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Identifier: ghostofglacierot01hunt (find matches)
Title: Ghost of the glacier and other tales
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Hunter, Will Bogert. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (Chicago
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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^Copyright, i9oo,^Detroit Photographic Co. 3 Uplands rise from its farther shore. Islands dot it. To theright are the rolling hills of New York, cut evenly by fieldfences. Mile upon mile of this — then Binghamton. Still we follow the Susquehanna. Tioga Point rises likea sentinel over the two rivers which flow at its base. Highhills show at the right. From their crest we get on one sidea view of the river, on the other the rolling farm lands. Into FOUR HUNDRED MILES OF BEAUTY, the valley of the Chemung we dip, mountains on one sideagain, a sweeping river on the other. Vistas are longer.The opposing wall of the hill-girdled flats rises here a mileaway, there two or three. White tents glisten occasionallyby the rivers edge. Waving fields show green or gold oramber. Ancient orchard trees throw gnarled limbs acrosslong avenues. Tobacco lands lay back from the tracks.
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From away in the distance the Chenango winds away towardthe Chemung, watering another valley. Great red buildings surrounded by veterans in the blueof the nation, flash into view and out. More hills are climbed. The range of vision widensconstantly. In every direction cluster farmhouses, barns,stacks of grain. Pastures are dotted with grazing cattle. FOUR HUNDRED MILES OF BEAUTY. Villas^es, tow ns, hamlets look like heaps of blocks. A wind-ing course in the hills is taken. A break in the uplandscomes like a flash. Below is the Genesee Valley, a para-dise amid high hills. Little farms lay it out geometrically.Lines of trees, with a ribbon of gray between, mark thehighways. Vineyards cover the sunny slopes. Four hun-dred feet below are the w^eather-worn roofs of a thrivingcity. This is Dansville. It flashes to the rear. The precipitate wall of rock onthe right shrinks steadily. Mountains away off to the leftsink lower. The train dips into the valley of the Genesee,to follow its course f

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