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Identifier: summervacationto00mich_0
Title: Summer vacation tours
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Michigan Central Railroad Company New York Central Lines
Subjects: Michigan Central Railroad Company New York Central Lines
Publisher: [S.l.] : Michigan Central
Contributing Library: Queen’s University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen’s University – University of Toronto Libraries
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Public Garden, Boston grass on the Boston Common, when the lady con-fessed her ignorance, saying she had never been inBoston. Ah, then you are not an American fromthe States; you are from the Provinces, was thecrushing response. The Boston pilgrim, if he is wise,will provide himself with a native guide; wanderover the Common and about the State House; strolldown the crooked streets by the Old South Church,the Kings Chapel, Faneuil Hall, Copps Hill, andthe Old India Wharf, where many an honest andmodest fortune has been made; and then he willtake the tourists trolley (a convenient but incon-gruous innovation) and the guide will do the rest.He will be taken to Bunker Hill, no longer a pasturelot; to Cambridge, where Washington mustered hislittle army under the old elm; and a hundred otherhistoric shrines and literary altars as well. Bostonis noted for its excellent hotels, which, from thetwo centuries and more of commercial intercourse
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07 Michigan Central Summer Tours with Europe, have taken much of the quiet, home-like character of the best London hotels, combinedwith the Yankee spirit of improvement and up-to-date service. Even the dwellings are of inter-est to the visitor from the newer West. Every oldhouse—and few are new—every bridge, and everystreet corner and lane about Boston has its story.The bay, with its score of islands, is one of themost beautiful in the world, and then there arethe suburbs, to be reached either by rail or boat:Nahant, Nantasket Beach, Manchester-by-the-Sea,Magnolia, Gloucester—the greatest fishing port inthe world—Rockport, Swampscott, Salem—famousfor Cotton Mather—and many others. One should
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