Identifier: trolleytripsthro01hart (find matches)
Title: Trolley trips through New England ..
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: New England -- Description and travel. (from old catalog) Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn., Guyde publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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THE HARBOR AT ONSET 96 Trolley Trips through New England
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NEW ENGLAND S CANAL—AT CAPE COD It would be hard to rind a spot within a hundred miles withas great natural attractions for the lover of the out-of-doors.Indeed, why stifle, why swelter in the inland, when an hourbrings you to the Country and the Sea? Not for thee the dull jar of the loom and the wheel,The gliding of shuttles, the ringing of steel;But that old voice of waters, of bird and of breeze,The dip of the wild fowl, the rustling of trees. Of course, you wish to see our great new Cape Cod Canal,of which New England is justly proud. Taking the MonumentBeach car, alight at Bourne, which is just over the MonumentRiver, the western mouth of the Canal. This town, almost sur-rounded by fresh and salt water, is the natural gateway to theCape by trolley, railroad or automobile. The Canal was first projected in the days of Gov. Winthrop,300 years ago, and so is older in conception than .Panama oiSuez. The Canal follows the river, digs thro Sagamore Hill(a little brother of the so-much

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