Identifier: randmcnallycosha06chic (find matches)
Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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afternoon. By an order of the Fairmount ParkCommissioners, fishing is only allowed in the Wissahickon onWednesdays and Saturdays. Drives and Pathways.—The Wissahickon drive enters the parkon the left bank of the stream, but a little above Rittenhouse Streetit crosses by a wooden bridge to the right bank, and follows itssinuosities to the far side of Chestnut Hill, where it enters the BarrenHill Pike, a short distance to the north of St. Josephs Roman Cath-olic Seminary. From the river road a footway, termed a bridle path,enters the valley and cuts a1ong the hillside on the right bank of thecreek, and extends to the bridge above Rittenhouse Street. At thispoint the bridle path is transferred to the left bank of the stream,from whence it runs high up the hillside through deep shade to thenorthern limits of the park. For convenience of description, we willfollow this bridle path. For the first mile above the outlet of thecreek the path winds about towering rocks and along the verge of
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HOTEL STENTON Broad and Spruce Streets. PHILADELPHIA.

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