Harper's New York And Erie Rail-Road Guide book ..
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During a wet day in winter it spouts in admirable profusion, for then the dense foliage screen of summer no longer hides its successive leaps from cliff to cliff. We have now passed from Sul- livan county into Delaware, one far superior in every re- spect. The portion of the road traversed since leaving Lackawaxen is of an almost level grade, and presenting but few marks of heavy work in its construction. Keep- ing generally near the edge of the river bed, but little ele- vated above it, it occ...asionally presents a rock-cutting on one side and a sustaining wall on the other ; but these, after having seen the great three-mile cut near Shohola, excite no interest. Equinunk (from New York 153 J miles, from Dunkirk 306^ miles) we next reach, 10 miles beyond Hankins's, another j'oung but growing station, the product of the road, now called LoRDViLLE. It contains the company's offices and a neat hotel, that will do much to hasten the growth of a place promising to become an important depot, for there 96 GUIDE-BOOK OF THE is a vast region, both on the Pennsylvania and New York sides of the river, that must become tributary to it.
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