The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . r policy and management. To the foregoing might be addedsome other lines, proposed or commenced, as the Gettysburg Railway, runningfrom that place to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in Frederick County, road, after over $700,000 had been expended upon it, was finally abandonedas perfectly useless. Lying in an extensive copper region, it may some day befound worth while to complete it, inasmuch as the Hanover Branch Railroad,connecting with the Pennsylva
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . r policy and management. To the foregoing might be addedsome other lines, proposed or commenced, as the Gettysburg Railway, runningfrom that place to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in Frederick County, road, after over $700,000 had been expended upon it, was finally abandonedas perfectly useless. Lying in an extensive copper region, it may some day befound worth while to complete it, inasmuch as the Hanover Branch Railroad,connecting with the Pennsylvania Railroad at Columbia, extends within a fewmiles of Gettysburg. Such was the improvement system of Pennsylvania, forwhich a debt of over $40,000,000 has been incurred, and which has probablyconsumed, in losses by freshets and otherwise, in interest of capital invested, andin various other ways, of more than one hundred millions of dollars! Indeed,the prime cost of all the improvements constructed by the State, including sub-scriptions to turnpikes and bridges, would hardly fall short of this astound-ing sum. STATE CAPITOL 73. STATE CAPITOL AT HAKRISBURG. Little more remains to be said of Harrisburg. The capitol standson a handsome sloping elevation, rising in the north-east end of thetown. It is sufficiently elevated to afford a fine view of the surround-ing country, whose peculiar beauties we have already mentioned. Thecapitol grounds are enclosed with an iron-rail fence, and laid out inhandsome gravel walks, shaded with numerous trees, which are stillyoung and in vigorous growth. The main building is one hundred andeighty feet in length by eighty feet in width,and two stories in heighth. It is a plainbut substantial brick building, sufficientlycharacteristic of our old commonwealth. Alarge circular portico, faced with sis heavy stone columns, constitutes the front entrance to the building. In the interior is a large rotunda, with the high dome overarching, from which is en
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