. 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 . now m Sullivan county, which lies to the west of part is called Lumherland, though, indeed, that titlemight be applied to all its southern or river boundary, forthere is little but of the soil improved. This part of th^county, before the construction of the road, was but liltloknown. The sc


. 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 . now m Sullivan county, which lies to the west of part is called Lumherland, though, indeed, that titlemight be applied to all its southern or river boundary, forthere is little but of the soil improved. This part of th^county, before the construction of the road, was but liltloknown. The scenery along the river is sensibly becombigtamer than it appears east of Shohola. The road, for fourmiles beyond the bridge, winds so much that ones ideas ofthe points of the compass are all at fault, so that, thoughour general course should be west, we enter Narrows-burgh from the southwest. Narrowsburgh (from New York 122 miles, from IJiiu-kirk 338 miles), though not the most picturesque, is cer-


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