. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . wild trees and the high hills around make the spot verypicturesque. The country around this point has been fa-mous as a hunting field, and many are the stories told bythe old Nimrod that keeps the bridge of not only hunt-ing deer and game, but also of the sterner sport of huntingbears and panthers, that not long since abounded in theadjacent forest. It is said deer are often seen swimmingthe Susquehanna near the bridge. Our course now lies on the right bank of the river, thatleads us a winding course among the hills, though nowand then we
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . wild trees and the high hills around make the spot verypicturesque. The country around this point has been fa-mous as a hunting field, and many are the stories told bythe old Nimrod that keeps the bridge of not only hunt-ing deer and game, but also of the sterner sport of huntingbears and panthers, that not long since abounded in theadjacent forest. It is said deer are often seen swimmingthe Susquehanna near the bridge. Our course now lies on the right bank of the river, thatleads us a winding course among the hills, though nowand then we bolt from its company. We are very littleabove its surface, and the work for five miles is very that point, however, we pass through several rock-cut-6* 130 GUIDE-EOOK OF THE tings, where the views are truly beautiful. The last of. these cuts shows a steep face of rock about 74 feet inheight, the last resistance of the soil we encounter for very NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 131 many miles. Leaving the river here, we rush across afertile plain, again to touch its banks at a point affordingone of its choicest landscapes, whence, looking southwest,we have one of the finest views the Susquehanna affords J/—?
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