Our Summer Pleasure-Places [pp. 193-201]

APPLETONS' JOURNAL.
.OUR SUMMER PLEASURE-PLACE S.
:0 U-R S UHHER PLE,HAS URGE -PL,41CE.S. I
O various in character and large in number have
become the places to which we resort for recreation and rest during the summer solstice that many
books have to be written to suitably set them forth.
How, as one turns over the pages of some of these
captivating volumes, he ever succeeds in determining
which of the thousand claimants upon his attention
shall give him the benefit of its freshening airs, is
puzzling to understand., And even if the indefatigable summer pleasure-seeker resolves to enjoy them
a trout-stream, a lake, or a prospect, little knows the
legion that await his coming.
Nature has certainly done wonders for us in the
way of glorious scenery and inviting sheets of water;
when man has effectually done his part in the hotels
that he sets up and the locomotion he provides, the
summer resorts of America will be endeared to every
heart as so many happy paradises.
Their variety is fairly endless. They skirt our
sea-border; they nestle among our hills and moun
EN VOYAGE.
all successively in turn, he must depend upon the tains; they line our river-courses; they take possesyears of a centenarian to accomplish his purpose. sionof our islands; they make g-ay our lakes; they
The dozen or so leading "resorts" are, of course, hang over our glens and cascades they marshal in
quickly compassed; but the ambitious youth who all places that have a natural grace. The weary
thinks to carry his knapsack into all the places that town-worker who pants for green hills and shady
parade large hotels, or rejoice -in a mountain, a glen, dells, or longs for the tonic of tumbling sea-waves,
may find his health-giving rest at any point to which
Appletons' Illustrated Hand-book of Summer Resorts, in- he may turn
cluding Tours and Excursions. New York: D. Appleton & Away on the coast of Maine are many notable
Co. x876. places. First, on its remotest border, and without its
SEPTEMBER, I876. VOL. I.-I3
I