J. C

Philadelphia, September, 1900.

CONTENTS

Volume I

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I.The Environment of Chesapeake Bay,[3]
II.The Great Theatre of the Civil War,[99]
III.The Valley of the Delaware,[143]
IV.Crossing the Alleghenies,275
V.Visiting the Sunny South,343
VI.Traversing the Prairie Land,401
VII.Glimpses of the Great Northwest,447

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME I

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In the Congressional Library, Washington, D. C[24]
Natural Bridge, Virginia[54]
Washington Monument, Richmond, Va.[112]
Penn's Letitia Street House, Removed toFairmount Park[152]
Loop of the Schuylkill from NeversinkMountains[188]
Mauch Chunk[234]