The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . the Susquehanna, and follows the Juniata to Hollidays-burg, situated on the eastern slope of the Alleghany Tide Water Canal meets the Pennsylvania Canal at Colum-bia, and follows the course of the river to Havre-de-Grace, inMaryland, thirty-six miles. The Baltimore Railroad extends to COLUMBIA, 61 York, where it unites with the main road from Harrisburg toBaltimore. The principal trade of Columbia is in the descending lumber of theSusquehanna, in w
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . the Susquehanna, and follows the Juniata to Hollidays-burg, situated on the eastern slope of the Alleghany Tide Water Canal meets the Pennsylvania Canal at Colum-bia, and follows the course of the river to Havre-de-Grace, inMaryland, thirty-six miles. The Baltimore Railroad extends to COLUMBIA, 61 York, where it unites with the main road from Harrisburg toBaltimore. The principal trade of Columbia is in the descending lumber of theSusquehanna, in which a large amount of capital is invested. Somebusiness is done, too, in the coal trade ; but it is comparatively unim-portant, confined to the more bituminous qualities for domestic pur-poses. One of the richest deposits of iron ore in the United States issituated within a few miles of the place, which is also surroundedwith numerous furnaces and machine-shops, flour and grist mills, & longest and most substantial bridge in the State, and probably inthe Union, stretches across the Susquehanna. Its length is over one. VIEW OF THE SUSQUEHANNA ABOVE COLUMBIA. mile and a quarter, and is adapted both for railway cars and vehicles,as well as for towing boats across the river. A short distance aboveColumbia, a bold and extensive ridge of white sandstone emerges fromthe surrounding formation; which, at the Susquehanna, towers severalhundred feet in rugged, perpendicular cliffs, entirely overlooking thebanks of the river below. This description of scenery, however, ispeculiar to the Susquehanna, and is even wilder some ten miles two miles above Columbia is the residence of Prof. Haldeman,6 62 LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES. one of the most eminent of American Mineralogists and philosophersHis residence is eminently worthy a gentleman of fortune and culti-vated taste—being, probably, the most stately edifice in this part ofthe country, while its situation is altogether unsurpas
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