The Pictorial Sketch Book of Pennsylvania; Or Its Scenery, Internal Improvements, Resources and Agriculture Popularly Described; With Locomotive Sketches With Pen and Pencil from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. By Bowen, Eli.
Book offers a Philadelphia & Reading timetable in front. Two ads for ironworks in the back plus one from Ephrata Springs.
Published by Willis P. Hazard, Philadelphia, 1852.
PART I.
VALLEY OF THE SCHUYLKILL
PHILADELPHIA TO POTTSVILLE.
Starting from the Depot — Preston Retreat — Girard College — Fairmount Waterworks — Lager Beer Establishments — Railroad Bridge — Ice Houses — Tom Moore's Cottage — Laurel Hill Cemetery — Falls of the Schuylkill — Port Richmond — The Wissahickon — Norristown Railroad — Manayunk — The Factory System — Limestone Region — Spring Mill — The Copper Region — The Lead Region — Scenery of the Schuylkill — Conshehocken — Norristown — Montgomery County — Bridgeport — Valley Forge — Historical Associations — Phcenixville — Yellow Springs — Tunnel and Bridge — Royer's Ford — Limerick — Pottstown — Berk's County — Douglassville — Birdsboro' — Reading — Union Canal — Schuylkill Navigation Company — The Reading Railroad Company — Dragon's Cave — Revolutionary Incidents — Hamburg — Port Clinton — Auburn — Orwigsburg — Schuylkill Haven — Mine Hill Railroad — Head's Mansion House — Pottsville — Speculating Scenes — Swatara Falls — Tamaqua — Summit Hill — Gravitation Railroad — Mauch Chunk.
PART II.
THE ANTHRACITY COAL REGION
Coal, its Nature and Origin — Fossils — Coal Vegetation — The Strata of the Earth — The Dip — Valleys — Discovery of Anthracite Coal — Geographical Position, Dimensions and Strncture of the Coal Basins — Geological Character of the Coal Formation — Productive Value of Coal Lands — History of Mining Operations — Anthracite for Smelting Iron — Ventillation of Mines and Gaseous Explosions — Fire Damp — Moral Condition of Miners, &c. — Miscellaneous Statistics — Analysis of Anthracite — Weight of Anthracite Coal — General Features of Pennsylvania Anthracite — Comparative Value of Anthracite and Bituminous Coals — Anthracite Coal Trade of Pennsylvania — Canal and Piaiboad System connected with the Coal Trade.
PART III.
WYOMING
Route to Wilkesbarre — Luzerne County — Fish and Fishing — Wyoming Valley — Falling Spring — Count Zinzendorf — Contentions among the Settlers — Revolutionary Battles — Capture of Miss Slocum — The Ice and Pumpkin Floods — Wyoming Monument.
PART IV.
PHILADEPHIA TO PITTSBURG
Railroad Depot — Gas Works — Market Street Bridge — Blockley Alms House — White Hall — Eagle Hotel — Paoli — Gen. Wayne's Birthplace — Paoli Monument — Downingtown — Coatesville — Parkesburg — Penningtonville — Chester County — The Quakers — Lancaster County — Its Agriculture — Fox Chase — The Brothers and Sisters at Ephrata — Ephrata Springs — Monument at Ephrata — The Conestoga — Safe Harbom* Iron Works — Shad Fishing in the Susquehanna — Steam Navigation Experiments — Robert Fulton — Columbia — Pennsylvania Canal — Tide Water Canal — Marietta — Mount Joy — Elizabethtown — Middletown — The Susquehanna — Harrisburg — The Internal Improvements — State Capitol — John Hancock's Chair — Public School System — rennsylvania Lunatic Hospital — The Cove — Fish Baskets — Duncannon — Petersburg — Liverpool — Perry County — Franklin County — Duncan's Island — Newport — the Juniata — Millerstown — Tuscarora — Juniata County — Mifflin — Patterson House — Mifflin County — Lewistown — Reedville — Logan, the Indian Chief — Alfarata — McVey Town — Newton Hamilton — Huntingdon County — Bedford County — Mount Union — Mapleton — Mill Creek — Huntingdon — Pulpit Piocks — Head AVaters of the Juniata — The Iron Region — Union Furnace — Birmingham — Ironville — Tyrone — Cornwall Ore Banks — Lebanon Furnaces — Miner's Tools — Manufacture of Iron, amply illustrated — Sinking Spring — Tussey's and Bald Eagle Mountains — Tyrone City — Altoona — Pennsylvania Fiailroad — The Mountain House — Ilollidaysburg — The Portage Railroad — Making Maple Sugar — Bridges over the Conemaugh — The Alleghany Bituminous Coal Region — Structure and Origin of the Alleghanies — Conemaugh — Johnstown — Ebensburg — Cambria County — Lockport — Westmoreland County — Ligonier Valley — Packsaddle Rocks — Blairsville — Latrobe — The Lumber Region — Susquehanna Lumber Trade — Salt Springs — Greensburg — Braddock's Battle — Washington Crossing the Alleghany — Pittsburg — Western Commerce and Navigation.
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