. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . oken and disrupted as they enter Huntingdon and Blair in thenorth. The celebrated Broad Top Mountain coal district lies in Bed-ford, some fifteen miles or more south of the village of Newton Ham-ilton. This splendid coal district is entirely isolated from the greatAlleghany region, with which it was originally connected. The coal,too, is of a better quality, being semi-bituminous in character, andsimilar to that of the Dauphin coal field, as it approaches the Su
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . oken and disrupted as they enter Huntingdon and Blair in thenorth. The celebrated Broad Top Mountain coal district lies in Bed-ford, some fifteen miles or more south of the village of Newton Ham-ilton. This splendid coal district is entirely isolated from the greatAlleghany region, with which it was originally connected. The coal,too, is of a better quality, being semi-bituminous in character, andsimilar to that of the Dauphin coal field, as it approaches the Susque-hanna. Being the only spot in a wide expanse of territory wherecoal is to be had at all, it must be regarded as of great value, andarrangements are now being made to extend a railroad so as to con-nect it with the lines of improvement on the Juniata. The isolatedposition of this coal mountain, with other connecting circumstances,go to prove that our anthracite and bituminous beds formed originallyone entire and almost complete assemblage, and that they are both ofcotemporaneous formation. The mountain ranges are higher and. HUNTINGDON, ON THE JUNIATA. bolder toward the south-west, where the coal strata are prolonged;while toward the east they have been cut down and detached, and thecoal washed away, leaving only a comparatively small amount behind, 9* 102 LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES. and that lying in a position low down, with the stratification generallyin a semi-vertical dip. The whole Apalachian chain may, therefore,te regarded as one immense coal-bearing system—but such have beenthe destructive effects of time, during the countless millions of yearsit has been exposed, that a very small portion of the original amountof vegetable matter, constituting the coal measures, is now left be-hind. Passing the unimportant stations of Mount Union, Mapleton, andMill Creek, we reach the borough of Huntingdon, two hundred andfour miles from Philadelphia, one hundred and fifty-nine miles f
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