Litchfield enquirer., 1865-02-09
WHOLE NO. ao7s.
NOTES BY THE WAY,
No. g..

6 correct yonr types, which made me say in m, 'as''tnat Princeton is one of our villages. :" in D s.eao of "one of our lGryer villages ;p and e laa' Aaron Burr and George M. Dallas were }. residents of ths United States, instead Of e p'ee Presidents. as they were. - commencement being over, and be;np r. i' i'es"ea oy nights rest, started, with m, e traveilng companion, for the station. in ono o the lnauy crowded vehicles, and at Commenes :. mens pr'ces-the crowd being the greater, a, j. the station is the meeting place of the train, } between New York and Philadelphia, -. ] At about 9 o'clock we were on board tb, 'rain southward bound, and two hours brou,b, us to the terminus of the road at Kens;n.to, A fide through some of the streets of Ph;l. aeipna m a "buss," in which our. throuol
 ,'ckets gave us free pass, brought us to the
 oepot of the Pennsylvania Central Railro.a
 rom which at about l2 M. We were in pot;o,
 with the propelling power of four heavy horses
 In due time these were exchanged for tbe iron horse," and we were speeding our wa i, through one of the most pleasant section. ,h.. our country afords-highly cultivated, inter. SperSeo with hill and date, forest and plain
 "''n harvest ripe for the sickle, and with
 meadows and corn6elds clothed in tbs h.roh,
 est green Did you ever stand on one If th.
 po'"'S % u ,a the western part of Litchfield Countv
 "nere the Catsklls rise in the distancsI ,vE;y.
 near at hand you look down upon tba Oh,.s-
 sal,ey' which the phlegmatc Dutch patrobs,ss
 o' 'ne shrewd Yankees for few roekv. .c,s.
 on the sea board? Ifso, you have arsoa ;sss 0l the beauty of the scenery throuob wh;st we passe tor many miles on onr u,......ss
 way. wv "essVttt
 ,, o' Lancaster Lancaster and Harrisburgh, and gs.
 ''ner towns Of more or less imporsaS Ss Sss-iaay snors stoPpage at the stations offosses the ' .s.nnnrtpqiix @ afsr=ss.= -- 4Issaa. The small vu. lage of Downiugton, where the cry ge raa s%an vn' twenty minutes for dinner" was of ma ;a.Sl p est to the hungFy traveller. inasmuch as it fur. :. nlshed for him generoas and vell!byena,sdN neal rsf1 v I
 We mounted gradually upward dA wal .s
 1sRs ea app4aSahass ff SAf sses 4SaaHAas
 eastern slope of the Alleshanies, place which has acquired some general notoriety as being selected for the meeting of the Governors of the loyal States, on a somewhat recent occf. sion, to consult for the welfare of the nation. Here We determined to pass the night.
 Though from it's geographical position one night suppose that the place was chosen for it's retirement, we found accommodations which neither Governors nor Kings need des- pise. The Logan House would fcompare fa- vorably with the Grst-class hotels in our cities, both for the extent of it's accommodations and the neatness and elegance of it's appointments, while its draft upon the purse was smaller than that of most inferior houses, In this re- spect it is but just to say, of all the stopping places winch 1 had occasion to patronise on this route, that their price was no more than that to which had been accustomed when the paper dollar and the gold one were of equal value.
 Altoona is the stopping place of most of the trains, either for breakfast or tea, as they pass east and wsst. It is also place of com siderable resort for summer visitors, though cf these we saw none, as the time for the Hegira from the cities had not yet come. The popu- lation of the village is about i've thousand, where but few years ago there was but single
 log hut. Here is the office of the general sur perintendent of the road, and the place where large part of the equipment work ofthe road is done.
 About o'clock on the next morning, we
 were again on our way, and tae distance of
 some half dozen miles brought us to point
 on the road where engineering has achieved
 one of it's greatest triumphs. This ls what Is
 called the horseshoe bend," and is iclIo1ed
 almost immediately, in the westward course
 by {" the great tunnel' through the crest of the
 mountain. At the bend, the road winds ID
 the :orm of horse shoe, around gorge iu
 the mountain, in such manner that the un.
 informed traveller would suppose himself near
 another parallel road, little suspectipg that ae
 wouldrsoon find himself upon the track that
 he sees by his side, at some cousideraoie e'e- S yation above him. The curvature of the roao e at this place is very sharp, and the grace s' " d feet per mile, The track is upon the very y brink of the gorge. the depth of which an Il intelligent fellow traveller, who was acquainted : with the road, informed me is lSOO ieet' VI .ho ,rntb of this statement I had no means Q of satisfying myself. Bat looking down e down upon the tops of tall trees, standing 7 as they do in different elevations one above s another, as they have gained foot-hold in ' ,be mountain side. till the last is . vast dis e lance below. prepares the mind to receive 9 the statement without any large measure ol abatement The total length of the tunnel which fo'. lows the bend, is 36l2. it's width is "A feet, I it's height above the rails is 2l3 feet, and hi depils helow the summit of the mountain i, POS feet. Rather to our disappointment th,
 cars were lighted for passing through the tun
 nel, so that it's awful darkness was renderet
 invisible. .s si..s ..1 i . s,s ;sssf
 We are now at the highest point of ou
 journey. and ready to descend into tbe grea
 central valley of our country. Mesill paus
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