. 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 . his in an apartment where the father of hiscountry may have planned those campaigns that subse-quently achieved our independence. This interesting relicbelongs to Major Suffern, one of the chief land-holders ofthis region, and from whom the station derives its Sufferns we ascend another light
. 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 . his in an apartment where the father of hiscountry may have planned those campaigns that subse-quently achieved our independence. This interesting relicbelongs to Major Suffern, one of the chief land-holders ofthis region, and from whom the station derives its Sufferns we ascend another light grade, extendingnine miles. Beyond the old intrenchments, the rail-road 28 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE crosses the Ramapo, a small stream that, having led awild but very useful life as a mill-brook in the mountains,flows toward us placidly through a meadowy vale on ourright. From the high embankment here there is a nobleview of the mountain that forms the right shoulder of theRamapo Gap, called the Torn, which word is here saidto be the Dutch for steeple. But as you, my consideratetourist, will doubtless linger in this region, you can seethis noble peak to better advantage from the small bridgeover the Ramapo, a few yards north of the one we havecrossed, and where we took the accompanying The scene there is just such a one as Durand would liketo paint—so perfect in its composition—a happy mixtureof the gentle and the wild, the sublime and the there under that vine-hung sycamore, you seethe Ramapo coming toward you through a sea of levelmeadow. On the right a group of beeches overshades its NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 29 stream, in which cattle stand knee-deep and drowsy. Onthe left rises a knoll, capped by a neat cottage coveredwith vine, while immediately opposite and in the center1 swells from the vale—and I have no doubt midwayleaving any storm that ever broke on his Titan breast,rises the rocky crest of the Torn—chief of the Ramapoclan ! His is n
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