wintersceneon the Hudson the blocks firmly together. The next operation is to sepa-' diminishing the wear and tear of the latter and of the track. river, one hundred miles above the city of New York. At rate a raft of the blocks (generally 112 in number) by taps of In a communication from… … located immense storehouses, within which the ice is deposi- | a canal cut from the pond to the ice house, where the raft is two engines in equally good repair, we ran one at a speed of secured by pikemen, and thrust toward the slope of the ice ted, and kept for summer use. Fifty thousand or a…
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