. Summer homes on the Harlem railroad : containing a description of the celebrated health and pleasure resorts and an extensive list of summer hotels an . s forward with an extraordi-nary and clean record of carefully kept statistics, showingthe average death rate to the entire population to be aboutone to eighty-six, comparing most favorably and strikinglywith the New York City mortality statistics of one to forty,and proving Mount Kisco to be more than twice as healthyas the great metropolis. After leaving Mount Kisco, the nextapplication of air-brakes brings us to a standstill at Bedford, t
. Summer homes on the Harlem railroad : containing a description of the celebrated health and pleasure resorts and an extensive list of summer hotels an . s forward with an extraordi-nary and clean record of carefully kept statistics, showingthe average death rate to the entire population to be aboutone to eighty-six, comparing most favorably and strikinglywith the New York City mortality statistics of one to forty,and proving Mount Kisco to be more than twice as healthyas the great metropolis. After leaving Mount Kisco, the nextapplication of air-brakes brings us to a standstill at Bedford, thirty-nine miles from New York City. Bed-ford is a beautiful village situated at the base of a rockyeminence, in one of the most romantic and picturesque partsof Westchester County. The drives and rambles through and 20 SUMMER HOMES along the valley in which this town is situated, and over thesurrounding slopes and hills, are the most charming to bemet with in this section of country. Lying about one mile to the northwest is Croton Lake,studded with green islands, and hemmed in with bold androcky shores ; it abounds with fish of the most gamy sort,. CROTON LAKE. offering fine sport to the angler, its waters being frequentedby all kinds of water fowl, including black and canvas-backducks. The natural drainage of this village is perfect. Thereare no miasmatic swamps hereabout; the water is the mostwholesome to be met with in Nature, and intermittent fever isunknown here. A line of stages connects this village with thehistoric village of the same name, situated about four milesdistant, once a half-stone town, and destroyed by Tarleton and ON THE HARLEM. 21 his rangers during the Revolution. The town is also suppliedwith a line of stores among the best to be met with along theentire road ; in addition, a first-class hotel and livery highly cultivated farm of 135 acres, convenient to thestation, the property of Mr. J. B. Holmes, is for sale oneasy terms in whole or in part.
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