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 THE LOCATION. 
 
 npME pretty village of Westport-on-Lake 
 Champldin lies on a slope of the natural 
 terrace which encircles the great Northwest 
 Bay, overlooking the fairest portion of Lake 
 Champlain. This was the scene of General 
 Benedict Arnold's famous fight with the "Con- 
 gress," October 13, 1776, in which he suc- 
 cumbed to the superior force of the British 
 ships, and running the "Congress" galley and 
 four gondolas into a small bay directly opposite 
 Westport, burned them to the water's edge. 
 Some of the cannon and many pieces of the 
 famous ships have been taken from the Lake. 
 
 This place has been known for many years 
 as the eastern gateway to the Adirondacks. 
 
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 The great highway leading through Elizabeth- 
 town and Keene Valley to the Ausable Ponds, 
 Lake Placid, and the high peaks of the range. 
 
 THE. HOUSE AND GROUNDS. 
 
 ^I^HE Westport Inn is located on high ground, 
 one hundred and fifty yards back from 
 the Lake, with a great sweeping lawn sloping 
 gently to the water and studded with graceful 
 elm trees, and it has accommodations for one 
 hundred and fifty guests. The service is most 
 efficient and the table is spoken of in the highest 
 terms of praise, being noted for its dainty 
 appointments and excellent, plain food. 
 
 The parlor, drawing and writing rooms, and 
 
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 fine large office and dining room airy and pleasant, 
 and the music room is apart from the main house. 
 The chambers and bathrooms are thoroughly 
 well furnished and the sanitary arrangements 
 excellent. 
 
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 THE. CLUB HOUSE. 
 
 ^ I ^HE new Club House is one of the most 
 attractive features of this attractive resort. 
 The house is two stories in height and the 
 architecture is in the popular colonial style. 
 The interior is finished in natural wood, and 
 there are hardwood floors throughout. Open 
 fireplaces insure coziness and comfort, no matter 
 how unpleasant the weather may be outside. 
 The second floor is devoted to billiards and 
 pool. The ground floor contains a reading 
 room and dressing rooms for men and women, 
 and shower baths. 
 
 THE SURROUNDINGS 
 
 'T^HE wide piazzas of the Inn command a fine 
 view over the sloping lawns and flower 
 garden, two tennis courts, shaded by large elms, 
 the boat house on the shore below, the pictur- 
 esque steamboat landing, and beyond, the circling 
 shores of the great bay, with the near foot-hills 
 
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of the Adirondacks, the long slopes of the 
 Split Rock range, and, in the background 
 across the Lake, in Vermont, the great chain of 
 the Green Mountains extending from the famous 
 Camels Hump in the north to Snake Mountain 
 in the south. 
 
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 The picturesque surroundings supply a fine 
 field for the amateur photographer, and the inn 
 is provided with a dark room fitted with appli- 
 ances for dc^ ' ' ' 
 
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 THE CLIMATE. 
 
 ^ I ^HE curative and invigorating effects of this 
 pure, dry and rarely hot atmosphere are 
 well attested in cases of malaria and other 
 forms of disease, and the climate is especially 
 healthful for children; the percentage of deaths 
 for the year 1900 was 13.5 and under sixty 
 years of age only four to each one thousand 
 inhabitants. These facts, added to the presence 
 of a good physician, the extreme quiet of the 
 village, the railroad even being a mile away, 
 and the many healthful resources render it a 
 most desirable resort for young people seeking 
 pleasure, for business men seeking rest, and for 
 families seeking summer homes. 
 
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THE WATER SUPPLY. 
 
 '^I^HE remarkable and unusual features of 
 Westport are the wonderful supply of water 
 and the health record, both of which are unsur- 
 passed by any locality in this country. High up 
 on the side of the mountain range which rises be- 
 hind the village, in the midst of a beautiful dell of 
 white birches, there bursts from a subterranean 
 source a spring of marvelously clear water, which 
 
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 at its height issues from the ground at the rate of a 
 million gallons a day. This spring has been noted 
 since the days of the earliest settlers, over one hun- 
 dred years ago, for its wonderful temperature and 
 purity. The geological formation around it is of 
 primeval granite, and the uniform temperature of 
 the water throughout the year indicates the depth 
 of its source, and also accounts for its absolute 
 purity. It is of fine appearance, free from any 
 
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 traces of odor, agreeable to the taste, and is of 
 exceptional chemical purity. It contains but a 
 small quantity of mineral matter, and is therefore 
 a "soft" water. It is a delicious table water, 
 long noted as an absorbent of all chalky forma- 
 tions, and an alleviation of all gouty tendencies. 
 As a bathing and toilet water it is of marvelous 
 quality. The spring requires no reservoir, and 
 the water is carried directly from the fountain 
 head to the village, three miles away. 
 
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 A LIBRARY. 
 
 ^ I ^HE village has an attractive library, whose 
 well-filled shelves offer inducements to 
 the literary visitor, and a pretty hall con- 
 nected with it, in which entertainments are 
 given through the summer months. 
 
GOLF. 
 
 ^ I ^HE Westport Golf Club is but two minutes' 
 -^ walk from the Inn. The Club House com- 
 mands an unsurpassed view of the lake and 
 Green Mountains on the east and the Adiron- 
 dacks on the west. 
 
 The rolling character of the ground furnishes 
 the best of hazards and with water piped to every 
 green excellent conditions of the course is assured. 
 
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 BATHING^ BOATING-FISHING. 
 
 ' I ^HE bathing is unexcollod in ihe clear, 
 cool waters of the lake; there are bath 
 houses for the guests of the Inn, and a float 
 for the more expert swimmers, while the gentle 
 slope of the beach and clean sand affords an 
 excell'^nt play ground for the children. 
 
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 A fine boat livery is connected with the 
 Inn, and, as the fishing here is very good, the 
 bay is constantly studded with rowboats, the 
 occupants in search for perch or bass, or hang- 
 ing idly on their oars, watching the sun set over 
 the Adirondack peaks, and later, the moon rise 
 over the great Vermont range. 
 
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 npHERE is a good livery, which has both 
 driving and saddle horses, and there are 
 many beautiful and picturesque drives in every 
 direction, over the great terrace, or through the 
 valleys and hills, affording new glimpses of lake 
 and mountain at each turn and easily traced by a 
 fine road map of the "Highways and Byways." 
 
 E,XCURSIONS 
 
 ' I ^HE lake excursions are numerous; the fine, 
 great steamers of the Transportation Line 
 touching here four times daily, giving opportunity 
 for delightful trips to the old fort at Ticonderoga, 
 the old French and English forts at Crown 
 
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Point, the famous Ausable Chasm, the United 
 Slates Military Post at Plattsburgh, the Summer 
 School at Bluff Point, the beautiful city of Bur- 
 lington, or an all-day trip through the lovely 
 islands of the north. 
 
 There are also two small steamers that can 
 always be chartered to explore the enchanting 
 coves and islands, which have, many of them, 
 historical associations, and also to make one of 
 the most unique trips in the country up the 
 
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 lovely Otter Creek, past the old Fort Cassin to 
 the pretty city of Vergennes, which has the 
 honor of being the oldest in Vermont. 
 
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 HOW TO GET THERE 
 
 A A /ESTPORT is very accessible, it being 
 ^ ^ only eight hours from New York via 
 the New York Central and Delaware & Hudson 
 Railroads, or via the Hudson River night boats, 
 and rail from Albany four hours; or by 
 Hudson River night boats, and rail from 
 Albany to Caldwell and through Lake George 
 and Lake Champlain by boat, arriving at 3 
 p.m.; or the ride through Lake George can be 
 omitted or a later train taken out of Albany to 
 Fort Ticonderoga and thence by boat to 
 Westport. 
 
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 It is nine hours from Boston via the Boston & 
 Maine and Rutland Railroads, through the 
 beautiful Green Mountains to Burlington, and 
 then by the Champlain Transportation Co. to 
 Westport. 
 
 Four hours from Montreal by Delaware & 
 Hudson Railroad, and three hours from Saratoga 
 via the same. 
 
 It is eleven hours from Portland via The 
 White Mountain Notch, Burlington, and Cham- 
 plain Transportation Co. steamers. 
 
 For floor plans and further particulars, address 
 
 H. P. SMITH, Manager, 
 
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