. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . MAINVILLE WATER GAP. We seem completely hemmed in; and, while wondering which way thetrain will find egress, we suddenly glide around the mountain, andemerge to the open country beyond, while the scene fades fiom cross another trestle, obtaining a fine view of the McAuley andNescopec Mountains in the distance. A few miles beyond, Catawissa isreached. This quaint old town is situated on the North Branch of theSusqueha
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . MAINVILLE WATER GAP. We seem completely hemmed in; and, while wondering which way thetrain will find egress, we suddenly glide around the mountain, andemerge to the open country beyond, while the scene fades fiom cross another trestle, obtaining a fine view of the McAuley andNescopec Mountains in the distance. A few miles beyond, Catawissa isreached. This quaint old town is situated on the North Branch of theSusquehanna, at the mouth of Catawissa Creek. Nature has done 228 POPULAR BESOKTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. much for this place, — all, in fact, that an artist could ask in combining-the beautiful with the grand for a painting : bold mountain bluffs, deepwooded valleys, a brawling stream, a noble river spanned by of the Catawissa Creek with the Susquehanna. every thing, indeed. But the town exhibits a want of thrift and energythat is painful to the stranger, who looks with pity upon a communityupon which such fine natural advantages and artificial improvementsare thrown away; for this is a railway centre of no mean Moran, one of Philadelphias best artists, once sketched andpainted this enchanting scene. POI>ULAU KESOKTS, AND HOW TO IIKACU THi:.M. 229 From Catawissa we cross the Susquehanna to Rupert, a junctionstation, where connection is made with trains on the Lackawanna andBloomsburg Railroad, westward to Northumberland, and north-eastwardto AVilkes Barre and Scranton, and by stage to Bloomsburg, a largemanufacturing town, three miles distant. Visitors to Norlh Mounluin(see index) connect here by train for Shickshinny. From Rupert wefollow the North Branch of the Susquehanna to Danville, an importantiron manufacturing town, having a population of ten
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