The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . Steamer Mt. ! I ashington and numerous boarding-houses, wheregood accommodations can he obtained. A lew words on beautiful Lake Win-nipesaukee may not he out of place inconnection with The Weirs. The lakelies in the counties of Belknap andCarroll, and is about twenty-five mileslong, and varies from one to sevenmiles in width. Itsa r e a . exclusive oitwo hundred a n dseventy-four islands,is upwards of sev-enty- one squa r emiles, and the dis-l a n ce around i t s
The illustrated LaconianHistory and industries of Laconia, of the city and its manufacturing and business interests . Steamer Mt. ! I ashington and numerous boarding-houses, wheregood accommodations can he obtained. A lew words on beautiful Lake Win-nipesaukee may not he out of place inconnection with The Weirs. The lakelies in the counties of Belknap andCarroll, and is about twenty-five mileslong, and varies from one to sevenmiles in width. Itsa r e a . exclusive oitwo hundred a n dseventy-four islands,is upwards of sev-enty- one squa r emiles, and the dis-l a n ce around i t sshores is one hun-dred and eighty-two miles. There areten islands which have an area of morethan one hundred acres each, and LongIsland has an area of one thousandacres. The lake is four hundred andseventy-two feet above the level of theAtlantic ocean. The waters of the lakeare very clear and pure, abounding with lb. Railroad Station, The Weirs! of row, sail, and steamboats, excursions fish of all kinds, and Winnipesaukee is to all parts of the lake, good train and becoming more noted every year as .1 steamboat service, etc. resort for fishermen from all parts of besides the two hotels mentioned, the New Hotel Weirs and the Lakeside, there Nearly all of the islands have one or are half a do/en other smaller hotels more summer cottages. man_\- of them 232 THE ILLUSTRATED LACONIAN. substantial and in some cases elegantstructures, and The Weirs is the centrefor a very large proportion of the sum-mer cottagers, fishermen, and many years the old-fashioned horse-boats were in frequent use on the laketo transport wood, grain, and othermerchandise, the hrst of these curiouscraft being constructed in 1838, butthe advent of the steamboat in 1842gradually drove the horse-boat into dis-use, and to-day transportation is fur-nished by hundreds of beautiful steamand naphtha craft of all
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