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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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gnificent self:and itself we will now wholly regard. There are two ways to see Niagara, which we will callthe costly way and the careful way; the first under con-trol of a hackman, and the second on foot, as reason, study,and a free moral agency may direct. We prefer the latter.Most guide-books give the first in detail, which is not ne-cessary; the only essentials being, to arrive at NiagaraFalls, put up at the biggest and costliest hotel, commityourself unreservedly to a member of the Niagara FallsOrder of Thugs, (see paragraph on The Hackmex mid-way in this article,) and go in the order he may choose,with such frequent money-lettings as he may prescribe, tothe following places : Brocks Monument, at Queenstown,(7 miles,) LeT^istown and its Suspension Bridge, at thesame point, Lundys Lane, the Whirlpool, the Devils Run,the Great Suspension Bridge, the Burning Spring, the Mu-seum, near Table Rock, the place where Table Rock was.Fort Schlosser, (that was,) Navy Island, Grand Island, the
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3// spei:n^gs axd falls. 65 Rapids above the Falls, and so on. Some views of NiagaraFalls are often included during this experience. A pleasure-traveler at tliis great point on his journeyshould make up his mind at the outset to two things : thathe can not make the tour of Niagara Falls as he can visitmost places, in a railway car or a carriage, in a delay of afew hours ; and that, whatever he do, a first, comparative-ly brief visit will never enable him to appreciate thegreat cataract as he will afterward. If he shall make afoot-tour of the region, he will give himself a peculiaraptitude to take in the spirit of the scene, will be able andanxious to delay longer at the really important points,and will be very unlikely to waste his time in seeing curi-osities in which nothing but a morbid regret at the Bar-nums Museum fires could interest him. The route usuallytaken by visitors to the Falls ought to be divided intotwo parts—one, consisting of the cataracts and their walls,and nothin

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