. 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 . that at Delaware, we suddenly come upon the pretty vil-lage of OwEGo (from New York 2361 miles,, from Dunkirk 223^miles). The station and offices here, like the town itself,are next in rank to Binghamton, to which Owego bearsmuch resemblance, though not possessing the natural ad-vantages of position wh
. 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 . that at Delaware, we suddenly come upon the pretty vil-lage of OwEGo (from New York 2361 miles,, from Dunkirk 223^miles). The station and offices here, like the town itself,are next in rank to Binghamton, to which Owego bearsmuch resemblance, though not possessing the natural ad-vantages of position which Binghamton enjoys. It is 140 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE. named after the creek on which it stands, at its junctionwith the Susquehanna, though Mr. Willis asserts the nameshould be written Owago—that is, swift river, the verytranslation given by some to the word Chenango. But,indeed, there is much uncertainty and fancy in these sametranslations, for we have often heard half a dozen mean-ings assigned to some of the aboriginal terms. Like Bing-hamton, Owego is placed in a level, fertile part of the val-ley, and on the margin of the Susquehanna, here crossedby a wooden bridge. The first clearing was made in 1791,
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