. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . should bribe the engineer for the privilege of one of hiswindows, and see it as we describe it at sunset. Fromthe ordinary seat of a car you can see nothing of its irreg-ular profile, as it looms up before a black mass of rockyoutline, having no foliage of any sort to soften its severefeatures, and onl
. Harper's New York and Erie rail-road guide book : containing a description of the scenery, rivers, towns, villages, and most important works on the road ; with one hundred and thirty-six engravings by Lossing and Barritt, from original sketches made expressly for this work by William Macleod . should bribe the engineer for the privilege of one of hiswindows, and see it as we describe it at sunset. Fromthe ordinary seat of a car you can see nothing of its irreg-ular profile, as it looms up before a black mass of rockyoutline, having no foliage of any sort to soften its severefeatures, and only crested with half a dozen branchless. 104 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE hemlocks, some 80 feet in height, bristling on the rightedge of the gap, serving us to judge of the height of thecut, which, from its top to the track, is 200 feet. Theleft side is a sheer precipice nearly, but the profile of theright bank is finely broken up, showing first a mass ofslate rock 60 feet high, and then, sloping upward withloose, crumbling stone, it terminates in a crest of splin-tered rock, tipped with the blighted hemlocks. One ofthese trees reclines over the ledge in a very curious andimminent way, as though it would every moment dartdownward. Between you and this pass is a table-landon each side of the track, covered with shanties and halfa dozen wretched houses, of the tenants of which you arenot long kept in doubt by the rich brogue issuing fromthem. A simple platform constitutes the station here—quite sufficient for its wants, as one may judge on lookingover the wild and unimproved settlement adjoining. Itis well worth while for the traveler
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