Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . h a carriage roadhas lately been completed, which promises to be one of the mostnoted drives in all New England. Returning to Essex Junction, we see on the right FortEthan Allen, the recently established U. S. Military Post. Soonafter passing this we ride over the twin bridges across Winooskigorge, a inost wildly picturesque spot. The river is aboutseventeen rods wide, the sheer walls rising one hundred feet oneither bank, and worn into w
Summer homes among the green hills of Vermont, islands and shores of Lake Champlain, Adirondacks and Canada, reached by the popular Green Mountain route .. . h a carriage roadhas lately been completed, which promises to be one of the mostnoted drives in all New England. Returning to Essex Junction, we see on the right FortEthan Allen, the recently established U. S. Military Post. Soonafter passing this we ride over the twin bridges across Winooskigorge, a inost wildly picturesque spot. The river is aboutseventeen rods wide, the sheer walls rising one hundred feet oneither bank, and worn into weird formsby water and ice. Winooski Falls aremuch visited by tourists, though some-what disfigured by improvements inthe interests of the extensive manufac-turies located there on account of thetremendous water power. After cross-ing the river and emerging from thetunnel, we come to the beautiful Queen CityBURLINGTON, of Vermont. To say thatVERMONT, for beauty and sceneryBurlington ranks amongthe first of New England towns wouldbe saying no more than is universallyconceded. Its unique beauty consistsMOUNT MANSFIELD. in the grouping of the elements of. Dont Fail tc Read the Selected list of first-class Family Homes and Hotels forSlimmer Boarders following Descriptive. AMONG THE BEAUTIFUL GREEN OF VERMONT. 33 beauty, which make an almost ideal scenery for a small ruralcity:—its crescent bay, with headlands at either horn, opening-into a water-view ten miles across and fifty miles from right toleft; its gentle slope from the harbors edge to the collegecrowned summit a mile away; its boundary of mountains onboth sides, with their bold peaks, purple, misty or snow covered,according to the ever varying meteoric conditions, and with thehelp of perspective and atmospheric illusion, constituting a cir-cular framework to the pictures; in this nest of loveliness, a
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