. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 258 POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. After a stop at York of five minutes we are away again; and ere longwe reach the banks of the beautiful Susquehanna. On we speed, thenoble river on our right flowing calmly onward to the sea. We are nowapproaching Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The river, as weglide along its banks, with its attractive scenery, its islands and rocks,with the town beyond, affords a view of
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 258 POPULAR KESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. After a stop at York of five minutes we are away again; and ere longwe reach the banks of the beautiful Susquehanna. On we speed, thenoble river on our right flowing calmly onward to the sea. We are nowapproaching Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania. The river, as weglide along its banks, with its attractive scenery, its islands and rocks,with the town beyond, affords a view of unusual beauty. THE •s of rock with which the broad bosomof the river is studded lend the charmof variety to the scenery. Now andagain long bridges span the noblestream; villages aie seen on the opposite shore; and forfifty miles we have a changing panorama of riveiscenery. Harrisburg is reached by the Northern Central, over a bridge a milein length; the trains running on the top. Nothing obstructs the pros-pect up or down the river; and the slow rate of speed allows a good five UESORTS, AND HOW TO KKACII TllKnl. 259 minutes view of rare loveliness from a car window. Harrisl)urg is the pointof connection with the Pennsylvania, the Cumberland Valley, andthe Philadelphia and Reading Railroads. Here a magnificent PullmanParlor Cai is added to om ti iin uid i coach fiom Ihiladf li)hia Ihesein run daily between Plnl 1 | I u n\ ill iii. in 1 W h si . \ Y
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