. Philadelphia and its environs . PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 71 with bronze panels representingbirds and foliage. Under thisbridge passes a carriage-wayleading to the northeast portion ofthe Park, now called, by way ofdistinction, the East Park. TheConnecting Railroad Bridge, as itis popularly termed, which unitesthe Pennsylvania Railroad with theCamden and Amboy, raises itsgraceful arches a little above theGirard Avenue Bridge, and throughthe rocky bluff which forms itseastern abutment a short tunnelhas been cut, as the only means ofopening a carriage-road to the EastPark. This route was
. Philadelphia and its environs . PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 71 with bronze panels representingbirds and foliage. Under thisbridge passes a carriage-wayleading to the northeast portion ofthe Park, now called, by way ofdistinction, the East Park. TheConnecting Railroad Bridge, as itis popularly termed, which unitesthe Pennsylvania Railroad with theCamden and Amboy, raises itsgraceful arches a little above theGirard Avenue Bridge, and throughthe rocky bluff which forms itseastern abutment a short tunnelhas been cut, as the only means ofopening a carriage-road to the EastPark. This route was opened inthe summer of 1871, ana developedsome of the loveliest scenery in allthe Park. A number of fine oldcountry-seats were absorbed in thisportion of the grounds, and theyremain very nearly as their formerowners left them. Here a dis-tributing reservoir, to cover onehundred and five acres, is now.
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