. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . bank. The view up stream shows the canal and rail-roadnow on opposite sides of the river, with an island in thestream that here pours under the bridge a deep and rapidcurrent. In crossing the Delaware, we not only leave Or- 70 GUIDE-LOOK OF THE. auge county, but enter the land of Penn. The companywished to confine their road to the New York side of theriver, but as they could not control the natural featuresof the country, nor alter state lines, and the narrow stripof passable ground along that bank being already occupiedby the canal, the
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . bank. The view up stream shows the canal and rail-roadnow on opposite sides of the river, with an island in thestream that here pours under the bridge a deep and rapidcurrent. In crossing the Delaware, we not only leave Or- 70 GUIDE-LOOK OF THE. auge county, but enter the land of Penn. The companywished to confine their road to the New York side of theriver, but as they could not control the natural featuresof the country, nor alter state lines, and the narrow stripof passable ground along that bank being already occupiedby the canal, the Legislature of Pennsylvania was appliedto for right of way through that state. It was also neces-sary to obtain permission of the New York Legislature toconstruct a portion of their road up the Valley of the Del-aware River, on the Pennsylvania side, and after muchdifficulty, encountered through two sessions, the privilegewas secured ; for which right, and benefit to that state,Pennsylvania charges the company ten thousand dollarsa year . A fine curve in the bank of the river beyond thebridge shows usa broadside viewof that the n>./, heights farther on, % S^. -.;and in a fewmoments we arebrought oppositethe first of thosemajestic massesof mountain wall iiT-^K;
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