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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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scended by another plane—the power a stationary engine—and then,by another downward grade, reached summit Hill. From Summit Hill the cars de-scended to the mines in the valley, by what was called the Switch-back, a term nowoften given to the entire road, but which at present has no correct application to anypart of it. The Switch-back was a means of descending the side of the mountain byhues such as we familiarly call zigzag. The car ran swiftly along the side of the hillon a falling grade until reaching the terminus of the track, where its momentum car-ried it up an artificial hillock until its speed was arrested. Here it was switched uponanother track, and it rushed back again along the side of the hill upon a falling gradeuntil, reaching another terminus, it was once more switched back upon a third track, andso on by a series of inclined planes the valley was reached. Great speed was attainedon the Switch-back, the rate often reaching sixty miles an hour, and a pleasure-car was
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