. 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 . IS the hrst glimpse we have ol the Delaware and HudsonCanal, extending from Rondout to the coal and iron minesat Carbondale, in Pennsylvania. Cuddeback was settledby the Dutch, and is one of the thriving little communi-ties that have sprung up along that important canal. Thispart of the valley figures
. 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 . IS the hrst glimpse we have ol the Delaware and HudsonCanal, extending from Rondout to the coal and iron minesat Carbondale, in Pennsylvania. Cuddeback was settledby the Dutch, and is one of the thriving little communi-ties that have sprung up along that important canal. Thispart of the valley figures conspicuously in the history ofIndian warfare. Eight miles beyond Otisville we cometo what is called ShiftHollow Sivitch. Herethere is a deep cutthrough a soft soilthree fourths of a milein length and 30 feet ^ deep. This portion ofthe road is of the mostoppressive loneliness, •- .^for the valley is com-pletely shut out ofsight, soon, however, {fto reappear in height- ^ened beauty and inter- ^ -est, after passing the. 56 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE great rock-cutting just two miles ahead of us. The ap-proach to this last formidable harrier in the descent of themountain is very fine. We reach it by a high curved em-bankment, and see on each side of us a steep wall of slaterock 50 feet in height and 2500 feet in length. And nowlet the traveler place himself on the right side of the train(going westward), to catch the noble prospect prepared forhim on emerging from this dark pass. At its very portalthe road makes a sudden curve southward, and from theprecipitous mountain side, along the edge of which we de-scend, he beholds the enchanting Valley of Neversink inall its cultivated beauty, its western verge bordered by achain of mountains, at the foot of which gleams the vil-lage of Port Jervis, and its level fields losing themselvesfar in the south, v>4iere rolls the Delaware River ; beyondwhich, again, the town of Milford, Pennsylvania, 12 milesdistant, may be seen in the misty horizon.
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