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You Will Pass Through Pomfert, The Town Whose Special Point Of Interest Is Wolf Den, Where Israel Putnam Slew A Sheep-Killing Wolf Single Handed.

The story was geographically described in our school readers of two centuries ago.

At Willamantic is a monument to Nathan Hale, the martyr spy of the Revolution, who had his home here, as did also General Lyon, killed at Eastport in the Revolutionary War. Here, too, was the home of Jonathan Trumbull, one of the financiers of the Revolution, and Commodore Swift, U. S. N. This town is widely known as the home of Willamantic thread.

TWENTY-NINTH DAY - Providence to Newport.

THIRTIETH DAY - Newport to Plymouth via Fall River, Cape Cod and Provincetown, staying at the Plymouth Rock Hotel.

THIRTY-SECOND, THIRTY-THIRD AND THIRTY-FOURTH DAYS - Plymouth to Boston via the Shore Road.

THIRTY-FIFTH DAY - Boston to Portsmouth, N. H. Here was signed the treaty which closed the Russo-Japanese War.

THIRTY-SIXTH DAY - Portsmouth to Crawford's Notch, via Portland, Maine.

THIRTY-SEVENTH DAY - Crawford's Notch through Green mountains to Lake Champlain.

THIRTY-EIGHTH DAY - Lake Champlain through Adirondacks to Lake George Village.

THIRTY-NINTH AND FORTIETH DAYS - Among mountains and lakes.

FORTY-FIRST DAY - Lake George to Albany.

FORTY-SECOND DAY - Albany through Catskills to Mt. Tremper, where we spent a most delightful evening at the Howland House.

FORTY-THIRD DAY - Mt. Tremper to Utica.

FORTY-FOURTH DAY - Utica and Trenton Falls to Syracuse. Spent the night at the Mizpah hotel.

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