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 Milford Springs.

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��field on the hillside, bounded by a maple and chestnut forest, affording a charming and restful bit of rural scenery. To the rear of the hotel, from which the land falls rapidly away, there is an extended view half-way around the horizon, unsurpassed for loveliness. In the foreground, at one's feet, is the grove in which are enshrined the health-giving fountains. Over the tree-tops can be seen a wide expanse of hill and valley, woods and cultivated fields, church-spires and farm-buildings.

��John Rogers' antique chairs and set- tees. On this floor are the offices, parlors, dining-room, and hall. On the floors above are spacious guest-cham- bers ; every one receiving sunlight sometime during the day, and each commanding a beautiful prospect.

So thoughtful were the proprietors in planning this hotel, that they have escaped the nuisance of flies in the day-time ; and open windows give in- gress only to pure mountain air.

The house is under the immediate

���BOTTLING-HOUSE.

��bounded in the distance by the outline of hill and mountain in adjoining coun- ties.

The hotel itself was built to conform to the ideas of the proprietors. The hotel is really of four full stories, although apparently of three. The first story, or basement, is artfully concealed by a wide piazza : it is a model in its way, and is under the supervision of " artists " from the Brunswick. The first floor is en- tirely surrounded by a wide veranda, on which are disposed a hundred of

��management of Mr. Charles A. Gleason, steward at the Brunswick ; and, as a matter of course, the service is unex- ceptionable.

The object of this article is not, pri- marily, the description of the hotel, but rather to call public attention to the water of Milford Springs, — more espe- cially the water from the Poxemah Spring.

The ^Milford Springs Company have ever}' convenience for bottling the water, and offer it to the public, not onlv on account of its medicinal qual-

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