. Harpers' New York and Erie rail-road guide book .. . I. two points of rock, whose narrow gorge gives the place itstitle of JSfarrousbvLYgh, though the lumbermen call it byits old name, Big Eddy, because, during a freshet, thererushes through these narrows the biggest kind of 84 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE an eddy. Over the narrows is flung a wooden bridge,with a single span of 184 feet—a monstrous span, but not

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