. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 154 POPlLAK ;. AM) HOW TO HEACH TUKM. lis a pleasure route for excursionists. Passenger cars have been substi-tuted; and the same powerful machinery used for coal-cars is nowapplied to the light pleasure traffic. Carriages from the depots and thehotels take passengers to the base of Mt. Pisgah, though it is but ashort distance for those w ho prefer to walk; and the fine scenery willrepay the effort. The plane of Mt.
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 154 POPlLAK ;. AM) HOW TO HEACH TUKM. lis a pleasure route for excursionists. Passenger cars have been substi-tuted; and the same powerful machinery used for coal-cars is nowapplied to the light pleasure traffic. Carriages from the depots and thehotels take passengers to the base of Mt. Pisgah, though it is but ashort distance for those w ho prefer to walk; and the fine scenery willrepay the effort. The plane of Mt. Pisgah rises one foot in threefor 2,322 feet. The cars are drawn up by a stationary engine on the top,connecting with an iron band six and one-half inches wide, which runsover a drum eighteen feet in diameter. The passenger car is followedby a safety car, supplied with a long iron bar following in a •• ratchet,which, in case of breakage of engine or bands, securely holds the carsagainst accident; and its efficiency may be j udged by the fact thatthere has never yet been an accident. On reaching the summit of , the car starts by its own gravity down t
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