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Identifier: summerexcursionr00lack (find matches)
Title: Summer excursion routes and rates ..
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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large size. Theescarpment at the point of dislodgnient is more bold on the New Jersey portion ofthe mountain, the means of the angle for the entire elevation of 1,600 feet beingabout 70 degrees, while projecting cliffs, as seen from the gorge, exhibit sections ofperpendicular descent. On the Pennsylvania mountain the general slope from thesummit to the river is less precipitous; a mass of talus having been detached fromthe crest by the frost of winter, and pouring like lava down its sides, has coveredthe surface to the depth of many feet, concealing the rugged projections that charac-terize the face of the opposite mountain. From both the sunmiits—Mount Tammany in New Jersey and Mount Miusi in DELAWARE, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. 55 Pennsylvania—views of great extent and beauty are obtained, but it is difficult to dothem justice by mere description ; they must be seen to be fully appreciated. Oneoverlooks, to the south, a scene of vast breadth, comprising nioimtains and hills.
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villages and farmhouses, cultivated fields, groves of woodland and pi iinitive forests—the river on its sinuous journey filling up the picture. It was upon the summit ofMinsi, that, over a quarter of a century ago, a romantic young ladv lost her way, andwas exposed for a greater part of a night on the ledge of a clitT, to which she had 56 DELA.WA3B?, LACKAWANNA & WESTERN R. R. fallen, and from which she was rescued with much difficulty. On the way to MountMinsi to the settled portion of the Gap, a fane view is obtained from Prospect Rock.—This bare platform, though much below the summit, enables

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