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Excerpt from Two Hundred Tables of Elevation Above Tide-Level of the Railroad Stations, Summits and Tunnels: Canal Locks and Dams, River Riffles, &C., In and Around Pennsylvania: Including a Number of Turnpike Stations, Mile-Posts, Tavern Stands, Churches, Court-Houses, Dwellings and Mills; Coal Mines, Iron Banks, and Oil Wells; Mountain Knobs, Crests, Notches and Gaps; Hill-Tops, Water-Sheds and Forks of Streams; And a Selection In designing and executing so slow, laborious and expensive 3. Work, the fact has not been overlooked that it must necessarily be valuable to civil engineers; and also in a subordinate, but not less real sense, to county surveyors and tourists. 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.