. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . rited rays, and the whole valley would resound with the clatterof machinery—the thunders of the hammer—the blaze of the furnace—the rattle of the loom. Lewistown might become a more important place, even as a summerresort. Considered in this respect, it combines every requisite advan-tage, and all that is wanted is one or two spacious hotels, showy andwell-conducted. There are two or three respectable inns in the centreof the town, but these are too much exposed
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . rited rays, and the whole valley would resound with the clatterof machinery—the thunders of the hammer—the blaze of the furnace—the rattle of the loom. Lewistown might become a more important place, even as a summerresort. Considered in this respect, it combines every requisite advan-tage, and all that is wanted is one or two spacious hotels, showy andwell-conducted. There are two or three respectable inns in the centreof the town, but these are too much exposed to gossipping loafers to-merit any considerable patronage from summer tourists. The hotelsfor the accommodation of travellers should be located nearer the rail-road. A citizen of Lewistown, in a letter published some years ago,in one of the borough papers, says : The scenery is the finest in theworld ; wc breathe the pure mountain air. Our clear streams aboundwith fish, particularly trout. Our forests are filled with game of everydescription; and Millikens Spring, on a farm adjoining the town,. Is 94 LOCOMOTIVE LEWISTOWN. ascertained to possess all the medicinal qualities of the Bedfordwater, particularly in bilious complaints. The celebrated Indian Chief, Logan, lived in this part of the valleywhen the whites first arrived. His cabin was near the wild gorge inJacks mountain, and the history of the county of which this was for-merly a part, is full of anecdotes relating to him. Logan was proba-bly the most eloquent Indian orator of which we have any was the Clay of the Indian people ; and in natural dignity, inde-pendence of spirit, and loftiness of purpose, few whites have sur-passed him. Near the village of Reedville, about six miles from Lewistown, isa beautiful spring, near which the orator often dwelt. The followinganecdote, related by the late Judge Brown, one of the earliest settlers,is connected with this spot: The first time I ever saw that
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