. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 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 anything unnatral 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 th
. Off-hand sketches : a companion for the tourist and traveller over the Philadelphia, Pottsville, and Reading railroad . 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 anything unnatral 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 LANDSCAPE. The Mine Hill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad commences here,and following the valley for a short distance, throws out severalradiating branches, connecting the main road with all the coal ope-rations in the Mine Hill, and Swatara ranges, embracing the richcoal districts of Minersville, Tremont, Llewellyn, Branchdale, tonnage of the road is enormous, and like the Reading railroadto which it is tributary, it has a descending grade throughout its com-bined length. A train of passenger cars runs between SchuylkillHaven and Tremont, via Minersville. The route is a pleasant andattractive one—penetrating the richest coal districts of Schuylkillcounty. The company have recently obtained the right to extendtheir road (which is among the most profitable to the stockholders ofany other in the United States, at the same time that it is one of themost substa
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