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Title: The Catskill Mountains ..
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Ulster and Delaware railroad company. (from old catalog)
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Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of mountainwater where the Rondout creek flows through one of the mostcharming glens in the world. Speaking of this spot, a recentwriter and artist savs : Nothing else in the Catskills ap-proaches it in its peculiar type. For a mile it is a succession ofimpressive pictures, with cascades and waterfalls innumerable ;living pictures of living water. Looking west from Shokan station a crescent of loftymountain peaks will be seen. That on the right is the Wit-tenberg, 1.778 feet, the next is Mount Cornell, 3,681 feet high.Some two miles beyond this chain is the famous Slide Moun-tain, the king of the range, 4,20s feet in the air. In the samelocality are Peakamoose. ^,87^ feet. Table Mountain, ^,86sfeet high, and several others. It is the wildest and most inter-esting group in the entire range, and it can only be reached byway of The Ulster & Delaware Railroad. Leaving Shokan now,the train winds up the valley for three miles, recrossing theEsopus at a broad bend, and halting briefly at
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z < ^ 2 O H THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. BOICEVILLE, a way station with many undevelopedattractions for summer boarders. Tiiere is here anExcelsior Mill. with its shredders running day andnight. The mountains are now encroaching more andmore upon the narrow valley. COLD BROOK is another way station, a mile beyond,if your train happens to stop there. The Esopus rushesmadly by under a new iron bridge on the right, bor-dered by a tangled mass of wild flowering vines whichsend up their fragrance to greet the traveler in the car windowwhile he listens to the chattering roar of the stream. Eollowingthe Esopus now for a mile along the base of Mount Pleasant,with Mount Tobias and Mount Tremper in the eastern back-ground, across the meadows and orchards which intervene,the stream suddenly bends away and out of sight for a time,and the train soon afterwards stops at OUNT PLEASANT. This is in the midst of a most attractive, and verypopular summer boarding region, withnumerous hotels and resting pl

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