WHICH RESTRAINED THE WATERS. 333 



lotte river, dividing them from the Canajoharie and the 

 Schoharie, two streams which fall into the Mohawk from 

 its southern side. Geologists will follow it along as it 

 parts the Cookwago and Papachton branches of the De- 

 laware river, from the Plattekill, Esopuskill, and Ronde- 

 outkill, which empty into the Hudson. I entertain no 

 doubt the entire or broken chain will be found which 

 made the junction with the Great Shawangunk, near the 

 confines of Marbletown, Rochester, and Paltz, in the 

 county of Ulster. Thence, or from the point where the 

 Rondeout joins the Wallkill, the Shawangunk mountain 

 raises and continues its immoveable mound in a south- 

 westerly direction, through the northwestern part of 

 New-Jersey. It crosses the Delaware river a little to 

 the northward of Easton ; and leaving Nazareth and 

 Bethlehem to the southeast, crosses the river Lehigh to 

 the northward of Heidelburg, and the Schuylkiil to the 

 northward of Hamburgh, in Pennsylvania. 



The dam of mountains is thence continued along to the 

 north of Harrisburgh, over the Susquehannah, and so in 

 a southwesterly direction, until it enters Maryland, and 

 passes the Potomac into Virginia, at Harper's Ferry, 

 immediately at the junction of the Shenandoah with that 

 river. 



In Virginia it seems to be cofounded with the Alleg- 

 hany mountain. As far as I can trace them, by map, and 

 by verbal information, the two grand ridges approach 

 and perhaps coalesce by some cross ridges. 



But in pursuing this mound which confined the waters, 

 the Cumberland mountain presents itself, dividing the 

 Tennessee river from the Cumberland river, and showing 

 its abrupt termination at the Ohio, between the spaces 



