. 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 . with its base mapped ofl into meadows, and its upper halfan unbroken forest. This picture should be first seen atsunset, when the purple mass of the mountains is reflectedin the river, save where its shallow bed breaks it into abright ripple, across which you may often see the dark-ened figures of dams
. 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 . with its base mapped ofl into meadows, and its upper halfan unbroken forest. This picture should be first seen atsunset, when the purple mass of the mountains is reflectedin the river, save where its shallow bed breaks it into abright ripple, across which you may often see the dark-ened figures of damsels ivading. That is a custom muchhonored in this region when the Delaware is low ; and itis a piquant sight to witness their dainty style of fording,indulging in many a graceful bend as their tender solescome in contact with envious gravel; or, suddenly plump-ing into unexpected depths, they regulate with modest in-genuity the height of their garments above the enamoredtide! From this point we leave theriver suddenly, -^^^ff-- ^jg^^^R^l^^^^^B^ P^^^^^^S through a fine plain ofgreat fertility;we then crossthe east branch of the Delaware bv a long wooden bridge, and find our-. 94 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE selves in that most beautiful of all villages along theroad, Chehocton (from New York 164 miles, from Dunkirk296 miles). Thanks to the resolute taste of those who
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