. 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 . which we cross by a wood-en bridge 70 feet in from the rocky grand-eur of the section just passed,it is refreshing to meet thestrikingly Swiss-like charac-ter of this creek, the banksof which are covered withpointed masses of hemlockand pine. While skirtingthese groves, we see on ourright
. 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 . which we cross by a wood-en bridge 70 feet in from the rocky grand-eur of the section just passed,it is refreshing to meet thestrikingly Swiss-like charac-ter of this creek, the banksof which are covered withpointed masses of hemlockand pine. While skirtingthese groves, we see on ourright an extraordinary rock-cutting, a perpendicular wall 50 feet high, the masses ofwhich look as square and regular as chisel of mason couldmake them. Half a dozen tall burned and branchlesshemlocks between us and the ravine of the creek makesa strong and savage contrast with the prevailing pictur- D. 74 aUIDE-BOOK OF THE
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