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XXXVI. A concise Description of Schooley’s Mountain, in 
New-Jersey, with some Experiments on the Water of 
its Chalyheate Spring. By Samueu L. Mrrcuitt, Pro- 
fessor of Natural History in the University of New-York, 
Representative in theCongress of the United States, Sc. &e. 
Communicated by the Author. 
Tene bad been so much conversation about Schooley’s 
mountain, that in the beginning of July 1810 I executed 
the desire I had long entertained of visiting it. 
Schooley’s mountain is part of a chain which extends in 
a north-easterly and south-westerly direction. across the 
state of New-Jersey. It may be traced from the Highlands 
of New-York. Towards the Hudson, its ridges diyide the 
plains of Rockland county from those of Orange, being 
denominated the Haverstraw, Warwick, Skunemunk, and 
Stirling mountains, and being distinguis hed locally by se- 
veral other names. Towards the Delaw are, it separates the 
upper waters of the Raritan from those of the Musconet- 
canck, and passing from Sussex through Morris and Hun- 
terdon counties, is called, somewhat to the southward of 
Philipsburg, the Musconetcunck mountain. The more 
noted portion of its middle region is termed Schuyl’s Hills, 
or Schooley’s Mountain. The latter name is the most pre- 
valent, and is derived from a family which was formerly a 
considerable proprietor of the soil thereabout. The former 
appellation is probably a mere abbreviation or corruption 
of it. 
This ridge discharges the water from its north-west side, 
partly through the Wallkill, i into the Hudson, a little to the 
eastward of Esopus, after traversing Sussex county, in New- 
Jersey, and Orange and Ulster, in New-York. Part also 
empties into the Hudson through Murderer’s Creek, at 
New-Windsor. Another portion 1s collected into the Mus- 
conetcunck river; and runving almost parallel with the 
mountain, falls into the Delaware, not many miles south 
of Eastown. The water from the south-east side feeds the 
upper streams of the Pasaick, which, after visiting Orange, 
Rockland, Morris, Essex, and Bergen counties, falls into 
Staten Island sound, to the southward of Newark. The 
stream called the Black river beyond Mendham, and that 
termed South-branch, watering Dutch valley, neither of 
them reach the Delaware, but empty into the Raritan, 
some distance above Brunswick. 
Thus these heights completely divide the waters be a ck 
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