. 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 . part of New Hampshire lying north of Lake Winnepesaukee,embracing an area of more than five hundred square miles. Throughthis region are located many of the summer houses for which NewHampshire is famed. These are frequently a long distance apart: five,ten, fifteen, twenty, or even thirty miles may intervene,—which resultsin frequent annoyance to the stranger, who, having been preceded byfriends, expects to meet them at their
. 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 . part of New Hampshire lying north of Lake Winnepesaukee,embracing an area of more than five hundred square miles. Throughthis region are located many of the summer houses for which NewHampshire is famed. These are frequently a long distance apart: five,ten, fifteen, twenty, or even thirty miles may intervene,—which resultsin frequent annoyance to the stranger, who, having been preceded byfriends, expects to meet them at their hotel as readily as he would atNewport, Long Branch, or Saratoga; whereas they may have ap-proached from an opposite direction, and their hotel may be twentymiles away. At a distance, all of this section of the State is termedthe White Mountains: with the inhabitants, different localities havelocal names by which they are known. If, for instance, a citizen ofConcord, the capital of New Hampshire, should announce his intention tovisit Mount Belknap, it would be understood that he would go to Guil-ford. If he would visit Red Hill, he would go to Centre Harbor; if. 30 POPlLAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. Mount Kearsarge, he would stop at Potters Station, on the XortheriiRailroad. If Mount Kiarsarge were to be visited, he would go to NorthConway; if Mount Chocorua, or Ossipee Mountains, he would stop atWest Ossipee; if Moosilauke, he would go to AV^arren; if the FranconiaRange, he would continue to Littleton, and thence by stage. Andto many other mountains popular as resorts, known at a distance as apart of the White Mountains, his routes would be equally divergent: yeta visit to neither of these would take him to the White Mountains asunderstood by the citizens of the State. It is therefore advised, thatthe visitor to that region procure a good map, or, better yet, a copy of Eastmans White-Mountain Guide, a most complete and reliable White IMountains proper, of whic
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