. 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 . OIULAK KKSOliTS, A.\U UOW TO 73 PORTLAND AND VICINITY. Portland, the chief city of the State of Maine in point of popuhitionand commerce, is situated at the southei-ly exti-emity of Casco Bay, andcontains about thirty-five thousand inhabitants. It is of considerableimportance as a raihoad centre, being the terminus of six different roadsconverging at that point, and of numerous lines of steamers constantlyplying between Portl
. 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 . OIULAK KKSOliTS, A.\U UOW TO 73 PORTLAND AND VICINITY. Portland, the chief city of the State of Maine in point of popuhitionand commerce, is situated at the southei-ly exti-emity of Casco Bay, andcontains about thirty-five thousand inhabitants. It is of considerableimportance as a raihoad centre, being the terminus of six different roadsconverging at that point, and of numerous lines of steamers constantlyplying between Portland and New York, Boston, Eastern Maine, and theBritish Provinces, and is the winter port of three lines of Europeansteamers. Its facilities for communication are excellent; there beingdespatched daily eight trains and one steamer to Boston, connectingthere with points farther south and west, besides several trains daily forMontreal and Quebec, Bangor, St. John, , and Halifax, iST-S., weekly;also tri-weekly steamers for Bangor, Mount Desert, St. John, Halifax,&c., and steamers four times a week for New York FALMOUTH HOUSE. As a pleasure resort, Portland is becoming well known throughout thecountry; and the number of visitors to the city and its vicinity is increas-ing with each summers return. Not only in lines of communication, butin hotels and other accommotlations, is she particularly fortunate. The Falmouth, United States, and Preble are the leading houses;each of these possesses its peculiar merits. The Falmouth is a first-class house in all its appointments : it isthe largest, and is the only hotel in the State that has an elevator, a lux-ury that the weary traveller can appreciate. The tourist who concludes to do Portland will find rich materialsfor his sketch-book and his notations. The vicinity is not only rich inlandscape scenery, but the climate is delightfully cool, the heat of sum- POPULAU RESOUTS, AND HOW TO KKACJI THEM. mer being- tempered by the ple
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