. 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 . :; ■■ #1■s& m a NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 127 kirk 259i miles), eight miles from Susquehanna, and onemile to the north of its pretty namesake on the oppositeside of the river. A large covered bridge crosses the Sus-quehanna, beyond which the village is seen, well situated,. and making quite a
. 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 . :; ■■ #1■s& m a NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 127 kirk 259i miles), eight miles from Susquehanna, and onemile to the north of its pretty namesake on the oppositeside of the river. A large covered bridge crosses the Sus-quehanna, beyond which the village is seen, well situated,. and making quite a show with its large hotel and spa-cious stores. The station is one of the most importantalong the road, for it is placed at a great converging pointof trade with the thriving towns in Pennsylvania, such asMontrose, Tunkhannock, &e. The Liggets Gap Rail-road, nearly completed, runsfrom this point into the Lackawanna coal region, fromwhich it is expected to supply all Western and CentralNew York with anthracite via the Erie road. In thesame vicinity are the great iron works of the , who are making forty tons of rail-road iron perday. The freight-houses show the amount of businesstransacted here, and the numerous new stores springingup near it proves its destiny as a future rival to the op-posite village. Leaving Great Bend, we run northwardthrough a country whose fields and numerous cross-roadsshow that we are entering a more cultivated region. Atthe end of four miles we leave Pennsylvania for the lasttime, and enter the empire state midway in Broom
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