. 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 . There it stretches, a gigantic gallery overlooking a sheerprecipice of 100 feet above the river, and showing alongits narrow edge enormous natural abutments of seamedand riven rock, as though they were placed to support thefearful pathway traversed by the heavy train. One ofthese natural abutments is d
. 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 . There it stretches, a gigantic gallery overlooking a sheerprecipice of 100 feet above the river, and showing alongits narrow edge enormous natural abutments of seamedand riven rock, as though they were placed to support thefearful pathway traversed by the heavy train. One ofthese natural abutments is depicted in the following it is well that travelers generally see but littleof this causeway from the cars, as its sublime featuresand the clifls above might make them feel uncomfortable ; 72 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE. but it is well worth the tourists while to walk along itsterrace, in order to judge of the difficulties overcome in run-ning a road along such a frightful precipice. What addsto its impressive grandeur is the contrast presented by theopposite shore, that rises gently from the river, skirted by agrove of willows, over which shines a calm strip of the ca-nal, bordered by smiling fields and snug dwellings. Thiscontrast is more remarkable in the morning, when a vastshadow covers the dark pines and column-like crags thatsupport the grand corridor just traversed, and the op-posite meadows, groves, basin, boats, men, and figuressparkle in the dewy light. The solitary shanty nearus, with its scant garden-patch, shows the little groundafibrded for a human dwelling on our side of the Del-aware. It is said that while surveying this portion ofthe road, it was frequently necessary to let down theengineers by means of ropes to the positions they wishedto attain I To convey some idea of the labor ex
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