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Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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d between thefleets, in full view of the armies. General Macomb, withabout 3000 men, mostly undisciplined, foiled the repeatedassatilts of the enemy, until the capture of the Britishfleet, after an action of about two hours, obliged the lat-ter to retire, with the loss of 2500 men and a large portionof his baggage and amunition. Twenty-five miles farther we reach Rouses Point, onthe west or Xew-York side of the lake. This is our lastlanding before we enter Canada. Montreal is now 44miles distant, and may be reached direct only by rail, (Alon-treal and Champlain;) time, a little less than 2 hotirs;fare, $2. The River Sorel (see article River Saixt Law-BEXCE, near the end) is the outlet of Lake Champlain, car-rying its waters to the Saint Lawrence in a course of 80miles, emptying at the head of Lake Saint Peter on thatriver. Its breadth and rapidity are greatest at this (sonth-exn) end. Xear the centre of its course it expands into thebasin of Chamblv. It is called bv not less than four
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^ / w^ LAKES, EIYERS, AXD lI0U2sTAINS. 197 names. The Nortliern Eailwaj runs from Eonses Pointto Ogdensburg, 118 miles, $4; passengers for the ThousandIslands, above Ogdensburg, or the Rapids below, in theRiver Saint Lawrence, take this route. LAKE (HORICON) GEOEGE. The very best way to arrive at Lake George (assumingthat you are in its neighborhood) is by the stage from FortTi, and the afternoon boat to Fort William Henry: thevery best way to leave Lake George is to take the 4 A.M.special stage from William Henry Hotel to Moreau Sta-tion. By the first, you assure yourself of a sunset on thelake, with all the glorious, deepening shadows of the after-noon introducing it; and by the latter, you see the dawnbreaking over the hills and piercing into the depths of thewater between them, as—believe us—you never can see iton the piazza of the great lodging-house, or, probably,anywhere else. Americans shoiild call this lake by its native name ofHoricon, ( the silvery waters,) although tha

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