. The Catskill Mountains; . moun-tain water where the Rondout creek flows through one of themost charming glens in the world. Speaking of this spot, arecent writer and artist says : Nothing else in the Catskills ap-proaches it in its peculiar tvpe. For a mile it is a succession ofimpressive pictures, with cascades and waterfalls innumerable,living pictures of living water. Looking west from Shokan station a crescent of loftymountain peaks will be seen. That on the right is the Wit-tenberg, 1,778 feet, the next is Mount Cornell, ^,681 feet two miles beyond this chain is the famous Sli


. The Catskill Mountains; . moun-tain water where the Rondout creek flows through one of themost charming glens in the world. Speaking of this spot, arecent writer and artist says : Nothing else in the Catskills ap-proaches it in its peculiar tvpe. For a mile it is a succession ofimpressive pictures, with cascades and waterfalls innumerable,living pictures of living water. Looking west from Shokan station a crescent of loftymountain peaks will be seen. That on the right is the Wit-tenberg, 1,778 feet, the next is Mount Cornell, ^,681 feet two miles beyond this chain is the famous Slide Moun-tain, the king of the range, 4,20s feet in the air. in the samelocality are Peakamoose, ^,87s feet. Table Mountain, 3,86sfeet high, and several others. It is the wildest and most inter-esting group in the entire range, and it can only be reached byway of The Ulster & Delaware Railroad. Leaving Shokan now,the train winds up the valley for three miles, re-crossing theEsopus at a broad bend, and halting briefly at.


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