. Book of the Royal blue . ons are thosewhich have the greatest attendance, butthere are numerous other conventions ofnational character to be held during themonths of June, July and August. In each instance especially low rateshave been named throughout the entireterritory of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroadand detailed information can be had uponapplication to ticket agents. Atlantic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City,Ocean City, N. J., Ocean City, Md., andRehoboth Beach, Del., will have their usualnumber of popular excursions from pointson the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, east ofthe Ohio River, and t


. Book of the Royal blue . ons are thosewhich have the greatest attendance, butthere are numerous other conventions ofnational character to be held during themonths of June, July and August. In each instance especially low rateshave been named throughout the entireterritory of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroadand detailed information can be had uponapplication to ticket agents. Atlantic City, Cape May, Sea Isle City,Ocean City, N. J., Ocean City, Md., andRehoboth Beach, Del., will have their usualnumber of popular excursions from pointson the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, east ofthe Ohio River, and the dates selected areJune 28th, July 12th and 2(;th, August ythand 23d; tickets to be good going on datenamed and with return limit of sixteen days. SPECIAL NOTICE All princiiial Ticket Offices and Information Bureaus of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-road will be supplied from time to time with special literature concerning Hotels, etc.,at the various Summer Resorts. Information cheerfully furnished on Book of the Royal Blue. Published Monthly by thePassenger Department of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Vol. III. BALTIMORE, M.\Y, 1900. No. 8. THE ALLEGHENIES FROM A GEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW. WHEN our early civilization trans-gressed the barrier of the Alle-gheny Mountains and thousands ofmen, women and children traveled overlandto the headwaters of the Ohio, there toresume their journey by boat, one of theroutes was by the way of Fort Cumberland,now Cumberland, Maryland, thence to (ireat seemed the most available route. It tookadvantage of the valleys of the Potomacand Yough, as that river is commonlycalled, but even then the undertaking ofcrossing the mountains seemed the journey from Washington toPittsburg is accomplished in nine route is one abounding in interest and


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