. 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 . 94 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE selves in that most beautiful of all villages along theroad, Chehocton (from New York 164 miles, from Dunkirk296 miles). Thanks to the resolute taste of those who. retain the expressive and musical Indian name of thisromantic spot !* The name of Hancock is given to thetownship, and
. 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 . 94 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE selves in that most beautiful of all villages along theroad, Chehocton (from New York 164 miles, from Dunkirk296 miles). Thanks to the resolute taste of those who. retain the expressive and musical Indian name of thisromantic spot !* The name of Hancock is given to thetownship, and some persons will apply it to Chehocton;which, however, is undergoing corruptions enough, suchas Shehocking, and, shocking to say, Shocking means the union of streams, and is well ap-plied to the meeting of the east and west branches of theDelaware, whose Indian names are Pop acton and Coqua-go. These streams both rise in the northeast, and runsouthwest, almost parallel, for nearly 70 miles. At thatpoint the largest or west branch (Coquago) is suddenlyturned from its course by the ridge separating this valleyfrom that of the Susquehanna, and runs southeast about13 miles to Chehocton. The Popacton, or east branch,leads a much shorter but more consistent career, keep-ing due on in the direction (southwest) to meet its two streams, rushing toward each other, are aboutto unite at Chehocton, when, in the felicitous words ofMr. Willis, lo ! a mou
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