. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . uch shorter but more consistent career, keep-ing due on in the direction (southwest) to meet its two streams, rushing toward each other, are aboutto unite at Chehocton, when, in the felicitous words ofMr. Willis, lo! a mountain puts down its immovablefoot, and forbids the union ! Chehocton stands upon the * These thanks are now, alas! undeserved, the village being decidedlydubbed Hancock since this book was written. 100 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE narrow neck of land, only half a mile wide, separatingthe streams, that again turn southward
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . uch shorter but more consistent career, keep-ing due on in the direction (southwest) to meet its two streams, rushing toward each other, are aboutto unite at Chehocton, when, in the felicitous words ofMr. Willis, lo! a mountain puts down its immovablefoot, and forbids the union ! Chehocton stands upon the * These thanks are now, alas! undeserved, the village being decidedlydubbed Hancock since this book was written. 100 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE narrow neck of land, only half a mile wide, separatingthe streams, that again turn southward, and finally meettwo miles helow, at the southern point of the conicalmountain we saw there, and whose northern spur is thrustforward to forhid the union. Chehocton extends fromthis point eastwardly to the hridge over the Popacton ;and a view of it from any of the adjacent heights willconvince any one that a more beautifully situated villageis to be found in no country. The view we give is fromthe west, showing how snugly the village is lapped among. the mountains, beneath the farthest ofwhich is seen the approach by rail-way from the east bythe bridge over the Popacton. The view from the north,looking down the Delaware, is the most extensive, how-ever, and is unequaled along the river. Chehocton is the most important station reached sinceleaving Delaware, and its growth is amazing. Beforethe road was extended here it was a dull post-town, and,though on the main road from Delhi to the Pennsylvaniamines, presented nothing of the activity and increase nowvisible in every part of its romantic locality. Two largehotels and several extensive stores now ornament its street,which, with the spacious buildings of the station, give itan air of importance and dignity. Private dwellings, in-closed with gardens, embellish this thoroughfare, while \i:\\ YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. L01 the stores look neat, but rather grand, from behind theirCorinthian piazzas, particularly when the eye turns f
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