. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 119 hana here drops a graceful loop, called the Great , therefore, is a village of Susquehanna coun-ty, in that state. It contains some 300 or 400 inhabitants,has several mills and tanneries, and two hotels. From Lanesborough we enter a long, straight rocky
. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 119 hana here drops a graceful loop, called the Great , therefore, is a village of Susquehanna coun-ty, in that state. It contains some 300 or 400 inhabitants,has several mills and tanneries, and two hotels. From Lanesborough we enter a long, straight rocky cutof a mile, quite close to the Susquehanna, that flows rap-idly and clearly 30 feet below us, though we have nearlyfinished the descent of the grade of 60 feet fiom buttresses of gray rock divide us from the river, likethose on the Shohola cut. Looking behind us now, weenjoy, by means of the new turn in our track, a magnifi-cent review of the natural and artificial glories just passed,affording us altogether the grandest prospect to be metwith between the Hudson and the Lake. The river, thevillage, the bridge, and the viaduct stretch in an unob. structed line behind us ; but, to have this view in perfec-tion, the tourist must ascend the old road, extending, overthe hill above us, from the village of Lanesborough to thestation of Susquehanna. The difference between thesetwo views may be judged from our illustrations, and the 120 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE vast extent given to the prospect by ascending to the high-er point of view was alone wanting to make it what it is,one of unsurpassed magnificence. It may be said to forman epitome of the glories, natural and artificial, of the NewYork and Erie Rail-road. From the foreground in the pic-ture, beneath us recede the river and the rail-road, bothto vanish in the dense forest of hemlock, whose variedpointed summits give such a peculiar grandeur to the dis-tant horizon. The river, on the left, leaves us in twobroad curves, one
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