It makes clear to the reader that the narrator is making an ironic statement.
<em><u>Explanation:</u></em>
Irony is a strategy utilized in English to accentuate a point utilizing the inverse meaning of something. It very well may be utilized much of the time yet regularly it is utilized for comical purposes.
The description of setting in paragraph 7 of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is important to the theme of America's changing history in that it depicts Sleepy Hollow as a "drowsy" place caught in the past while great "currents" of change go on around it.