. Summer excursion routes & rates . . . 108 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 109 distant horizon. Like a vast living panorama, hundreds of square niiles of valley andhill are spread out before the traveler, who is both surprised and delighted with thebeauty of a picture of surpassing loveliness, rarely equalled in this or any foreignland. Nature is here more gently picturesque than rugged or grand. Although thehills rise upwards of a thousand feet, they are dotted almost to their summits withfarms, vineyards and grain fields, which alternate with masse
. Summer excursion routes & rates . . . 108 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 109 distant horizon. Like a vast living panorama, hundreds of square niiles of valley andhill are spread out before the traveler, who is both surprised and delighted with thebeauty of a picture of surpassing loveliness, rarely equalled in this or any foreignland. Nature is here more gently picturesque than rugged or grand. Although thehills rise upwards of a thousand feet, they are dotted almost to their summits withfarms, vineyards and grain fields, which alternate with masses of evergreen of timber land. On nearer acquaintance many hidden attractions are discovered by the artist and!the lover of the beautiful—wild, rocky ravines, with precipitous sides and crystalcascades, deep gorges set with pine and hemlock, numerous mountain streams andtangled undergrowth, where the silence of the forest is broken only by the song ofthe bird or the whirr of the partridge. Stony Brook Glen, similar in its rocky forma-tion and waterfalls to
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