. 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 . w smd fash-ionable part of the village. Now look at the wonderfulchange wrought in this fishing village by the beneficentpower of steam ! The nets of its former traders arenow represented by the mazy net-ivork of iron tracks uponthat pier, and for the three sloops are substituted asmany steam-boats, to
. 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 . w smd fash-ionable part of the village. Now look at the wonderfulchange wrought in this fishing village by the beneficentpower of steam ! The nets of its former traders arenow represented by the mazy net-ivork of iron tracks uponthat pier, and for the three sloops are substituted asmany steam-boats, to say nothing of the land-stecimersrunning up and down that long track, like jockies tryingtheir steeds on a training-course. The population is esti-mated at over one thousand. The visitor Avill find it wellworth his while to ascend the heights above the village,and enjoy the prospects they aflbrd. The most striking ofthese is the map-like view of the station and pier, whichlast looks as though it ran half way across the river. Op-posite is Mr. Pauldings residence at Tarrytown, and Wash-ington livings country seat. The broad, placid sheet ofthe Hudson contrasts singularly with the noisy hive andartificial lines of the station, while on the right, just be- NEW YOllK AND EKIJE RAIL-ROAD. 19. iieath us, winds the sinuous Sparkill among its grassymeadows. But listen how the ■■Knickerbocker thus fe-licitously hits off the sights and sounds of Piermont, afterdescribing the bright shores opposite : Hark I the shriekof the steam-whistle and its white breath brings us to theforeground, and we look down upon long, snaky trains offreight-cars, gliding amid a labyrinth of iron tracks, andpreceded by a puffing locomotive, that often requires theapplication of « sivitch to keep it in the proper track ;upon groups and clusters of brick structures (some of themin the pointed Ionic style of architecture); upon half amile of new cars and an acre of car-wheels ; upon thesmoke of Stygian forge
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