New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-05-02
Great Northern Pleasure Route.

weatner neralds mere the departure OF many cit
liens and strangers who prefer enjoying in a
cooler cline, and amid new scenes, the warmer
portonsof the year. Famous as New England
for the travel of its children, we much doubt
whether New England or any other section of
country, sends forth more numerous excursion
lists than Louisiana, and the States which lie
contiguous to it. The labors of the winter afford
means for the pleasures Of the summer and
great majority of the population journey North
as regularly as the birds. So much travel neces-
sarily induces some thought each year as to the
route which is TO be pursued, and the scenery
which is to be seem Fortunately our Northern
friends not only supply new roads and routes al
most annually, but send to MS missionaries Of
| their labors to explain what's unknown and ex-
| pound what is not clear
The approach of another summer reminds us
| Of the probable exodus which is to accompany
it, and induces US to sketch, for the benefit of
the class we have described. one of the many
routes which will be found easy, pleasant and
agreeable for this summer travel. We shall
have something to say Of other prominent and
attractiv eroutes hereafter
Nine-tenths, probably, of all Southern sum-
mer travelis by way of the Mississippi, either
through st. Louis or via Cincinnati 1t mat
tiers not to US which of these lines is taken,
each possessing its own advantages. The point
which we would reach in the most immediate
manner from here, is Niagara Falls; and it is
from thence that the trip to which we specially
allude has its proper beginning. 1t has, more
oyer, the advantage of being spot almost in
variably visited during the summer, and there.
fore as well seen at the beginning as at the
close of the season.
Leaving the Falls, after day or two spent in
beholding the numerous natural curiosities in
that vicinity, the traveller should hold his way
to Lewiston, passing Lundy' Is Lane, the Suspen.
sion Bridge, the Whirlpool, and the DEVILS
Hole; also catching a sight of Queenston
Brooks Monument, and Forts Massasaugua and
Niagara. At Lewiston there is steamer dali,
for Ogdensburg and Montreal, and we do no
discredit to other steamboat lines in the North
in ranking this one among the best 1t is al
the option Of the traveller whether he goes di.
rect from Lewiston to 0gdensburg, or touches
at the intermediate ports Of Rochester, Oswego
Sackett's Harbor and Kingston. q-., -.
Perhaps the latter route. as affording the
greatest number Of agreeable sights, may be
considered the best. The trip down the st
Lawrence is the same whether by the express
or way boats. Both pass by daylight through
the beautiful scenery of the Thousand Isles and
the magnificent views which extend along the
whole course Of the river. Both afford an op-
portunity for viewing the towns and villages
scattered along the coast, and beholding places
celebrated for warlike encounters between Eng
lish and French, or Indians and Americans. or
Americans and English. 0gdensburg is as far
as the fine steamers which cross Ontario are
enabled to descend the river. Leaving them,
therefore, at this point for boats of smaller size
butsuperior accommodations, the traveller passes
on to Montreal, through the rapids of the river,
without stoppage or impeachment. 1t is only
days journey from Montreal to Boston OF New
York: but the trip we commend extends still
farther down the pleasant waters Of the St.
Lawrence to Quebec, and from thence on to and
up the Saguenay rivera stream asdark as the
styS and almost as mysterious and unexplored
At its mouth which is mile wide, the first stone
house ever built in Canada still stands and the
station whence old Father Marquette sailed to
explore the Mississippi
1t is not in our power in the compass Of
single article to enumerate all the sights which
will be seen on the route we have thus hastily
sketched. i They are numerous and amply com
besides afording more pleasure than
san be obtainedin whole summers stop at the
leated caravanserais of fashionable resorts,
Those who love nature and the beautiful ap. |
'earances which it ever presents cannot be other
han gratified with the path from Niagara t,
he Saguenay, and even old travellers will fnu
omething worthy of their observation.
The line which we have mapped out can be
1T at almost any point and for almost any des.
nation. From Montreal the traveller can reach
Iew York or Boston by the Champlain and St
lawrence railroad; or he can pass to Portland,
4 Maine, by the Atlantic railroad which passes
be White Mountains. The Evolutionary scenes
a land longer inhabited than almost any por |
ion of this continent lie upon the one sde while |
n the other are means of access to all the nov
tiles of city life and fashions. The time occu-
led in passing from the Falls to the Saguenay |
iyer is only about five days, and the whole trip |
. and from, with sufficient stop at Montreal |
nd Quebec, can be made in d fortnight. x.
The great Northern pleasure route, but lately |
penel to the public. has been carefully described
nd accurately illustrated in little hand book |
lifted by Commodore Van Cleves, the Treasurer
{ the Ontario Gompany--for a copy of which we
re indebted to Col. q. Barber, the gentlemanly |
gent of the company, who has been spending
W weeks in our Southern States, more fully to
escrihe the merits Of the route he represents.
his has always been favorite course of travel |
it'll Southerners, and we feel assured that the |
creased facilities will produce increased tayel.
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