. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . ravines of the mountains andover their wooded crests; some wherequeenly Susquehanna smiles, and othersstill to springs and falls and glens,and other places of resort almost innumer-able. Our present purpose is to follow theselines of rail throughout the State, whereverthey may take us, catching, as we fly, quickglimpses of the scenery and points of in-terest along the route. We shall take, asit were, a way train, and stop at minorpoints as well as major ones ; but yet weshall keep moving pretty briskly, andmake short h
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . ravines of the mountains andover their wooded crests; some wherequeenly Susquehanna smiles, and othersstill to springs and falls and glens,and other places of resort almost innumer-able. Our present purpose is to follow theselines of rail throughout the State, whereverthey may take us, catching, as we fly, quickglimpses of the scenery and points of in-terest along the route. We shall take, asit were, a way train, and stop at minorpoints as well as major ones ; but yet weshall keep moving pretty briskly, andmake short halts, as beseemeth even theslowest and most accommodating of we shall see all the railroad scenery ofPennsylvania, and having seen that, \veshall have seen the State. May we be permitted to use what is al-most a Hibernicism, and say that one ofthe loveliest continuous stretches of Penn-sylvania scenery lies half over its easternborder ? And, though it make our offense deeper, we must add that the only way to its beauties lies almost wholly in our sister Common-.
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