. 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 . e sail to Piermont duringwinter, commend us to this same voyage on a brightsummer morning, when we are refreshed by the cool puffsof the river air, amused with the ever-animated scenes onits surface, and then descend with a will and an appetiteto a comfortable breakfast. A cigar and the morning pa-pers
. 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 . e sail to Piermont duringwinter, commend us to this same voyage on a brightsummer morning, when we are refreshed by the cool puffsof the river air, amused with the ever-animated scenes onits surface, and then descend with a will and an appetiteto a comfortable breakfast. A cigar and the morning pa-pers having succeeded that hearty meal, we promenadethe deck, and stare for the thousandth time at the basalticwonder of the Palisades, then at the opposite wonder ofMr. Forests castle, with its heavy box entrance, and,just as we begin to weary with the sail, lo I before us thebroad basin of the Tappan Zee, on the west side of whichruns, far out into the blue tide, the bright yellow line ofthe Pier that gives the name to the point where we takethe rail for the West. The distance of this point fromNew York is 24 miles. The view of Piermont and itspier from the river is very beautiful. Over the long, flatextent of the latter, with its freight-houses, trains, and NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 15. crowds of passengers and workmen, the village makes apretty show, while the steep heights above are dotted withpretty cottages, amid gardens and cedar-groves. To theleft the hill-sides slope suddenly into a glen, up whichlies the course of the New York and Erie Rail-road. Theleft side of this valley presents a beautiful wooded hill, de-scending to the wide, yellow, marshy flats extending farout into the river south of the pier. Nature seems tohave selected this point for an ingress through the steepsides of the Hudson to the country beyond, for the long,pillared wall of the Palisades here suddenly sinks intoa ravine of gentle slope, to swell again abruptly into amountainous range, that assumes
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