. 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 . tously hits off the sights and sounds of Piermont, afterdescribing the bright shores opposite : Hark ! the shriekof the steam-whistle and its white breath brings us to theforeground, and we look down upon long, snaky trains offreight-cars, gliding amid a labyrinth of iron tracks, andpreceded by a puffi
. 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 . tously hits off the sights and sounds of Piermont, afterdescribing the bright shores opposite : Hark ! the shriekof the steam-whistle and its white breath brings us to theforeground, and we look down upon long, snaky trains offreight-cars, gliding amid a labyrinth of iron tracks, andpreceded by a puffing locomotive, that often requires theapplication of a sivitch to keep it in the proper track ;upon groups and clusters of brick structures (some of themin the pointed Ionic style of architecture); upon half amile of new cars and an acre of car-wheels ; upon thesmoke of Stygian forges, whence comes up also the clinkof hammers closing rivets up, the slow, grinding noise ofiron planes driven by steam-engines ; and upon ditcherslaying pipe with as little regard for the consequencesof his labor as any politician that ever performed the samelabor before them ! 20 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE Northward we have a superb view of the Nyack hills,and the fine curve of the river between them and Pier- «;^H%s. mont, making it much resemble the Bay of Naples. Theview, also, looking westward, embraces a vast landscape,through which our road passes, and on its furthermostverge we may see the Ramapo Gap, a very remarka-ble notch in the mountains of that valley, 17 miles dis-tant. The country around Piermont is full of historical inter-est associated with the Revolution. Directly opposite, andnear Tarrytown, is the spot where Major Andre was ar-rested by the three militia-men; and at Tappan, a villagethree miles south of Piermont, was the scene of his exe-cution. His grave is still pointed out, but in 1831 thebody was taken to England, and deposited in Westmin-ster Abbey. In a work descriptive of this st
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