The Susquehanna Corridor

southwest up the river to Wilkes-Barre. Rail and highway traffic crosses the mountains from the Lehigh Valley, on the southeast. Scranton, a little outside the corridor, pours some of its share of goods northwestward. At the other end of the funnel the flow emerges to reach Elmira, the Genesee country, and Buffalo. To the north, by way of Cayuta Creek Valley, lie the Finger Lakes and the manufacturing cities of the Lake Ontario plain; to the northeast, along the Susquehanna, is the manufacturing district near Binghamton. In the whole 650 miles between the River and the Cumberland Gap the only stream to cross the Allegheny Plateau at an altitude of less than a thousand feet above tide is the upper Susquehanna with its tributarv the Chemung. This route between the Atlantic coastal plain and Lake Ontario is only six miles shorter than the route along the Hudson and the Mohawk. Both and Susquehanna Valleys carried a heavy discharge of floodwaters during the recession of the last continental glacier. The Susquehanna Valley, however, lacked the broad saddle of the and the depth of the Hudson gorge; hence it did not attain the economic importance of the so-called Mohawk Pass

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