. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . nd Fire !The world is too busy for dreaming, And hath grown too wise for War:So, to-day, for the glory of Science, Let us sing of the Railway Car !The golden Chariots of ancient Kings Would dazzle the wondering the heads of a million slaves might bow As the glittering toy rolled by;But this is the Car of the People, And before it shall bow all Kings:—Be they warned when they hear the shrieking Of the Dragon with Iron Wings ! AND I have a long journey be-
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . nd Fire !The world is too busy for dreaming, And hath grown too wise for War:So, to-day, for the glory of Science, Let us sing of the Railway Car !The golden Chariots of ancient Kings Would dazzle the wondering the heads of a million slaves might bow As the glittering toy rolled by;But this is the Car of the People, And before it shall bow all Kings:—Be they warned when they hear the shrieking Of the Dragon with Iron Wings ! AND I have a long journey be-fore us—three hundred andsixty-throe miles! But we havean iron horse, and his fierybreath never fails. The firstmile of our journey is confinedto the widest street in Phila-delphia, and to a railroad con-structed at its expense. & Dock, forwardingmerchants, having leased therailroad belonging to the State,have erected a handsome depotat the corner of Schuylkill 5 th and Market sts. Passengers for Columbia, &c., take the cars here. We next pass the City Gas Works, situated on the Schuylkill. They2 (13). ■h^ 14 loco:motive sketches.
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