Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ts size in Pennsylvania. The lumber business is the leadingfeature : a walk through what is called the basin among the millswill cause you to wonder at the immensity of that interest. The stock of lumber, lath, and pickets on hand in this region , 1874, amounted to ,947,165 feet. This great corporation, over whose track we have passed through somany scenes of industry, wealth, and landscape beauty, has many otherinterests than those described in this article. It owns or controls 153 230 POIULAB RESORTS, AND HOW TO KKACH THEM. miles of canal, ha
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ts size in Pennsylvania. The lumber business is the leadingfeature : a walk through what is called the basin among the millswill cause you to wonder at the immensity of that interest. The stock of lumber, lath, and pickets on hand in this region , 1874, amounted to ,947,165 feet. This great corporation, over whose track we have passed through somany scenes of industry, wealth, and landscape beauty, has many otherinterests than those described in this article. It owns or controls 153 230 POIULAB RESORTS, AND HOW TO KKACH THEM. miles of canal, has an immense coal shipping depot in the northern orRichmond District of Philadelphia; it owns fourteen steam colliers,having an aggregate carrying capacity of 15,500 tons, in which it trans-ports, together with canal barges, large quantities of coal to theEastern markets. It has its own shipyard for building and repairingthe colliers, and within itself manufactures nearly all of the principalmaterial used in the operation of a COAL TRANSPORT. Tn tracing the combined lines of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-road our course has led through many and varied scenes of rural andmountain scenery; but Philadelphians are not confined to mountainscenery alone : the whole New Jersey coast is at their doors, than whichthere are no more delightful seaside resorts in the land. The excellentrailway facilities furnished by the Camden and Atlantic Railroad havecontributed largely to the jiopularity of ^//an^/c Ci/3/, specially noted forits dry, salubrious climate. Long Brnnch is also easily reached, though not as popular withPhiladelphians as Atlantic City and Cape May. Cape Ma// is also readily accessible, and is the fashionable resort ofPhiladelphians. POPULAB KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. 231 Long Branch, one of the most popular seaside resorts in America,is in Monmouth County, It was visited for health and recreationprevious to 1812; and, soon after the termination of th
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