Image: Summer excursion routes and rates (1897) (14572853000)

Description: Identifier: summerexcursionr00lack (find matches) Title: Summer excursion routes and rates .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company Subjects: Publisher: New York Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: 104 DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. Text Appearing After Image: DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 105 tant horizon. Like a vast living panorama, hundreds of square miles of valley andhill are spread out before the traveler, who is both surprised and delighted with thebeauty of a picture of surpassing loveliness, rarely equalled in this or any foreignland. Nature is here more gently picturesque than rugged or grand. Although thehills rise upwards of a thousand feet, they are dotted almost to their summits withfarms, vineyards and grain fields, which alternate with masses of evergreen andstretches of timber laud. On nearer acquaintance many hidden attractions are discovered by the artist andthe lover of the beautiful—wild, rocky ravines, with precipitous sides and crystal cas-cades, deep gorges set with pile and hemlock, numerous mountain streams and tan-gled undergrowth, where the silence of the forest is broken only by the song of thebird or the whirr of the partridge. Stony Brook Glen, similar in its rocky formationand waterfalls to Watk Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Summer excursion routes and rates (1897) (14572853000)
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Author: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
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