. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAlL-ROAU. 63 great rock-cutting just two miles ahead of us. The ap-proach to this last formidable barrier in the descent of themountain is very fine. We reach it by a high curved em-bankment, and see on each side of us a steep wall of slaterock 50 feet in height and 2500 feet in length. And nowlet the traveler place himself on the right side of the train(going westward), to catch the noble prospect prepared forhim on emerging from this dark pass. At its very portalthe road makes a sudden curve southward, and from theprec
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAlL-ROAU. 63 great rock-cutting just two miles ahead of us. The ap-proach to this last formidable barrier in the descent of themountain is very fine. We reach it by a high curved em-bankment, and see on each side of us a steep wall of slaterock 50 feet in height and 2500 feet in length. And nowlet the traveler place himself on the right side of the train(going westward), to catch the noble prospect prepared forhim on emerging from this dark pass. At its very portalthe road makes a sudden curve southward, and from theprecipitous mountain side, along the edge of which we de-scend, he beholds the enchanting Valley of Neversink inall its cultivated beauty, its western verge bordered by achain of mountains, at the foot of which gleams the vil-lage of Port Jervis, and its level fields losing themselvesfar in the south, where rolls the Delaware River ; beyondwhich, again, the town of Milford, Pennsylvania, 12 milesdistant, may be seen in the misty horizon. A windinggrove o
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