. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ore may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking countryAt Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the edge of the Hudson,and enter a descending one of a like description, that ex-tends five and a half miles beyond. Unless the travelerprefers watching the agility of the hands at the wood-pile 30 GUIDK-BOOK OF THE or water-tank, studying the faces of the natives alongsideof the milk-cans always drawn up on the platform, he
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ore may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking countryAt Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the edge of the Hudson,and enter a descending one of a like description, that ex-tends five and a half miles beyond. Unless the travelerprefers watching the agility of the hands at the wood-pile 30 GUIDK-BOOK OF THE or water-tank, studying the faces of the natives alongsideof the milk-cans always drawn up on the platform, hehad better take a nap while passing this region. He mustbe wide awake, however, after passing Monsey, for therelooms directly across our path a dark curtain of mountains,rising higher and higher as we approach. The long lineof its ridge is soon broken into what is called the RamapoCap (the same as seen from the heights above Piermont1and here, in its very jaws, we reach the poinl ;il winch webefore arrived by the route from Jersey City. :!■•<;. Sufffrxs (from New York 32 miles, from the pier 18miles, from Duukiik 4 miles) is placed at the entranceof the mountain pass, and has an imposing setting. Whenthe trains transferred their passengers here, it was a moreimportant station than now. The Union Rail-road, whichis one of the three rail-roads over which the passengers whotook the cars at Jersey City have come to this station, is buta short piece of road, having no special point to mark itssouthern terminus. It extends from Sufierns to the stateline of New Jersey, a distance of only half a mile, and wasconstructed for the purpose of connecting the Erie Road withthe Paterson and Ramapo Road, which ends at the state linewhere this begins. The station at Sufierns is a1 the foot of a splendid hill, NilJW TCHtH a \|. ERIE I. in ROAD which will attract the eye of the lover of the picturesque, andhere commences the grand scenery of the road. At Suiierns we rind ourselves ent
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