. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . , and that hewill post it at the next stopping-place, whence it will go byfast mail back to New York, and leave to-morrow morning onthe outgoing steamer. Meanwhile you have passed through Delaw^are and ChesterCounties in Pennsylvania, with their suburban homes and hotels,and are speeding across Lancaster County, which comprisessome of the most fertile farming land and the best kept farmsin the State. The general surface of this county is an undu-lating plain, broken by a few abrupt elevations, and the picturepresented to your view from the
. Pennsylvania railroad to the Columbian exposition . , and that hewill post it at the next stopping-place, whence it will go byfast mail back to New York, and leave to-morrow morning onthe outgoing steamer. Meanwhile you have passed through Delaw^are and ChesterCounties in Pennsylvania, with their suburban homes and hotels,and are speeding across Lancaster County, which comprisessome of the most fertile farming land and the best kept farmsin the State. The general surface of this county is an undu-lating plain, broken by a few abrupt elevations, and the picturepresented to your view from the car window is for the mostpart one of vari-colored patches, produced by the well-culti-vated fields. Here you may notice the tobacco plant growingin rank abundance, for the cultivation and manufacture of thisweed into cigars is one of Lancaster Countys chief sources ofrevenue. The city of Lancaster, where Robert Fulton, the in-ventor of the steamboat, w^as reared and educated, looms upto your right, but the line of road only skirts it, and a glimpse. 28 of its church spires and the chimneys of its cotton mills andbreweries is all that you are afforded. Presently the Susquehanna River is discovered on your left,flowing placidly between low-lying banks, and just as the handsof your watch approach the hour of five the train rolls smoothlyinto the station at Harrisburg, the capital of the Keystone the north is the Lebanon Valley, embracing an enormousarea of highly-cultivated territory, abounding in iron ore anddotted with manufactories, while to the south lies the Cumber-land \alley, second to no region in America of the sameextent in picturesqueness, fertility, and mineral wealth, and in-cluding one of the show places of the United States, the Battle-field of Gettysburg, where, in 1863, took place the most stirringand momentous engagement of the war between the North andthe South. Once out of the Harrisburg Station and on the road againyou have spread out before you an u
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