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Excerpt from Philadelphia: The American Mecca: A General Outline of the City of Philadelphia and Fairmount Park
At the foot of those precipitous hills, chiselled by the ever-wearing waters, are deep recesses that the noonday sun scarce enters ere his beams are chased away by the shadows of over-hanging rocks. In northern-faced nooks, lit up oftener by the Aurora Borealis than by either sun or moon, the evening damp forever lingers. Here, on the outskirts of our great city, is a spot as wild as when civi lized man first trod this western soil. The shadows of these giant hills lift as we approach Valley Green. The open landscape with the bright sun seems cheerful; it is but for a moment; for again we are in the depths of a mountain gorge, the waters bubbling and seething around us, a mysterious silence above us. Now Indian Rock looms grandly and callsa recollection of the past - the birth and death of nations and of races. The Indian war rior, whose statued form caps the mighty rock and sur veys the field of his former greatness, has shrunk with his squaws into the remote wilderness and is lost to history.
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