. Along the shore and in the foothills . great coal-producingState of T*ennsylvania, and for onehnndred and twenty miles follows the])ictures(|ne and Iii>torical vallevs ofthe Lehigh and the Wyoming, rich inreminiscences of Colonial days. l)uiricher far in the great industrial centres~ that have grown up about the vast de-his region is fitly called The Switzerlandof America, and llu- thou>ands of excursionists that visit theSwitchback every summer get, in a days outing, practicallythe same scenery that painters and travellers find so fascinatingin far-off Europe. Eor fully seventy miles
. Along the shore and in the foothills . great coal-producingState of T*ennsylvania, and for onehnndred and twenty miles follows the])ictures(|ne and Iii>torical vallevs ofthe Lehigh and the Wyoming, rich inreminiscences of Colonial days. l)uiricher far in the great industrial centres~ that have grown up about the vast de-his region is fitly called The Switzerlandof America, and llu- thou>ands of excursionists that visit theSwitchback every summer get, in a days outing, practicallythe same scenery that painters and travellers find so fascinatingin far-off Europe. Eor fully seventy miles in a northwesterly direction fromEaston the railroad i)enetrates the valley of the Lehigh River,ministering to sucli cities as 1 Jet h Kb (.in. with its great steelworks, and the site of Lehigh Iniversity ; Allentown, with all itsdiversified interests: and Manch Chunk, with its coal mines. .AtMauch Chunk is the famous Switchback, the first railroa<!built in the United States. Originally a gravity railroad to carry 8i I .•ml hiarite. GUNxNlNG UN THE MOUNTAIN STREAMS 82
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