Lynn and the surroundings

lYn-i'-'" 7r'^ c?-,^> .e^^^^^^fe"-p YXN islike no other Ne Jew England city,y Both in situation and si lundings, shehas a beauty and a charm all her own,and m her natural iDhysical characteristics isdisplayed a marked individuality. All thevaried scenes of town, sea-shore and countryare found within her borders.' The former drives his team afield " not farfrom the stirring mart, and the fisherman mends his nets in sight of the towering,smoke-wreathed chimneys of the large factories. But a short distancenorthward from the City Hall are bosky dells between the hills where one mayhide, and many peaceful lakes where the wanderer mav catch the reflection ofwooded shore and shadowy cloud ;while nearer still, in the opposite direction,is the smooth beach, where one may walk the shining sand, j^lunge beneath thecurling breakers, or from the neighboring clifl' count the sails and watch themighty pulsations of the restless heart of ocean, as with ceaseless throbs shesends the wavelets hurrying toward the shore. Or, better still, if one has butan hour for sight-seeing, let him climb the stairs to the top of the rugged observatorybuilt by nature, ages before man built the town, and a wondrous panoramaunfolds before his eyes. At his feet lie the city and the shore ; on the landwardside the view is limited only by the dark background of evergreen-clad hills,while toward the sea the scene dies a\vay in the purple haze which hangs likea veil over the bosom of the ocean. No point of view on the Atlantic gives alarger return for so little effort, and no otlier city of the New World can boast ofsuciian endless variety of landscape and sea-view, hill and valley, lake and river,cottage-crowned cliff and rock-bound shore, with the bright waters of the bay