. 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 . tricably bound to his horse, no wonder thefeeble current in his motionless limbs succumbs to theblast, either crippling him by its nipping breath or stillingit altogether. Hence these unfortunate slow jockeys areoften found in the canal, where they have either slippedwhile locked in half-frozen sleep o
. 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 . tricably bound to his horse, no wonder thefeeble current in his motionless limbs succumbs to theblast, either crippling him by its nipping breath or stillingit altogether. Hence these unfortunate slow jockeys areoften found in the canal, where they have either slippedwhile locked in half-frozen sleep or whole-drunken stu-pidity, or, which is quite as likely, by deliberate design toend their sufferings I This is no overdrawn picture of ju-venile misfortune, but based on frequent accounts by thosewho know these boys and their condition. The confine-ment of the factory-child seems ease and enjoyment com-pared with this mock liberty and exercise of the canal-boat boy I But what has this to do with our ?True; and, begging pardon for such an ill-timed piece ofsympathy, we will hurry over the three miles from Stair-way Brook to Pond Eddy (from New York 991 miles, from Dunkirk3601 miles). The Delaware, at this place making a sud-den bend, forms one of those wide, deep basins called. 70 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE ponds by the people here, constituting a remarkable feat-ure in the river ; hence the name of this station. PondEddy is a celebrated rendezvous for the lumber-men whenrafting down the river, and during the season this basinis filled with a fleet of their broad vessels. Its depth isgreat enough to float a man-of-war, and yet a few hund-red yards above or beloAV you may see a figure wadingthrough the river to the eel-traps I One can thereforeimagine the force of this edchj during the rafting Eddy is one of the humanized points on the Dela-ware, owing to the presence of raftsmen, for whose wantsgood accommodations are here, and the pretty hamletround the canal-loc
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