. Following the tow-path and through the Adirondacks awheel . ible, toleave the canal for a time as we were making veryslow progress. S:ie directed us down the road justahead, which led to the right, telling us that wewould soon come to the end of the railroad bridgeover the river, which she pointed out to us a shortdistance across the meadows. She informed us thatpeople were accustomed to cross on the railroadbridge, on foot, as there was no highway bridgenear there. We thanked her, and going back to ourwheels, seeing another tow of canal boats approach-ing, we stepped into the shade under th
. Following the tow-path and through the Adirondacks awheel . ible, toleave the canal for a time as we were making veryslow progress. S:ie directed us down the road justahead, which led to the right, telling us that wewould soon come to the end of the railroad bridgeover the river, which she pointed out to us a shortdistance across the meadows. She informed us thatpeople were accustomed to cross on the railroadbridge, on foot, as there was no highway bridgenear there. We thanked her, and going back to ourwheels, seeing another tow of canal boats approach-ing, we stepped into the shade under the bridge andunpacking the camera, took a photograph of thecanal with the approaching tow. On the stone abutment of the bridge we noticedthis mandate in red characters: Prepare to MeetThy God; Watch & Pray. We did not stopto investigate the reason for this warning, butgoing up on the highway we wheeled northwardover a very good stretch of road, and in a fewminutes came to a small i)lace, important,apparently, chiefly because it was an important rail-(28). way junction or terminus; for there were manytracks, and railroad buildings, many trains andmuch switching of cars. It soon dawned upon usthat this place was Rotterdam Junction, the west-ern terminus of the Fitchburg railroad. We inquired of one of the railroad men about go-ing over the bridge, and he told us that it would beperfectly safe as soon as a train then ready, wentout, going east. So we followed the train, walkingbeside the track leading our wheels; but just as wereached the end of the bridge we saw a train com-ing over it toward us. We waited for it to pass-and started over the bridge, walking on the tieswhich were very close together. The water in the Mohawk here was very low andthe bed of the river seemed to be nearly dry; butthe stream was wide and shallow and doubtlessthere was more water in it than we realized. TheJunior Partner walked very gingerly for the bridgewas high above the river, and the water far below
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