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Title: The Yosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wiley, William Halsted, 1842-1925 Wiley, Sara King, 1871-1909
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Publisher: London, Offices of "Engineering" New York, J. Wiley & sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Fig 1. Map of the West Shore Railroad and Connections. West Point; the Mohawk Valley. o Washington placed to keep back the British cruisers. We now passedthrough a tunnel, and under the parade-ground at West Point, where ourGovernment has probably the finest military academy in the world, aninstitution on which it did not call in vain in that great struggle for thepreservation of the Union in 1861. Fig. 2 shows the road at this point,and in the centre above, may be seen the roof of the Riding Academy,where the cadets are taught to stick to a horse till the force of gravityinsists on its rights being recognised, and then to fall gracefully into thesawdust. In the distance appeared the Hotel Kaaterskill, perched on the top
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Fig. 2. Tunnel under West Point. of the mountains and overlooking the valley. Those of the party who hadattended the Convention of the Civil Engineers, held there some 3 ears ago,found their minds running back to that pleasant and festive occasion, andrecalled the picture shown in Fig. 3, which is an engraving of the CatskillFalls in this neighbourhood. AVe now began to slip along the MohawkValley, and parallel with that great artery of trade, the Erie Canal. Onthe opposite side appeared the trans-continental train of the New YorkCentral, intending to show us how easily it would throw dust in our eyes.But our engine was quite equal to its task, and its engineer had no wish fora second place ; so after running five miles in 4 min. 50 sec, we left theBlue Train to its own devices. There were none of the usual discomforts 4 Tin1 Vosemite, Alaska, and the Yellowstone of travel on this trip. The cars were well ventilated and easy running, andeven the element of dust was eradicated, for the

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