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.