. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . nto the Delaware, and the railroads above mentioned, cross-ing from the Jersey side on substantial bridges, continue their course side by side up the narrowLehigh Valley, until they cross the Wilkesbarre Mountain and descend into the broad andbeautiful valley of the Susquehanna. As their tracks lie so close together throughout theirentire route, we shall for the purposes of this volume treat this as one route, and either road,as occasion may dictate, will serve our purpose. The valley of the Lehigh has always been cele
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . nto the Delaware, and the railroads above mentioned, cross-ing from the Jersey side on substantial bridges, continue their course side by side up the narrowLehigh Valley, until they cross the Wilkesbarre Mountain and descend into the broad andbeautiful valley of the Susquehanna. As their tracks lie so close together throughout theirentire route, we shall for the purposes of this volume treat this as one route, and either road,as occasion may dictate, will serve our purpose. The valley of the Lehigh has always been celebrated for its magnificent mountain in between rocky walls from its source almost to its mouth, there are few farminglands on its banks to stain its waters with clay or loam, and they carry to the end the tawnyhue derived from the hemlocks about their source. Below the Lehigh Gap, however, the moun-tains recede, and the view on preceding page, taken near Freemansburg, twenty-three milesabove Easton, shows well the picturesque character of the lower BETHLEHEM. Bethlehem is a queer blending of the old-time quiet and the busy hum of modern Bethlehem proper the visitor sees at every step reminiscences of its Moravian founders andits Revolutionary history ; while in South Bethlehem, a flourishing suburb, connected withthe old town by a long and elegant bridge, he finds the largest steel works in the State, anenormous iron foundry, and the extensive works of the Lehigh Zinc Company, together withnumerous other industrial works; and on the slope of the hill overlooking the place are thehandsome buildings and grounds of the Lehigh University, a monument to the wisdom and THE RAILROAD SCENERY OF PENNSYLVANIA. liberality of Asa Packer, its founder, Bethlehem and Nazareth, ten miles north, were bothfounded by the Moravians, about 1740. Many of their solidly-constructed buildings are stillstanding, and the seminary which they founded still preserves it
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