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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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nder the arch which divides the great river of theHighlands from the quieter country above. THE CATSKILLS. The Catskill Mountain House, which is the central pointfor the Catskills, may be reached in 8 to 12 or 13 hoursfrom New-York City, by boat or rail, and stage. By railyou leave Thirtieth street at 10 A.M., and reach the sta-tion opposite Catskill at 2.43 P.M., fare $2.35 ; ferry overthe river, and Beachs stage line (10 miles, $4) carries youup the mountain to the hotel. By steamboat one mayleave the city at 9 A.M. on the Daniel Drew or C. Yib-bard, foot of Desbrosses street; at 5 p.m. on the Thomas(not Mary) Powell or New Champion, Franklin Street pier,Saturdays, 2 p.m., or by several other lines ; fare gene-rally, $1 to Catskill. Besides the particular stage linereferred to, from the point where the steam ferry-boatlands, carriages and omnibuses take j)assengers to thevillage, half a mile distant, or carry them directly to themountains or elsewhere, as they may desire. The hotels
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Taghkanic Falls, N. Y. LAKES, EIYERS, AND MOITNTAINS. 19 and some of tlie larger boarding-liouses have carriages, orstages, which run dailv, or oftener, to and from them andthe landing and village, while from other houses carriagesare sent to meet such as are coming to them as boarders,at times previously agreed upon. Passengers from Bos-ton reach the Catskills by the Boston and Albany (West-ern) Railway to Albany, 8 hours, fare $Q, and thence bysteamboat or Hudson River Railway to Catskill; or, leav-ing the Boston and Albany road at Chatham, 1 hour less,take Hudson and Boston Railway to the river shore atHudson, 4 miles north of Catskill; thence by rail, (Hud-son River,) steamboat, or rowboat. The scenery and the traditional history of this regionare alike attractive. We will follow the two together, ina brief way. At the landing itself the good ship HalfMoon, in the classical days (to Knickerbockers, who arethe aristocrats of the vicinity) of Hendrick Hudson, an-chored Sept. 20, 160

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