. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ion of this asthmatic stranger in the Ramapo Valley, thevillage of Johnston was frightened from its propriety NEW VTOBK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 59 by strange, awful sounds in the forests, occurring day andnight. They were at once attributed to the wild animalsholding their revels in the woods. It was believed somelingering specimen of the mastodon caused the row, andtherefore, one dark night, the villagers, collecting guns,axes, and pitch-forks, lay in ambuscade for the monsterat the hour he selected for his vocal exercises. At theusual hour t
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . ion of this asthmatic stranger in the Ramapo Valley, thevillage of Johnston was frightened from its propriety NEW VTOBK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 59 by strange, awful sounds in the forests, occurring day andnight. They were at once attributed to the wild animalsholding their revels in the woods. It was believed somelingering specimen of the mastodon caused the row, andtherefore, one dark night, the villagers, collecting guns,axes, and pitch-forks, lay in ambuscade for the monsterat the hour he selected for his vocal exercises. At theusual hour the roar was heard, and so suddenly and sonear that the party were about to hurry back to their anx-ious wives and mothers, when, lo! through the gloom ofnight issued the glaring Cyclops eye of the loccaiotive,that treated them with another blast from his hoarselungs as he rushed by them Leaving Sloatsburg, our course runs directly northward,and we are once more in the iron region, and pass sever-al works, both in active operation and in decay. One of. these, in ruin, is the most picturesque object along theroad, and merits particular notice. It is on the right sideof the road (going westward), and therefore, fellow-trav-eler, keep a look-out, for it can be seen but for an is known as the old Augusta Iron-tcorks, The road 40 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE makes a sudden curve near it, and there it is right beforeyou, the loneliest and loveliest nook imaginable. TheRamapo makes two leaps from a grove of willows, overiantastic ledges of gray rock rising perpendicularly on theright, covered with trees of every sort, and its crest brist-ling with hemlock. On this side of the cascade rises aknoll of darkest green verdure, and overshadowed withtall trees. A wall, mossy and crumbling, separates thisknoll from a grassy slope that descends toward us and tothe foot of the cascade, and on its bare greensward standsthe crumbling gable of the mill, overrun and festoonedwith every sort of wild
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