Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . s of clothing and other articles. [From the Memorial, Plymouth, Mass]The Messrs. Riders, of New York, long engaged in the Rubber manufacture, have discovered a modeof preparing Gutta Percha, which gives it all the pliability and elasticity of India Rubl)er—it convertsGutta Percha, which before was ashard as wood, and little more than a curiosity, into one of the mostbeauti
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . s of clothing and other articles. [From the Memorial, Plymouth, Mass]The Messrs. Riders, of New York, long engaged in the Rubber manufacture, have discovered a modeof preparing Gutta Percha, which gives it all the pliability and elasticity of India Rubl)er—it convertsGutta Percha, which before was ashard as wood, and little more than a curiosity, into one of the mostbeautiful of known water-proof substances. The discovery has been patented, and is now beingworked, in the manufacture of clothmg and other goods, very extensively by the North-AmericanGutta Percha Company of New York. TESTIMONIALS may be seen at the Warehouse of the Company, highly approring ofthese goods, from Col. J. H. Eaton, U. S A.; Capt. H. 1). Hunter, U. 8. N.; Lieut. J. M. Fraily, U. ; Capt. Marcy, U. S. A.; Col. Gray, of Mexican Boundary Survey; Capt. G. L. Smith, of clipper-ship Vulture; Lieut. Fox, IT. S. N., and hundreds of others, who have actually tested the goods in ac-tual wear in different GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 449 Martins Tunnel, one hundred and eighty feet long^—the first a low-browed opening, which looks as if it would knock off the smokepipe of the engine; the next a regular arched roof, and the third atall narrow slit in the rock, lined with timbers lofty enough to betaken for part of a church steeple. The Littleton Station is reached just beyond, and here upona long side track are ranged the ten locomotives designed to carrycars* over the Board Tree Tunnel, now close at hand. The roadhaving thus far pursued the margin of the South Fork of FishCreek, now gradually leaves it and winds upwards along the steephill, slopes for about a mile and a half, constantly increasing itsheight above the stream and crossing the rocky chasm of Cliff Run,upwa
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