8 F\ RKPOttT OF PROGRESS. E. W. CLAYPOLE. 



county. Tlie mountain dies down gently at both ends ; and 

 around both ends fold its foot hills in sharp semi-ellipses. 



(2.) West Tuscarora mountain, Conecotfieac/ue mount am, 

 Round Top, Little Round Toj), Rising mountain, Amber- 

 son ridge, and Bower mountain* are all merely longer or 

 shorter zigzags of one range, which encloses Jackson and 

 Toboyne townships at the southwest end of the county, as 

 shown by the yellow color on the map. 



A woodsman can enter Perry county from Franklin county 

 on the rocks at the top of the West Tuscarora mountain, 

 and walk along the rocky crest of this range, alternately to- 

 wards the northeast and towards the southwest, for a total 

 distance of 35 miles, reentering Franklin county by the crest 

 of Bower mountain, only 3 miles across from the place where 

 he left it. In all this distance he will keep at nearly the 

 same elevation, say 1600 feet above ocean level, excei)t at 

 three points, where the Avail on the top of which he is trav- 

 eling is broken down to its base by small streams. One 

 of these water gaps is cut through the AVest Tuscarora 

 mountain ; a second is made by the head of Sherman's creek, 

 which cuts through Rising mountain ; the third is made 

 by Houston's run through the north leg of Bower mountain. 

 Everywhere else along the line he will find the sharp crested 

 7nountain unbroken by gaps, with sreep rock-covered slopes 

 or even cliffs always on his right hand, and a gentler, 

 smoother, but still quite steep slope on his left hand. When 

 he turns the east end of a zigzag he will see the mount- 

 ain crest make a long slope downward into the valleys of 

 Perry county ; and when he turns the west ends of the zig- 

 zags, he will be on boldly scarped knobs overlooking the 

 shale and limestone valleys of Franklin county. On these 

 knobs he will always reach a. somewhat higher elevation 

 above tide. Round Topand Little Round Top are simply the 

 southwest ward looking ends of two of the zigzags rather 

 more strongly pronounced than the others. (See Figs. 2 

 and 'A on page plate I.) 



The North, Blue, or Kittatinny mountain carries the 



* Named thus in this order from northwest to southeast across the west end 



of the (Minn \ . 



