. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . RANGELEY LAKES, 23 Of the other attractions, Echo Lake claims a large share ofattention. The little valley in which it is situated has remarkableacoustic properties, and as the visitor sails over the surface of thelake, his
. Season of 1890. Summer resorts reached by the Grank Trunk railway and its connections including Niagara Falls, Parry Sound, Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes, Lake Simcoe and Couchiching, MacKinac Island, Midland District Lakes, the Thousand Islands, rapids of the St. Lawrence River, the White Mountains, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay river, Rangeley Lakes, and the sea-shore . RANGELEY LAKES, 23 Of the other attractions, Echo Lake claims a large share ofattention. The little valley in which it is situated has remarkableacoustic properties, and as the visitor sails over the surface of thelake, his voice, or the blast of a trumpet, is returned in oft-re-peated echoes, growing fainter with each repetition, and finally dy-ing among the more distant cliffs, and with an effect surprisinglybeautiful. Mark! how the gentle echo from her cellTalks through the cliffs and murmuring oer the stream,Repeats the accents VALLEY OF THE SACO RIVER. RAXCiELEY LJLKBS. The Rangeley Lakes constitute a series of lakes in northwestMaine, m the great lumber region of Franklin and Oxford Coun-ties, foiming a portion of the most picturesque scenery in theAmerican Continent. The chain consists of a number of distinctbodies of water, connected by small streams, and is best reachedby the Grand Trunk lines from Portland, Quebec, or Montreal, toBethel, thence by stage and steamer. The most remote, Oquossuc,or Rangeley Lake, 1511 feet above the level of the sea, is thus con- 24 SUMMER RESORTS. nected with Umbagog, partly in New Hampshire, 1,256 feet abovethe level of the sea, making a distance of nearly fifty miles, com-prising a water surface of eighty square miles. The lakes aboundm salmon and other delicate fish ; two species of trout, weighingten pounds, being found in these waters only, and secured withlittle trouble. This region is unrivaled for hunting and fishinggrounds in the size, beauty and abundance of gam
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