his head. Before reaching Gallitzin, the train passes through a long tunnel which is three thousand six hundred and twelve feet in length, and securely arched throughout. The highest point attained by the Pennsylvania Railroad is at the western end of this great tunnel, where the elevation above tidewater is twenty-one hundred and sixty-one feet. This summit is known as Allegrippus Point. The entire distance over the mountain, is some thirty or thirty-five miles.
Hundreds of travelers every day between Altoona and Gallitzin are led, not only to admire with pleasure this wild mountain scenery, but alike the grand and daring engineering skill manifested in so successfully building an iron road over this formidable barrier. These scenes are so grand, and so romantic, that they never grow old.
Some fifteen or twenty miles south of this, in other wilds of the Alleghenies is the scene of our narrative. The scenery here is much like that described above, only upon a scale more extended. The different hills, cliffs, crags, and ravines have been named by old hunters, so that the people living near the foot of the mountain understand them. One of the highest points is known
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