a level until we came to the next incline plain.

Plain No 3. was one mile and a quarter
long and it rose 320 feet which we ascended in four
minutes. Before we reached the top the safety car
which was attached to our boat was thrown from
the track which ^and^ dragged many rods throwing the
rope off the wheels. I made a sign to the
engineer who stoped and it was replaced. Here
again we were in danger of breaking the rope which
would have sent us back down the mountain more
than a mile or turned us over into the yawing
gulf below. In either case we should have
been dashed to atoms. My hair rose on my
head but having got all things ready we proceeded
on to Plain No 4.

This plain was three quarters
of a mile long and ascended 265 feet. We
reached the summit of this in three minutes but
it looked awful to be thus suspended almost
in the air with such a weight of lives and freight
depending upon a knot, a rope, a pin, an
engine and the care of a man which should either
give way would have dashed us to atoms unles
saved by a miracle

We next continued on to Plain
No 5 which was 3/4 of a mile long and rose 280 ^feet^
This we ascended also in three minutes which
brought us on to the Summit of the Allegany
mountains four miles from the base and eleven
hundred and seventy feet in height.

I felt thankful to God that
we were on the top of the mountain alive but
we had to descend in the same way that we
ascended. There was snow on the Summit and it was
exceedingly cold. We ran on the top of the mountain
about three miles and then began to descend

There were six incline plains
to descend to the bottom of the mountain the

a level until we came to the next incline plain.

Plain No 3. was one mile and a quarter long and it rose 320 feet which we ascended in four minutes. Before we reached the top the safty car which was attached to our boat was thrown from the track and dragged many rods throwing the rope off the wheels. I made a sign to the engineer who stoped and it was replaced. Here again we were in danger of breaking the rope which would have sent us back down the mountain more than a mile or turned us over into the yawing gulf below. In either case we should have been dashed to atoms. My hair rose on my head but having got all things ready we proceeded on to Plain No 4.

This plain was three quarters of a mile long and ascended 265 feet. We reached the surmount of this in three minutes but it looked awful to be thus suspended almost in the air with such a weight of lives and freight depending upon a know, a rope, a pin, an engine and the care of a man which should either give way would have dashed us to atoms unles saved by a miracle

We next continued on to Plain No 5 which was 3/4 of a mile long and rose 280 feet This we ascended also in three minutes wihch brought us on to the Summit of the Allegany mountains four miles from the base and eleven hundred and seventy feet in height.

I felt thankful to God that we were on the top of the mountain alive but we had to descend in the same way that we ascended. There was snow on the Summit and it was exceedingly cold. We ran on the top of the mountain about three miles and then began to descend

There were six incline plains to descend to the bottom of the mountain the