The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-10-14

side. The cars went numbering
along over hills, across valleys
and bridges, and through tunnels.
The only productions appeared to
be sugar loaf Mountains, immense
stones and towns, which, appear>
ed to spring up spontaneously.
These stony elevations were en-
closed in fences made OF rocks
piled up three or four feet high,
and doubtless, furnished pastu>
rage for cattle and sheep that
we're sufficiently agile to climb
over them. and Gull out the grass
which grows between the crew.
ices.
But as the cars would pass
over a running stream, partly hid
amid the timber would be seen
a town in which were one or
more Manufactures furnishing
employment to the inhabitants
thereof.
AS a manufacturing State,
Massachusetts certainly posses>
ses many facilities, but as an
Agricultural one, it appears to no
advantage whatever. | did not
wonder that the citizens of that
State, call so Justify upon the
general Government for prOtec>
ton to their industries. nor that
the Connecticut people learned to
make wooden nutlnegs for their
distant customers. My return
was along the seashore, via Provi
dence, Rhode Island, and through
a country similar to the route
above mentioned in general ap>
pearance.
But Notwithstanding these APP
parent disadvantages aud unfa>
vorable outlook to a person resi-
dug in an Agricultural district,
those States are wonderful ones,
not only IN the ingenuity and
skill of the people in converting
those natural disadvantages to
innre to their benefit and pros>
perity, but, in overcoming what
would be considered insurmOunt
able obstacles to a visitor from
this fertile and level portion OF
the Union.
Railroads running through
those rough and stony hills, over
which it appears dangerous for a
rabbit to play, the natural
} streams Of running water trans
formed into engines Of immense
} power, which turne the vast ma
chinary of the numerous manu>
factories, in which are made al
most everything that human skill
has invented from that great
wonder of the Nineteenth Centu>
ry, the Corliss Engine to a paper
of pins, from the finest OF prints
down to the coarscst of cloth III.
calculated to fill the mind viii
astonishment. and admiration.
The country lying between
New York aud Philadelphia, j,
, the State of New Jersey, wa'
more of an Agricultural district
bnt:it did not impress Inc with tin
idea that the lands were very feI
tile. 1t is however a great gras
and fruit section, and its orchard
fill the Eastern markets witt
q fruits, melons, sc.
nj From Philadelphia, down TIL
!, Delaware, along the road t
Wilmington and Baltimore, is al
exceedingly beautiful countr.
r adapted to the growth of SINAI
grain, hay and fruit. The peache
from Delaware have ever been ia
e nous for their superior favor an
t luciOus qualities.
From Baltimore to Washing
v ton the Railroad wonders abou
e and around the hills presentin
Ill many POINTS, picturesque view
passing generally in a fine coun
e try and we'll adapted to agricnlt
e raj pursuits. My route from Was
# ington brought me by Richmon
across many OF the devaste'
It plains of the late war,and as 500
8 as the Potomac was passed tn
superiority of the Virginia field
g for the pursuits of the farmt
It we're visible.
It The country was generally lev
# ell, sufficiently rolling for all drai
age purposes, until the billy r.
n gion of Lynchburg was reached
and from thence to Bristol, O
d the line dividing Virginia fro,
Tennessee our road wandere
p amid mountains that appear to b
4. well adapted to the growth {
II grass and small grains and to til
a cultivation of tOh9ccO mnch 4