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On the other hand, traces of volcanoes are found on 

 the west coast of North America, according to the 

 observations in Cook's Voyage. Not far from Bedford 

 on the north bank of the Juniata we passed along a 

 steep mountain (Dunning's Mountain?) on the sides 

 of which lay a quantity of large fragments of a solid 

 gneiss-like rock ; in color for the most part whitish, 

 whitish-grey, or reddish, and yellowish. The mount- 

 ains and hills about Bedford run in divers directions. 

 The main ridges keep generally the same directions as 

 those given in the maps ; it is only the various foot- 

 hills, interlying limestone hills, and hollows made by 

 the devious course of the brooks that show an ap- 

 preciable disorder. In the hills three miles from Bed- 

 ford, after the Juniata has been for the first time 

 crossed, there is found a dark blue, often black, lime- 

 stone, with white spath-veins and crystals, which being 

 greatly weathered give the stone a particularly pitted 

 look. 



The landscape in this region grows somewhat more 

 agreeable and open. The inhabitants of these mount- 

 ains have not been long enough here to have a distinct 

 character of their own such as may be observed among 

 many other mountain-peoples. Lack of social inter- 

 course makes them indeed something ruder than those 

 who live in the flat country. However even here the 

 sound, keen understanding, and the good grace which 

 accompanies it, are not to be mistaken in the cabins. 

 Although they are everywhere very little well-to-do, 



off New York. In the flat country of Maryland, Virginia, and 

 the Carolinas, a few quakes have been felt, but very slight ; 

 but as yet none in the interior of the country, that is, beyond 

 the granite line. 



