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viver Tenessee, and to the east the rivers of the 

 two Carolinas, of which it forms the western fron- 

 tier. On reaching Virginia it forms the arch above 

 mentioned, by bending toward the north-west, and 

 enveloping the preceding ridges: it then resumes 

 its course north-east, and sends to the Ohio the 

 "waters of the great Kanhaway and Monongahela, 

 to the Atlantic those of the rivers James, Potow- 

 mac, Susquehannah, &c. ; but toward the sources of 

 the western branch of the latter it divides into seve- 

 ral ramifications, the most considerable of which 

 proceed to the eastward, and, crossing all the streams 

 ©f the Susquehannah, terminate in the Kaats Kill 

 mountains, and at the sources of the Delaware ancl 

 Hudson; while other ramifications to the east sur« 

 round the sources of the Susquehannah itself, and 

 proceed to Tioga to furnish those of the lakes of the 

 Iroquois or Genessee country: unless indeed it should 

 be thought proper to assign these branches to a ridge 

 farther west, which, under the names of Gauley^ 

 Laurel, and Chesnut ridge, likewise terminates m 

 this country. 



Beside the three principal chains of Virginia, 

 which is just described, there are still several 

 intermediate ridges, which frequently equal then^ 

 in height, steepness, and continuity ; as those of 

 Calfpasture, Cowpasture, and Jackson, which I 

 crossed in travelling to Staunton by the way of 

 Green Briar. In the latter mountains are thermal 

 waters of different qualities, cehbrated in Virginia 

 for their virtues, and knov/n by the names of Warm 

 spring. Hot spring, R@d spring, V^arm springy, 



