. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . nthe first locomo-tive appeared on the scene of his defeat, he lay in ambus-cade for the unconscious engine, and, rushing toward it,they met in full career, and his bullship was convertedinto fresh beef on the spot ! Four miles beyond Narrowsburgh Abe monotonous andsolitary track along the river suddenly emerges into ex-tensive plains of the greatest fertility. Orchards are in-terspersed among these, and, two miles of these cheeringfields being passed, we stop at Cochecton (from New York 131 miles, from Dunkirk329 miles). The station here
. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . nthe first locomo-tive appeared on the scene of his defeat, he lay in ambus-cade for the unconscious engine, and, rushing toward it,they met in full career, and his bullship was convertedinto fresh beef on the spot ! Four miles beyond Narrowsburgh Abe monotonous andsolitary track along the river suddenly emerges into ex-tensive plains of the greatest fertility. Orchards are in-terspersed among these, and, two miles of these cheeringfields being passed, we stop at Cochecton (from New York 131 miles, from Dunkirk329 miles). The station here is of the simplest descrip-tion ; but the views from it, looking toward the villageand up and down the valley, are truly beautiful (see nextpage). The valley of the Cochecton presents the richeststreak of fat mercifully inserted between the two solitaryand barren banks of this lumbering river. It is about twomiles long, averaging one mile in breadth. One mile fromthe station we enter the valley, and, while the Delaware NEW YORK AND ERIE RAIL-EOAD. S7. keeps close to the mountains to the west, the rail-road fol-lows the curving base of the hills on the east, thus mak-
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