. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ccommodation in the village. A bridgeover the Delaware at this point, it is thought, would actbeneficially upon the business of the station. If the trav-eler first sees Equinunk village at sunset, he will find itone of the prettiest views on the Delaware. The neatdwellings and mills are brilliantly relieved against thevalley, shaded by the noble mountain swelling above thevillage on the right, while a bold precipice of gray rocksreflect a broad blaze of light on the left. These spark-ling objects, together with the ferryman slowly pullingo
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ccommodation in the village. A bridgeover the Delaware at this point, it is thought, would actbeneficially upon the business of the station. If the trav-eler first sees Equinunk village at sunset, he will find itone of the prettiest views on the Delaware. The neatdwellings and mills are brilliantly relieved against thevalley, shaded by the noble mountain swelling above thevillage on the right, while a bold precipice of gray rocksreflect a broad blaze of light on the left. These spark-ling objects, together with the ferryman slowly pullingover the stream, are vividly repeated in the Delaware,here of great depth and transparency. Stockport (from New York 159 A miles, from Dunkirk300£ miles) is our next stopping-place, four miles further, MJU YORK AND ERIE RA1E-ROAD. 97 and also takes its name from a busy little community onthe Quaker side of the river. The business of this stationis on the same scale and of the same character with thatof Equinunk. The village opposite was named after a. town in England, and has a large grist and saw-mill, the property of Mr. , whose grandfather settled this place. The immense piles of sawn timber and logs col-lected here attest its importance as a lumber depot; and,like Equinunk, it is placed in a very lovely bend of theriver. Stockport is the last place of importance we shallsee on the Delaware proper, for we now approach thepoint when the stream we have so long followed loses itsone and indivisible name, and divides into two is evidently shrinking in size, though occasionally ex-panding to great but shallow width ; the islands of softsoil, covered with bushes, which we first met near Equi-nunk, are now imposing tracts of pasture, with large pic-turesque trees with exposed roots, entangled with mossywreck, making it look more like the lovely Susquehannathan the monotonous and shore-washed Delaware. Thetraveler should keep on the left side of the cars if he wish-es to
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