. 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 . the mountain side bymeans of prodigiousembankments. With-in two miles of thetop, the few housesoccasionally seen onour right entirely dis-appear, and we entera perfect solitude—aclose forest of som-ber hemlock, whoseblackened stems, andbroken and scatteredtrunks are in fit keep-ing with its oppressive
. 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 . the mountain side bymeans of prodigiousembankments. With-in two miles of thetop, the few housesoccasionally seen onour right entirely dis-appear, and we entera perfect solitude—aclose forest of som-ber hemlock, whoseblackened stems, andbroken and scatteredtrunks are in fit keep-ing with its oppressive gloom and silence (see cut at headof next page). Glad to escape from this dismal avenueinto a sunny clearing, we soon enter a straight cut of amile running west, and there, darkly painted on the crim-son sky, stands the enormous portal through the mount-ain top that fitly gives its name to the station of Summit (from New York 184|^ miles, from Dunkirk 275^miles). In approaching this prodigious pass, the traveler. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 103
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