. Book of the Royal blue . nderous tonnage-engines came up the grade, pulling nearlya hundred heavily-laden freight cars; on itcame, passing me with a proud and appar-ently defiant air. Hardly had this monstercargo of freight passed when thunderingdown the grade came one of those luxuriousBlue Line Flyers of the Baltimore & Ohio,annihilating time and distance. In my ramble I did not fail to observethe great contrast which existed betweenthis piece of landscape and that of theSavage River Gorge. The former was notas terrific, weird and chaotic as the latter;the view was more extended, more vari
. Book of the Royal blue . nderous tonnage-engines came up the grade, pulling nearlya hundred heavily-laden freight cars; on itcame, passing me with a proud and appar-ently defiant air. Hardly had this monstercargo of freight passed when thunderingdown the grade came one of those luxuriousBlue Line Flyers of the Baltimore & Ohio,annihilating time and distance. In my ramble I did not fail to observethe great contrast which existed betweenthis piece of landscape and that of theSavage River Gorge. The former was notas terrific, weird and chaotic as the latter;the view was more extended, more variedand much softer. The ranges of moun-tains, far as the eye could reach, rose andfell like the billows of an angry and unpretending homesteads, withliberal outdoor conveniences, small patchesof cultivated ground, orchards loaded withripe fruit, on many of the sunny slopes ofthe mountains, and country roads windingthrough the forests in the distance, affordeda most pleasing relief to this most
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