20 Account of the Kaatskell ‘Mountoins: 
where the view is terminated. The diameter from north 
to _— is about 150 miles, embracing the most <a 
part of the state. 
View in a fog. 
Tn the autumn, a dense tog commonly arises during the 
night, from the streams within the _ covering with its 
misty waves the whole area, exce the tops of these 
lofty mountains. ‘The only land vile, is Saddle Moun-. 
tain and the Highlands, each sixty miles, and the Taugh-. 
connoc Mountain, at near y the same distance. The fog 
rises about 1500 feet in height, and is gilded by the beams 
of the morning sun as it appears above the horizon. For 
an hour after sunrise, the mist is quiescent, exhibiting an 
almost shoreless ocean, with the tops of these peaks rising 
above it, like distant islands in a calm at sea. ter the 
sun has risen a few degrees above the horizon, the fog 
begins to be agitated, and: to move in vast undulations 
towards. the heavens, shooting its needles _ into the atmos- 
or rolling its lengthening billows into a thousand 
figures, presenting a glowing picture of the general deluge: 
It remains agitated about an hour, when, unfolding its misty ~ 
mantle, the earth — appears here and there illumined 
by the rays of the When the fog is dispelled by its 
beams 
the landseape infolds all its beauties, as if it had just 
sprung: into existence at the command of the Cseaton 
cade, 
“One mile west of iiss peak are two lakes,. uniting with 
each other by a small outlet, over which the road _ passes. 
These lakes are each of them about three-fourths of a mile 
in circumference, and are the source of one of the branches — 
of the Kaaterskill. — are; as I have been informed, — 
more 
several kinds of fish. e outlet to these lakes is the 
commencement of the located just mentioned, which forces = 
rapid current it descends, making a beautiful fall of beiatbon 
two and three hundred feet. I have often seen this cascade 
