. Summer excursion routes and rates .. . 104 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 105 tant horizon. Like a vast living panorama, hundreds of square miles of valley andhill are spread out before the traveler, who is both surprised and delighted with thebeauty of a picture of surpassing loveliness, rarely equalled in this or any foreignland. Nature is here more gently picturesque than rugged or grand. Although thehills rise upwards of a thousand feet, they are dotted almost to their summits withfarms, vineyards and grain fields, which alternate with masses o
. Summer excursion routes and rates .. . 104 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 105 tant horizon. Like a vast living panorama, hundreds of square miles of valley andhill are spread out before the traveler, who is both surprised and delighted with thebeauty of a picture of surpassing loveliness, rarely equalled in this or any foreignland. Nature is here more gently picturesque than rugged or grand. Although thehills rise upwards of a thousand feet, they are dotted almost to their summits withfarms, vineyards and grain fields, which alternate with masses of evergreen andstretches of timber laud. On nearer acquaintance many hidden attractions are discovered by the artist andthe lover of the beautiful—wild, rocky ravines, with precipitous sides and crystal cas-cades, deep gorges set with pile and hemlock, numerous mountain streams and tan-gled undergrowth, where the silence of the forest is broken only by the song of thebird or the whirr of the partridge. Stony Brook Glen, similar in its rocky formationand waterfalls to Watk
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