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Seneca Lake Beauties 



and dancing cascades, with wild ravines, seques- 

 tered glen and sylvan dells and the great expanses 

 of the lakes themselves. The works of man in 

 the region are equally pleasing. The land is well 

 cultivated. The farm buildings and general 

 appearance of the fields testify to the prosperity 

 of the country-side. The cities and villages of 

 the region are clean and attractive. There are 

 good hotels and adequate garage accomodations. 



The Finger Lakes country is bordered and tra- 

 versed by railroads. It may be reached by the 

 New York Central, Lehigh Valley, Delaware 

 Lackawanna and Western, and Northern Central 

 and is only a few miles from the Erie and Del- 

 aware and Hudson. 



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An Enchanted 

 Country 



The Finger Lakes Region is the section of the 

 United States where the highest type of Indian 

 civilization was developed. Long before the 

 white man came, the Iroquois cleared the land and 

 put it under cultivation. They lived in houses. 

 Their form of government was of the represen- 

 tative type — each of the Six Nations having 

 representation in the Great Council of the 

 Confederacy. 



In this locality three religions have been born— 

 The Indian religion of Chief Handsome Lake, 

 Mormonism and Spritualism. The student ot 

 history may spend months in the Finger Lakes 

 country without exhausting its possibilities. 



The Five 

 Gateways 



The main auto routes are the northern and 

 southern boundaries of the Finger Lakes 

 Region. The main gateways are at Canandaigua 

 and Skaneateles on the northern routes and at 

 Ithaca, Montour Falls, and Hammondsport on 

 branch roads from the southern route. The lake 

 region is 250 miles from New York City, 165 

 miles from Albany and 85 miles from Buffalo. 



The region contains 2,000 square miles. The 

 SIX largest lakes appear on the map very much 

 as a hand with the fingers extended downward. 

 From west to east the lakes are as follows:. 

 Canandaigua, Keuka, Seneca, Cayuga, Owasco, 

 and Skaneateles. The headwaters of the streams 

 feeding these lakes are in the height of land divi- 

 ding the Great Lakes watershed from the water- 

 sheds of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mex- 

 ico. 



Canandaigua Lake 



Canandaigua Lake was known as the wcbLcrn 

 door of the region in the days of the Iroquois. 

 The Senecas, the greatest warriors of the confed- 



