. 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 . ranges,a mighty river often fifteen hundred feet wide, and sometimes not a hun-dred, falling an aver-age of ten feet permile, and for twentyconsecutive miles ofits course seventeerfeet to the mile, inplaces a roaring tor-rent, its bed obstruct-ed with gigantic bowl-ders, which have rolledfrom the cliffs above :bowlders often meas-uring thousands ofcubic yards. At firstit is a wide noble river,with here and there astri]i of me
. 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 . ranges,a mighty river often fifteen hundred feet wide, and sometimes not a hun-dred, falling an aver-age of ten feet permile, and for twentyconsecutive miles ofits course seventeerfeet to the mile, inplaces a roaring tor-rent, its bed obstruct-ed with gigantic bowl-ders, which have rolledfrom the cliffs above :bowlders often meas-uring thousands ofcubic yards. At firstit is a wide noble river,with here and there astri]i of meadow on itsbank, and here andthere a cliff, but alwaysburied in the moun-tains. Mountainsclothed with forest,with here and there agray crag jutting out:this is its character forten miles. Suddenlyit plunges twenty-fourfeet at the Great Falls,a grand waterfall. Itsvalley is here con-tracted : it is boundedby overhanging sand-stone cliffs more thana hundred feet inheight, and fallingback from these arestill the rugged slopesof great mountains. Here the engineers had some trouble. The travellerwill see it, and he will see rocky glens opening to his view as he 284 POPULAR RESORTS, AXD HOW TO REACH TUEM. lighted by falling cascades, and unfolding scenes rich in landscapebeauty; but it would require too much space to describe such valley becomes narrower as we descend, the mountains more ele-vated ; but the bends of the river are gentle, and for more than fiftymiles but one tunnel is passed, this at Stretchers Xeck, where a tunnel ofnineteen hundred feet saves four miles in distance. This tunnel is on a curve. The western endgave great trouble in itsconstruction. After the:irch was completed, a;lide from the mountaincrushed portions of itand the stone portal, andm interior arch becamenecessary. It is nowjierfectly safe, but re-duced to single trackdimensions for eightyfeet. At the westernportal of this tunnel ma}be observed the greaterheight above the riverdue to
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