. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . timber are neatly put together, and are of various sizes,some long enough to stretch across the river at some pla-ces. The logs of hemlock that form the other rafts areslid down from the steep sides of the hills, that show nar-row lanes, along which, and at the bottom on the water-side, you may see the barkless timber glistening in thesun—another peculiar feature in the landscape of thisriver. When the formation of the ground does not per-mit this expeditious mode of sending down the logs, thepatient ox team is seen on the shore, dragging
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . timber are neatly put together, and are of various sizes,some long enough to stretch across the river at some pla-ces. The logs of hemlock that form the other rafts areslid down from the steep sides of the hills, that show nar-row lanes, along which, and at the bottom on the water-side, you may see the barkless timber glistening in thesun—another peculiar feature in the landscape of thisriver. When the formation of the ground does not per-mit this expeditious mode of sending down the logs, thepatient ox team is seen on the shore, dragging them towhere the raftsmen can put them together. It is a prettyscene when such a group is seen hard at work, the sturdylumbermen half immersed in the stream, or mounted onthe timber in various attitudes of collecting or steeringthem. No picture of this river can be a portrait withoutthese characteristics. Passing along the winding river, the next object of in- NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 95 terest is a slight thread of a cascade, that tumbles over
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