40 FIRST COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 
Newark reservoir (now Branch Brook Park) site; another 
day found them at Millburn. Perhaps the day following 
they were in the Oranges, or Montclair, or at Belleville. 
Next they visited Weequahic and passed from consideration 
of this mosquito-breeding and buzzing locality with un- 
favorable comment. 
ON THE ORANGE MOUNTAIN. 
But of all the experiences during the summer and 
autumn of that year (1894) the days devoted to the Orange 
Mountain were at once the most impressive and delightful. 
As we walked on the crest of the first mountain from the 
point where the mountain abruptly ends near Millburn to 
the limits of the county at Northern Montclair Heights, 
the beautiful and varied views were inspiring. Every new 
prospect along the entire distance was a revelation. 
The beauties of these diversified scenes on ideal autumnal 
days can be only inadequately described. The views from 
the southern points of the crest overlook plains, farms, and 
occasionally a small village; or South Orange, Hilton, Irv- 
ington and the fringe of southern Newark, and an attrac- 
tive section of Union County. From the central portion, 
as from the cable road track above Orange Valley looking 
toward Eagle Rock, Orange and East Orange, portions of 
Montclair, Bloomfield and the full lines of Newark beyond, 
Bergen Hill, the Brooklyn Bridge and the tall buildings of 
Greater New York, all appear in view. The whole area, 
save for the intercepting trees and foliage, of this vast, ex- 
tended area of buildings, looks as though, of this immediate 
prospect, it might be truthfully written: “All the world’s 
a roof.” The points from the northern sections of the crest 
are again more open and picturesque. Standing there, one 
looks down upon the rolling country in the direction of 
Brookside, and the attractive section of Franklin Township 
and Nutley, and the still more picturesque central eastern 
portion of Passaic County. 
Over all this wonderful panorama is cast the varying 
shades of sunshine, cloud, and shadow. The gray dawn of 
