. 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 . all markets, New York city, a distance of 122miles. Beyond Cochecton the road rejoins the river, andfor some dozen miles follows the windings of its streamthrough scenery which, neither wild nor stupid, be-comes positively tiresome from its sameness and tame-ness. There are few traces of man in these t
. 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 . all markets, New York city, a distance of 122miles. Beyond Cochecton the road rejoins the river, andfor some dozen miles follows the windings of its streamthrough scenery which, neither wild nor stupid, be-comes positively tiresome from its sameness and tame-ness. There are few traces of man in these tracts, andwhen the river is low a torpor seems to rest over the suc-cession of sleek, sloping points of its shores, that showsnothing but a solitary raft half aground, or a faint attemptat a smile from the ripple over the eel-dam. Not eventhe fact that this was the scene of the stirring incidentsin Coopers Last of the Mohicans lights up the scenerywith interest, and we rejoice when, at the end of four 84 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE miles from Cochecton, we see the round slopes of themountains breaking up into rugged profiles, and a rock-cutting or two threatening to topple down upon us. Sixmiles beyond Cochecton we cross the Calicoon Creek bya wooden bridge, and reach the station of the same Calicoon (from New York 136 miles, from Dunkirk324 miles) stands in the heart of a wild, and, till lately,unknown country. Not many years since wild animalsroamed the forests along its creek, and a race of old hunt-ers dwells here, that still recount their adventures withthem and the Indians. Tanneries now abound in theneighborhood, and the leather and other freight in thestore-houses prove that, lonely as the station appears, itsbusiness is not slight. The Calicoon Creek is full of wildscenery, and is stocked with game and trout. Its name—Calicoon—has caused a war of opinion among the in-habitants on its banks. Some say it is the Indian wordfor turkey, a bird that once abounded here, and
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