. 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 . embankment, and one miie from the old village, that hasattained great business activity, and is as thriving as anycommunity we have passed. The neat little village of Waverley stands on a hill tothe west of Factoryville, though what has caused it tospring up there no one can imagine. The station is des
. 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 . embankment, and one miie from the old village, that hasattained great business activity, and is as thriving as anycommunity we have passed. The neat little village of Waverley stands on a hill tothe west of Factoryville, though what has caused it tospring up there no one can imagine. The station is des- NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 145 tilled to be an important one. Already, since it wassketched for this Avork, has it changed its appearance to adegree perfectly marvelous, so that what was a twelve-month since a simple station-house almost hidden by thebanks of the rail-road, is now the nucleus of a bustlingmass of stores and public houses. Yery near the station the traveler will be struck with abare, flat-topped, regularly-shaped mound, 110 feet above. the surrounding soil, which is here called Spanish Hill—why is an unsolved riddle. Its shaven, regular slope,and certain marks on the top, show that at one time ithad been fortified—possibly during the old French war,and thus its foreign birth might have got confounded. Itis, however, the subject of a legend—an article lamenta-bly scarce in these regions, that want the charm of asso-ciation to keep one unfatigued while traversing its eternalsameness. According to the legend, on one occasion aparty of six Indians encamped on this hill, with threewhite prisoners carried ofl^ from the massacre of Wyo-ming. At night the captives rose and slew live of theircaptors, the sixth escaping. Upon this simple braveachievement has been embroidered a tissue of bloody, su-pernatural, and ridiculous stories. It is said that, in con-sequence of the triumph of the captive whites, the Indiansbelieved no red man could leave that hill alive.
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