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Title: Traveller's steamboat and railroad guide to the Hudson River : describing the cities, towns, and places of interest along the route : with maps and en
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Durst, Seymour B., 1913- former owner. NNC Phelps, Humphrey, active 19th century
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Publisher: New York : Gaylord Watson
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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below, and the latter above, this point. Herothere is an extensive excavation through sand and gravel for nearly half amile. More than four hundred thousand cubic yards of earth were removedfrom this cutting. Passing this, the track follows again close upon the banksof the river to Oscawana Island, where the first tunnel through solid rock iapassed. Half a mile above this, the road takes a curve inland, to avoidVerplancks Point. Here there is some heavy rock cutting, and, to accom-modate the road to a brick-yard near at hand, another short tunnel was made. Between this point and Peekskill station the road makes its greatestdivergence from the river; and, at the highest point, passes over a summitof 34 feet, by a rising and falling inclination of 13 feet per mile. At Peekskill, between the 42d and 43d miles, the line curves to the leftmore than a quarter of a circle. A little north of the village it is carriedacross the bay. at the mouth of Peekskill Creek, a distance of three quarters
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HUDSON RIVER AND RAILROAD. 15 of a mile; part of the distance by a pile bridge eight hundred feet in length,with draw for vessels, &c, and the remainder by embankment. At thispoint the Highland division commences. Two miles north of Pcekskill isdie third tunnel upon the line, which is denominated Flat Rock tunnel;and within another mile the line passes through the projecting point ofAjithonys Nose, by a fourth tunnel, with heavy and extensive rock cuttingat each exit. For a considerable distance along the Highlands, the mountains have anelevation of from one thousand to fifteen hundred feet, and shut down closeto the waters edge. In many places the road is formed by cutting a largeportion or even the whole of its width into the rock, leaving a perpendicularnatural wall upon the east side, from ten to thirty, and even forty, feet high.In one case, six miles above Peekskill, where the road is formed across theoutlet of a small brook, much trouble was occasioned by the sinking of the

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