. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . cmha)ikment,then, after much bold cutting, along a steep, rocky hill side, it reaches RAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM HOESE. 317 Tray Run Viaduct. Buckeye hollow, the depth of which is one hundred and eight feet belowthe level of the road, and four hundred feet across. Some more side cutting ens
. Rambles in the path of the steam-horse. An off-hand olla podrida, embracing a general historical and descriptive view of the scenery, agricultural and mineral resources, and prominent features of the travelled route from Baltimore to Harper's Ferry, Cumberland, Wheeling, Cincinnati, and Louisville . cmha)ikment,then, after much bold cutting, along a steep, rocky hill side, it reaches RAMBLES IN THE PATH OF THE STEAM HOESE. 317 Tray Run Viaduct. Buckeye hollow, the depth of which is one hundred and eight feet belowthe level of the road, and four hundred feet across. Some more side cutting ensues, ^^..ILZ^r-^-::- principally in solid rock, and the passage of two or three projecting coves in the hill, when we come to Ti ly run, and cross it one Jninched and fifty feet above its origi nal bed, bj a line of tresthng six hundred feet long is the road le^el Both these deep chasms have solid walls of masonry built across them, with apertures for the streams which are very inconsiderable, to pass through, —the founda- - ~y > - tions of which Crossing Tray Hun, Cheat raver are on the solid rock, one hundred and twenty, and one hundred and eightyfeet respectively below the road height. These walls are brought atBuckeye hollow, within forty-six feet, and at Tray run within fifty feet of. 818 RAMBLES IX THE PATH OF THE STEAM HORSE. Passage of the Cheat River. the grade of the road. Upon the walls are erected magnificent cast ironviaducts, the one forty-six, and the other fifty-feet in height, as intimated,and they present, in connection with the surrounding scenery, a mostmagnificent architectural appearance. There is, probably, no viaduct inthe United States that can surpass these in strength, in beauty of design,and high artistical effect. The Cheat river, with its miserable blackwater, sneaks along the base of the steep hills which imprison it, sometwo hundred feet perpendicular, below the road-way of the Tray runviaduct. The trees, as seen from it, look like mere twig
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