J 56 ^ligtifl 1749' 



ed into a long chain of very high moun^ 

 tains, lying very clofe to each other, and 

 running parallel likewife to the river, tnat 

 is nearly from fouth to north. Thefe high 

 mountains confift of a grey rock-flone, 

 compofed of feveral kinds of flone, which 

 I {hall mention in the fequel. Thefe 

 mountains feem to prove, that the lime- 

 llates are of as antient a date as the grey 

 rock-ftone, and not formed in later times j 

 for the amazing large grey rocks ly on the 

 top of the mountains, which confift of black 

 Jime-flates. 



The high meadows in Canada are ex- 

 celbnt, and by far preferable to the mea- 

 dows round Fhiladelphia^ and in the other 

 Englifi colonies. The further I advanced 

 northward here, the finer were the mea- 

 dows, and the turf upon them was better 

 and clofer. Alrnoft all the grafs here is of 

 two kinds, viz. a fpecies of the narrow 

 leaved meadow grafs * ; for its fpikes -f- con- 

 tain either three or four flowers; which 

 are fo exceedingly fmall, that the plant 

 might eafily be taken for a bent grafs ^S^', 

 and its feeds have feveral fmall downy hairs 

 at the bottom. The oiher plant, which 



grows 



* Poa angujfifclia. Linn. 



f Spicule trivel qaadri-flcrse mininiae ; femina bafi pq- 



befcentia. 



1 Aorofih, Linn. 



