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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iles multiplied by 2, with 1or 2 cents added for tax, vnH invariably give the fare be-tween any two points between the eastern and westernboundaries of the State, as well as, for the most part, be-tween New-York City and Albany. That portion of this great route with which at presentwe have to do, has two termini at the eastern end, one atAlbany and the other at Troy, which meet, after 17 miles,at Schenectady. It then continues in one line to Syracuse,148 miles from Albany, when it is again a double route forthe remainder of the way ; the lower line, via Auburn andCanandaigua, known as the Auburn or Old Road, be-ing looped up to the other at Rochester, about midwaybetween Syracuse and Buffalo. The upper route is calledthe Direct Road, with a justness which the traveler bythe Old way vnll cheerfully accede. The Erie Canaltraverses the entire State nearly on the same line with theCentral, and the Mohawk River is parallel nearly as far asRome, 110 miles from Albany. The portion of country
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LAKES, BIVEES, AND MOUNTAINS. 127 through, wliicli tlie railway passes possesses, moreover,much, historical interest. The Five Nations once occu-pied most of the country along the route ; and many lo-calities visible from the car-windows were the scenes ofsavage warfare and fierce conflicts during the Revolution. ATHENS ROAD. The new branch of the Central, which is sometimestermed the Athens Cut-off, is a route of some interest tothe tourist. It commences at Athens, in Greene county,opposite Hudson, on the Hudson River, and runs in a di-rection north by west to Schenectady, saving a very littletime and distance. Athens is at present a small and unimportant village of2000 inhabitants. A good deal of limestone is quarriednear here, and three small lakes in the western part of thetownship give a pleasant variety to the interior. Coxsackie, 6 miles from Athens, is an old Dutch vil-lage, settled about 1652. Coeymans, 14 miles, boasts two falls, two caves, severalmineral springs, a lake, a

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