. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . d ofthe longest continuous river in the world, with uninterrupted naviga-tion throughout, as well as to points radiating from it, comprisingthousands of miles of uninterrupted water navigation, penetratingevery point of the great, grand, and glorious West—to say nothing ofthe canal and railway system forming a net-work of more interior in-tercourse—Pittsburg is, and ever must be, the principal theatre of theproductive greatness of this vast continent! Nature has
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . d ofthe longest continuous river in the world, with uninterrupted naviga-tion throughout, as well as to points radiating from it, comprisingthousands of miles of uninterrupted water navigation, penetratingevery point of the great, grand, and glorious West—to say nothing ofthe canal and railway system forming a net-work of more interior in-tercourse—Pittsburg is, and ever must be, the principal theatre of theproductive greatness of this vast continent! Nature has so ordainedit—she has fixed her stamp of greatness upon it, and her right to en-joy it there is none to dispute. The annexed view of Pittsburg is afforded from the hill aboveSligo, nearly opposite its western point. The editor of the Wheel-ing Times, (which has always been a rival city,) in speaking ofthe visit of a Board of Inquiry appointed to select a site for theUnited States Marine Hospital, some years ago, used the followingeloquent language: This Board found Pittsburg a much larger place than Wheeling; 1-3H GO w Q. PITTSBURG. 179 they found it a thriving place, with numerous engines, furnaces, andmachinery; they found it with a rich and industrious population—apeople that would work, and would therefore prosper^-at the sametime they found them an hospitable, gentlemanly class of beings,possessed of intelligence and willing to impart it. They doubtlesstook an early excursion upon the hills that environ the city. Theylooked down, and a sea of smoke lay like the clouds upon Chimbo-razos base. No breath of air moved its surface; but a sound rosefrom its depths like the roar of Niagaras waters, or the warring ofthe spirits in the cavern of storms. They looked around them, andsaw no signs of life or human habitation. They looked abovethem, and the summer sun, like a haughty warrior, was driving hiscoursers up the eastern sky. Then from the sea of smoke a vaporrose—a
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