The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . he carboniferous, were first raised abovethe sea; a second, when they sank again; a third, when the redsandstone (No. 4.), after it had been thrown down on the truncatededges of the older strata, participated in the waste. The great extentof solid materials thus removed, must add, in no small degree, to thedifficulty of restoring in imagination the successive changes whichhave occurred, and of recounting in a satisfactory manner for theorigin of this mountain ch
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . he carboniferous, were first raised abovethe sea; a second, when they sank again; a third, when the redsandstone (No. 4.), after it had been thrown down on the truncatededges of the older strata, participated in the waste. The great extentof solid materials thus removed, must add, in no small degree, to thedifficulty of restoring in imagination the successive changes whichhave occurred, and of recounting in a satisfactory manner for theorigin of this mountain chain.* Hollo! Heres Conemaugh Station ! We are down the mountain—we are west of the Alleghany, to-be-sure! Ah! we are down totwelve hundred and twenty-six feet again above tide-water; two hun-dred and seventy-six miles from Philadelphia, and only eighty-sevenfrom Pittsburg. Here is a neat brick engine-house and machine-shop for the accommodation of the iron nags who tug us over thewestern divisions of the road, and a characteristic water-station to * Abridged from Sir Charles Lyells Travels in America. 156 LOCOMOTIVE CONEMAUGH STATION. refresh them when they are dry. Running along the northwesternhank of the Conemaugh, we reach Johnstown, two miles below. At M^^m^m Pislfiiiiili
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