. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . structed line behind us ; but, to have this view in perfec-tion, the tourist must ascend the old road, extending, overthe hill above us, from the village of Lanesborough to thestation of Susquehanna. The difference between thesetwo views may be judged from our illustrations, and the. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 127 vast extent given to the prospect by ascending to the higher point of view was alone wanting to make it what it is,one of unsurpassed magnificence. It may be said to forman epitome of the glories, natural and artificial, of the
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . structed line behind us ; but, to have this view in perfec-tion, the tourist must ascend the old road, extending, overthe hill above us, from the village of Lanesborough to thestation of Susquehanna. The difference between thesetwo views may be judged from our illustrations, and the. NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-ROAD. 127 vast extent given to the prospect by ascending to the higher point of view was alone wanting to make it what it is,one of unsurpassed magnificence. It may be said to forman epitome of the glories, natural and artificial, of the NewYork and Erie Rail-road. From the foreground in the pic-ture, beneath us recede the river and the rail-road, bothto vanish in the dense forest of hemlock, whose variedpointed summits give such a peculiar grandeur to the dis-tant horizon. The river, on the left, leaves us in twobroad curves, one of which is rippled over by a dam, andthe nearer one crossed by an old bridge, from which thatyellow thread of the turnpike winds up and down theslopes of its left bank. On the right the road starts fromthe bridge over the toivn, whose neat church, and old redmills, and white houses peep out from willow groves andthose old gray-stemmed sycamores, and makes a beautifuland unbroken curve of three miles, to vanish in the hem-locks, where
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