Identifier: touristtravelvia00granuoft (find matches)
Title: Tourist travel via Grand Trunk Railway System : and connections, including Niagara Falls and Gorge, the Highlands of Ontario, comprising Georgian Bay, Muskoka Lakes ; St. Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, the Saguenay River, the Rangeley Lakes, White Mountains, and the Atlantic Sea-Coast
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
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Publisher: (Montreal) : The System
Contributing Library: Brock University
Digitizing Sponsor: Brock University

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in village. The Rev. Thos. StarrKing spent several seasons here, writing hismost charming book, The White Hills.Listen to his glowing tribute to this beautifulvillage and its surroundings :— • No point in the mountains ofters views tube gained by walks of a mile or two that are morenoble and memorable. . . . For river scen-ery, in connection with impressive mountainforms, the immediate vicinity of Gorliani sur-passes all other districts from which the highestpeaks are visible. The .Androscoggin sweepsthrough the village with a broader bed, and inlarger volume, than the Connecticut shows atLancaster or Littleton. As a general thing. Gor-ham is the place to see the most rugged sculptur-ing and the Titanic brawn of the hills. The village is 812 feet above the sea, theair dry, bracing, invigorating and healthful.The nearness of the great jieaks of Washing-ton, Madi.son, Jefferson and Adams gives raregrandeur to the views of the environ.s. Thedrives and excursions almost without number
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No bamboo rod, no nickel-plated reelThis fisherman emplovs to fill his creel ;With sapling cut from native bush near by,And native wit his hook and line to shv;He gets -em.

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