Popular resorts, and how to reach them . uble in itsconstruction. After thearch was completed, aslide from the mountaincrushed portions of itand the stone portal, andan interior arch becamenecessary. It is nowperfectly safe, but re-duced to single trackdimensions for eightyfeet. At the westernportal of this tunnel maybe observed the greaterheight above the riverdue to its longer courseand the gentle grade ofthe railroad. One milebelow on the right is abeautiful cascade whereDowdy Creek (Whatsin a name ? ) joins theriver. At Suttles Clilf,still lower down, there hundred and thirty feetcutt
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . uble in itsconstruction. After thearch was completed, aslide from the mountaincrushed portions of itand the stone portal, andan interior arch becamenecessary. It is nowperfectly safe, but re-duced to single trackdimensions for eightyfeet. At the westernportal of this tunnel maybe observed the greaterheight above the riverdue to its longer courseand the gentle grade ofthe railroad. One milebelow on the right is abeautiful cascade whereDowdy Creek (Whatsin a name ? ) joins theriver. At Suttles Clilf,still lower down, there hundred and thirty feetcutting, but it is embank-ment on the river Seioell, formerlyknown as Boyers Ferry,forty miles below themouth of Greenbrier, thevalley becomes a truecanon. For twenty miles below there is not a strip of arable land in thevalley, and at points the cliffs are perpendicular from the river the scenery is wild indeed. Such slopes as these are generally coveredwith bowlders, some of immense size; and along these slopes and imder. WHITCOMBS BOWLDER. POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. 285 frowning cliffs the railroad gropes its way under their shadow; one ofwhich, Whitcombs Bowlder, it was proposed to tunnel as the easiest solu-tion of a location of the road, and it was actually under-cut on oneside for trains to pass. The passenger looks upwards a thousand feet ormore as the train sweeps a graceful curve around some concave bend, andsees the beetling cliffs of many colored sandstone, looking with theirgreat angles like gigantic castles and fortresses erected by Nature toguard these her penetralia. The running of New River Rapids, once a common occurrence, willsoon become one of the things of the past, and its recital placed among the events of a good whileago. Before the completionof the railroad, this means oftransportation was much invogue. The accompanyingillustration will convey a fairidea of the passage. Theboats are admirably adaptedto the work they have to do
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