. 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 . n lashed bythe fury of the waves, to the enraged boar. This summer resort has been long and favorablyknown. The house stands on the crest of a rockypromontoi-y, which rises gradually to the height ofeighty feet, against whose jagged base for ages^O^- past the waves in ceaseless roll have dashed their whitened spray. On either side, stretching for miles away, extend beau-tiful beaches, whose waters furnish i-are facilities for
. 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 . n lashed bythe fury of the waves, to the enraged boar. This summer resort has been long and favorablyknown. The house stands on the crest of a rockypromontoi-y, which rises gradually to the height ofeighty feet, against whose jagged base for ages^O^- past the waves in ceaseless roll have dashed their whitened spray. On either side, stretching for miles away, extend beau-tiful beaches, whose waters furnish i-are facilities for bathing, and whosehardened sands present a surface for driNing not excelled along this coast. Little Boars Head, North Hampton, , is a connecting linkbetween Hampton and Rye Beaches. It would be famous but for thesuperiority of its great rival, Boars Head. Tt is a jirojection also intothe sea, but of a lesser altitude. These marked spots, adjacent to su(;hgrand beaches as Hampton and Rye, are assured of a constant is a favorite summer i-esort for families of taste and refinement. Atpresent there is no hotel, but many excellent IOPULAR RESORTS, AND UOW TO REACH THK»\t. 69 Rye Beach, , half a century ago had an occasional stragglinga(hiiirer, or possibly a company from the back country, in the summerseason, to appreciate its beauties, and enjoy its lonely solitude. But ithas since acquired a distinctive fame. At present its popularity iswidely established, and thousands make it their resort for recreation andrest. It is animated and exhilarating hi the season, and is able tomaintain its partial preference against all rivals of the coast. It isabundantly supplied with every source of enjoyment, —city, country, sea,and fashionable elegances and refinements, and all modes and moods oflife, to suit all tastes. Portsmouth, , has proverl an admiralile place from which toemigrate. It has one of the best haibors, rears the smartest of men
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