Sgo ' A JOURNEY" TO LAKE 



of mountains peaked, rounded, broken into afcending and des- 

 cending lines, with abrupt, ragged dips and a few foft hollow f weeps, 

 but all covered. with fnow. The declivities in fome parts .thickly- 

 covered" with cedars and cypreHes,* in others thinly fprinkled, and 

 in others diverfified by bare patches of rock or fand« The bafe 

 of two lines of mountains is walhed by the Dauti, ; -which runs with 

 great rapidity and noife about 400 feet below our encampment in 

 a fpace only jufl large enough to receive the water which it now 

 rolls along the channel.. One Hope of the hill immediately before 

 us has been broken from top to bottom by a flip which has only 

 lately happened. In its courfe it has overwhelmed large trees, of 

 which fome have been hurried into the river, others lay acrofs „ 

 icsbed half buried in rubbifh ; and others, thrown down, hang by 

 their roots with their heads towards the bafe of the mountain, 

 The devadation, committed by large flips, is fometimes very great, 

 and they frequently- hap pern for I have this inflant hear4 a tre- 

 mendous crafh at adijtance produced by a fall of rock, and was 

 awakened by another at a moment that I had loft all fenfe of -.fa- 

 tigue, under the. fhadc of a large maf.§ gf ftone ? 



When the flru£rure of the expofed Jaces of mountains- has not; 

 been entirely broken, I have remarked, that the general dire&ion 

 oS the component -.-layers* has been to the E. oLN. with an inclU-;. 

 iiation towards the horizon about the angle of 45. 



. W.e pitched <m an open fpace .-between two ranges of* high ' recfes. : 

 Aj the foot were fome large cedars * I meafured one at .fix, feet , 

 from the ground, twenty stv^p feet in circumferences 



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