Finally available, a high quality book of the original classic edition of America, Volume II (of 6). It was previously published by other bona fide publishers, and is now, after many years, back in print.
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The Old PikeThe National RoadEarly Routes Across the MountainsOld Lancaster RoadColumbia RailroadThe Pennsylvania RouteHaverford CollegeVilla NovaBryn Mawr CollegePaoliGeneral WayneThe Chester ValleyPequea ValleyThe ConestogasLancasterFranklin and Marshall CollegeJames BuchananThaddeus StevensConewago HillsSusquehanna RiverColumbiaThe Underground RailroadMiddletownLochielSimon CameronThe Clan CameronHarrisburgCharles Dickens and the Camel's Back BridgeJohn HarrisLincoln's Midnight RideCumberland ValleyCarlisleIndian SchoolDickinson CollegeThe Whisky InsurrectionTom the TinkerLebanon ValleyCornwall Ore BanksOtsego LakeCooperstownJames Fenimore CooperRichfield SpringsCherry ValleySharon SpringsHowe's CaveBinghamtonNorthumberlandWilliamsportSunburyFort AugustaThe Dauphin GapDuncannonDuncan's IslandJuniata RiverTuscarora GapThe Grasshopper WarMifflinLewistown NarrowsKishicoquillas ValleyLoganJack's NarrowsHuntingdonThe Standing StoneBedfordMorrison's CoveThe Sinking SpringBrainerd, the MissionaryTyroneBellefonteAltoonaHollidaysburgThe Portage RailroadBlair's GapThe Horse ShoeKittanning PointThomas Blair and Michael MaguireLorettoPrince GallitzinEbensburgCresson SpringsThe Conemaugh RiverSouth ForkJohnstownThe Great FloodLaurel RidgePacksaddle NarrowsChestnut RidgeKiskiminetas RiverLoyalhanna CreekFort LigonierGreat Bear CaveHannastownGeneral Arthur St. ...Rising in Otsego Lake in New York, it flows over four hundred miles down to Chesapeake Bay, receives large tributaries, its West Branch being two hundred miles long, rends all the Allegheny Mountain chains, and takes a great part of the drainage of that region in New York and Pennsylvania, passes through grand valleys, noble gorges and most magnificent scenery, and yet it is so thickly sown with islands, rocks and sand-bars, rapids and shallows, as to defy all attempts to make it satisfactorily navigable excepting by lumber rafts, logs and a few canal boats.