Popular resorts, and how to reach them . MOUNT uARBONi the station at Auburn. Schuylkill Haven andMount Carbon are also centres of considerableimportance, from which lead branches rightand left to the coal regions beyond.^^^ Our next point of interest is Pottsville (ninety three miles from Philadelphia), with a population of about sixteenthousand. This is the second terminus in the history of this road, andis the centre around which revolves the immense trade of SchuylkillCounty. Passenger trains leave several times daily in all directions. POPULAU JtKSOKTS, AND HOW TO I4KACU THEM. 221 Pottsvi
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . MOUNT uARBONi the station at Auburn. Schuylkill Haven andMount Carbon are also centres of considerableimportance, from which lead branches rightand left to the coal regions beyond.^^^ Our next point of interest is Pottsville (ninety three miles from Philadelphia), with a population of about sixteenthousand. This is the second terminus in the history of this road, andis the centre around which revolves the immense trade of SchuylkillCounty. Passenger trains leave several times daily in all directions. POPULAU JtKSOKTS, AND HOW TO I4KACU THEM. 221 Pottsville, where the hotel accommodations are good, we would adviseas a headquarters for those who wish to spend several days in thecoal regions. The Mansion House at iSIount Carbon, one mile short ofPottsville, can be heartily recommended as a first-class establishment inevery particular. Its situation at the foot of Sharp Mountain, its pic-. ^ LITTLE SCHUYLKILL Port Clinton. turesque surroundings, the fine views of the valleys and river, linger longin the memory of the visitor. We now return to Port Clinton, and in a northerly direction continueby the Little Schuylkill Branch to Tamaqua. The scenery here is wildin the extreme, and especially fine and romantic. The tourist should be 222 POPULAK RESOKTS, AND HOW TO REACH THKM. thankful that the pursuit of anthracite coal and the love of gain hascaused railroads to be built through ravines and valleys which underother circumstances would hardly have been attempted. After trav-elling twenty miles, Tamaqua, a thriving town of five thousand inhabit-ants, is reached. Here we find a new and very tasty depot, in which is
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