. 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 . oat a man-of-war, and yet a few hund-red yards above or beloAV you may see a figure wadingthrough the river to the eel-traps I One can thereforeimagine the force of this edchj during the rafting Eddy is one of the humanized points on the Dela-ware, owing to the presence of raftsmen, for who
. 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 . oat a man-of-war, and yet a few hund-red yards above or beloAV you may see a figure wadingthrough the river to the eel-traps I One can thereforeimagine the force of this edchj during the rafting Eddy is one of the humanized points on the Dela-ware, owing to the presence of raftsmen, for whose wantsgood accommodations are here, and the pretty hamletround the canal-locks on the opposite side, always a charm-ing object in the scenery of this river. Beyond Pond Eddy the road assumes with every milea more important character, while the landscape becomeswilder and more lonely. We run along a straight sec-tion, 30 feet above the river, marked off by natural abut-ments of gray rock and pendent hemlocks, that are oldenough to have their evergreen foliage changed to a hoaryand rusty hue I The mountain we are skirting seemsdiced down as deep as 115 feet to make our pathwayTwo miles further we enter a grander portion of the mountains rise perpendicularly from the rivers edge,. NEW YOEK AND ERIE RATL-ROAD. 71 and along its breast we run securely, though on the brinkof a precipice of 80 feet. A huge walled embankmentand culvert in the curve of this section add to its inter-est. But not till we get four miles from Pond Eddy doesthe splendid engineering talent displayed in the construc-tion of this road show itself in its consummate daring, 82tb-limity, and success. It is a section very like the one justpassed, but on a grander scale, showing a straight cutalong the mountain side one mile long, and terminating ina beautiful curve, whence the best view of it is to be had.
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