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Title: The tourist's guide through the Empire state. Embracing all cities, towns and watering places, by Hudson river and New York central route
Year: 1871 (1870s)
Authors: Colt, S. S
Subjects: New York Central and Hudson River Railroad New York (State) -- Guidebooks
Publisher: Albany, N.Y., Ed. and pub. by Mrs. S. S. Colt
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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itself, is that seen from the wood. We present amid our pages three views, which will be recognizedby all who are conversant with the aspect of the different Falls atTrenton. In conclusion, we will only say, in regard to Trenton, thattourists from New York frequently visit Trenton Falls and Niagarain the same trip—taking, perhaps, on one way, the Erie, and onthe other, the Central railway. We advise visiting Trenton Fallsfirst—Niagara Falls can be compared to nothing else, it standsalone—and the picturesque beauty of Trenton, in its wild, rockybed, is better appreciated when the impression of Niagara is notfresh on the mind. The John Brown Tract of the Adirondacks may be reached bycontinuing upon the Black River railway beyond Trenton to Boone-ville, eighteen miles distant. Returning to Utica, we pass Rome, Verona, Oneida andChittenango, upon our way to Syracuse. At Verona and Chittenango are springs of considerable note.The medicinal qualities of the Chittenango waters are very
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AT TRENTON FALLS. THE TOURISTS GUIDE. 171 similar in character to those of the celebrated White SulphurSprings in Virginia, and seem to possess their wonderful heal-ing powers, especially in cutaneous affections and diseases of theliver, stomach and bowels, and other functions. But these waters,like all that contain sulphuretted hydrogen gas, appear to have adeleterious effect upon pulmonary complaints, and should beavoided by those who are thus afflicted. For that reason they arealso admiiable tests by which to discover a real pulmonary disease,the symptoms of which other disorders sometimes assume. Syracuse is a marvel in the suddenness and rapidity of itsgrowth. In 1811, it was a tangled and almost impenetrableswamp, thickly inhabited by frogs and water-snakes. Upon thelocality over which Syracuse now extends, there was, in the year towhich we refer, but one human habitation ; that was CossettsTavern, near the site of the present Syracuse House. It is an oil dit at the present time

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