Show e A philadelphian philadelphia and his wife were dropped one hot summer day at the tiny post village of mount pleasant on the del delaware a ware railroad and as they gazed over a flat count country ry whose differences of level ara are scarcely perceptible save ba ve by the aid of a surveyors instrument a native asked them thein what they were looking for then the philadelphian explained that the name of the place had called up suc such h visions of an airy eminence that he anahis wife had come down to spend their vacation T blaey atey learned from the native that summer board was not obtainable there and he obligingly explained that hat the place received its deceptive name jn in commemoration of the fact that it was situated on the watershed between delaware and chesapeake bays the backbone of the peninsula as it is locally called |