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Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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another ; frombrilliant mosaics to sculptured shapesof surpassing grace ; to paintings, not ofold masters, but of that strong, vigor-ous, healthful American school thatslowly but surely is forging to the front,thinking erstwhile that truly a thingof beauty is a joy forever. THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. * 1 HE most instructive, historical andscenic route to Washington is theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad. This is animportant feature to teachers and theirfriends who contemplate attending themeeting of the National EducationalAssociation, in July. It is a matter ofgreat importance that the time goingand returning should be utilized to best inally laid out over a hundred years ago.It is over the route which Washingtontook to Western Pennsylvania in theearly days of the French and Indian war.For more than one hundred and fiftymiles out of Washington the Baltimore& Ohio Railroad follows the historicPotomac River, through beautiful val-leys, rich in the lore of love and war.
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VIEW OF WHITE HOUSE advantage, and the superiority of thisline from both East and West to Wash-ington is indisputed. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad isthe oldest railroad in America and thefirst to cross the country from the At-lantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.Its path through the Allegheny Moun-tains is through the most picturesqueregion of the East, and the scenery un-equaled by any other line. Its doubletrack traverses the National Road, orig- KHtiM NAVY BUILDIHQ At Harpers Ferry, where the Shenan-doah River cuts its way through thegrand mountain walls of Virginia andWest Virginia to meet the Potomac, thescenery is unexcelled by anything in theAlps of Switzerland. The view up the Shenandoah fromJeffersons Rock, on Bolivar Heights, isan inspiration of nature. Close by thestation and within a few feet of the trackstands the monument to the illustriousJohn Brown, alongside of which are the THE MOST INSTRUCTIVE ROUTE TO WASHINGTON. 19 tablets telling of the five great battles of

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