Picturesque on the B. and O. (1884) (14737885886)

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Title: Picturesque on the B. & O.

Year: 1884 (1880s)

Authors: Pangborn, Joseph Gladding, 1844-1914 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company. Passenger Traffic Dept

Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel

Publisher: Chicago, Knight & Leonard

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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- named busycenter. Piedmont. Seventeen miles up the sides of the moun-tains is Altamont. for a short distance the steel-clad path is by the stony banks of the Potomac, now converted into a tem- 48

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pestuous flood, which boils and seethes with a pent-up fury itstrives seemingly in vain to vent upon the enormous boulders,which year by year yield little by little to the incessant warfare.If not, in the one particular of wild grandeur, equal to theRockies, the Alleghanies are more picturesque, presenting,as they do, greater contrasts of nature in leafy beauty andin shades of color, both of rock and foliage. The writer may be termed an enthusiast, and when itcomes to the Valley of the Potomac, the Blue Ridge andthe Alleghanies, he is. Year after year, time and againhas the line of the B. & (.). been traversed, and the resultmay fairly be said to reach volumes of publication. Yet thesubject is hardly commenced upon when one, under the full in-spiration of the journey, realizes how weak and unsatisfactoryhave been the efforts to draw with pencil where so many havefailed with the brush. As a matter of course there are manymen of business, gruff, trade-bound and trade-ridden, who wil

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