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of similar appearance is situated near the Platterkill ravine. 
Numerous small precipices are presented on the mountain’s 
eastern face, some of them of great alton those of a south- 
ern promontory bordering on the town of Woodstock, are par- 
ture of alum and copperas. 
From the above mentioned promontory which is situated 
about ten miles south of the Kauterskill clove, the Catskill 
mountains tend to the south west and sweep with diminish- 
ed height to the Delaware. About four miles to the west of 
the village of Woodstock, a spur of considerable elevation 
strikes off to the south east, leaving a rich and extensive in- 
terval of semi-circular form. At the angle of intersection of 
these ranges, the Bristol glass works are situated. Window 
glass is the principal article manufactured, and four miles 
north east of this establishment in an elevated and secluded 
mountain valley, another manufactory of glass has been 
erected. Sand for these manufactories is procured from Phil- 
adelphia and the sea coast, and the other materials from 
a distance. The advantage resulting from the cheapness 
of wood and soil, will not compensate for the enhanced ex- 
pence incurred in transporting the ingredients of glass, and 
the bricks, stone lime and clay, for the furnaces and cruci- 
bles, and many of the necessaries of life, sixteen or twenty 
miles over mountain roads. 
_ A-small hamlet of about thirty houses has been erected 
adjacent to the upper or mountain glass house, on ground 
favorable for gardens and meadows. North of this village, 
an elevated, wood clad and steep mountain, ranges to the 
westward ; its wildly irregular waving summits are several 
miles in view. 
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