The Wheel and cycling trade review . boasting a store, postoffice andhotel, over a bridge and straight on till as theroad forks we bear to the left, noting thefriendly signboard. The roadbed is fine, and the grades hardlyperceptible. Again we keep the straight roadby a yellow farmhouse (the left branch lead-ing to Brainard Station); now down a longcoastable grade through the town, over twobridges and up a rise. Here the low hills risea series of rounded, velvety-clad knobs inevery direction. We keep to the left on the main road overa bridge and down with care—the bottom isvery rough—then we ke
The Wheel and cycling trade review . boasting a store, postoffice andhotel, over a bridge and straight on till as theroad forks we bear to the left, noting thefriendly signboard. The roadbed is fine, and the grades hardlyperceptible. Again we keep the straight roadby a yellow farmhouse (the left branch lead-ing to Brainard Station); now down a longcoastable grade through the town, over twobridges and up a rise. Here the low hills risea series of rounded, velvety-clad knobs inevery direction. We keep to the left on the main road overa bridge and down with care—the bottom isvery rough—then we keep left again as theroad forks through a pretty bit of woodland,with a stream wandering through the valebelow. The road winds, following the course of thestream, now through open farming country,now through tree-bowered lanes, with thestream rippling over its rocky bed close be-side us, till it expands into a pretty isle-dotted mill pond, and we swing around tothe right over Maiden Bridge into the townof Maiden. (13%m.—315m.). The stream is the Kinderhook Creek, whichflows southwestward many a mile ere itreaches its terminus in the Hudson. Through the town, and at the first forkbear to the right over a dirt road that short-ly improves to macadam; around under thehill, then up a long grade with a magnificentview from the top, even to the distant riversedge, then a long down grade requiring careinto the town of Nassau to the band square—Nassau House $2. (3%m.) Here we turn to the left, over the bridgeand straight on, up rise and down bankuntil we reach an iron bridge, just this sideof which leads off to the left the old post roadto New York. The Centurion and the Scorcher are bent onmaking the run of a century and a half, soafter a rest and a chat a sorrowful adieu issaid, and they dash off, leaving the ladies tothe fatherly care of the Fat Man. The Bloom-er Girl would fain share their luck, but thechaperone demurs. We continue through Shodack Centre overa fine roadway of
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