. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 23 sign and finish, and embowered in trees of various was built by Mr. Thom, the celebrated Scottish self-taught mason-sculptor of Tarn OShanter and SouterJohnnie, who resided here for some months. A life-size statue of Washington, cut by him out of a single block.
. 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 . NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 23 sign and finish, and embowered in trees of various was built by Mr. Thom, the celebrated Scottish self-taught mason-sculptor of Tarn OShanter and SouterJohnnie, who resided here for some months. A life-size statue of Washington, cut by him out of a single block. of stone, stands in the garden, facing the gate. Thoughwe think Mr. Thorns genius lay more in imbodying thehumorous heroes of Burns, yet this Washington has muchnobility of form and feature, is well proportioned, and,on the whole, makes a better show than most foreign at-tempts upon this great subject which we have seen. Of the next two stopping-places, Spring Valley, eleven and a half miles from Piermont,and Monsey, thirteen miles, nothing more may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the edge of the Hudson,and enter a descending one of a like description, that ex-tends five and a half miles beyond. Unless the travelerprefers watching the agility of the hands at the wood-pile 24 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE or water-tank, studying the faces of the natives alongsideof the milk-cans always drawn up on the platform, hehad bet
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