. 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 . itor. The valleys are deep, the])recipices are bold and high, and the momitains steep. Even the watersrush with greater violence than in tamer countries. But the public understand this scenery better. The artists, the pioneers of pleas-ure travel, have already heard of it, and each year visit it in increasingnumbers. Soon the tide will set up this valley, hotels will be in demandto meet it. and the press will herald
. 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 . itor. The valleys are deep, the])recipices are bold and high, and the momitains steep. Even the watersrush with greater violence than in tamer countries. But the public understand this scenery better. The artists, the pioneers of pleas-ure travel, have already heard of it, and each year visit it in increasingnumbers. Soon the tide will set up this valley, hotels will be in demandto meet it. and the press will herald its praises. Persons residing in our large cities hardly realize how quickly and forhow small a sum these romantic places can be enjoyed. The morningtrain from New York or Philadelphia takes you to Mauch Chunk inseason for dinner, — dinner steaming hot at the Mansion House. The Switch-back and Glen Onoko can be visited in season to return atnight. l>»)l>lH-Ali KKSOUTS, AM) HOW H) IJKACII TIIIOM. The subjoined description of the Nesoopec region is from LippincottsMagazine: — >• We walked about a half-mile along a wood-road, struck into a toot-. PROSPECT Valley. path, andloll owed it a hun-dred yards or so,and without wam-ng walked ojit ona flat rock. fromwhich we could atfirst see nothingbut foq. u]). down,or around. It w^sa misty morning;but we made outto understand that we weremendous on theabyss; verge of a precipice, which fell sheer down into a tre-and when the fog lifted we looked out upon miles and 160 ^PILAR RESORTS. AXIl HOW TO liKACH THEM. miles of valleys, iiartly cleared, but principally covered with primevalforests. We were on Prospect Rock. Presently our guide took us by a romidabout way to Cloud is a commanding projection ou the other side of the glen; and herea still wider view — another, yet the same — lay before ns. There issomethiuti- indescribably oTand in the solitude of this sc-iif^. — forpsts
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