. 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 . rs. This is a romantic spot, where loveis and thosesocially inclined do love to congregate. The forests about the TwinMountain are very charming, and the shrubs and ferns fresh andvaried. But the chief and practical excellence of this locality is in theentire absence of hay-fever, that disagreeable disease indigenous to solarge a portion of the country. The following extract from The XewYork Ledger is from the pen of the Rev.
. 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 . rs. This is a romantic spot, where loveis and thosesocially inclined do love to congregate. The forests about the TwinMountain are very charming, and the shrubs and ferns fresh andvaried. But the chief and practical excellence of this locality is in theentire absence of hay-fever, that disagreeable disease indigenous to solarge a portion of the country. The following extract from The XewYork Ledger is from the pen of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, whohas long been afflicted with this distressing malady, and who now spendshis summer and autumn months at this health-giving place: Mean-while another year warrants me in saying that a resort hither is almostcertain relief; not one per cent of patients failing to obtain essential ifnot entire relief. We can go out into the sun, stand in mud morningand evening, and in spite of dust, rain, or chill, we are well. From the Twin Mountahi House, the route continues to the FabyanHouse, the terminus of the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railroad; from. OPULAK ItKSOKTS. ANT) HOW TO KEACII TIIKM. 61 which point staj^es convey tourists six miles, tf) tlie Mount WashingtonRailway, by which they are taken to tlie summit the same evening. Carriages will also be foimd in waiting, to take passengers from everytrain to the Crawford House five miles distant. White Mountain Notch,and other points of attraction in that neighborhood, described underthe head of Pleasure Route No. 5. The stage-ride from the Crawford and Fabyan Houses to the MountWashington Railway Station is one of the most exciting features ofmountain travel.
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