. 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 . •s of rock with which the broad bosomof the river is studded lend the charmof variety to the scenery. Now andagain long bridges span the noblestream; villages aie seen on the opposite shore; and forfifty miles we have a changing panorama of riveiscenery. Harrisburg is reached by the Northern Central, over a bridge a milein length; the trains running on the top. Nothing obstructs the pros-pect up or down the river; and the slo
. 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 . •s of rock with which the broad bosomof the river is studded lend the charmof variety to the scenery. Now andagain long bridges span the noblestream; villages aie seen on the opposite shore; and forfifty miles we have a changing panorama of riveiscenery. Harrisburg is reached by the Northern Central, over a bridge a milein length; the trains running on the top. Nothing obstructs the pros-pect up or down the river; and the slow rate of speed allows a good five UESORTS, AND HOW TO KKACII TllKnl. 259 minutes view of rare loveliness from a car window. Harrisl)urg is the pointof connection with the Pennsylvania, the Cumberland Valley, andthe Philadelphia and Reading Railroads. Here a magnificent PullmanParlor Cai is added to om ti iin uid i coach fiom Ihiladf li)hia Ihesein run daily between Plnl 1 | I u n\ ill iii. in 1 W h si . \ Y. HARRISBURG PANorthern Central Ra Iroad The cit> of /la)Iisbu)fj IS pleasantly located, o\(rlooking the Susquehanna, which is here spannedby two fine bridges a mile in length, connectingHarrisburg with Bndcjpport, from which point theabove view was sketched. Having made connection with the train fromPhiladelphia, we again continue our course up thebanks of the Susquehanna. The scenery is one un-broken panorama of loveliness, — a combination of ??--^.vyjviews, either of which would make the reputation of any popular Sunhury, the conductor calls out, Passengers for Shamo-kin, Mt. Carmel, &c., change cars. This is the terminus of the main 2b0 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. line of the Northern Central Railway, one hundred and thirty-eightmiles from Baltimore; and here connection is made with the Philadel-phia and the Erie Railroad, extending in a northwesterly directionthrough Pennsylvania to Ei-ie, a distance of two hundred and eigh
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