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which is six miles wide, you behold the Island of Orleans, 

 stretched out before you, till it terminates in undistin- 

 guishing haze, whilst on the left you have the north 

 coast, rising gradually into distant mountains, from which 

 the river Montmorency, precipitating itself into the St. 

 Lawrence, is all but seen, through a grove of firs, and 

 the view terminates abruptly in the perpendicular pro- 

 montory of Cape Tourment, which is two thousand feet 

 high, and therefore may be distinctly seen at the dis- 

 tance of thirty miles. On the right you have the rocks 

 of Point Levi, and behold the shipping in the harbour, at 

 an immense depth below. Imagine the effect of this 

 whole fairy scene, connected as it is by the broad sur- 

 faces of the river, which is seen again upon the edge of 

 the horizon, winding round the stupendous bluff above- 

 mentioned, in its course toward the sea." 



This connexion being established, there is no difficul- 

 ty in continuing it to the Green Mountains of Vermont, 

 and their continuation through Massachusetts and New- 

 York to the Highlands already mentioned, as passing the 

 Hudson to the southward of Fishkill and Newburgh. V- 



On the west side of the Hudson, this barrier, called by 

 the various names of the Highlands, the Fishkill, Skune- 

 munk, and Haverstraw mountains, becomes the Sucka- 

 sunny and Musconetcunk mountains, in New-Jersey. It 

 passes the Delaware to the southward of the places 

 where the Lehigh and the Musconetcunk rivers, fall into 

 the Delaware. It then continues its course southwest- 

 wardly, crossing the Schuylkill below Reading, the Sus- 

 quehannah south of the Swetara, the Potomac above the 

 Great Falls, and so on further than I have been able to 

 trace it; being however associated with the Short Hills 



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