. 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 . andranges of lofty blocks, and cupolas, and spires, and mastsof tall ships, will ere long be reflected in the glassy sur-face of her great bay. A rail-road from Bufialo to Dunkirk is in progress, andanother from Dunkirk to Erie, Pennsylvania, 50 miles dis-tant. Many months will not elapse before there
. 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 . andranges of lofty blocks, and cupolas, and spires, and mastsof tall ships, will ere long be reflected in the glassy sur-face of her great bay. A rail-road from Bufialo to Dunkirk is in progress, andanother from Dunkirk to Erie, Pennsylvania, 50 miles dis-tant. Many months will not elapse before there will bea continuous rail-road from New York to Cincinnati andto Chicago ; and within two years a journey may be madefrom New York to the Mississippi in less time than wasoccupied 25 years ago in traveling from Boston to NewYork. TABLE OF DISTANCES. New York -----Aquackanonck - Paterson Suffems .---• Ramapo Works Sloatsburg .--- Monroe Works. Wilkess Turners Monroe Oxford. Chester Goshen New Hampton ^ Howells 1 j^[ Olisville Shin Hollow - Delaware Kosa Barryville Lackawaxen . Mast Hop Cochecton Callicoon Hankin Equinunk Stockport Hancock. Hales Eddy Deposit p- Summit I i«* Road., ^ 215Union ^^*. Distfrom York Dunkirk CampviUe !f,l-|l«i-^- 236i242 Owego Tioga Barton i 9= . Waverley ^^^f , Chemung I ^^^ WellsburgElmira .-Junction -Big Flat .Corning 246249 206 1273 1 277 283 1 291 385i 37 372 362 353 349 344 338 329^ 324 II Friendship 317 Cuba 307 Clean Burton PaintedPost— 292 ^^ ^Olt. Rathboneville .- i 306^ ^^ Cameron ^^J ., \-^j^ ., HornellsviUe — 331| ^Almond 1 i]^J , Bakers Br: Andover .- Genesee .. Scio Phillipsburg 340^ 349 358 36H 365| BeW(dere-:--j369^;; 382fc 218214 211 204^ 199^ 194 187 ^183 177 169 168 ^158^ 153^ 146 134 128i 123^ 119^ HI 102 98^ 94i 91 395 399 NiAe-miie Creek \ 403 1 Great Valley
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