The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . ic profile, and delightful prospect. The view on page 61 isafforded from his spring-house, a short distance from the village of Marietta, one mile distant, is situated on the banks ofthe river. Eleven miles from Lancaster is the village of Mount Joy, pleas-antly situated in the heart of a beautiful agricultural region. CedarHill Seminary, near this place, is a well-known school for youngladies. The place is otherwise without general interest. Elizab
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . ic profile, and delightful prospect. The view on page 61 isafforded from his spring-house, a short distance from the village of Marietta, one mile distant, is situated on the banks ofthe river. Eleven miles from Lancaster is the village of Mount Joy, pleas-antly situated in the heart of a beautiful agricultural region. CedarHill Seminary, near this place, is a well-known school for youngladies. The place is otherwise without general interest. Elizabeth-town, eight miles further, is a village of some six hundred popula-tion. It is a short distance from the railroad, on the turnpikebetween Philadelphia and Pittsburg. Nearly all the villages alongthis once crowded thoroughfare have lost their former interest andprosperity, since the diversion of its trade to the lines of railroad andcanal. After leaving this place, we enter the range of Conewagohills, some six miles wide, one of which is tunnelled. A splendidbridge crosses the stream a short distance beyond the tunnel,.which. RAILROAD BRIDGE OVER THE CONEWAGO. is nearly one hundred feet in height. This structure has just beencompleted, and is one of the most substantial of the kind in the entire railroad, indeed, has recently been very much improved, MIDDLETOWN. 63 and re-laid with a strong rail. The country between Elizabethtownand Middletown, nine miles, is strewn with huge blocks of trap rock,which constitute the characteristic feature of the Conewago of these blocks indicate, in their rounded structure, a depositionby drift, though it is more probable that they have been detachedfrom their beds by the slow but powerful erosive agency of floods andrains, which, carrying off the smaller detritus associated with them,has left them thus isolated and exposed. These rocks are amongstthe hardest which the varied state of the earth afford, and it is bothcuri
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