. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . MAUCH CHUNK, FROM FOOT OF MOUNT 114 . PICTURESQUE AMERICA. attached at certain hours for visitors. This is all changed now, the cars reaching thevalley by a longer but circuitous route. The cars are returned to Summit Hill bymeans of inclined planes and stationary engines ; and from the Summit to the Lehigh,a distance of nine miles, the gravity-impelled cars dash at a rap
. Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country . MAUCH CHUNK, FROM FOOT OF MOUNT 114 . PICTURESQUE AMERICA. attached at certain hours for visitors. This is all changed now, the cars reaching thevalley by a longer but circuitous route. The cars are returned to Summit Hill bymeans of inclined planes and stationary engines ; and from the Summit to the Lehigh,a distance of nine miles, the gravity-impelled cars dash at a rapid rate with their spoilsfrom the heart of the mountain. In the first of our larger illustrations, the Mount-Pisgah inclined plane and a por-tion of the Gravity Road, as already mentioned, may be seen. The cars which we ob-serve on the grade may be discovered at their terminus in the engraving given they rattle down into huge coal-boxes, into which their contents are durmped. Canal-boats receiving Coal. and shot into the waiting canal-boats, which are always gathered here by hundreds in pict-uresque confusion. After this brief glance at the origin and use of this singular road, we may under-take with greater satisfaction a jaunt over its long circuit of twenty-five miles. An omnibus, at stated hours, conveys the curious passengers from the MansionHouse to the foot of the inclined plane. It rattles through the towns single street,diverges into the road that ascends the hill, and, after a journey that the impatient trav-eller imagines must have already gotten him to the top, draws up at the foot of the fa-mous plane, which, if our description has not adequately depicted to the minds-eye ofthe reader, the initial illustration will bring before him accurately and clearly. It MAUCH CHUNK. 15 may be mentioned here that the lengthof this plane is twenty-three hundredand twenty-two feet, and its elevation sixhundred and sixty-four feet. At its footwe find a very s
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