. 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 . No better materials for a romanceof the rogue and ruffian school can be found any aforesaid Claudius Smith would make a capital was well educated, had wit, and a tall, handsome per-son. Here are two specimens of his waggish humor whenin extremity. Just before the hangman worked him of
. 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 . No better materials for a romanceof the rogue and ruffian school can be found any aforesaid Claudius Smith would make a capital was well educated, had wit, and a tall, handsome per-son. Here are two specimens of his waggish humor whenin extremity. Just before the hangman worked him off,a person he had robbed of some valuable papers beggedhim to reveal where they were. Wait till you see mein the next world, was the cool reply of Claudius. Inhis early wicked youth, his mother had predicted he woulddie like a trooiiers horse, with his shoes on! a proph-ecy the Cow Boy remembered, and belied by kicking offhisshoes as soon as he had mounted the scaffold. At Monroe we again enter a light descending grade, ex-tending 14 miles. Oxford (from New York 52 miles, from Dunkirk 408miles), three miles beyond Monroe, is a neat, thrivingplace, situated in a part of the country where the surfaceis more broken into hill and dale. Looking south from the NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 41. station, the very choicest specimen of the Orange countyscenery may be had here, combining all the elements ofa fine pastoral landscape, the cultivated hills receding inthe distance, that is closed up by the conical summit ofSugar-loaf. The great charm about an Orange land-scape is the fact of its being a grazing region. In sum-mer, of course, it does not wear the rich flush which fieldsof grain lend the prospect; but then, again, instead ofunsightly stubble-fields, we see successive pastures, wherethe cattle wander undisturbed over their rich velvet mead-ows. Two miles beyond Oxford the road emerges fromthis rolling country upon a range of marshy, level fields,extending miles in length and one
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