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nating with the branches of Blue ridge in the 

 Kaats Kill group, and the mountains that separate 

 the sources of the Delaware from the course of Hud- 

 son's river. 



In Pennsylvania, Blue ridge and North mountain, 

 are pretty commonly confounded together; because, 

 as the characteristics of the two are not very dis- 

 tinctly marked, each district applies the epithet of 

 Blue to its most elevated chain, and a particular 

 name to each different ramification : but the geo-» 

 graphical continuity of North mountain in the Kit- 

 tatinny,and of Blue ridge in the Flying and Oley hilli: 

 as I have traced them, appears to be best established 

 by the general direction of these chains, by the na- 

 ture of their stones, and by their concurrence in form- 

 ing a calcareous valley, which is prolonged uninter- 

 ruptedly between them from the Delaware and the 

 townships of Easton and Nazareth to the sources of 

 the Shenando beyond Staunton.* 

 . The third principal chain, that of the Alleghanies 

 properly so called, is the highest ridge to the west, 

 -which, separating all the rivers, without being cut 

 .by any one, has properly received the name of 

 Endless* This chain, taking it at its southern ex- 

 tremity, comes from the angle of Georgia and Ca- 

 'rolina, where it receives the various names of White 

 Oak, Great Iron, Bald, and even Blue mountains. 

 There it sends off to the west some branches of the 



* It is not without a careful exarrJnatlon of this question, on good 

 authority, that I differ from the projection of Mr. ArrowSmith, who^ 

 totally neglectirig the ridge of Oley hills and Flying hills, turns oifthe 

 chain of Blue ridge into the Kittatinny below Harrisburj^. 



