. 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 . e forges of Rockland and smiling fields of Or-ange. As it is, the iron god appears still to thrust his fin-gers through the yellow hair of the golden goddess, as youwill see by the blackened chimneys that mark the road forseveral miles in Orange county. After crossing the Ram-apo, the valley expands, t
. 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 . e forges of Rockland and smiling fields of Or-ange. As it is, the iron god appears still to thrust his fin-gers through the yellow hair of the golden goddess, as youwill see by the blackened chimneys that mark the road forseveral miles in Orange county. After crossing the Ram-apo, the valley expands, though the cultivation is not suchas makes Sloatsburg so beautiful. Indeed, in many placesthere is a primitive wildness. The eye of the observanttraveler will not fail to see how gradually the mountainsindicate the improvement of the soil on their side. Theunbroken wall of rock and forest, that has folloAved us oneach side from Sufierns, is becoming invaded. The plowhas evidently made an assault upon those heights, andhere and there, midway up, the patches of fields and anoccasional hut show that permanent positions have beencarried. Monroe Works (from New York 42 miles, from Dun-kirk 418 miles) is our next stopping-place. It takes itsname from the adjacent iron-works that once flourished. here, but are now greatly reduced in point of work, ex-hibiting another sample of that most desolate of all ob- NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 37 jects, a ruined mill; its huge joints, sinews, and ribs, soevidently made for hard labor, now lying ill, or in butweakly condition, like a giant in consumption I This isthe last of Vulcans work-shops we shall see, though thereare many others in the neighborhood. The ore used inthe Monroe Works is brought from mines six miles off, andis said to be the best in the country for cannon. In tak-ing leave of these iron-works, we must say a word aboutthe useful little stream which, for near a century, has fedthem with its tide. The word Ramapo is Indian, and i
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