. 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 . ach side of us a steep wall of slaterock 50 feet in height and 2500 feet in length. And nowlet the traveler place himself on the right side of the train(going westward), to catch the noble prospect prepared forhim on emerging from this dark pass. At its very portalthe road makes a sudden curve southwar
. 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 . ach side of us a steep wall of slaterock 50 feet in height and 2500 feet in length. And nowlet the traveler place himself on the right side of the train(going westward), to catch the noble prospect prepared forhim on emerging from this dark pass. At its very portalthe road makes a sudden curve southward, and from theprecipitous mountain side, along the edge of which we de-scend, he beholds the enchanting Valley of Neversink inall its cultivated beauty, its western verge bordered by achain of mountains, at the foot of which gleams the vil-lage of Port Jervis, and its level fields losing themselvesfar in the south, v>4iere rolls the Delaware River ; beyondwhich, again, the town of Milford, Pennsylvania, 12 milesdistant, may be seen in the misty horizon. A windinggrove of trees runs southward over this fair plain, mark-ing the course of the Neversink. A few rods beyond this•cut, the traveler, looking north, may see another superbview, of an opposite character, the mountains swelling. upward in the grandest forms. We have already alludedto the difference between the eastern and western heightsof the Shaicaiigimk Mountain, that of the west side being200 feet more than the opposite front. This has caused a
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