. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ound a few miles adjacent—among which may be mentionedthe celebrated Pulpit Rocks, on Warrior Ridge, a view of which, fromthe turnpike, is afforded in the annexed figure, extracted from thework of Mr. Trego, on the Geography of Pennsylvania. The rocksappear equally bold from the railroad, which passes directly alongthe base of the ridge. These rocks are a coarse-grained cementedsandstone, varying in color, but generally of a yellowish-white, withparticles of bri
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ound a few miles adjacent—among which may be mentionedthe celebrated Pulpit Rocks, on Warrior Ridge, a view of which, fromthe turnpike, is afforded in the annexed figure, extracted from thework of Mr. Trego, on the Geography of Pennsylvania. The rocksappear equally bold from the railroad, which passes directly alongthe base of the ridge. These rocks are a coarse-grained cementedsandstone, varying in color, but generally of a yellowish-white, withparticles of bright flint. They have attained their present curiousappearance from the gradual effects of the atmosphere and rain,which, working out irregular fissures, have thus left standing loftycolumns, that frown from their high summits upon the no less ruggedand narrow valley below. The mountains of this county are nearlyall cut up into bold sharp ridges similar to the above—though it isotherwise one of the most mountainous in the State. Jacks moun-tain presents a continuous range on the east, and Tusseys on the HUNTINGDON COUNTY lOi. PULPIT ROCKS OX WAUUIOK laDCii:. ■west; but the others are detached knobs and ridges, which, at onetime, probably constituted an unbroken elevation. This broken anddisruptured character of the county has been occasioned solely bywater, and to substantiate this belief, vre need only lo point to itsnumerous streams, comprising the head waters of the Juniata. Thus,rising in Bedford County, and emptying into the Juniata a few milesfrom Huntingdon, is the snake-like Raystown Branch; rising inBlair, and traversing the middle of that county, is the FrankstownBranch, emptying into the Juniata near Alexandria; rising in the samecounty, further north, is the Little Juniata, which, at the place abovenamed, forms the main stream, and afterwards receives five or sixothers—all in the County of Huntingdon. This county is, therefore,more liberally supplied with str
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