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Title: The Pennsylvania railroad : its origin, construction, condition, and connections ; embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Sipes, William B., d. 1905 Pennsylvania Railroad. Passenger Dept Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Pennsylvania Railroad
Publisher: Philadelphia : (Pennsylvania Railroad Co.) The Passenger Dept.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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elevations beingprecipitous and of considerable altitude.In the bottoms, formed by the numerousstreams which intersect it, the soil is fertile,and some good farming land exists on thehills. The county is peculiarly healthy—its elevated position permitting excellentdrainage—and many portions of it are pic-turesque, affording natural vistas as beautifulj as they are striking. But great as are thecommercial and agricultural advantages en-joyed by the county, they are entirely sur-passed by its mineral wealth. The richest! gifts of nature, says an historical writer,seem to have been bestowed by Providenceupon this region; and the art of man hasbeen most diligent in advancing the worksof nature and developing her latent sourcesof wealth. The French are unquestionably entitledto the credit of having first explored thevalley of the Mississippi and its tributaries,from the lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Push-ing westward from the St. LawTence, theirI military leaders and missionaries became
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PITTSBURG. 1G5 familiar with the great lakes and the Indianswho resided upon or visited their shores.Securing the confidence of these aborigines,they undertook, with their assistance, themost stupendous journeys into the unknownwilderness, establishing, at many places,military stations and missionary posts whichstill preserve the names then given them.Fathers Joliet and Marquette explored theupper portion of the Mississippi and itsnorthern tributaries as early as 1670. LaSalle, a Canadian, accompanied by FatherHennepin, commenced a tour of explora-tion southward from Lake Erie in 1679.These explorations were continued until themouths of the Mississippi were reached, anda chain of fortifications erected extendingfrom Quebec to New Orleans. In 1730they had visited and, it is asserted, erecteda post of some kind where Pittsburg nowstands. According to the most reliable historicalaccounts, the first effort at planting anEnglish settlement in this region was madein 1748. In that year Thoma

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