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Coming from Nazareth we had the Blue or Kitta- 

 tiny Mountain always in sight except for a little while 

 near Reading. It seemed always as if the road was 

 leading straight to the mountain, and one never got 

 nearer; the reason being that in these parts the range 

 makes a bend to the west without altering its chief 

 course from northeast to southwest. Towards Car- 

 lisle the ridge does not lie so unbroken as before, but 

 shows more and deeper cuts, and falls away more 

 precipitously to the South. At any point where there 

 is an outlook over a tract of this range, the view is in- 

 deed august, of its high and seemingly straight wall 

 extending away. From Carlisle to Shippensburg it is 

 21 miles through tiresome woods, still over the same 

 dry limestone soil and between the North, or Kitta- 

 tiny, and the South Mountain. At M'Gregan's, 14 

 miles from Carlisle I saw for the first time a variation 

 in the marble and limestone hitherto observed by me. 

 The house was built of a very beautiful grey and liver- 

 colored marble, of a hard and fine grain. The quarry 

 was not far off. Since I had before seen everywhere 

 nothing but rough, grey limestone and marble, I had 

 been very much inclined to believe that several persons 

 were right whom I had heard say that America stands 

 far behind the old world in the variety and the beauty 

 of coloring of its marble. Those observations were 

 grounded merely on the species occuring in the nether 

 regions, among which, to be sure, there is little variety. 



