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Title: Our summer retreats : a handbook to all the chief waterfalls, springs, mountain and sea side resorts : and other places of interest in the United States : with views taken from sketches by Washington Friend, Esq., and from photographs
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Thomas Nelson & Sons
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: New York : T. Nelson & Sons
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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igh for restin their cooling bowers. Anon the sun breaks overthem, and you are still as eager to mingle in their nowwild and lawless revelry. You may shake up the lakelike a kaleidoscope, seeing with every varying change anew picture, by simply varying your relative position tothese islands. Now you have a fore-ground of pebblybeach, or, perchance, of jagged rock or of forest debris,with the spreading water and the distance-tinted hills,to fill up the canvass; or, peeping beneath the pendentboughs of the beech and maple, an Arcadian bower dis-closes vistas of radiant beauty. Description attempts in vain to convey an accurateidea of beautiful scenery. We quote the opinion ofothers, in order to tempt the traveller to visit tliis lovelyspot—to go and see that which is so well worthy of beingseen, but cannot be adequately described. The first island of interest that we pass, after leavingCaldwell, is Diamond Island, near Dunham Bay. Itwas a depot of military stores for Bm-goynes army in
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Druwn i F.r. This Map is divided, irttio Sqtuur-s ol 20MUes. ISLANDS OP LAKE GEORGE. 15 1777, and the scene of a sharp skirmish between the gar-rison and a body of Americans. Long Island is close to Harris Bay, in which Mont-calm moored his bateaux in 1757. On Dome Island, twelve miles from Caldwell, Put-nams men took shelter while he went to acquaintGeneral Webb with the enemys movements. North-west Bay, just beyond Bolton, is an exceed-ingly beautiful part of the lake. Bolton itself is nothing, a mere * huddle of huts, asits inhabitants appropriately term it. Its inn is every-thing, and that is everything to us! The vicinity ofBolton is the favourite resort of the hunter and the pis-cator. The trout and bass taken here are frequently ofenormous size. From the Pinnacle and other elevationsin the neighbourhood, splendid views of the surroundingcountry and of Lake Champlain may be obtained, bythose who love to tread the mountain-tops at break ofday. This is one of the broadest parts of

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