20 ecount of the Kaatskill Mountams.: 
where the view is terminated. ‘The diameter from north 
to south is about 150 miles, embracing the most opulent 
part of the state. 
View in a fog. 
In the autumn, a dense fog commonly arises during the 
night, from the streams within the view, covering with its 
misty waves the whole area, excepting the tops of these 
lofty mountains. ‘The only land visible, is Saddle Moun- 
tain and the Highlands, each sixty miles, and the Taugh- 
connoc Mountain, at nearly the same distance. The fog 
rises about 1500 feet in height, and is gilded by the beams 
of the morning sun as it appears above the horizon. For 
an hour after sunrise, the mist is quiescent, exhibiting an 
almost shoreless ocean, with the tops of these peaks rising 
above it, like distant islands ina calm at sea. After the 
sun has risen a few degrees above the horizon, the fog 
begins to be agitated, and to move in vast undulations 
towards the heavens, shooting its needles into the atmos- 
phere, or Trolling its lengthening billows into a thousand 
figures, presenting a glowing picture of the general deluge. 
It remains agitated about an hour, when, unfolding its misty 
mantle, the earth below appears here and there illumined 
by the rays of the sun. When the fog is dispelled by its 
beams the landscape unfolds all its beauties, as if it had just 
sprung into existence at the command of the Creator. 
Lakes. 
One mile west of this peak are two lakes, uniting with 
each other by a small outlet, over which the road passes. 
These lakes are each of them about three-fourths of a mile 
in circumference, and are the source of one of the branches 
of the Kaaterskill. They are, as l have been informed, 
more than 100 feet deep in the centre, and abound with 
several kinds of fish. The outlet to these lakes is the 
commencement of the stream just mentioned, which forces 
a passage over the rocks. Here it arrives at a precipice 
about one mile from the south lake, over which with a 
rapid current it descends, making a beautiful fall of between 
two and three hundred feet. I have often seen this cascade ~ 
