. 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 . roduc-tion of this asthmatic stranger in the Ramapo Valley, thevillage of Johnston was frightened from its proprietyB 2 34 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE by strange, awful sounds in the forests, occurring day andnight. They were at once attributed to the wild animalsholding their revels in the woods. It was believe
. 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 . roduc-tion of this asthmatic stranger in the Ramapo Valley, thevillage of Johnston was frightened from its proprietyB 2 34 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE by strange, awful sounds in the forests, occurring day andnight. They were at once attributed to the wild animalsholding their revels in the woods. It was believed somelingering specimen of the mastodon caused the row, andtherefore, one dark night, the villagers, collecting guns,axes, and pitch-forks, lay in ambuscade for the monsterat the hour he selected for his vocal exercises. At theusual hour the roar was heard, and so suddenly and sonear that the party were about to hurry back to their anx-ious wives and mothers, when, lo I through the gloom ofnight issued the glaring Cyclops eye of the locomotive,that treated them with another blast from his hoarselungs as he rushed by them I Leaving Sloatsburg, our course runs directly northward,and we are once more in the iron region, and pass sever-al works, both in active operation and in decay. One of. these, in ruin, is the most picturesque object along theroad, and merits particular notice. It is on the right sideof the road (going westward), and therefore, fellow-trav-eler, keep a look-out, for it can be seen but for an is known as the old Augusta Iron-ivorks. The road NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 35 makes a sudden curve near it, and there it is right beforeyou, the loneliest and loveliest nook imaginable. TheRamapo makes tvi^o leaps from a grove of willows, overfantastic ledges of gray rock rising perpendicularly on theright, covered with trees of every sort, and its crest brist-ling with hemlock. On this side of the cascade rises aknoll of darkest green verdure, and overshado
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