GRAND HOTEL STATION is now the stop, and a most important summer station it is. The second largest hotel in the Catskills, known as the New Grand, is less than half-a-mile up the hill and in plain sight. It stands on a commanding terrace of Monka Hill Mountain, and on the dividing line between Ulster and Delaware counties. From it the view of mountain and valley is superb, rivaled only by the crest of the mountain itself in the rear, to which the ascent is short and easy, bringing the eye 2,489 feet in the air and free from obstruction on every side. Toward the south is Slide Mountain, barely overtopping its aspiring neighbors, with the lovely valley, through which you came, in the foreground; toward the west are the farms and hamlets of Delaware, and far below the shelving rocks on which you stand is the green valley of virgin forest; and toward the north and east are mountains piled on mountains. The Belle Ayr slope, here known as "Highmount," is dotted here and there with pretty cottages in a park of 1,500 mountain acres, with an average elevation of over 2,000 feet. The region also abounds in interesting drives and finny brooks which greatly enhance the normal pleasures of mountain summer life.

Gently now the train begins to move down the hill, and soon the brakes are firmly set and all steam is shut off for the great slide. You see an occasional cottage in the ravine on the right and anon a trim and pretty hamlet in the valley, with many elaborate and costly cottages surrounded by well kept lawns and handsome grounds, some of which have been carved out of the mountain side itself, so little room is there in the valley basin. The station is (Fleischmann's).