Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the originaldocument have been preserved.
The page numbers of this Volume start with 275 (continuing the numbering from Volume 1of this work).
On page 282 guerillas should possibly be guerrillas.
On page 293 vigilants should possibly be vigilantes.
AMERICA
EDITION ARTISTIQUE
The World's Famous
Places and Peoples
AMERICA
BY
JOEL COOK
In Six Volumes
Volume II.
MERRILL AND BAKER
New York London
THIS EDITION ARTISTIQUE OF THE WORLD'S
FAMOUS PLACES AND PEOPLES IS LIMITED
TO ONE THOUSAND NUMBERED AND REGISTERED
COPIES, OF WHICH THIS COPY IS
NO. ____
Copyright, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1900
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME II
| PAGE | ||
| Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone | Frontispiece | |
| The Susquehanna West of Falmouth | 284 | |
| The Conemaugh near Florence | 312 | |
| On the Ashley, near Charleston, S. C. | 352 | |
| On the Ocklawaha | 382 | |
| Lincoln Monument, Lincoln Park, Chicago | 432 | |
CROSSING THE ALLEGHENIES.
IV.
CROSSING THE ALLEGHENIES.
The Old Pike—The National Road—Early Routes Across theMountains—Old Lancaster Road—Columbia Railroad—ThePennsylvania Route—Haverford College—Villa Nova—BrynMawr College—Paoli—General Wayne—The Chester Valley—PequeaValley—The Conestogas—Lancaster—Franklinand Marshall College—James Buchanan—Thaddeus Stevens—ConewagoHills—Susquehanna River—Columbia—The UndergroundRailroad—Middletown—Lochiel—Simon Cameron—TheClan Cameron—Harrisburg—Charles Dickens andthe Camel's Back Bridge—John Harris—Lincoln's MidnightRide—Cumberland Valley—Carlisle—Indian School—DickinsonCollege—The Whisky Insurrection—Tom the Tinker—LebanonValley—Cornwall Ore Banks—Otsego Lake—Cooperstown—JamesFenimore Cooper—Richfield Springs—CherryValley—Sharon Springs—Howe's Cave—Binghamton—Northumberland—Williamsport—Sunbury—FortAugusta—TheDauphin Gap—Duncannon—Duncan's Island—JuniataRiver—Tuscarora Gap—The Grasshopper War—Mifflin—LewistownNarrows—Kishicoquillas Valley—Logan—Jack'sNarrows—Huntingdon—The Standing Stone—Bed