. Summer homes among the mountains on the Central New England railway ... tate, including the HangingHills cf Meridan, East and West Rock, of New Haven, andMount Tom and Holyoke, of Massachusetts. We have now reached the entrance of a wild gorge wherethe Farmington river comes plunging through this range. Hereis a scene, which, for wildness and grandeur, is unsurpassed inthe Nutmeg State. As the train goes dashing along its firmbed, which is cut into the solid rock of the mountain, the ob-server may see on one side a high cliff, composed of vast massesof fine-grained crystalline rock, while on
. Summer homes among the mountains on the Central New England railway ... tate, including the HangingHills cf Meridan, East and West Rock, of New Haven, andMount Tom and Holyoke, of Massachusetts. We have now reached the entrance of a wild gorge wherethe Farmington river comes plunging through this range. Hereis a scene, which, for wildness and grandeur, is unsurpassed inthe Nutmeg State. As the train goes dashing along its firmbed, which is cut into the solid rock of the mountain, the ob-server may see on one side a high cliff, composed of vast massesof fine-grained crystalline rock, while on the other he may lookdown the precipitous side of the pass, a hundred feet, into thewild gorge, through which the Farmington winds its turbulentway. But soon we emerge from the gorge, and turning to thesouth to avoid the mountain we dash out into an open countryfamous for its rich farming lands. Much of the way is besidethe Farmington, which, in some places, goes fretting and eddy-ing through a narrow channel, in others, broadens out intoquiet expanses of blue lake. 8. Passing Simsbury and CollinSville we soon come to a changein the scenery, for we are now entering upon the most pictur-esque part of our journey, the Litchfield hills. The train entersa weird mountain pass known as Satans Kingdom. Here theFarmington winds like a silver thread through a deep, wildgorge whose rocky and precipitous sides reach upward for sev-eral hundred feet till they seem to meet the blue sky. Forthousands of years the river has been wearing the deep andnarrow canyon through which it flows. Cut into the side ofthis ravine, high above the river, is the solid bed of the CentralNew England Railway, over which the train slides smoothly,the puffing of the engine echoing and re-echoing on the rockysides of the cliffs. Far up on the crest of one of the sides ofthis gorge one will obtain such a view as he never can Clara Louise Kellogg, Americas Prima Donna, has car-rolled some of her sweetes
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