ADIRONDACK
region has been greatly extolled by many as possessing a highly salubrious climate for consumptives, and indeed for all who are suffering from general debility and over-work.
There is no doubt that a trip to this mountain region of northern New York, during the latter part of the summer and early fall, would prove of great benefit to many invalids, as indeed a rough camp-life would prove in any high and dry section, especially of interior and northern Vermont, or New Hampshire, which lie contiguous to the Adirondack country.
There is, however, an advantage in a district in which pine timber abounds, and all who resolve on camping out for health should not fail to select such localities. There is a subtle and positive balm to weak nerves and sore lungs inhering in the atmosphere of pine forests, wholly unknown to that of any other. Invalids should be very cautious about giving too much credence to the benefit to be derived by a residence in any climate. They are apt to expect too much, and the fault is perhaps more theirs than those who extoll various localities, in that they build, unjustifiably, too great expectations on what they hear or read.
Scores of people go each season into the Adirondacks with impaired health, and after a few weeks of roughing it come out immensely improved, both in health and spirit, while, on the other hand, others go who are too feeble for such a journey; and again, others who know nothing how to take care of themselves, whether in the woods or out, and, of course, such must return in disappointment.
TABLE OF DISTANCES,
[Approximately Determined.]
From DUBUQUE, or DUNLEITH, to ST. PAUL, by river:
To Cassville 33 33
" Guttenburg 10 43
" Clayton 12 55
" McGregor 11 66
" Prairie du Chien 4 70
" Lynxville 24 94
" La Fayette 13 107
" Lansing 3 110
" De Soto 6 116
" Victory 10 126
" Bad Axe 10 136
" Warners 6 142
" Brownsville 10 152
" La Crosse 12 164
" Richmond 19 183
" Trempeleau 4 187
" Homer 8 195
" Winona 9 204
" Fountain City 12 216
" Minneiska 18 234
" Buffalo City 7 241
" Alma 7 248
" Wabasha 10 258
" Reed's Landing 6 264
" North Pepin 8 272
" Lake City 7 279
" Florence 5 284
" Frontenac 6 290
" Waconta 12 302
" Red Wing 6 308
" Drummond Bluff 15 323
" Prescott 13 336
" Hastings 4 340
" Pine Bend 16 356
" ST. PAUL 16 372
From ST. PAUL to DULUTH.
To White Bear Lake 12 13
" Forest Lake 13 25
" Hush City 29 54
" Kettle River 40 94
" Moose Lake 19 113
" Thompson 19 132
" Fond du Lac 9 141
" Oneota 9 150
" Duluth 4 154
From ST. PAUL to ST. CLOUD.
To St. Anthony 10 10
" Anoka 18 28
" Itasca 7 35
" Elk River 5 40
" St. Cloud 34 74
From ST. PAUL to WILMAR.
To St. Anthony 10 10
" Minneapolis — 10
" Cedar Lake 4 14
" Minnetonka City 6 20
" Wayzata 4 24
" Delano 15 39
" Dassel 27 66
" Litchfield 10 76
" Wilmar 38 104
From ST. PAUL to MANKATO.
To Mendota 6 6
" Shakopee 23 28
" Belle Plain 19 47
" Blakely 5 52
" Le Sueur 11 63
" St. Peter 12 75
" Mankato 11 86
From WINONA. to ST. PETER.
To St. Charles 28 28
" Rochester 22 50
" Owatouna 47 97
" St. Peter 53 150
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FOOTNOTES:
[G] For exactness, see chapters on Climate.
[H] For particulars relating to Florida, see A Winter in Florida, published by Wood & Holbrook, New York.