c^ into a long chain of very high moun- 

 faips, laying very clofe to each other, and 

 running parallel likewife to tbe> river,, jth at 

 is nearly from fouth to north. Thefe high 

 mountains confift of a grey rock-ftone, 

 compofed of feveral kinds of flone, which 

 I (hail mention in the fequel. Thefe 

 mountains feem to prove, that the lime- 

 fktes are of as antient a date as the grey 

 rock-ftone, and not formed in later times ; 

 fpr the amazing large grey rocks ly on the 

 top of the mountains, which confift of black 

 lime-flates. 



THE high meadows in Canada are ex* 

 cellent, and by far preferable to the mea- 

 dows round Philadelphia, and in the other 

 Englifh colonies. The further I advanced 

 northward here, the finer were the mea- 

 dows, and jhe turf upon them was better 

 and clofer. Alrnoft all the grafs here is of 

 twd kinds, ws. a fpecies of the var-rp^y 

 leaved meadow grafs * ; for its fpilie^f^con*- 

 tain either three or fgur flowers^ ; whrch 

 are ib exceedingly fmall, that the plant 

 might eaiily be taken for a tent \ graft r J; 

 ^nd its feeds have feveral fmall downy hairs 



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