Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley: Containing Descriptions of Mount Holyoke, Mount Mansfield, White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Willoughby, Montreal, Quebec, &c (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Burt's Illustrated Guide of the Connecticut Valley: Containing Descriptions of Mount Holyoke, Mount Mansfield, White Mountains, Lake Memphremagog, Lake Willoughby, Montreal, Quebec, &C

Valley have long been known to the favored few, and poets and artists have given the world glimpses of its salient points, but it was not until quite a recent period that its charming and match less characteristics became known to the many. The extension of more rapid and comfortable modes of travel has Opened the doors to this elysian field, and thousands come with the recurring period of fo liage and flowers, to worship at the shrine of beauty found in lofty mountains, broad meadows, and a majestic river. While the noble Connecticut is the Rhine of New England, the region of its source is the Switzerland of America, and year by year the pilgrims to this favored land journey thither in search of rest and inspiration.

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