. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . ufactories of various kinds. Thebanks of the river, on both sides, present many beautiful residences,and elegant, well-cultivated farms, while the scenery generally is ofthat soft and genial character, relieved occasionally by a rocky de-clivity or gently sloping hill, that pleases the eye of the observer, whileit impresses him with the spirit of activity everywhere displayed. Norristown, the county-seat of Montgomery, seventeen miles dis-tant from Philadelphia, is one of t
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . ufactories of various kinds. Thebanks of the river, on both sides, present many beautiful residences,and elegant, well-cultivated farms, while the scenery generally is ofthat soft and genial character, relieved occasionally by a rocky de-clivity or gently sloping hill, that pleases the eye of the observer, whileit impresses him with the spirit of activity everywhere displayed. Norristown, the county-seat of Montgomery, seventeen miles dis-tant from Philadelphia, is one of the most beautiful boroughs in theUnited States. It lies on the east bank of the Schuylkill, rising to agradual elevation from the waters edge. The streets are well drained,the houses substantially built, (many of them unusually elegant)the citizens remarkably intelligent, the society excellent, the locationhealthy, the general aspect that of an industrious and enterprisingpopulation, and, in short, the whole minutiae of the borough is suchas to render it one of the most attractive with which we are ao- NORRISTOWN 55. NORRISTOW>-; quainted. It contains several very extensive cotton and -woollenfactories, iron foundries, rolling-mills, and machine shops, withnumerous other industrial establishments, of more or less extent,nearly all of which are located on the river bank, and are supplied,like Manayunk, -with a splendid vrater-power from the canal. Thepresent population is probably between eight and ten thousand, andmust greatly increase in the future under ordinary circumstances offavor. A brighter day than we have known for the last five yearsis, we think, about to dawn upon our workshops. We hope so, atany rate. Norristown was formerly included in the township of Norriton,comprising a manor belonging to William Penn. The land on whichthe town now stands was subsequently owned by several parties,when it finally came into the hands of Wm. M. Smith, who, in 1784,laid it out in
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