Glassport

We were fortunate last evening to find a bit of rustic country in which to pitch our tent, but all through this afternoon, both banks of the river were lined with village after village, city after city, scarcely a garden patch between them.

Wilson, Coal Valley, Lostock, Glassport, Dravosburg, and a dozen others not recorded on our map, which bears date of 1882.

The sun was setting behind the rim of the river basin when we reached the broad mouth of the Yockiogheny, which is implanted with a cluster of iron mill towns, of which McKeesport is the center.

So far as we could see down the Monongahela, the air was thick with the smoke of glowing chimneys and the pulsating whang of steelmaking plants, and rolling mills made the air tremble.