. The book of the great railway celebrations of 1857; embracing a full account of the opening of the Ohio & Mississippi, and the Marietta & Cincinnati railroads, and the Northwestern Virginia branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, with ... an account of the subsequent excursion to Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk .. . to find its way to the river is rapid and shallow as we proceed, affording an abundanceof water-power, freely availed of for manufacturing purposes. TlieAvalon iron-works, situated on a flat rising apparently from the bedof tlie river, afford a pleasing featu
. The book of the great railway celebrations of 1857; embracing a full account of the opening of the Ohio & Mississippi, and the Marietta & Cincinnati railroads, and the Northwestern Virginia branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, with ... an account of the subsequent excursion to Baltimore, Washington and Norfolk .. . to find its way to the river is rapid and shallow as we proceed, affording an abundanceof water-power, freely availed of for manufacturing purposes. TlieAvalon iron-works, situated on a flat rising apparently from the bedof tlie river, afford a pleasing feature in this picture of American in-dustry, seated in tlic lap of a cliarming and prosperous valley. Therocky hill sides hounding the valley near the Washington Junctionbear up many a well-improved site for country villas, occupied chieflyby gentlemen whose daily minglings in the toil and strife of the neigh-boring city only render their rural retreats the more grateful and in-viting. A few miles beyond, the road crosses the river at the Ilches-ter mill—in a very rugged part of the valley—by the Patterson via-duct, a fine granite l)ridge of two arches of fifty-five and two of twentyfeet span. The Thistle and Gray Cotton Factories were soon passed,and then we approached the well-known town of Ellicotts Mills, dis-. VIEW OF KLLICOTTS MILLS STATION, Fifteen Miles from Baltimore. Tlie large on the hill in background represent the ^Patapsco Institute,a celebrated Academy for Ladies.
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