Carbondale, on the left bank of Lackawanna Creek, 120 miles N.B. from Harrisburg, population 4945, is the centre of a busy coal-mining district, and contains some considerable iron-works. Carlisle, 22 miles W.S.W. from Harrisburg, population 4581, is a busy manufacturing town, and the seat of a United States barracks and cavalry school, and of Dickinson college. Chanibersburg, on an affluent of the Potomac, 45 miles S.W. from Harrisburg, population 3335, is one of the busiest places in the centre of the southern part of the state, and contains some good buildings. Columbia, on the left bank of the Susquehanna, 25 miles S.E. from Harrisburg, population 9140, carries on an extensive river trade, and contains the county buildings, 13 churches, &c. The Susquehanna is here crossed by a bridge 5690 feet long. Dannville, at the confluence of the Maboning Creek with the Susquehanna, popu lation 3302, is also a place of considerable trade. Easton, at the junction of the Lehigh River with the Delaware, 95 miles E.N.E. from Harris burg, population 7250, is one of the rising towns of Pennsylvania, being the centre of a great internal trade, and having been made the point of junction of several important lines of railway, and three canals. The town is regularly laid out with broad streets, and a spacious central square; and contains besides the county buildings, several churches and schools, Lafayette college, &c. Considerable manufactures are carried on, and there are extensive deposits of iron in the vicinity, but the principal trade at present perhaps is in flour, corn, meal, and whiskey. Erie, a port of entry on Presque Isle Bay,
Lake Erie, 220 miles N.W. from Harrisburg : population, 5858. The harbour is a good and safe one, but the place has until the last few years made very slow progress owing to the thinness of the population of the surrounding country, and the want of good lines of communi cation. Since however it has been connected by the state railways with the leading towns of this and the neighbouring states and the Atlantic ports, it has rapidly advanced in trade and population, and has probably in 1855 nearly twice as many inhabitants as it pos sessed in 1850. Germantown ; pumADELpaul 35 miles S.E. from Harrisburg, population 12,369, is a well-built and flourishing town, the scat of extensive industrial establishments, and the centre of an important line of traffic between the interior and the seacoast. It contains county court buildings, numerous churches and schools, Franklin college, banks, railway depots, large hotels, printing offices, paper-mills, distilleries, cotton factories, iron-works, &c. Haunch Chunk, on the right bank of the Lehigh, 75 miles N.E.
from Harrisburg, population 2557, is chiefly noteworthy as the capital of one of the principal anthracite mining districts. The village contains some good public buildings, banks, &c.; and some large iron-works.
In the immediate vicinity is the celebrated Maunch Chunk coal mine, or quarry, which occupies the summit of a hill, and is reached by an inclined plane 700 feet long with a rise of 200 feet. Moyaniensing.