IPO TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



front, (over a lower ridge of hills), the range of the 

 Blue or Kittatiny Mountain running straight away. 

 The smaller hills in the foreground are adorned now 

 with a beautiful green covering, and at a distance give 

 the look of a fertile landscape, but it is only a green of 

 leaf-bearing trees or of plants growing in their shade. 

 For where the bush is taken off, the soil is burnt up 

 by the sun and the air, and all the meadow and pasture 

 land looks brown and yellow. 



Some iron-stone appears in the hills between Sebitz's 

 and the Mill, and traces of copper have been dis- 

 covered. Quite at the top of a hill, between the Mill 

 and Eckhardt's we came upon a little lake, in which 

 there should be fish. There is also such a clear little 

 separate lake to be found on a higher hill near Sebitz's, 

 and another on Locust-hill. 



In order to rest our horses and to pack the plants, 

 seeds, and stones we had collected on the road to Wy- 

 oming and thereabouts, we were obliged to spend a 

 warm day at Heller's ; in the cool of the evening we 

 returned to Nazareth. Just out of Nazareth there 

 stands a roomy stone house, with a few outbuildings, 

 which is at present called Old Nazareth. The famous 

 Methodist preacher, Whitfield, who with such an ad- 

 venturous zeal preached through all the American 

 provinces, and either established or sketched several 

 praiseworthy institutions, built this house, intending 

 it as a school-house for Indian youth. The Moravian 

 Brethren afterwards came into possession of it. There 

 is nothing remarkable about the house ; but the report 

 that the steps before the entrance were of alabaster in- 

 duced me to visit it, since I had as yet heard nothing 

 of alabaster in this part of America. The stone is 



