. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. 892 has come to be known as the ChautauquaGrounds of Mt. Gretna. Since easy access to Mt. Gretnahas been provided by the Cornwall and Lebanon Rail-road, it has become Lebanons great park and pleasureground. It possesses the quiet, majestic beauty of theprimeval forest. It forms the arc of a vast amphitheater,with dark, sheltering hills rising in the rear and grandopen plateaus unrolling in front. In this pleasure groundof unlimited expanse, the massive oak and broad-spread
. Theodore Emanuel Schmauk, , a biographical sketch with liberal quotations from his letters and other writings. 892 has come to be known as the ChautauquaGrounds of Mt. Gretna. Since easy access to Mt. Gretnahas been provided by the Cornwall and Lebanon Rail-road, it has become Lebanons great park and pleasureground. It possesses the quiet, majestic beauty of theprimeval forest. It forms the arc of a vast amphitheater,with dark, sheltering hills rising in the rear and grandopen plateaus unrolling in front. In this pleasure groundof unlimited expanse, the massive oak and broad-spread-ing chestnut are abundant. The maple and dogwood areseen everywhere. Groves of great sighing pines slum-ber in stately presence. A noted botanist has said thathe knows of no section in the Middle States where agreater variety and rarer specimens of plants and flow-ers can be found. The water gushing directly fromsubterranean chambers, deep down in the primitive geo-logic rock stratum of which the South Mountain is com-posed, is wholesome, and, as all visitors of the parkdeclare, the best water they have ever Chancellor Schmauk and His Department Heads, 1895
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