. 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 . keeps close to the mountains to the west, the rail-road fol-lows the curving base of the hills on the east, thus mak-. ing the valley elliptical in form, for at the distance of twomiles road and river again unite The valley is evident-ly an alluvial deposite, as hardly a stone can be foundupon its leve
. 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 . keeps close to the mountains to the west, the rail-road fol-lows the curving base of the hills on the east, thus mak-. ing the valley elliptical in form, for at the distance of twomiles road and river again unite The valley is evident-ly an alluvial deposite, as hardly a stone can be foundupon its level surface, while fifteen feet below are foundcobble-stones precisely like those forming the bed of theriver. At the southern end layers of leaves have beenfound several feet under ground, well preserved, and ly-ing in a strata of sand and earth. This character of thesoil throws an air of probability over the correctness ofthe signification given to the name of the valley—Cochec-ton—which is said by the inhabitants to mean increase,and by the Indians used to describe the formation of itssoil. In the spring of the year, the waters of the Dela- NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-llOAD. 83 ware above Narrowsburgh are, during freshets, sometimesso dammed up by the narrow gorge they pass through atthat place, that this valley is quite inundated. The sed-iment thus deposited enriches the land to its present fer-tility,
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