. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 133 ried design. Either end of it is covered. Under the east-ern portion the Chenango Canal Chenango, in Indian, is said by some to mean Beauti-ful or Pleasant Waters, while others contend that itmeans Swift River. Whichever be the true significa-tion, the word wil
. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 133 ried design. Either end of it is covered. Under the east-ern portion the Chenango Canal Chenango, in Indian, is said by some to mean Beauti-ful or Pleasant Waters, while others contend that itmeans Swift River. Whichever be the true significa-tion, the word will be well applied, for a swifter or morebeautiful river never ran toward the sea. With such a position, in such a fertile plain, and withsuch rapid means of connection with New York and allthe minor points of trade surrounding it, what can pre-vent Binghamton from growing into an inland metropo-lis ? Looking back at its comparatively recent settlement,what a still greater change may be anticipated. Beforethe numerous roads were opened for its only business, lum-ber, its only market was Philadelphia. In 1810 there wasbut one mail per week from New York. With this antic-ipated growth of Binghamton, it has a community whoseintelligence, enterprise, and refined taste will keep pacewith its increasing wealth. There is no place where hos- 134 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE pitality and social intercourse are conducted in a more lib-e
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