The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . ton, we go puffing, and blowing, and thun-dering amid the wildest mountain scenery, but still keeping by theside of the Schuylkill, which gradually becomes smaller as we ap-proach its head waters—(though we cant see that there is anythingunnatral in the circumstance.) We pass two unimportant poststations—Auburn and Orwigsburg—the former a promising candidatefor village importance, and the latter a mere off-shoot of its unfortu-nate god-father, two miles distant—
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . ton, we go puffing, and blowing, and thun-dering amid the wildest mountain scenery, but still keeping by theside of the Schuylkill, which gradually becomes smaller as we ap-proach its head waters—(though we cant see that there is anythingunnatral in the circumstance.) We pass two unimportant poststations—Auburn and Orwigsburg—the former a promising candidatefor village importance, and the latter a mere off-shoot of its unfortu-nate god-father, two miles distant—formerly the seat of justice ofSchuylkill county. Eighty-nine miles from Philadelphia is Schuyl-kill Haven, containing a population of nearly three thousand. It isthe principal depot for the shipment of coal, both by canal and rail-way. Lying in a beautiful valley, it affords the only belt of tillable 100 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. land to be found in the county. The valley is long but narrow, andis dotted with numerous pleasant farms, and surrounded with boldand romantic scenery, of which the annexed figure is an _%:^W^te iiBiiiiiiiiiiiSi LANDSCAPE.
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