. Here and there in New England and Canada . - navy-yard, and perhaps a glimpse of the spars of theworld-renowned Constitiitioii. A few miles beyond, and our many-wheeled procession turns its back onthe coast, and begins the long climb into Middle Xew Hampshire, passing aline of prosperous manufacturing-towns,— Salmon Falls and Great Falls andRochester. Here, on the Norway Plains, sadly famous in by-gone centuriesfor Indian forays, we shall cross the railways leading to Portland, Nashua,Dover, and Lake Winnipesaukee. And we may go up the last-named route,past the Blue Hills of Strafford, to Al
. Here and there in New England and Canada . - navy-yard, and perhaps a glimpse of the spars of theworld-renowned Constitiitioii. A few miles beyond, and our many-wheeled procession turns its back onthe coast, and begins the long climb into Middle Xew Hampshire, passing aline of prosperous manufacturing-towns,— Salmon Falls and Great Falls andRochester. Here, on the Norway Plains, sadly famous in by-gone centuriesfor Indian forays, we shall cross the railways leading to Portland, Nashua,Dover, and Lake Winnipesaukee. And we may go up the last-named route,past the Blue Hills of Strafford, to Alton Bay, which is one of the chiefports on Lake Winnipesaukee, with its summer-hotel, and a large steamboatmaking daily voyages to all the other forest-bound ports on this loveliestof highland seas. The attractions of Lake Winnipesaukee are describedcarefully and at length in Lakes and But if we repel the allurements of this side-trip, the train bears us acrossthe towns of Milton and Union, abounding in silvery ponds and bold hills,and not devoid of farm boarding-houses; and so we come again under thespell of the great lake, at Wolfeborough Junction, whence a short branch-railway leads out to Wolfeborough, one of the most famous summer-resortsin this region, with abundant hotel and steamboat accommodations, andbeautiful mountain-views, across fair Winnipesaukee. Northward again, across the long-drawn town of Wakefield, with itschain of lakes on the border-line of Maine, and a dozen or so of farmboarding-houses. For the next fifteen miles, we fly across the town of Ossi-pee, over broad drift-plains, and past the shire-village of Carroll may even get a glimpse of dark Ossipee Lake (like the wildest partsof Norway, Harriet Martineau said of it), oval, transparent, heath-guarded,and for many years watched by the fortresses of Provincial the
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