. 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. 71 and along its breast we run securely, though on the brinkof a precipice of 80 feet. A huge walled embankmentand culvert in the curve of this section add to its inter-est. But not till we get four miles from Pond Eddy doesthe splendid engineering talent displayed in the c
. 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. 71 and along its breast we run securely, though on the brinkof a precipice of 80 feet. A huge walled embankmentand culvert in the curve of this section add to its inter-est. But not till we get four miles from Pond Eddy doesthe splendid engineering talent displayed in the construc-tion of this road show itself in its consummate daring, sub-limity, and success. It is a section very like the one justpassed, but on a grander scale, showing a straight cutalong the mountain side one mile long, and terminating ina beautiful curve, whence the best view of it is to be had. -aM. There it stretches, a gigantic gallery overlooking a sheerprecipice of 100 feet above the river, and showing alongits narrow edge enormous natural abutments of seamedand riven rock, as though they were placed to support thefearful pathway traversed by the heavy train. One ofthese natural abutments is depicted in the following it is well that travelers generally see but littleof this causeway from the cars, as its sublime featuresand the cliffs above might make them feel uncomfortable ; 72 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE
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