. 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 . ess. no sublimity in this landscape ; butthere it lies, beneath that wall of hemlock over which welook, in all its quiet, gentle loveliness, sinking with an in-expressible charm into the heart of the traveler. TheAmerican landscape should be always seen in the autumn,to judge of the true extent of its
. 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 . ess. no sublimity in this landscape ; butthere it lies, beneath that wall of hemlock over which welook, in all its quiet, gentle loveliness, sinking with an in-expressible charm into the heart of the traveler. TheAmerican landscape should be always seen in the autumn,to judge of the true extent of its magnificence ; and no-where does that glorious season light up the landscapemore brilliantly than here on Susquehanna side. Thus,fellow-traveler, we come to the scene where the gracefulbelt of light trees and natural shrubbery skirting each edgeof the stream below, and occasionally throwing out fantas-tic semicircular clumps of willows into the smooth mead-ows, divide with their brilliant colors the warm green ofthe pastures from the cool blue current winding amongthem—where (it being a grazing region) these exquisitehues are not marred by stubble-fields, but retain their un-earthy, delicate verdure through all seasons—where thehemlock groves scattered along the landscape relieve the. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 115 woods of their otherwise excessive brilliancy—where theamber light of autumn suffuses the whole valley, to whosewinding river you may apply those happy lines of Rog-ers : Like a silver zoneThrown about carelessly, it shines afar,Catching the eye in many a broken link,In many a turn and traverse as it glides. Fortunately, the length of the high embanked terracewhence we see this famous landscape, and the check putupon our steed by the considerate engineer, allow us fulltime to observe all its beauties, over which we would fainlinger. The inexorable hemlock, however, at last shutsout the vision, and we lose sight of the river altogetherwhile cutting through the
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