. Here and there in New England and Canada . hrows off a connecting line to Fitchburg atSterling runcti<:)n, and at the pleasant village of Clinton crosses another 94 railroad to Fitchburg. A few miles beyon is the lovely old village ofLancaster, with elm-lined streets, patrician villas, and summer boarding-houses. Farther on are the stations of Harvard, Ayer Junction, and Groton, all ofthem near famous old hill-villages, in a picturesque land of lakes and hundreds of people from Boston summer among these convenienthighlands. Pepperell is another deeply interesting old village on
. Here and there in New England and Canada . hrows off a connecting line to Fitchburg atSterling runcti<:)n, and at the pleasant village of Clinton crosses another 94 railroad to Fitchburg. A few miles beyon is the lovely old village ofLancaster, with elm-lined streets, patrician villas, and summer boarding-houses. Farther on are the stations of Harvard, Ayer Junction, and Groton, all ofthem near famous old hill-villages, in a picturesque land of lakes and hundreds of people from Boston summer among these convenienthighlands. Pepperell is another deeply interesting old village on this route,near the Xissitisset Hills, and with the manorial estate of the Prescotts. Next, our westward line enters the rich old farming-town of Rutland, atthe exact geographical centre of Massachusetts, and twelve hundred feetabove the sea, favored by many summer-guests; and passes near the once-famous Coldbrook Springs, amid the Oakham hills; and traverses Barre andBarre Plains, amid the dairy-farms of the Ware-River Valley, and not far. OX-BOW IN CONNECTICUT RIVER, FROM MOUNT NONOTUCK. from the summer-resort of Petersham. The glens of Ware River are fol-lowed by the factory-villages of Gilbertville and Ware, and so on to Bonds-ville, the route bending far south to avoid the great ridges which environ theSwift River. Then it swings around to the north-west, amid rugged highlandscenery, following the valley, which is also the route of the New-LondonNorthern Railroad. Belchertown is a bright and handsome village near the western end ofthe Mount-Holyoke range, abounding in interesting scenery of lakes andhills, and latterly much visited in summer, especially by New-Yorkers. Inthis remote mountain-glen Dr. J. G. Holland was born, and Henry W^ardBeecher preached his first sermon. Beyond Belchertown, the line descends toward the Connecticut Valley, 95 with views of the Holyoke peaks, winding and unwinding in charming com-binations, and seen across lily-strewn ponds and rugged far
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