. 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 . ckawanna and Bloomsburg. In addition is thePennsylvania Coal Companys Gravity Railroad, of which a fuller de-scription will be given. A half-hours drive into the suburbs along a romantic and pictur-esque road leads to a deep canon, which the writer has christenedScranton Gorge, through which rushes a wild, turbulent stream,hemmed in by towering trees, and bounded by ramparts of stone, popularlyknown as Roaring Brook. As its n
. 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 . ckawanna and Bloomsburg. In addition is thePennsylvania Coal Companys Gravity Railroad, of which a fuller de-scription will be given. A half-hours drive into the suburbs along a romantic and pictur-esque road leads to a deep canon, which the writer has christenedScranton Gorge, through which rushes a wild, turbulent stream,hemmed in by towering trees, and bounded by ramparts of stone, popularlyknown as Roaring Brook. As its name suggests, and from the descrip-tion already given, the reader will see that this is one of those romanticdells always pleasing to the lover of Nature in her wildest moods. Thestream, which is of the purest water, comes frolicking down the moun-tain side, now leaping some slight obstruction or miniature cascade;now, overhung by rock or vine, it moves lazily along, till at last thebrink is reached, and, with a startled leap, down it springs, a beautifulcascade, into the shadowy depths of Scranton Gorge. To this an Indianname is given : they call it Nayaug Enir-aretl exinesuli/ fur Bachelders Popular Resorts, and How to Reach Them, NAYAUG FALLS, SCRANTON Scranton, Penn. POPULAR KESORl ANO HOW TO KEACa THEM. But Scrantons great attraction is the Switchback, over MoosicMountain and the Highlands beyond, via the Pennsylvania Coal Com-panys road, from Scranton to Hawley on the Delaware, thirty-five milesdistant. This is the longest gravity road in the world. As a pleasureroute it is comparatively new, and is so entirely unlike ordinary pleasureroutes that it is sure to become one of the attractions of this its description, the reader should have a brief history of thisremarkable road, which although in character not of unusual construc-tion HI the minnig legion^ is (Is* ^\helc of \eiv uncommon occurrence
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