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Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser
Alexandria, Virginia
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Increased traveling through New York region due to natural curiosities, delightful countryside, business depression in seaports, and ease of travel. Fashionable tours go via Albany or Ballston Springs, Erie Canal to Niagara Falls, then to Montreal, Quebec, or up the Lakes to Detroit and Mackinac.
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In no season has there been so much travelling through this region, as in the present; the attractions presented by the great natural curiosities in our state—a delightful country, populated by an enterprising people engaged in stupendous improvements—the depression of business (but plenty of money) in the seaport towns—the facility of travelling—are circumstances which render a jaunt of this kind both agreeable and easy to those who are usually confined within the brick walls of a city. The fashionable tour is Albany, or Ballston Springs, through the country by stages, or in part on the middle section of the Erie Canal—to the Falls of Niagara, whence parties of pleasure diverge, some to the north, taking Montreal and even Quebec in their homeward course, while others extend their tour up the Lakes to Detroit, Mackinac, &c. &c.
[Ontario, (N.Y.) Repository.]
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New York State Region, Albany, Ballston Springs, Erie Canal, Falls Of Niagara, Montreal, Quebec, Lakes To Detroit, Mackinac
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Present Season
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Description of heightened travel activity attracted by natural curiosities and improvements in the state, ease from seaport business depression, with popular routes via Albany, Ballston Springs, and Erie Canal to Niagara Falls, extending northward or along the Lakes.