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The valley of the Delaware, westward, is almost entirely 

 deforested, but the few scattered clumps of timber are good. 

 The bluff along the river contains considerable hemlock. 



The Pohatcong valley, eastward, including the broad stretch 

 of level country at the south end of Scott's mountain, reaching 

 over to the Delaware river, is entirely deforested, there being a 

 lack even of scattering trees, which makes this territory seem 

 more bare than any other in Northern New Jersey. What little 

 timber there is is confined to the bluff along the Delaware, and 

 consists of a few larger trees from 10 to 13 inches in diameter 

 and 30 to 45 feet in height, interspersed with a good deal of 

 brush. We find here hickory, butternut, beech, oak, elm, birch 

 and a little chestnut and hemlock. 



Pohatcong mountain is a narrow ridge extending from Wash- 

 ington southwest to the Delaware river. It has some timber 

 along its slopes, mainly oak, hickory and chestnut, with the other 

 varieties which we have previously named interspersed, and also 

 some clumps of common pine {P. rigidd) north of Asbury. The 

 north end of the ridge has a medium growth from 4 to 6 inches 

 in diameter, and some of the pasture is growing up to red cedar. 

 A 50-acre lot was noticed on the northwest slope which has been 

 cut within 7 years, and which shows almost no new growth since. 

 The timber seems to have been principally oak. The timber is 

 better as we proceed towards Bloomsbury, ranging from 10 to 30 

 inches in diameter and 30 to 55 feet in height, but the tracts are 

 small. The best has been, or is now being cut. Just southwest 

 of the Lehigh Valley railroad there is a piece of chestnut, oak 

 and hickory which is better, ranging from 6 to 14 inches in 

 diameter and 25 to 45 feet high. Thence to the Delaware it 

 ranges from 8 to 24 inches in diameter and 30 to 50 feet high, 

 but nearly all has been cut within 10 years, and the best of the 

 remaining is now being cut out. On the ridge near Bloomsbury, 

 oak stumps were noted as follows: 150 years old, 28 inches in 

 diameter ; 125 years old, from 2\ to 29 inches, and 118 years, 25 

 inches. 



The Musconetcong valley, southwestward from the crossing 

 of the moraine, is generally deforested, but not quite so bare of 

 timber as the Pohatcong valley previously described. The 

 underlying rock of the valley is either slate or limestone, and its 



