Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ed feet wide, and sometimes not a hun-dred, falling an aver-age of ten feet permile, and for twentyconsecutive miles ofits course seventeerfeet to the mile, inplaces a roaring tor-rent, its bed obstruct-ed with gigantic bowl-ders, which have rolledfrom the cliffs above ;bowldeis often meas-uring thousands ofcubic vards. At first o it is a wide noble river, s o with here and there a g strip of meadow on its -r,bank, and here and [ithere a cliff, but always -^buried in the moun- ^tains. M o u n t a i n s ^clothed with forest, ^with here and there a 5gray
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ed feet wide, and sometimes not a hun-dred, falling an aver-age of ten feet permile, and for twentyconsecutive miles ofits course seventeerfeet to the mile, inplaces a roaring tor-rent, its bed obstruct-ed with gigantic bowl-ders, which have rolledfrom the cliffs above ;bowldeis often meas-uring thousands ofcubic vards. At first o it is a wide noble river, s o with here and there a g strip of meadow on its -r,bank, and here and [ithere a cliff, but always -^buried in the moun- ^tains. M o u n t a i n s ^clothed with forest, ^with here and there a 5gray crag jutting out: <this is its character forten miles. Suddenlyit plunges twenty-fourfeet at the Great Falls,a grand waterfall. Itsvalley is here con-tracted : it is boundedby overhanging sand-stone cliffs more thana hundred feet inheight, and fallingback from these arestill the rugged slopesof great moimtains. Here the engineers had some trouble. The travellerwill see it, and he will see rocky glens opening to his view as he 284 POPULAR RESOBTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. lighted by falling cascades, and unfolding scenes rich in landscapebeauty; but it would require too much space to describe such valley becomes narrower as we descend, the mountains more ele-vated ; but the bends of the river are gentle, and for more than fiftymiles but one tunnel is passed, this at Stretchers Neck, where a tunnel ofnineteen hundred feet saves four miles in distance. This tunnel is on a curve. The western endgave great trouble in itsconstruction. After thearch was completed, aslide from the mountaincrushed portions of itand the stone portal, andan interior arch becamenecessary. It is nowperfectly safe, but re-duced to single trackdimensions for eightyfeet. At the westernportal of this tunnel maybe observed the greaterheight above the riverdue to its longer courseand the gentle grade ofthe railroad. One milebelow on the right is abeautiful cascade whereDowdy Creek (Whatsin a
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