. Picturesque on the B. & O. . s. From Weverton the three miles to Harpers Ferry isthrough the very seat of mountain fastnesses, precipitous pilesf granite rising up to a tremendous height and dwarfing thetrain until it appears by comparison but as a puny antagonistflying in the grizzly face of rock-ribbed power. The volumeof water in the Potomac, increased by the flow of the Shenan-doah just above, becomes a torrent in impetuosity, and seemsso eager to find its way to the sea that it froths and writhesk\to a whiteness really beyond portraiture in beauty. The ruinsof houses long since passed i
. Picturesque on the B. & O. . s. From Weverton the three miles to Harpers Ferry isthrough the very seat of mountain fastnesses, precipitous pilesf granite rising up to a tremendous height and dwarfing thetrain until it appears by comparison but as a puny antagonistflying in the grizzly face of rock-ribbed power. The volumeof water in the Potomac, increased by the flow of the Shenan-doah just above, becomes a torrent in impetuosity, and seemsso eager to find its way to the sea that it froths and writhesk\to a whiteness really beyond portraiture in beauty. The ruinsof houses long since passed into decay, with tall chimneysattempting in their scrawny dimensions to rival the toweringmasses of rock beside them, add to the general effect, whilethe climbing ivy vines, the willows, the twisted, weather-beatenpines, all help to form pictures which follow in such rapidsuccession as almost to bewilder the eye, and cause one towish that the train might stop, so as to permit of a single viewout of all these witching scenes. vi. V ft
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