The hurry noise & restlessness of Rail Road travelling with the consequent violence done to all the natural requirements of the body are anything but conducive to health of body or serenity of mind. The body is made to be merely a sort of Tender to a Locomotive Car; its appetites & functions wait on a Machine which is merciless & tyrannical.--Thomas Cole, Journal, 1847 (1)
Thomas Cole painted the view looking west from the town of Catskill toward the Catskill Mountains at least ...