Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y of the Tulpehocken, and then fol-lows that valley till within five miles ofLebanon, wiiere begins the summit-lev-el. In all this distance, it rises 311 feet,by numerous locks of four and eight feetlift. The canal is twenty-four feet wideat bottom, four deep, and thirty-six onthe surface. On this part of the canal isthe tunnel, an excavation bored througha hill for a distance of 729 feet, 25 feetbeing first cut away. This dark andgloomy passage is eighteen feet in width,and fourteen feet high. Schuylkill Water-Gap.— This is anarrow gorge, through which the riverruns over a steep and rocky channel, forfour or five miles, leaving no room uponits banks, which rise abruptly on eachside to the height of several hundredfeet. The road has been cut out alongthe face of one of these ranges, at a greatelevation, where the surface is in manyplaces of such a declivity as to requireit to be supported by walls of stone.The views which are here afforded tothe traveller, are romantic and varied in
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DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 233 a high decree. This interesting scenesomewhat resembles that on the Dela-ware represented in the vignette. The Little ScJiuylkiU River, a branchof the principal stream, runs through avalley of the same general description ;and here lies the road to Mount Car-bon. The Tunnel.—This a place where ahill has been bored through 375 yardsfor a canal, about three miles from Or-wigsburgh. Mount Carbon is near several coal-mines. The coal-country in this regionbegins in Luzerne, on tte upper partof the Lackawana river, following itscourse to the Susquehannah, and alongthat stream, principally on the easternbank, to eighteen miles beyond Wilkes-barre. It runs south to the Lehigh river,and thence southwest, through Schuyl-kill county. It extends about one hun-dred miles, and at the middle of therange is eight or nine miles wide, butnarrower toward each end. At Mount Carbon the coal occurs inbeds of four or five feet in thickness,running east and wes

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