. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . , and the aptly-named station Altamont comesinto view, and the snorting and long-suppressed efforts of the steam toescape from the great iron-bound boiler cease. The mountains are rowbelow, for the train has reached the summit and the eye roams at willover the billowy masses. Savage River had gone no man could tellwhere, and its place had been taken by another and then another stream;and Crabtree Gorge, the last opening that had been passed through inthe upward course, now presented the aspect of an exceedingly narrowravine. The only wonder
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . , and the aptly-named station Altamont comesinto view, and the snorting and long-suppressed efforts of the steam toescape from the great iron-bound boiler cease. The mountains are rowbelow, for the train has reached the summit and the eye roams at willover the billowy masses. Savage River had gone no man could tellwhere, and its place had been taken by another and then another stream;and Crabtree Gorge, the last opening that had been passed through inthe upward course, now presented the aspect of an exceedingly narrowravine. The only wonder seemed to be how a railroad train could everpenetrate its granite depths. The elevation is now nearly three thousand feet above tide-water, andthe atmospheric change is at once perceptible. The lungs, stirred tounwonted activity by the exhilarating draught, expand to new action,and one stands more erect, feeling that there is much in life, and thathe is infinitely better prepared to enjoy it when every physical power isso invigoratingly E HEART OF THE ALLEGHANIES — CHEAT RIVER. THE GLADES. The train stands upon the urest of the range that divides the watersflowing tlirougli the Ohio and the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico onthe west, and those which feed the Potomac and the Chesapeake untilthey empty into the Atlantic on the east. Here is the head of theYoughiogheny, and its width is but a mans step. The lay of the country, as the expression goes, is of the meadow order,with undulating surface and billowy eminences. A three miles jauntand Deer Park comes into view, its location upon the brow of a longsloping promontory striking the observer at first sight as singularly pic-turesque. The enterprise and liberality of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road Company made the Glades habitable, and more than this the mostenjoyable section which can be found anywhere within a days ride ofthe leading cities not only of the East but of the M^est as well. It isless than twenty-
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