. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . A mighty maze, but not without fi plan; A wild, where weeds and flov/ers promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us roam this ample fieldâ Try what the open, what the covert yield ; Eye Natures walksâshoot folly as it flies. And catch the manners, living, as they rise; Laugh where we mustâ-be candid where we can, But always vindicnto the ways of God to man! ROM Philadelphia to Potta-ville, Tamaqua and MauchChunk, thence to Wilke
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . A mighty maze, but not without fi plan; A wild, where weeds and flov/ers promiscuous shoot, Or garden, tempting with forbidden fruit. Together let us roam this ample fieldâ Try what the open, what the covert yield ; Eye Natures walksâshoot folly as it flies. And catch the manners, living, as they rise; Laugh where we mustâ-be candid where we can, But always vindicnto the ways of God to man! ROM Philadelphia to Potta-ville, Tamaqua and MauchChunk, thence to Wilkes-barre, in Wyoming ;âthis isthejourney before us. Hav-ing seated ourselves in thecomfortable cars of the Read-ing Railroad Company, thefirst object which arrests ourattention, after leaving thedepot at Broad near Callow-hill street, is the PrestonRetreat, a fine marble build-ing on our right; we thencatch glimpses of the EasternPenitentiary, which servedas a model for EuropeanInstitutions of a like char-§; acter, and of Girard College,the finest building of theUnited States, and one of the finest in the (17). 18 OTF-HAND SKETCHES.
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