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till the morning, efpecially as the tide was 

 jebbing with great force. 



yune the i ith. THIS morning we con- 

 tinued our voyage up the river, with the 

 tide and a faint breeze. We now paffed 

 the Highland mountains, which were to 

 the Eaft of us ; they confift of a grey fand- 

 ftone, are very high and pretty fteep, and 

 covered with deciduous trees, and likewife 

 with firs and red cedars. The weftern 

 ihore was full of rocks, which however did 

 not corne up to the height of trie mountains 

 on the oppofite fhore ; the tops of thefe 

 eaftern mountains were cut off from our 

 fight by a thick fog which furrounded 

 them. The country was unfit for cultiva- 

 tion, being fo full of rocks, and according- 

 ly we faw no farms. The diftance from 

 thefe mountains to New York is computed 

 at thirty-fix Englifh miles. 



A thick fog now rofe up from the high 

 mountains. For the fpace of fome Engli/h 

 miles, we had hills and rocks on the wef- 

 tern banks of the river j and a change of 

 leffer and greater mountains and vallies cover- 

 ed with young firs, red cedars, and oaks, 

 on the eaftern fide. The hills clofe to the 

 fiver fide are commonly low, but their 

 height increafes as they are further from the 

 river. Afterwards we faw, for fome miles 



together, 



