. 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 . y, eleven and a half miles from Piermont,and Monsey, thirteen miles, nothing more may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the e
. 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 . y, eleven and a half miles from Piermont,and Monsey, thirteen miles, nothing more may be said thanthat they are a pair of uninteresting settlements growingup round the stations, placed in a dull-looking Monsey we reach the summit of the heavy grade ofsixty feet, that has lifted us from the edge of the Hudson,and enter a descending one of a like description, that ex-tends five and a half miles beyond. Unless the travelerprefers watching the agility of the hands at the wood-pile 24 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE or water-tank, studying the faces of the natives alongsideof the milk-cans always drawn up on the platform, hehad better take a nap while passing this region. He mustbe wide awake, however, after passing Monsey, for therelooms directly across our path a dark curtain of mountains,rising higher and higher as we approach. The long lineof its ridge is soon broken into what is called the RamapoGap (the same as seen from the heights above Piermont),and here, in its very jaws, we stop at. Sufferns (from New York 32 miles, from pier 18 miles,from Dunkirk 428 miles). This station is placed at theentrance of the mountain pass, and has an imposing setting,of course. It is by far the most important one we havereached, and is the terminus of the Paterson and HudsonRiver, Paterson and Ramapo, and Union Rail-roads, thatextend from Jersey City, opposite the city of New York, adistance of 31 miles. The Unton Rail-road here connects our road with thePaterson and Ramapo and with the Paterson and HudsonRiver Rail-road. It extends from the station at Suffernssouth to the New Jersey line, a distance of about halfa mile. It is owned by an independent company, andwas constructed under the provi
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