. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . NEW VORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 29 sign and finish, and embowered in trees of various was built by Mr. Thorn, the celebrated Scottish self-taught mason-sculptor of Tarn OShanter and SouterJohnnie, who resided here for some months. A life-size statue of Washington, cut by him out of a single block. t*» of stone, stands in the garden, facing the gate. Thoughwe think Mr. Thorns genius lay more in imbodying the-humorous heroes of Burns, yet this Washington has muchnobility of form and feature. It has recently been madefamous by a decisio
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . NEW VORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 29 sign and finish, and embowered in trees of various was built by Mr. Thorn, the celebrated Scottish self-taught mason-sculptor of Tarn OShanter and SouterJohnnie, who resided here for some months. A life-size statue of Washington, cut by him out of a single block. t*» of stone, stands in the garden, facing the gate. Thoughwe think Mr. Thorns genius lay more in imbodying the-humorous heroes of Burns, yet this Washington has muchnobility of form and feature. It has recently been madefamous by a decision of the Court of Appeals declaiing it afixture and part of the real estate. Of the next two stopping-places, Spring Valley, eleven and a half miles from Piermont,and Monsey, thirteen miles, nothing more may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking countryAt Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the edge of the Hudson,and enter a descending one of a like description, that ex-tends five and a half miles beyond. Unless the travelerprefers watching the agility of the hands at the wood-pile 30 GUIDK-BOOK OF THE or water-tank, studying the faces of the natives alongsideof the milk-cans always drawn up on the platform, hehad better ta
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