6 Running JVotes, .figriculhtrcd and [July, 



lay close upon the road, inclined at an angle of about 45°, the 

 surface stained, by some metallic oxide probably, to a warm tint 

 of yellowish brown — with pebbles of quartz of pure white, and 

 of palish tints of yellow and pink, scattered over it in a rich mo- 

 saic. What a monumental slab this for the tomb of a geologist ! 

 I detached one of the pebbles, the largest, which weighed three 

 pounds and a half I A quarry hard by, exhibits the rock, ranging 

 from a coarse sandstone to a conglomerate, the thickly imbedded 

 pebbles in which are of the size of bird's eggs. I picked up 

 several fragments drused or crusted over on one side with deli- 

 cate quartz crystals. 



A little further on, and not four rods from the road, from which 

 it is hidden by laurels and evergreens, Fall Brook plunges down 

 eighty feet, in a chasm in the conglomerate. When the stream 

 is swelled by rains, the cascade must present a wild and pic- 

 turesque appearance. 



Still passing rapidly down, — at the northern extremity of a 

 trough-like valley between two spurs of the Alleghany mountains, 

 you perceive in the centre, a village with streets and painted 

 buildings; — innumerable small unpainted buildings scattered, seem- 

 ingly promiscuously, on the adjacent slopes, amid stumps and fallen 

 trees; — a black rail road viaduct in the foreground high above 

 your head, one end resting on a declivity of the ]\[oosiac moun- 

 tain, the other terminating at a range of sheds and buildings 

 which the piled up masses of coal &c., proclaim to be the fixtures 

 of a colliery. Such is a coup d'ml view of Carbondale, entered 

 from the north. 



The village contains 5000 inhabitants. Thirty stores, most of 

 them doing a good business, attest the amount of its trade, to say 

 nothing about the operations of the " Delaware and Hudson 

 Canal Company," who own and vfork the mines. Carbondale is, 

 in every point of view, a singular place. Less has been done in 

 it for ornament of every kind, than in any other village of even 

 half its size, I was ever in. It does not contain one elegant 

 building public or private! A lounger or a fop is not to be found 

 within its precincts. Every foot strides rapidly. At the hotel 



