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The slope on the northwest face of Round Top is sufficiently 

 gentle to be easy of ascent for much of the distance, and the land 

 is cleared over much of this and the adjacent hill sides. Along the 

 road the white violet occurs in considerable abundance, and in the 

 drier places the roadside legumes, like Medicago lupulina, Stylos- 

 anthes hi flora, Baptism tinctoria, while in the edges of the woods 

 and on stretches of sandy soil the Lupine is occasionally found. 



TONOLOWAY RlDGE. 



The hills adjacent to Round Top have been cleared to a consid- 

 erable extent, and there are plantings of apple and other orchard 

 trees in the place of the forest trees. To the west of Round Top 

 a few miles lies the high ridge of Sideling Hill, topped as in the 

 case of the previous heights, with sandstone, and like them flanked 

 along the base by smaller ridges. The Hill as well as the sub- 

 ordinate ridges, are well covered by trees, and there are a few 

 small streams running parallel to the axis of the ridges affording 

 drainage to the slopes. One such stream is the Little Tonoloway 

 creek, which flows through a rather broader valley than do some, 

 and is flanked by occasional farms, chiefly on the west side of the 

 stream. The east bank is a steep and wooded ridge which rises 

 rapidly from the creek. The forest cover in this case is thin, and 

 contains a large amount of Scrub Pine saplings of pole size. The 

 steeper face of the ridge is sandstone, the more gentle slope toward 

 the east has some shale, and hence may be cultivated. 



The following species have been recorded upon the sandstone slope 

 of this ridge: 



Pinus virginiana 

 Pinus strobus 

 Quercus rubra 

 Gastanea dentata 

 Amelanchier canadensis 

 Gaylussacia resinosa 

 Mitchella repens 

 Pinus rigida 

 Quercus alba 



