. 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 . =*n .;;&, broad area between the Delaware and the open plateauon which the village of Port Jervis stands, some half milenorth of the depot, and the whole appearance of the offi-ces of the company, the engine-houses and other buildings,. conveys a just idea of the extent of the business done
. 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 . =*n .;;&, broad area between the Delaware and the open plateauon which the village of Port Jervis stands, some half milenorth of the depot, and the whole appearance of the offi-ces of the company, the engine-houses and other buildings,. conveys a just idea of the extent of the business done have caused many dwellings and spacious stores tospring up around, in rivalry to the village on the these the Delaware Hotel rears its imposing form,and offers excellent accommodations for a large numberof visitors, that find its quarters agreeable enough dur- NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 61 ing a sojourn in this picturesque locality. Ascending theheight to the village, we find it nestling close to two mag-nificent hiffh mountains, whose summits beetle over itsdwellings, affording extensive views up and down the val-leys of the JSTeversink and Delaware. Port Jervis is namedafter Mr. John B. Jervis, engineer of the Delaware andHudson Canal, and owes its origin and growth to thatcanal, which here passes through it, and, sweeping roundthese same mountains, extends up the former river in com-pany with the rail-road. The business done here is chiefly in coal and lumber,and its prosperity is written in the neat hou
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