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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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it for public uses forever. The Congressional enactment which creates the park amplyprovides for its control and management. It shall, says the act, be under theexclusive control of the Secretary of the Interior, whose duty it shall be, as soon aspracticable, to make and publish such rules and regulations as he may deem necessary orproper for the care and management of the same. Such regulations shall provide for thepreservation, from injury or spoliation, of all timber, mineral deposits, natural curiosities, orwonders, within said park. The secretary may, in his discretion, grant leases for build-ing-purposes, for terms not exceeding ten years, of small parcels of ground, at suchplaces in said park as shall require the erection of buildings for the accommodation ofvisitors; all of the proceeds of said leases to be expended under his direction in themanagement of the same, and the construction of roads and bridle-paths therein. H ARPER^S FERRY. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANVILLE PERKINS.
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A FTER a short but heavy rain the^ *■ air was fresh and bracing on theOctober day when we started for Har-pars Ferry. There is no season so glo-rious in any country as an Americanautumn, and it is, above all, the time tosee the mountains to the best advantage.The atmosphere, bright, clear, and bracing,acts upon the frame like champagne ; theforests put on their livery of splendiddyes, and gold and crimson and soberbrown are massed on all the hills, or setm a dark background of pine and hem-lock. For this reason, seated in the carsof the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, andwith the arriving and departing trainsmaking discordant noises in ourears, we congratulated ourselves onthe beauty of the day. Patiently 3i8 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. waiting, we watch the passengers upon the platform, uniting and dispersing, aggregatingin httle groups, only to dissolve and form again—a cosmopolitan scene, for here come,going East, We5t, or South, representatives of all nations. We soon, however, leavethe

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