. 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 . torwith surprise. The country carts, wagons, horses, andeven cattle, which he sees in the market-space near thestation, are by no means of such an appearance as he ex-pects to see in a region of such fatness as the land ofGoshen. On the contrary, one would suppose he were inthe most impoverished distri
. 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 . torwith surprise. The country carts, wagons, horses, andeven cattle, which he sees in the market-space near thestation, are by no means of such an appearance as he ex-pects to see in a region of such fatness as the land ofGoshen. On the contrary, one would suppose he were inthe most impoverished district of Maryland, and he looksround in vain for the jolly farmer, the plain but substan-tial wagon, the sleek, well-tended, sturdy draught-horse,or the plump, well-fed kine ! If we saw such animalshere, Goshen, the butter-knotun, would indeed be a can-nie-looking town ! From Goshen the road runs along almost a level, andbrings us fairly into the Yalley of the Walkill, that runsthrough this county and Ulster to empty into the Hudsonnear Rondout. The soil along the Walkill is generally ofa peat formation, making extensive marshy flats, calledthe Drowned Lands, similar to the Gray Court Mead-ows, and in which the mastodon has been chiefly found. New Hampton (from New York 63^ miles, from Dun-. kirk 396| miles) is our next station. It is four miles be-yond Goshen, and stands on the west bank of the Walkill NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 49 It is simply a station, consisting of a large hotel, with afew spacious store-houses ; in fact, one of the new placesthat have started into life by the creation of the rail-road,which passes the river by a strong bridge. A short dis-tance below is an extensive woolen factory, which, how-ever, has seen its best days, and looks somewhat view of these mills from the bridge is the light descent of the road ceases, and we moveover an ascending grade extending several miles. Middletown (from New York 67 miles, from Dunkirk393
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