Excerpt from Rural Resorts and Summer Retreats: Along the Line of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, Including Picnic Parks and Pleasure Places Peeping from these slopes of velvet green and silvered border are the homes of farmers, and, like pictures, rise before the vision towns and villages whose spires and bel fries mark equi-distant points in a line of beauty stretching from where a silver gleam of waters marks the presence of the Susquehanna to a point where the whole is lost in the dimness of that hazy distance in which the parallel lines of mountain seem to meet and blend their blueness. And the glimmering track of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, like the great artery as it is of the busy life with which this scene is instinct, winds in gentle curve from village to vil lage, and town to town, in the original line of civilization, marked first by the Indian moccasin, followed by the pack horse hoof and wagon track opening up this beautiful valley to the outside world, inviting the care-worn and heat-wearied denizen of the city to a delightful ride over a model road-bed, in new coaches perfectly equipped, to a brief sojourn in a region where the far past and the present are so closely blended that the very breezes whisper legends, and where the beauties of the country and the conveniences of the town pay tribute to each other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.