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sponding synclines projecting themselves into Franklin 

 count}' and forming West Round Top. Dividing mountain, 

 and the two points at the northeast end of Amberson valley 

 which seem to have no distinct names. 



In addition to these there is the great level-crested ridge 

 called Bower mountain, the sandstone backbone of which 

 rises in Madison township and gently slopes upward through 

 Jackson until on entering Toboyne it forms a small zigzag, 

 and is soon afterwards cleft by erosion and becomes two 

 ridges which seem to have no separate names, and may, 

 therefore, be called North and South Bower. Of these two 

 monoclinal ranges springing from the division of the Bower 

 anticline, (1 3th of Rogers,) the northwestern soon unites with 

 the south side of Amberson 1 s ridge, and forms the most south- 

 ed y of the synclinal knobs above-mentioned. That to the 

 southeast continues on its southwestern course into Frank- 

 lin county until it ends near Clark's knob by meeting the 

 same south side of Amberson ridge continued, the interven- 

 ing part having been destroyed by erosion. 



Gaps have been cut through these mountains by various 

 streams, beside those in West Tuscarora already mentioned. 



Rising mountain is cut by Sherman s creek coming from 

 the Bear ponds on the north side of Amberson ridge. No 

 road passes through it, and the gap is a tangle of laurel and 

 scrub down which the little trout stream makes its way 

 over bowlders and rocks in a narrow channel. 



North Bower mountain is also gapped by the head of 

 Houston's run, and the road from X. Germantown to Ship- 

 pensbnrg passes through the gap. Except along these lines 

 mosl of the tract here described is a wilderness nnpenetrated 

 except by a IVw barkroads, and frequented only by sports- 

 men and hunters. Deer and bearsyet Linger here, and traces, 

 especially of tin' latter, may often be seen. Occasionally 

 both are found and killed, but for the most part the recesses 

 of the mountains are so deep and secluded that tin 1 few re- 

 maining animals dwell comparatively unmolested. The 

 narrow sequestered valleys are usually settled and cultivated 

 as Par as possible, but these form a very small part of the 



