. 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 . Tioga wasTa-hi-o-ga, said to mean conjunction of streams, thesame translation given to many other names. It seemsstrange there should be such a radical difference in thedialects of tribes living so near each other I In additionto its natural and historical interest, Tioga Point is theoutlet of the coal
. 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 . Tioga wasTa-hi-o-ga, said to mean conjunction of streams, thesame translation given to many other names. It seemsstrange there should be such a radical difference in thedialects of tribes living so near each other I In additionto its natural and historical interest, Tioga Point is theoutlet of the coal and iron mines of Pennsylvania, that arehere exchanged for the lumber, plaster,- and salt of NewYork. At the station of Chemung (from New York 260 miles, from Dunkirk200 miles), five miles west of Waverley, we see the Riv-er Chem2ing for the first time, and find it a worthy trib-utary to the Susquehanna. The road runs close along thestream at this place, and at considerable height above embanked curve makes a noble section for the prac-tical man to look at, and, looking back from the end ofthe embankment, the tourist may catch a view worthy ofthe winding river itself. The abundance of hemlockand the uncultivated appearance of this region show that NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 147. lumber and leather are its support. The rafts we sawconstantly increasing on the Susquehanna are seen morefrequently on the Chemung, and the narrow alleys in themountain sides for sliding down the timber, so remark-able on the Delaware, are again a frequent feature ofthe landscape. Five miles beyond Waverley we passthrough a level plain crossed by the Chemung. We passthe river by a substantial wooden bridge. Heavy gravelcuts and another level plain succeed ; and then, sudden-ly turning westward close to the brink of the river, we passthe great rock-cutting at the Narroics, near Wellsburg.
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