. 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 . ing Middletown, we soon find ourselves graduallygetting into a more rolling and mountainous tract of coun-try, and a rocky cut, which we pass a few miles further,prove that the pleasant fields and gentle vales we havebeen passing for the last hour must be exchanged for scen-ery made up of ■sterner stuf
. 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 . ing Middletown, we soon find ourselves graduallygetting into a more rolling and mountainous tract of coun-try, and a rocky cut, which we pass a few miles further,prove that the pleasant fields and gentle vales we havebeen passing for the last hour must be exchanged for scen-ery made up of ■sterner stuffs Howells (from New York 71 miles, from Dunkirk 389miles), four miles beyond Middletown, is simply a station,with a small hotel and a store or two. From an embank-ment which we pass here, there is a remarkable view ofthe high, cultivated mountain ridge, that gradually be-comes bolder and higher, a foretaste of the chain of hillswe are soon to meet directly across our path. We arenow approaching the verge of Orange county. The rich-ness of the soil, however, remains yet manifest in thecultivation of these same hills closing rapidly around must soon bid adieu to the pastoral features of the Or-ange landpcapp, which we see in striking perfpction when NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 51. 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,
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