. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . hose running into Philadelphia, comes the West Chester, a local road which windsaround among the storied vales andhills and the fat fields of Chester andDelaware Counties, bears tribute to theflourishing suburban town of WestChester, and then curves round until italmost doubles back on itself, to inter-sect the Pennsylvania road a littlebeyond Paoli. It is one of the manyloads which contribute to extend thecitys social limits far beyond its cor-porate ones by offering pleasant andeasily accessible homes for its peopleb
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . hose running into Philadelphia, comes the West Chester, a local road which windsaround among the storied vales andhills and the fat fields of Chester andDelaware Counties, bears tribute to theflourishing suburban town of WestChester, and then curves round until italmost doubles back on itself, to inter-sect the Pennsylvania road a littlebeyond Paoli. It is one of the manyloads which contribute to extend thecitys social limits far beyond its cor-porate ones by offering pleasant andeasily accessible homes for its peoplebeyond, yet not too far beyond, its heatand bustle. Another road, whose facilities in thesame line have been and arecontinually much improved,is the Philadelphia, Wilming-ton and Baltimore. The oldtrack of this road crossed theSchuylkill at Grays Ferryand ran over a low, marshycountry near the DelawareRiver until the stream widened into the bay. The first part of the route is now changed,greatly for the better. It now hes on a high plateau, back from the river, healthful,. d.
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