. 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 . MILLERS FERRY, FROM THE HAWKS NEST. IOIULAi: KESOKTS, AND IIOW TO UP^ACII THEM. 287 with six hundred and fifty feet opening and fifty-three feet above lowwater. It cost, with its masonry, one hun(h-ed and forty thousand tills point for eight miles the rugged character of the canon isintensified: the Hawks Nest towers six imndred feet above the roadway is formed by blasting down precipices, the grade bein
. 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 . MILLERS FERRY, FROM THE HAWKS NEST. IOIULAi: KESOKTS, AND IIOW TO UP^ACII THEM. 287 with six hundred and fifty feet opening and fifty-three feet above lowwater. It cost, with its masonry, one hun(h-ed and forty thousand tills point for eight miles the rugged character of the canon isintensified: the Hawks Nest towers six imndred feet above the roadway is formed by blasting down precipices, the grade beingfrom fifty to seventy feet above the river. It passes through of water falling from the mountain sides form beautiful cas-cades. The whole forms the grandest sight to be seen on this line ofroad, and one never to be forgotten. From this rugged pass the riverglides into a lakelike opening. It soon receives the Gauly, and losesits name in the Charleston, the capital of WestVirginia, is a thriving and rapidlygrowing town, which promises tobecome in time an important man-ufacturing place, for which it hasgood natural facilities. After leav-ing the Kanawha, sixteen mileswest of Charleston, the road crossesto the Ohio, and terminates at theBig Sandy River, the boundary ofKentucky and West Virginia. RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM.
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