. 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 . ilway. It hasabout fifteen hundred inhabitants. About six miles north, by a pleasuresteamboat, we come to a chain of four lakes, unsurj^assed anywhere inthe West for their beautiful scenery. They are skirted on all sides byminiature mountains, little islands dot the surface from one end to theother, vaiying in size from two to sixty acres each. These lakes are alldeep, and abound in fish. Lake Zurich is named after one of the
. 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 . ilway. It hasabout fifteen hundred inhabitants. About six miles north, by a pleasuresteamboat, we come to a chain of four lakes, unsurj^assed anywhere inthe West for their beautiful scenery. They are skirted on all sides byminiature mountains, little islands dot the surface from one end to theother, vaiying in size from two to sixty acres each. These lakes are alldeep, and abound in fish. Lake Zurich is named after one of the most splendid lakes inSwitzerland: and when once seen, and its scenery and loveliness enjoyed,no one would for a moment think that he who named it was guilty ofany presumption in the christening. This place is situated on the edgeof Lake County, four miles north by east from Barrinf/ton Slalion, on theWisconsin Division of the Chicago and North-Western Railway. Anomnibus is in waiting on the arrival of trains, to convey passengers tothe Lake Zurich House. The road runs through a splendid farmingcountry, teeming with all the exuberant richness of a bounteous soil,. iiiiiir:iil IlLlii jL JrJ, .^ 328 POPULAR RESORTS, A>D HOW TO REACH THEM. alternating with woodland and prairie, hills and valleys, fields of wavinggrain, and farmhouses embowered in shrubbery, — making one of thefinest landscapes in this region. Oshkosh as a summer resort and watering-place possessed a rarecombination of natural features for a delightful summer residence beforethe late fire, by which it suffered fearfully. The climate is not sur-passed in healthfulness; the air is pure and dry; and the invigoratingbreezes from the lake temper the heats of summer. The scenery islovely; the lake a most magnificent sheet of- water with beautiful shoresand good harbors that are accessible in every direction, thus affordingthe best of yachting facilities. The surrounding country is beautiful,with excellent roads, af
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