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stacked gruns, as they cut a clearing for the erection of their rude logs 

 cabins. This entrance view is enchanting, and well deserves the name 

 given it of Pennsylvania Adirondacks, for rising on either hand are the 

 noble peaks of those lesser brethren of the Eastern Chestnut range of 

 mountains, their faces and bodies adorned with a heavy growth of decid- 

 duous trees in garbs of light and dark green, with here and there a large 

 group of stately pines, that raise their gracefully clothed bodies with 

 dignity above their leaf-shedding brethren. 



Furrowing a tortuous way through the mountain gorge, shining like 

 a silver cord, and rushing by in rift and cascade in opposite direction to 

 the train is the beautiful Loyalhanna stream, named in Revolutionary 

 days for a maiden distinguished for her braveiy and loyalty. 



The life of the stream is given from a congregation of springs which 

 bubble its birth from the Laurel mountains whose towering forms, 

 veiled with sheeny purple, rise in the distance. 



A trifle further on is the old Kingston Forge, where more than one 

 disastrous Indian skirmish was averted by Colonel Eamsey and his 

 small body of men, who acted as a bodyguard not only to Ligonier 

 settlement proper, but were ever ready to lend assistance to their 

 neighbors. Beyond this fighting ground, framed by a beautiful border 

 of rhododendrons and mountain laurel, are the mammoth granite de- 

 posits, while directly opposite and across the stream is the park called 

 Idlewood, where man has figuratively harnessed, with modem improve- 

 ments and conveniences, nature's hills, vales and lakes into a limitless 

 mountain park. 



Few localities in the state have played more active or important 

 parts in moulding its early history, and few have passed through such 

 bitter and fierce struggles with the Indian, the traitor and the British. 

 Here it was the first venturesome settlers, to protect their lives, erected 

 the sturdy fort in which they found safe refuge. 



Of the many streams which flow into the Loyalhanna in that section 

 the largest is Four Mile ran, which takes its rise at the head of Lig- 

 onier valley. Four Mile run has been the mecca of many a truant 

 school boy who took his first lessons in chab fishing, and not a few of 

 whom afterward developed into expert fishermen and extended their 

 field of operations to the western slope of Laurel hill, which is streaked 

 with a dozen or more trout streams, emptying into the Loyalhanna. 

 All the waters in this locality have been stocked by the fish commission 

 for years, and they yield a return to the average fisherman. 



In a southeasterly direction from Ligonier valley, and at the very base 

 of Laurel hUl, is Laughlinstown, a favorite stopping place for trout fish- 

 ermen who desire to commence their fly fishing at day break. 



The water shed of that section extends as far as Knupp's tunnel, on 

 the abandoned line of the South Pennsylvania railroad, or to a point 

 near it. Here, on the southern slope, the headwaters of the Indian 



