The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . Qua-kers ; the population now, however, is principally composed of Ger- MILLERSTOWN 85 mans, who are invariably found wherever there is a good soil, andtheir patient industry and frugal habits always enable them to sup-plant every other class of people. At Newport, which is twenty-seven miles from Harrisburg, theJuniata makes a sharp curvature, apparently for the express purposeof meeting a little stream, called Buffalo Creek, which it gallantlycarries off in it
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . Qua-kers ; the population now, however, is principally composed of Ger- MILLERSTOWN 85 mans, who are invariably found wherever there is a good soil, andtheir patient industry and frugal habits always enable them to sup-plant every other class of people. At Newport, which is twenty-seven miles from Harrisburg, theJuniata makes a sharp curvature, apparently for the express purposeof meeting a little stream, called Buffalo Creek, which it gallantlycarries off in its course. This ridiculous curve of the Juniatas putthe railroad company to a considerable expense in constructing twoelegant and substantial bridges over it, both of which would havebeen unnecessary had the stream kept in its straightforward hate foolishness! A short distance above Newport, which is a small village, two orthree hundred yards from the railroad, the canal is transferred to theopposite side of the river. The water is deepened by a dam, and theboats towed over by a rope, in an ingenious manner. The rope,. MILLERSTOWN, ON THE JUNIATA. winding around a wheel on each side of the river, is made to travelto and fro by water-power supplied by the canal. The boats are at-tached to this rope, and are thus towed over, Millerstown, one hundred and forty miles from Philadelphia, 86 LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES. two hundred and twenty-three from Pittsburg, and thirty-two fromHarrisburg, though a small village, is still the largest one in PerryCounty, containing a population of about five hundred. It is beau-tifully situated, and contains several well-built, spacious, and neatdwellings—but it looks best when seen at a respectful inhabitants are mostly German, and live as Germans do—quietly,decently, soberly—never flame out with sign-boards and gim-cracksover their stores and shops—never bustle about with quills stuckabove their ears—never drive fast hors
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