. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . op is let down andforces the water into the tender,which is supplied without stoppingthe trains. Johnstown is the most importanttown in Cambria County, and is the seat of very extensive iron-works; the rolling-mill of theCambria Works being among the largest in the world. Our train now rolls along through a broken country thickly studded with towns, which growmore numerous as we near Pittsburgh. At Blairsville Intersection, the Western Pennsylvaniaroad branches off and follows the valley of the Conemaugh to its junctio
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . op is let down andforces the water into the tender,which is supplied without stoppingthe trains. Johnstown is the most importanttown in Cambria County, and is the seat of very extensive iron-works; the rolling-mill of theCambria Works being among the largest in the world. Our train now rolls along through a broken country thickly studded with towns, which growmore numerous as we near Pittsburgh. At Blairsville Intersection, the Western Pennsylvaniaroad branches off and follows the valley of the Conemaugh to its junction with the Alleghany,and at Pittsburgh our road makes connection with systems of roads running through North-western Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and all the Mississippi Valley and the Far West. Pittsburgh, the second city in Pennsylvania, the great manufacturing point of the MississippiValley, and the gateway between the East and the West, stands on a point of land at the con-fluence of the AUecrhanv and Monongahela Rivers, which here unite to form the Ohio. It is. VIEW ox THK OLD PORTAGE ROAD. 44 THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA. picturesquely situated on a plain surrounded by lofty hills; and being at the head of theextensive river navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi, in a region rich in coal and iron and atthe outlet of the oil district, it enjoys exceptional facilities for both manufactures and commerce,which it has not been slow to improve. It is pre-eminent in works of iron and steel, oil,glass, metals of various kinds, and coal. The bituminous coal of Pittsburgh is celebrated forits excellent quality and is shipped to all parts of the West, over beds of an inferior quality whichmight be raised and sold for half what it costs to import the product of the Pittsburgh of barges continually descend the Ohio River from Pittsburgh laden with wheat, corn,oil, wool, coal, and manufactured articles, shoals of the peculiar stern-wheel steamboats of theOhi
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