The Traveller's Steamboat and Railroad Guide to the Hudson River: Describing the Cities, Towns, and Places of Interest Along the Route : with Maps and EngravingsPhelps & Watson, 1857 - 50 sider |
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... cutting through the projecting points of land , and , when necessary ... ROCK EXCAVATION upon the road , as the fact of its following the banks of the river so closely would lead any one to suppose , has been immense . The total amount of ...
... cutting through the projecting points of land , and , when necessary ... ROCK EXCAVATION upon the road , as the fact of its following the banks of the river so closely would lead any one to suppose , has been immense . The total amount of ...
Side 13
... rock - cutting at Fort Washington Point , nine miles above the city . This excavation is in solid rock , fifty - six feet deep at the highest point , and one hundred rods in length . The rock taken from this cut amounted to nearly fifty ...
... rock - cutting at Fort Washington Point , nine miles above the city . This excavation is in solid rock , fifty - six feet deep at the highest point , and one hundred rods in length . The rock taken from this cut amounted to nearly fifty ...
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... Rock tunnel ; and within another mile the line passes through the projecting point of Anthony's Nose , by a fourth tunnel , with heavy and extensive rock cutting at each exit . For a considerable distance along the Highlands , the ...
... Rock tunnel ; and within another mile the line passes through the projecting point of Anthony's Nose , by a fourth tunnel , with heavy and extensive rock cutting at each exit . For a considerable distance along the Highlands , the ...
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acres affording Albany American Anthony's Nose aqueduct Arnold ascend Auburn prison bank beautiful boat Breakneck Hill British Broadway building built cadets Canal CARMANSVILLE Catskill Cold Spring command Creek crossing Croton Aqueduct Croton River curves directly opposite east elevated embankment Erie extending falls Fishkill formed forty miles Greenbush ground half a mile Harlem River Haverstraw Haverstraw Bays height High Bridge Highlands Hudson River Railroad hundred feet iron Isaac Van Wart Island marble miles in length mountain mouth narrow nearly Newburg Palisades passed passengers Paulding Peekskill pile bridge pipe Poughkeepsie PRUYN rails receiving reservoir rising road rock cuts shore short distance side Sing Sing Single Numbers situated spot Spuyten Duyvel stands station steamboats stone Stony Point stream street summit surrounding country Tappan Tarrytown Teller's Point thence three miles town trees Troy tunnel valley Verplanck's Point vessels visitors wall Washington West Point width yard York