Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . excavation one hundredand eight feet deep, through a rocky spur of the mountain. About five miles from its mouth, Crab-Tree Creek is first crossedby the road on an embankment of sixty-seven feet in height, and af-ter that several times at reduced elevations, until in two miles morethe forks of the creek are reached at the Swanton level, whereare the remains of an abandoned
Statistical gazetteer of the state of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical information from recent and original sources, together with the results of the last census population, in most cases, to 1854 . excavation one hundredand eight feet deep, through a rocky spur of the mountain. About five miles from its mouth, Crab-Tree Creek is first crossedby the road on an embankment of sixty-seven feet in height, and af-ter that several times at reduced elevations, until in two miles morethe forks of the creek are reached at the Swanton level, whereare the remains of an abandoned clearing and an old mill. Herealso the old Cumberland and Clarksburg road crosses, the first wa-gon road of the country after the pack-horse had given place to thewheeled vehicle. All the way up Savage River and Crab-Tree Creek, eleven milesto this point, the road is hung upon the rugged and uncultivatedmountain side—but from Swanton to the Altamont Summit, threeor four miles, it ascends along the flat bottom of a beautiful valleyof gentle slopes, passing one or two pretty farms. Altamont, the culminating point of the line, at a height of 438 NEW YORK SUBSCRIBERS. T IN BARS, BAIiIiS AND CAKES, IN IMMENSE •NOSX[HOr WAV AS aaJLKaAKI asn Ki xsaa anx, 9NIAVHS 311 .S ^ CO -t- CO 3 f<! OJ t- 0) o P^ GAZETTEER OF VIRGINIA. 439 2,626 feet above tide water at Baltimore—the dividing ridge betweenthe Potomac and Ohio waters—is passed by a long open cut of up-wards of thirty feet in depth. The great Back-Bone Mountain, nowpassed, towers up on the left hand, and is seen at every opening inthat direction. The Glades, which reach from Altamont to CranberrySummit,—nineteen miles—the Glades are beautiful, naturalmeadows, lying along the upper waters of the Youghiogheny River,and its numerous tributaries, divided by ridges generally of moder-ate elevation and gentle slope, with fine ranges of mountains in theback-ground. The glades have numerous arms which make charm-in
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