. 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 . a mile thisside of Hankins the road runs along the base of a mountain,whose steep sides are swept entirely bare of trees, present-ing nothing but a mass of stumps and rocks, where the rat-tle-snake is found in myriads. This removal of the forestwas the few minutes work of a hurricane twenty yearsago ;
. 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 . a mile thisside of Hankins the road runs along the base of a mountain,whose steep sides are swept entirely bare of trees, present-ing nothing but a mass of stumps and rocks, where the rat-tle-snake is found in myriads. This removal of the forestwas the few minutes work of a hurricane twenty yearsago ; and it is a pity that the same shaving process hasnot been extended to more of these bold peaks, for it is re-freshing to turn from the eternal green mounds skirtingour rivers to such a bluff, bald veteran as this fellow, thatflings his rocky outlines athwart the sky as though proudof his distinction above the common herd. We rejoin the Delaware at another of its numerous raft-ins stations. These sicfns of the lumber business are an NEW YOKK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 89 indispensable feature in the Delaware landscape. Evenwhen it is not the season for rafting, you will see theselight, broad craft moored along the banks, or, like hugecrocodiles, sprawled upon the beach. Those of dressed ^..^fc. timber are neatly put together, and are of various sizes,some long enough to stretch across the river at some pla-ces. The logs of hemlock that form the other rafts areslid down from the steep sides of the hills, that show nar-row lanes, along which, and at the bottom on the water-side, you may see the barkless timber glistening in thesun—another peculiar feature in the landscape of thisriver. Wlien the formation of the ground does not per-mit this expeditious mode of sending down the logs, thepatient ox team is seen on the shore, dragging them towhere the raftsmen can put them together. It is a prettyscene when such a group is seen hard at work, the sturdylumbermen half immersed in the strea
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