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with loose stone mixed with rounded off pebles 

 of all sizes. The Yersey shore seems to be lower & 

 not much broken. One mile further on from the 

 ferry a chain of high hills comes at some distance 

 towards the shore, on both sides of the water. — 

 Two miles from the ferry the shore very steep 

 covered with Rhododendron &c. great quantity s 

 of loose stone woren by the water. The chain of 

 hills draws closer to the water, about three miles 

 from the ferry, the gap begins ; the kind of bot- 

 tom land which lays between the water & the 

 high hills, is of a barren slaty nature, mixed 

 wite rounded pcples. A considerable large Is- 

 land, lays at the mouth of the gap ; The Kiver 

 runs more from the north ; The main ridge of 

 mountains, through which it breaks is about a 

 mile over, & the two faces of the mountain in 

 respect to their strata quit corresponding. Those 

 strata make about an angle of nearly 45° from 

 K. W. to S. E. & consist of indurates lime stone 

 granit. Within about 40 yards apparently from 

 the top, the face of these rocks is rotten slate ; 

 which cuts off on both sides into a straight line ; 

 this slate can not lay under granit, but must 

 have been a vain, on which the water worked & 

 made the present bed of the River. 



[The diarist here gives a rough sketch.] 

 After passing this place the side of the moun- 

 tain forms the banks of the river & an artificial 

 road leads along the steep banks, the river soon 

 after has its course more from the N. "W". & keeps 

 in this direction more or less for a mile & a half, 

 where an island is by which it turns more from 

 N. After passing 2 miles along this close nioun- 



