. 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 . the raii-road, and very near it, the marks of the old in-trenchments are still visible in the fosse and ridge extend-ing to the mountain to the north, and the traces of thecamp-fires of our French allies are perceptible in thewoods of the opposite flank. Half a mile eastward of NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-R
. 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 . the raii-road, and very near it, the marks of the old in-trenchments are still visible in the fosse and ridge extend-ing to the mountain to the north, and the traces of thecamp-fires of our French allies are perceptible in thewoods of the opposite flank. Half a mile eastward of NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. -27 Sufferns, and to the north of the road, from which it isGoncealed, stands an old farm-house—the head-quarters. of Washington when here with his army. Though these■head-quarter^ are indeed legion in some portions of thecountry, we regard the sneer and incredulity visited upontheir claims to such an honor as highly unreasonableConsidering the length of the Revolutionary struggle, andthe ever-shifting position of our forces, it is not strangethat many a farm-house should thus he consecrated for alltime by the presence of the commander-in-chief. The quarters near Sufferns can not justly be deemed apoc-ryphal, for, being so near the intrenched army, and beinga house of (for that era) stately accommodations, the cir-cumstantial evidence of its having been his head-quartersis irresistible. The house is in good preservation, andoccupied by a Mr. Carpenter, who hospitably entertainedthe writer of this in an apartment where the father of hiscountry may have planned those campaigns that subse-quently achieved our independence. This interesting relicbelongs to Major Suffern, one of the chief land-holder
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