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Title: The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Bowen, Eli, b. 1824 Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Mines and mineral resources Railroads
Publisher: Philadelphia, Willis P. Hazard
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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her lands within the purchase of the original Con-necticut Susquehanna Company, and compensation being made tothe Pennsylvania claimants. Thus, at last, ended the Wyoming con-troversy ; the New England settlers and their descendants became in-dustrious and valuable citizens of their adopted state, and having nowbecome blended with the general family of the commonwealth, theyenjoy, in their blooming, beautiful and busy valley, the blessings ofpeace, plenty and prosperity. They are not, however, forgetful ofthe perils and sufferings by which their fathers established themselvesin that favored spot, and have erected a monument on the battleground of the Massacre of Wyoming, over the bones of the unfor-tunate sufferers in that melancholy tragedy, to commemorate thedeeds of that eventful day, and to show to future generations the spotwhere their forefathers fought, bled, and died in defence of theirfamilies and homes. LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES, WITH PEN AND PENCIL FROM PHILADELPHIA TO PITTSBURG.
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p LOCOMOTIVE SKETCHES WITH PEN AND PENCIL. No more we sing, as they sang of old. To the tones of the lute and lyre,For lo! we live in an Iron Age— In the age of Steam and Fire !The world is too busy for dreaming, And hath grown too wise for War:So, to-day, for the glory of Science, Let us sing of the Railway Car !The golden Chariots of ancient Kings Would dazzle the wondering eye.And the heads of a million slaves might bow As the glittering toy rolled by;But this is the Car of the People, And before it shall bow all Kings:—Be they warned when they hear the shrieking Of the Dragon with Iron Wings ! AND I have a long journey be-fore us—three hundred andsixty-throe miles! But we havean iron horse, and his fierybreath never fails. The firstmile of our journey is confinedto the widest street in Phila-delphia, and to a railroad con-structed at its expense. Messrs.Bingham & Dock, forwardingmerchants, having leased therailroad belonging to the State,have erected a handsome depotat t

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