. 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 . sewinding river you may apply those happy lines of Rog-ers : Like a silver zoneThrown about carelessly, it shines afar,Catching the eye in many a broken link,In many a turn and traverse as it glides. Fortunately, the length of the high embanked terracewhence we see this famous landscape, and the check
. 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 . sewinding river you may apply those happy lines of Rog-ers : Like a silver zoneThrown about carelessly, it shines afar,Catching the eye in many a broken link,In many a turn and traverse as it glides. Fortunately, the length of the high embanked terracewhence we see this famous landscape, and the check putupon our steed by the considerate engineer, allow us fulltime to observe all its beauties, over which we would fainlinger. The inexorable hemlock, however, at last shutsout the vision, and we lose sight of the river altogetherwhile cutting through the base of the mountain we havebeen skirting. Dreary, deep sand-banks and shatteredtimber are all we see in this winding cut; but its termi-nation brings us before another superb prospect, of a char-acter different from the enchanting scene just left. Herewe have the first view of the Starrucca Viaduct (from New York 190 miles, fromDunkirk 270 miles), which, even at this distance (onemile), when sunset lights up its arches, sheds a peculiar. dignity and splendor over the landscape. The valley im-mediately below us shows its recent redemption by its 116 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE black stumps and uncultivated knolls ; but beyond theseare meadows and groves betokening an old settlement, to-gether with the outline of a village placed at the base ofthe noble hills that inclose this grand prospect on everyside. A run of two miles from the Cascade Bridge bringsus to the viaduct, that takes its name from the StarruccaCreek, that here, issuing from a vale of the same title,runs into the Susquehanna. This magnificent structureis the greatest work of art along the rail-road, and ranksamong the first works of its kind in this country. It is1200 feet
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