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to the northward. Its 

 length is probably half 

 a mile from north to 

 south, but it runs for 

 two miles westward up 

 the valley, gradually 

 contracting. The sur- 

 face, though level, is 

 very uneven, being 

 worn into hollows, 

 and presenting ridges 

 and hillocks of blown 

 sand and gravel, with 

 small black tufts of 

 rhododendron. Enor- 

 mous boulders of gneiss 

 and granite were scat- 

 tered over the surface ; 

 one of the ordinary 

 size, which I measured, 

 was seventy feet in 

 girth, and fifteen feet 

 above the ground, into 

 which it had partly 

 sunk. Prom the south- 

 ern pointed end I took 

 sketches of the opposite 

 flanks of the valleys east 

 and west. The river 

 was about 400 feet 

 below me, and flowed 

 in a little flat lake-bed ; 

 other terraces skirted it, 



