. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . Falls Village,Manayunk, and Conshohocken, until we reach Bridgeport, opposite Moi-ris-town. The latter is a pleasant suburb of Philadelphia, with which it isconnected by a branch-road, which has its depot at the corner of Ninthand Green Streets. This branch follows parallel with our course on the opposite side of theriver, and the charm-ing scenery throughwhich it lies ren-ders it an extremelypopular route forPhiladelphiansse
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . Falls Village,Manayunk, and Conshohocken, until we reach Bridgeport, opposite Moi-ris-town. The latter is a pleasant suburb of Philadelphia, with which it isconnected by a branch-road, which has its depot at the corner of Ninthand Green Streets. This branch follows parallel with our course on the opposite side of theriver, and the charm-ing scenery throughwhich it lies ren-ders it an extremelypopular route forPhiladelphiansseeking suburbanresidences. Bridge-port is the terminusof the ? Chester Val-ley Branch, whichleads through a re-gion of great loveli-ness. From Bridge-port the route con-tinues along theriver bank, each turnpening up new at-ti ictions and freshch irms of scenery,uid each hamlet and\ lUage, as we speedI long, disjilayinge^ idences of the gi-gantic industry for\\hich this valley isfamous. We stillfollow closely thebiiiks of the Schuyl-kill, which glidesquietly and grace-fully along the greenfields that comedown to meet it, and all flies like a dream of VALLEY FORGE. HKSOUTS, ANI> HOW TO REACH THEM. 217 We now reach Valley Forge, memorable in the annals of the nationfor the sufferings of the patriot army under Washington during thewinter of 1777-8. The place of encampment, the old earthworks,and lines of intrenchment, still exist. This region forms a deliglitfulramble : the surrounding scenery is picturesque and beautiful, which, inconnection with the historical associations, makes Valley Forge a placeof great interest to all classes. Many an interesting story, handed downfrom generation to generation, can be told to a ready listener. Just above Valley Forge Perkiomen Creek empties into the Schuyl-kill. The valley through which this stream flows is noted for the quietbeauty of its scenery, its mineral and agricultural resources. It was formany years the abo
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