. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . KAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM HORSE. 407Indian Fort. in the state. Pork-packing is probably the leading feature of its trade;but it has also numerous factories of cotton, oil, wool, iron and ma-chinery, besides others of smaller extent. The scenery, in this vicinity, is very fine, and presents
. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . KAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM HORSE. 407Indian Fort. in the state. Pork-packing is probably the leading feature of its trade;but it has also numerous factories of cotton, oil, wool, iron and ma-chinery, besides others of smaller extent. The scenery, in this vicinity, is very fine, and presents more of thepicturesque and wildness of nature than usually characterises the La Belle Riviere. Nearly opposite Madison is the high and bold precipice, called IndianFort, which, overhanging the banks of the river, affords a commandingview of it in both directions, and makes up a scene of rare grandeurand beauty. The passage of the river, always delightful upon the whole,is however perfectly charming at those points where it is hemmed in bybold bluffs and peaks, terminating in the beautiful vistas and rich slopingbottom lands in which its busy towns always nestle and smile in the 408 RAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM —Louisville. view. The floating palaces glide along so quietly and smoothly in theplacid water, to the measured strokes and deep-fetched pufiFs of the steam-engine, that the traveller, looking on the scene around him, the magnifi-cent sky above him, or the broad transparent sheet of water below him,leisurely contemplates every object, and soon learns to mingle with themall his thoughts and feelings. He thus enters into the spir
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