. Philadelphia and its environs . THE PIPE BRIDGE OVER THE WISSAHICKON. We may briefly notice a few of the many points of interest in this romantic glen, some ofwhich our artists have sketched in a manner which renders pen-and-ink descriptions super-fluous. Soon after leaving the Schuylkill, the drive up the Wissahickon passes the Maple Springrestaurant, where a curious collection of laurel-roots deftly shaped into all manner of strangeor familiar objects, the work of the proprietor, will repay a visit. A little above this, a lane descends through the woods to the Hermits Well, which is said t
. Philadelphia and its environs . THE PIPE BRIDGE OVER THE WISSAHICKON. We may briefly notice a few of the many points of interest in this romantic glen, some ofwhich our artists have sketched in a manner which renders pen-and-ink descriptions super-fluous. Soon after leaving the Schuylkill, the drive up the Wissahickon passes the Maple Springrestaurant, where a curious collection of laurel-roots deftly shaped into all manner of strangeor familiar objects, the work of the proprietor, will repay a visit. A little above this, a lane descends through the woods to the Hermits Well, which is said to. PRO BONO PUBLICO. UP THE WISSAHICKON. 82 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. have been dug by John Kelpius, a German Pietist, who settled down here, with forty followers,two hundred years ago, and Hved a hermits life, waiting for the fulfillment of his and his associates gave names to many of the scenes about here, among them the HermitsPool, of which we give an illustration. Three and a half miles above its mouth the stream is crossed by a beautiful structure calledthe Pipe Bridge, six hundred and eighty-four feet long and one hundred feet above the water-pipes that supply Germantown with water form the chords of the bridge, the whole
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