The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . d the county fromthe Susquehanna in a north-east and south-west course, while theSouth Mountain, or Conewago hills, border it on the north—the dis-trict between presenting one broad basin of fertility, with numeroussubordinate elevations, rolling out one after the other, with interven-ing valleys and streams. The broad fields, when laden with theripening harvests, swell to and fro with the sweeping gales, like thedark-green waters of the ocean. Heavens ! what a
The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania : or, its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, popularly described . d the county fromthe Susquehanna in a north-east and south-west course, while theSouth Mountain, or Conewago hills, border it on the north—the dis-trict between presenting one broad basin of fertility, with numeroussubordinate elevations, rolling out one after the other, with interven-ing valleys and streams. The broad fields, when laden with theripening harvests, swell to and fro with the sweeping gales, like thedark-green waters of the ocean. Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around,Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till allThe stretching landscape into smoke decays ! The whole broad scene gradually sinks into the dim, blue vaporyoutlines of the bold Kittatinny, which skirt alike the landscape and 32 LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES. the overarching firmament. The entire region of country betweenthe Mine Ridge and the Conewago Hills, and between those hills andthe Kittatinny, (called the great Cumberland valley,) presents one. continuous and almost unvaried scene of agricultural soil is naturally rich, as, in addition to the debris deposited overthe surface by the decomposing matter of the higher lands, it is tra-versed at various points by extensive beds of limestone. The wholecountry is, therefore, in the highest state of cultivation; and in theeconomy which characterizes the general agricultural system, thereis probably not a more prolific region in the United States. Thefarms are generally small—averaging about eighty acres each—and bya judicious division of the land, and rotation of crops, their high stateof fertility is constantly maintained. The farms in the interior ofthe counties of Lancaster, Berks, Lebanon, and those of the easternportion of the State generally, are more extensive than those situatedalong the lines of improvement—because, denie
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