. Guide-book of the Central railroad of New Jersey, and its connections through the coal-fields of Pennsylvania . : we have come from coal-fields and mountain-ous districts into a wide-spread garden of clover andwheat-fields. Through this rich region we proceed tenmiles farther, when we reach Lebanon, the shire town of the county, situated almostexactly half way between Harrisburg and Reading, beingtwenty-six miles from the former and twenty-eight fromthe latter. It is drained by the Swatara, is uneven insurface, and very fertile. The county is one of the mostproductive in the state. Land is n
. Guide-book of the Central railroad of New Jersey, and its connections through the coal-fields of Pennsylvania . : we have come from coal-fields and mountain-ous districts into a wide-spread garden of clover andwheat-fields. Through this rich region we proceed tenmiles farther, when we reach Lebanon, the shire town of the county, situated almostexactly half way between Harrisburg and Reading, beingtwenty-six miles from the former and twenty-eight fromthe latter. It is drained by the Swatara, is uneven insurface, and very fertile. The county is one of the mostproductive in the state. Land is nowhere in the townof Lebanon less than from $150 to $200 per acre. TheUnion Canal passes through the town thirty-eight milesfrom Middletown, its terminus on the Susquehanna. Thetown has two furnaces, several stores, besides two largewarehouses on the canal. In 1850 the population of theborough was 3000, of the town 7360. Here the tourist will stop in order to pay a visit tothe Cornwall Ore Banks, about seven miles distant, tak-ing for that purpose the North Lebanon Railway. CENTRAL EAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY. 81. IKON HILLS AT COENWALL-. The interesting feature connected with these banks isthe vast amount of iron ore lying open to the eye, as invast heaps purposely piled up by Mature within easyreach of the human hand. There are three hills, viz., two on the right hand of therailway, as you enter, called the Grassy Hill and theMiddle Hill respectively, and another on the left calledthe Big Hill, from its size. These are made up of solidiron ore, lying millions upon millions of tons in plainsight above the water level. It has been estimated thatBig Hill alone contains 40,000,000 tons of iron ore abovethe surface, a great pile which the eye can take in at aglance, but which, reckoning the ore at the price whichit brings as lying in the ground (forty cents per ton), isworth nearly $16,000,000. For convenience, the ore is mined by terraces, and theore, after being blasted and broken, i
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