. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . from thePier at Oswego, will repay a visitor for his trouble in look-inof for it. LEBANON-THERMAL SPRINGS. The principal, if not the only, thermal springs in theState of New-York are at New-Lebanon, in Columbiacounty. There is a great variety of routes: the quickest,by Harlem and \Yestern (Boston and Albany) Railways toCanaan Station, whence stage 5 miles to Columbia Hall, a■first-class, excellent hotel, within the grountls of which arethe spring
. Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices .. . from thePier at Oswego, will repay a visitor for his trouble in look-inof for it. LEBANON-THERMAL SPRINGS. The principal, if not the only, thermal springs in theState of New-York are at New-Lebanon, in Columbiacounty. There is a great variety of routes: the quickest,by Harlem and \Yestern (Boston and Albany) Railways toCanaan Station, whence stage 5 miles to Columbia Hall, a■first-class, excellent hotel, within the grountls of which arethe springs. The water holds a permanent temperature of73 degrees Fahrenheit, and is abundant enough to worka mill. The village of New-Lebanon, or the celebratedShaker settlement, founded by the disciples of Ann Lee acentury ago, is 2 miles from the springs, and is a point ofgreat interest to the visitors there, especially on Sundaywhen their singular forms of worship may be is the most perfectly arranged and constituted of the18 Shaker communities, and here the hierarchy of the Millennial Church reside. The ride thither is charming. ^. ;?6^ SPHIXGS AXD FALLS. 23 the society in snnimer at tlie Colnmbia Hall veiy select,and the whole region one of the most quietly delightful,Sabbath-like retreats to be found. Pittsfield and Williams-town (see articles on Willl^mstowx and ) are about 25 distant from the springs. SULPHUR SPRINaS. The sulphur waters of the State are found especially atClifton, Avon, Richfield, Sharon, Columbia, (town of Stock-port,) Massena, and Chittenango. One of the most recently popularized of these resorts is CoLUiiBiA—There are 3 springs which together bear thisname, bubbling up in meadow-land, just in view of the Cat-skills and the Hudson, in the town of Stockport, Columbiacounty, 4 miles from Hudson. Mr. Charles B. Nash open-ed the hotel here in 1854, since which time the place hasbeen steadily growing in public favor. Hudso
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