120 General Parsons' Discoveries in the Western 



is gradual and easy. On the summit is a large extent of 

 land comparatively plain. It is about eight miles from the 



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top of the mount on the east, to the beginning of the de- 

 scent on the west ; whence to the level on that side is about 

 two miles and a half This extent contains almost all soils 

 and descriptions of land ; from the sandy pitch pine barrens 

 and stony lieath, where there is no apparent moisture ; to 

 as fine ploughland and luxuriant pasture and mowing, as I 

 had before seen. On this mount are several mill streams, 

 and springs of excellent water. It is observable, that the as- 

 cent of all those hills and mountains from the east, is great- 

 er than the descent on the west: and from the extensive 

 grand view on the top of the mount, from which the coun- 



p 



try on the west and on the east is seen to a great distance, it 

 is clearly discovered that the level of the country on the 

 west, is vastly higher than the level on the east of the moun- 

 tains. I had no histruments to determine the difference of 

 those levels ; but the fact is easily discerned by the eye. In 

 travelling to this place, I observed the stones were pitched 

 in the earth inclining io the horizon in ai 

 very few if any lay horizontally ; and in general in a direc 

 tion from the K. E. to the S. W : which is a circumstance 



glcs of 30° or 40 



I do not remember to have found 

 of mountains. 



of that ridg 



I arrived at Pittsburgh the 30th, three hundred and twen- 

 miles from Philadelphia. This 



is a place conveniently 



situated for carrying on the interiour commerce of that 

 country. It stands on a point at the coniunction of the 



Allegany 



