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RECREATION 



The patriarchial proprietor, J. R. tains. Especially on the Pennsylvania 



Patterson, is a typical riverman. All side, abrupt, rocky declivities of great 



his life in the spring freshets he has height present, and the characteristic 



run rafts from head waters down to of the section is the numerous ravines 



market, and is now well on the shady cut through them transversely by tribu- 



side of seventy. taries of the river. But the mountains 



AN EASY SLANT IN QUICK WATER 



Below the saw-mill rift bridge of the 

 Erie Railroad the rapid rushing stream 

 washes the precipice, called Glass- 

 house Rocks. These rocks are fan- 

 tastic in form and consist of irregular 

 columns standing a few feet from the 

 real face of the cliff and many feet high. 



Port Jervis is quickly passed, and 

 here we bid adieu to the railroad. It is 

 here that the first great stretch of al- 

 luvial lands is encountered, with their 

 attendant longer reaches of still water, 

 where ordinary boating can be in- 

 dulged. This is the tourist, the summer 

 boarder part of the river. Some dis- 

 tance from the river now are the movm- 



and the large pleasure travel on the 

 splendid macadam roads are lost in the 

 distance to the voyager, hidden also by 

 the now frequently trench-like banks 

 cut out of the intervening rich bottom 

 lands. 



What might pass for an escaped 

 wind-mill, with its arms violently re- 

 volving in a gale, was described head- 

 ing up stream. Boats going down river, 

 boats of fishermen at anchor and boats 

 pulled up on shore had been passed. 

 But one deliberately breasting the rif- 

 fles from choice, even comparatively 

 slight as thev were here, was a new ex- 

 perience, This one was a canoe with 



