Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-30

anating from them. The Shawangunk on the
east side, runs uphill, north, to join the Wal
kill, tributary to the Hudson; while on the west
side, the Neversnk runs south and joins the Del
aware This result is owing to the main land on
the west side of the mountain, lying some POO
feet higher than that on the southern side Here
too at Point Jervis, we come in full contact with
| the raging" Delaware & Hudson Canal, and its
scows heavily laden with coal
| A few miles beyond, we cross the "SawMill
Rift Bridge Supported by arches of about $50
feet span,) over the Delaware River, whence we
leave the bounds of the country overlooking with
the tactical secretion and unctuous paste. and 60
over to the magnanimous State Of Pennsylvania
which only exacts from this Company the tri-
fling pittance of $4,000 every year, for the phi
vilege of entering her territory, in one of its
mountain Businesses, and opening the doors of in
gress and egress to trade and travel, to the great
accommodation of her people.
We are now about one hundred miles from N Y
and the road again winds and twists about the
mountain sides, which are terraced by nature for
the necessities of the rail. At one moment we are
gliding swiftly along under some overhanging
crag or rock, and anon the brink of some aw-
| full precpicc which lies between US and the riv-
err below.
| This section of the road is full of widest sub
Unity, and one involuntarily braces himself up
on the floor, or sezes his seat with firm grasp,
as he whirls wildly by these wally, frightful, yet
entirely safe, localities.
With all we had heard and read of the roman
tic scenery of tile Erie Railroad, we had no con-
ccption of its grandeur sublimity Nor can
one have till witnessed with the naked eye Let
pleasure excursionist fail to do himself the JUS
tce of passing over at least this portion of this
wonderful structure
Whizzing by the ''ticIllish places" through
Barryvile, Sackawaxton, Narrowsburgh CO.
checton, or Hancock, TO Deposit-one ofthe more
important stations of the line, and the termina-
ton of the Delaware division of the road.
In leaving Deposit, we pass into Broome Co.
and soon bid adicu to the beautiful Delaware,
whose winding waters we have traced for near
hundred miles. Here, too, commences the sixty
feet TO the mile grade, which we have to run in
order to surmount the mountain barrier between
us and the rapid Susquchannah Its summit is
1865 feet above the sea, and Deposit only 997,
ard the difference in grade has to be overcome in
something less than eight miles.
Here, rapidly looms up before the vision, the
widest. blacklist scenery ofthe road-burnt, bro
ken, craggy rocks young CULTS, and steep as
cents on all sides-conspiring TO form a scene as
wild and grand as anything in Switzerland
From this dismal region we soon gain the sum-
nit and thence run down to Cascade Bridge, the
next object of interest. This consists of wood
en- structure, of single arch of 250 feet, over
chasm about 800 feet in depth.
The span of this arch has rise of fifty feet,
and is said to surpass in width any similar struc-
ture in the world.
The Traveller should secure his seat on the
lef-hand side, and be ready at the window, or
venture upon the platform, as he passes this
point, so that he may the beautiful cascade
of water from which the bridge derives its name,
This structure cost about 100000 and was a
wear and half in building. North from this
bridge, we catch the first glimpse of the Susque-
hannah Valley.
But here we must pause for want OF space, and
resume the description of the rich and beautiful
vallies of the Susquchanna and Chcmung in my
next.
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