Mr. Ddahigarrc*s Excurfions on the Blue Mountains. 133 



a Supreme Being has impreffed to the wheeling turn of his 

 works ! There I found a fall of the creek upwards of four 

 hundred feet perpendicular, the fheet twelve feet in breadth ; 

 at the bottom of that fall the mountain feems to be fplit 

 afunder, as if to let the bold traveller look into its bowels. On 

 the fouth fide -of that ftupendous gap, the top being crowned 

 with a thick rov/ of evergreen, never permitted the rays of 

 the fun to approach that cold and horrid place. Hence down 

 to the lowefl foot of the mountain, I counted more than one 

 hundred diiferent falls : How often I was looking back at 

 thofe beautiful trees on each fide of the creek with a painful 

 eye, regretting that it fhould be impofiible to get at them l 

 So they mull grow and die, ufelefs to mankind. 



My curiofity being excited by this excurfion, I took another 

 the 26th of iaft July, in company with a natural philofopherj 

 to afcertain with proper inftrum.ents the heights of our Blue 

 Mountains. V^Te fet off at 8- o'clock, a, m. thermometer 71 

 degrees, barometer 30 inches, clear w^eather, wind north ^ 

 our courfe to the north-v/el]:. When at the foot of the. 

 mountains, where the nev/ road to Scoharykillbegins, ten miles 

 from tlie river, we found that we liad afcended only 427 feet 

 above the level of the river. Several romantic fituations on the 

 new road deferve to be feen — I will mention one in particular :. 



About half way {lands an enormous rock of one piece, cut 

 iaiQoth in its perpendicular froiit like the pane of an. cJ.J. 



