The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . THE Bia VIADUCT, AND THE SHARP EIDGE ON THE WESTERN SIDE. Big Viaduct in a north-eastern course, soon winds round again, and de-scends towards the west. A short distance from the viaduct, therefore,it again crosses the railroad, or rather, the railroad crosses it, with asplendid iron and wooden bridge, having an elevation of seventy-threefeet. The bridge is approached through a cut over one hundred feet. BRIDGE BELOW THE VIADUCT. in depth—the elevation thus pene
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . THE Bia VIADUCT, AND THE SHARP EIDGE ON THE WESTERN SIDE. Big Viaduct in a north-eastern course, soon winds round again, and de-scends towards the west. A short distance from the viaduct, therefore,it again crosses the railroad, or rather, the railroad crosses it, with asplendid iron and wooden bridge, having an elevation of seventy-threefeet. The bridge is approached through a cut over one hundred feet. BRIDGE BELOW THE VIADUCT. in depth—the elevation thus penetrated consisting of a drift-shale excavation is the deepest to be found on the road—probably thedeepest of any other railroad in the country. The scene here, likethe others just mentioned, is perfectly wild—deeply, gloriously, sub-limely wild! Stones are scattered along the mountain sides indire disorder, among which shoot up tall and stately pine trees,with an occasional oak and maple. Below rushes the torrent as THE ALLEGHANY COAL REGION. 147 if mad with the opposing obstacles which have lately impeded itacourse, and as the fruits of its savage impetuosity, large rounded stonesare scattered along its banks, which have been borne down from thestony ridges obtruding in its bed. We are now entering—nay, we are already within, the great Alle-ghany bituminous coal region—that vast and extraordinary assem-blage of vegetable matter which, in an economical and moral view isworth fifty Californias, were each Calif
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