. 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 . he track of the roads from Sufferns to Jersey City willbe widened to correspond with the Erie, and that the B 26 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE same cars will run through from the Hudson River toLake Erie.] At Sufferns we find ourselves entering a region inter-esting from its romantic scenery, its abundant iron ore
. 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 . he track of the roads from Sufferns to Jersey City willbe widened to correspond with the Erie, and that the B 26 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE same cars will run through from the Hudson River toLake Erie.] At Sufferns we find ourselves entering a region inter-esting from its romantic scenery, its abundant iron ore,its factories and mills, and its Revolutionary Ramapo Yalley was the only route between NewYork and the western counties during the of Washingtons letters w^ere dated here while en-camped in 1780 ; and this ^:i<2ss came near being thescene of a great struggle during that eventful , expecting the advance of the British troopsfrom New York and New Jersey against the Americanforces in the Highlands, took up a position with his armya mile and a half beyond Sufferns, and where the passwas not more than a quarter of a mile wide. A moreformidable position could not have been selected ; but theenemy did not test its impregnability. To the right of. the raii-road, and very near it, the marks of the old in-trenchments are still visible in the fosse and ridge extend-ing to the mountain to the north, and the traces of thecamp-fires of our French allies are perceptible in thewoods of the opposite flank. Half a mile eastward of NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. -27 Sufferns, and to the north of the road, from which it isGoncealed, stands an old farm-house—the head-quarters
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