. 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 . 78 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE tainly one of the most delightful stations along the is an air of industry, prosjoerity, and comfort aboutevery thing refreshing to behold after what we havepassed. The companys offices are well built, the refresh-ment-rooms filled with abundance, and near them is a larg
. 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 . 78 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE tainly one of the most delightful stations along the is an air of industry, prosjoerity, and comfort aboutevery thing refreshing to behold after what we havepassed. The companys offices are well built, the refresh-ment-rooms filled with abundance, and near them is a largehotel, kept by Mr. Field, one of the best and most comfort-able houses to be found any where. The proof of that isthe number of families and single persons that board hereduring the summer. Narrowsburgh is another of the rap-idly-growing communities which the rail-road has scat-tered along its path. Where, a few years since, w^ere onlya farm-house and hotel, now stands a village, with storesand dwellings clustering round the beneficent presence ofa statio7i. The village, as it may be called, lies on themaro-in of the Delaware, that here is locked in between. two points of rock, whose narrow gorge gives the place itstitle of Narroivsh\\xg\\, though the lumbermen call it byits old name. Big Eddy, because, during a freshet, thererushes through these narrows the biggest kind of NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD 79 an eddy. Over the narroAvs is flung a wooden bridge,with a single span of 184 feet—a monstrous span, but not
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