. 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 . passing over the curved embankment four miles beyondHowells. Looking north lies before us a vast range ofcultivated valley, skirted with blue hills in the distance,. and on the left swelling into the great bulk of the Shaiv-angunk Mountain, that heaves skvward its shaven sides. 52 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE Thi
. 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 . passing over the curved embankment four miles beyondHowells. Looking north lies before us a vast range ofcultivated valley, skirted with blue hills in the distance,. and on the left swelling into the great bulk of the Shaiv-angunk Mountain, that heaves skvward its shaven sides. 52 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE This mountain is of an extraordinary character. Thereis not one inch of its eastern side and its summit that isnot of the highest fertility and cultivation, and more so asyou ascend from the valley, while its western face (soonto be revealed to us) is a mass of rock and forest, much ofit unfit for cultivation, and remaining in a state of primi-tive wildness. A short distance from this interesting viewwe arrive at Otisville (from New York 75^ miles, from Dunkirk384i miles). This is a small village, named after its firstsettler, Isaac Otis, Esq., now a merchant in New has two hotels, and the dwellings on the hill above the ^==^31 ■; .;i -**■■;>
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