The water-works of Philadelphia have not yet perhaps as wide extended fame as those of Marley, but they are not less deserving it.

At a most beautiful point of the Schuylkill River the water has been forced up into a magnificent reservoir, ample and elevated enough to send it through the whole city.

The vast yet simple machinery by which this is achieved is open to the public, who resort in such numbers to see it, that several evening stages run from Philadelphia to Fair Mount for their accommodation.

But interesting and curious as this machinery is, Fair Mount would not be so attractive had it not something else to offer.

It is, in truth, one of the very prettiest spots the eye can look upon.