Picturesque B. and O.: Historical and DescriptiveKnight & Leonard, 1883 - 288 sider |
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Side 104 - The passage of the Potomac through the Blue ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in nature. You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain an hundred miles to seek a vent.
Side 198 - that such Girls as can read in a Psalter be allowed to go to the Grammar School from the first Day of June to the first Day of October.
Side 46 - In the beginning, no one dreamed of steam upon the road. Horses were to do the work ; and even after the line was completed to Frederick, relays of horses trotted the cars from place to place.
Side 43 - ... population of Baltimore was given at that time as about 70,000. tion in 1829, and on May 22, 1830, the road was opened for travel. The first improved passenger car adopted by the company was of a decidedly primitive character, being little more than a clapboard shanty on wheels, about 12 feet in length, 3 windows on either side, the driver sitting on an elevated seat in front, and the conductor standing on the steps in the rear. Only one horse was attached, and he could be counted upon to make...
Side 228 - The whole body of the Youghiogheny here pitches over the precipice; and to say that it seems to boil with rage, or that it writhes and fumes to a white heat, is to express but feebly the whirling cauldron below.
Side 130 - Carolina, between the Blue Ridge on the east and the Alleghanies on the west, lies one of the most picturesque valleys in the South.
Side 37 - Company and its enterprise, we are carried back as far as the year 1826. At about that period, attention was aroused in Baltimore to the fact, that the public works of Pennsylvania, and the Erie Canal, of New York, had diverted from Baltimore a large portion of the trade she had built up with the West. It is a well-known fact, that long before the steamboat ploughed its wake across Lake Erie, or even a stage route existed between...
Side 204 - Martinsburg that occurred the wholesale destruction of railroad property by Stonewall Jackson. After battering out of all former semblance such machinery as he could not make use of, and burning the coaches, cars and buildings, Jackson determined upon carrying away with him six or eight of the B.
Side 48 - ... of 1831. — 50th Annual Report, B. & O. The 5th Annual Report of October 1, 1831, opened with congratulations to the stockholders upon the increased success that had attended the operations of the company, and the promise that the road from Baltimore to the Potomac River, a distance of 67 J4 miles, would be open for travel that year. The President referred to the construction of a railway between New York and Philadelphia which should connect with steamboat travel between Baltimore and Philadelphia....
Side 118 - Springs lies some five hundred feet above the level of Harper's Ferry, and therefore the pure air, together with the fragrance of the pines which cover the surrounding hills, is refreshing and healthful. As the name implies, the water is largely impregnated with sulphur and the minerals usually accompanying it.