Nearer home, the
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.