The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . rg, wherewe take leave, for a time, of the pleasant harvest-fields and scenes ofagricultural industry, and penetrate the region of mountains. Herethe Kittating or Blue Mountain range crosses our course, and, as faras the eye can see, traverses the country in bold and majestic ridges,sometimes sloping gradually into the valley below, and again risingin towering grandeur to the overhanging clouds. Hamburg, 75m. is situated on the left bank of the Schuylkill, neart
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . rg, wherewe take leave, for a time, of the pleasant harvest-fields and scenes ofagricultural industry, and penetrate the region of mountains. Herethe Kittating or Blue Mountain range crosses our course, and, as faras the eye can see, traverses the country in bold and majestic ridges,sometimes sloping gradually into the valley below, and again risingin towering grandeur to the overhanging clouds. Hamburg, 75m. is situated on the left bank of the Schuylkill, nearthe Blue Mountain, and about a mile from the railroad. It embraces apopulation of about one thousand, and, being situated in Berks county,is composed mostly of Germans. The surrounding country is a richagricultural district, and the village is at least very pleasantly situa-ted. The trade of the place is unimportant. But let us hasten on,for— Our hearts in the mountain—our heart is not here,Our hearts in the mountain a-chasing the deer ;A-hunting the deer and pursuing the roe—Oh, our hearts in the mountains wherever we go!. The Kittating is a formidablebarrier to our progress, but therailroad has a way to overcomeit—or to pass through it. Plain-ly, the road pierces (no allusionto you, General, or any otherdemocrat!) the mountain, andthe first thing we see, on emerg-ing from it, is Port Clinton,seventy-eight miles from Phila-delphia, and about six hundredfeet above the Delaware we have a tolerable specimen of the scenery the traveller mayexpect for some time to come—for he is now in the midst of thosebold parallel layers of mountain, broken and distorted into irregularfragments, which constitute the outlines of the great Apalachian sys-tem, and which, under various local names, traverses several States,aud divides the lakes and rivers, east and west of it, into separate 96 OFF-HAND SKETCHES. systems. The scenery here is bold, wild and picturesque, while thewh
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