. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . MAUCH CHUNK AND MOUNT PISGAH. MAUCH CHUNK, FROM FOOT OF MOUNT 114 . PICTURESQUE AMERICA. attached at certain hours for visitors. This is all changed now, the cars reaching thevalley by a longer but circuitous route. The cars are returned to Summit Hill bymeans of inclined planes and stationary engines ; and from the Summit to the Lehigh,a distance of nine miles, the gravi
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . MAUCH CHUNK AND MOUNT PISGAH. MAUCH CHUNK, FROM FOOT OF MOUNT 114 . PICTURESQUE AMERICA. attached at certain hours for visitors. This is all changed now, the cars reaching thevalley by a longer but circuitous route. The cars are returned to Summit Hill bymeans of inclined planes and stationary engines ; and from the Summit to the Lehigh,a distance of nine miles, the gravity-impelled cars dash at a rapid rate with their spoilsfrom the heart of the mountain. In the first of our larger illustrations, the Mount-Pisgah inclined plane and a por-tion of the Gravity Road, as already mentioned, may be seen. The cars which we ob-serve on the grade may be discovered at their terminus in the engraving given they rattle down into huge coal-boxes, into which their contents are durmped
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