The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . TUSCARORA STATION. The railroad, a short distance above, enters the Tuscarora Mountain,and runs along its northern slope for many miles. The country, orcertain portions of it, is not so well developed in fertility as it isbelow—but a glimpse is now and then obtained of a good farm,sloping to the river from the mountain sides. The gorge of themountain passed, we enter the county of Juniata, which lies whollybetween the Tuscarora and Shade Mountains, running in ne
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . TUSCARORA STATION. The railroad, a short distance above, enters the Tuscarora Mountain,and runs along its northern slope for many miles. The country, orcertain portions of it, is not so well developed in fertility as it isbelow—but a glimpse is now and then obtained of a good farm,sloping to the river from the mountain sides. The gorge of themountain passed, we enter the county of Juniata, which lies whollybetween the Tuscarora and Shade Mountains, running in nearlyparallel order, and only a few miles apart. The county is thus aboutfive times as long as it is broad—but situated as it is, the land is, uponthe whole, rather productive. Like Perry, it has its seams of ironore and limestone, and its furnaces have long enjoyed good reputationfor the quality of the metal they produce. Tuscarora Creek runs alongthe mountain of that name, and empties into the Juniata near Mifflin, MIFFLIN 87. which is the seat of justice, as well as the most populous town in thecounty. It is delightfully situated, like most other towns along theJuniata, on a sloping eminence, from which a view of the surroundingscenery is afforded. The canal passes under the bridge representedin the engraving, and has, of course, materially increased the tradeof the town. Several little villages on the Juniata, between thisplace and Millerstown, are merely depots for the storage and shipmentof the produce of the surrounding country, as Thompsontown, Mexico,Perryville, &c. Opposite Mifflin the railroad company has erected several large build-ings, including the hotel here exhibited, which is, in our opinion, one ofthe finest establishments of the kind in the United States, at the sametime that it is extremely plain in its internal structure, and cost, com-paratively, a trifling amount of money. Several brick hotels along thisroad, of about the same dimensions, but construc
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