. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . e 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 entering a region inter-esting from its romantic scenery, its abundant iron ore,its factories and mills, and its Revolutionary Ramapo Valley was the only route between NewYork and the western counties during the of Washingtons letters were dated here while en-camped in 1780 ; and this 2
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . e 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 entering a region inter-esting from its romantic scenery, its abundant iron ore,its factories and mills, and its Revolutionary Ramapo Valley was the only route between NewYork and the western counties during the of Washingtons letters were dated here while en-camped in 1780 ; and this 2iass came near being thescene of a great struggle during that eventful , expecting the advance of the British troopsfrom New York and New Jersey against the Americanforces in the Highlands, took up a position with his armya mile and a half beyond Sufterns, and where the passwas not more than a quarter of a mile wide. A moreformidable position could not have been selected ; but theenemy did not test its impregnability. To the right of. the rail-road, and very near it, the marks of the old in-trenchments are still visible in the fosse and ridge extend-ing to the mountain to the north, and the traces of thecamp-fires of our French allies are perceptible in thewoods of the opposite flank. Half a mile eastward of L, I n>:<» K OF THE Sufiems, and to the north of the road, from which it isconcealed. i eld lavm-house—the head-quarters
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