tribute for the sources of the Hudson ; fresh,new, unvisited, save by wild beasts that drank, it was a gemmore pure and more delightful to the eye than the most pre-cious jewel. It is still almost as wild and quiteas beautiful; but close behind our exploringfootsteps comes the blazed line marked with axupon the trees ; the trail, soon trodden into mire ;the bark shanty, picturesque enough, but soonsurrounded by a grove of stumps. And so glanc
. Routes and rates for summer tours . al toward heaven, the loftiest water mirror ofthe stars, beseeching, not in vain, from each low, driftingcloud some tribute for the sources of the Hudson ; fresh,new, unvisited, save by wild beasts that drank, it was a gemmore pure and more delightful to the eye than the most pre-cious jewel. It is still almost as wild and quiteas beautiful; but close behind our exploringfootsteps comes the blazed line marked with axupon the trees ; the trail, soon trodden into mire ;the bark shanty, picturesque enough, but soonsurrounded by a grove of stumps. And so glanc-ing over the field of former labors I find followingin the footsteps of ray explorations the blazedline and the trail, then the ubiquitous tourist,determined to see all that has been recorded asworth seeing. Where first comes one, the nextyear there are ten ; iThe woods are throninsufficient; hotels s i irand the air resounjollity. The wild n i Ionce jammed with iare cut clear by the iof the guides, and \ Iclambpr tn tbp <;nmrn i. From Outing. ADIRONDACK CAMP LIFE. 46 ROME, WATERTOWN AND OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. those once untrodden peaks. The genius of change has possession of the land ; we cannotcontrol it. When we study the necessities of our people we would not control it if we could.^This change—ihis new revelation of fresh, exhilarating mountain summer life, is havingtoo important and beneficial an influence upon society at present not to the sympathy ofthe government. To the wealthy dwellers of cities, debilitated by a tainted atmosphere, thebreezes and the mountain springs bring life, while the free, joyous exercises of their children inthese summer homes lay for them the foundations of continued health. But while these changes
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