Lectures delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association . nterferes, orvery rarely, and seldom effectually. If your arm gets injuredby being out of wiudow, if you are shaken off the platform?when the train gives a sudden jerk, the fault is your own ;you were left to choose between obedience to orders andthe risk of life or limb, and you take the consequences. Look out for the locomotive when the bell rings isthe announcement in large letters at nearly all the levelcrossings ; but you may do as you please,—the autlioritieshave done their duty, you must do yours, or pay the penaltyof dis
Lectures delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association . nterferes, orvery rarely, and seldom effectually. If your arm gets injuredby being out of wiudow, if you are shaken off the platform?when the train gives a sudden jerk, the fault is your own ;you were left to choose between obedience to orders andthe risk of life or limb, and you take the consequences. Look out for the locomotive when the bell rings isthe announcement in large letters at nearly all the levelcrossings ; but you may do as you please,—the autlioritieshave done their duty, you must do yours, or pay the penaltyof disobedience. Many of the American roads are very picturesque intheir character; those winding through mountainous dis-tricts particularly so. To tunnel through the Alleghanieswould be an expensive affair ; it is easier to follow the trackof the rivers; and then, as on the Lehigh Valley Eailroad,with the mountain ridge always near to you on one side,sometimes on both, and the river at your feet, occasionallyland-locked to all appearance, then winding round the. PEOGRESS; LIFE OF GEOEGE STEPHENSON. 465 base of a hill to another scene, and still another, the rideis very interesting. Sometimes, as in the Pennsylvanian coal range, you aredrawn as far as a locomotive can take you up-hill, thencarried over the summit by coach ; then you commenceyour descent to the plain again, partly drawn by locomotive,partly by mules, partly lowered by stationary engine, andpart of the way you descend by gravity. Sometimes the level road is charming, as through thatexquisitely beautiful plain formed by the Valley of theWyoming, of which Campbell so sweetly sung. Sometimes, however, the road is dull enough, as when itpasses over a prairie. A ride over a railway in Illinois at nightwill give a man a new sensation; the moon shining on thewaving grass,—frequently not a tree, not a shrub, not a house,not a creature to be seen as you gaze out on stillness,which the progress of your train only makes more
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