. 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 . POPULAK IJESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. 245 who travels or reads has seen or heard of it: and the pencils of manyartists have labored lovingly to portray, for popular gratification, the at-ti-actions of the Alleghany mountains; the Juniata, Susquehanna, andConemaugh Rivers, and the wonderful agricultural vales of I.,ancasterand Chester Counties, through which this road runs. Long sweeps ofwooded hills; lofty mountains and da
. 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 . POPULAK IJESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. 245 who travels or reads has seen or heard of it: and the pencils of manyartists have labored lovingly to portray, for popular gratification, the at-ti-actions of the Alleghany mountains; the Juniata, Susquehanna, andConemaugh Rivers, and the wonderful agricultural vales of I.,ancasterand Chester Counties, through which this road runs. Long sweeps ofwooded hills; lofty mountains and dark ravines; picturesque valleysopening into each other; and placid waters; wide, rolling, pas-toral landscapes,—follow in rapid succession. The magnificent riversare crossed by corresponding bridges. The bold mountain ranges andwild ravines, which would have disheartened a less enterprising company,are overcome by feats of engineering skill, which, combined with thenatural artistic features of the country, make tliis the most interestingroute in
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