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very difiant profpe£t of the Jore village in a beau- 
tiful lawn, lifted up many thoufand feet higher than 
our prefent fituation, befides a view of many other 
villages and fettle me nts on the Tides of the moun- 
tains, at various diflances and elevations ; the filver 
rivulets gliding by them, and fnow white cataradls 
glimmering on the Tides of the lofty hills ; the 
bold promontories of the Jore mountain ftepping 
into the Tanafe river, whilft his foaming waters 
rulhed between them. 
After viewing this very entertaining fcene, we 
began to defcend the mountain on the other fide, 
which exhibited the fame order of gradations of 
ridges and vales as on our afcent ; and at length 
relied on a very expanfive, fertile plain, amidft the 
towering hills, over which we rode a longtime, 
through magnificent high forefts, extenfive green 
fields, meadows and lawns. Here had formerly 
been a very flourifhing fettlement; but the Indians 
deferted it in fearch of frelli planting land, which 
they foon found in a rich vale but a few miles dis- 
tance over a ridge of hills. Soon after entering on 
thefe charming, fequellered, prolific fields, we came 
to a fine little river, which eroding, and riding over 
fruitful llrawberry beds and green lawns, on the 
fides of a circular ridge of hills in front of us, and 
going round the bafes of this promontory, came to 
a fine meadow on an arm of the vale, through which 
meandered a brook, its humid vapours bedewing the 
fragrant llrawberries which hung in heavy red cluf- 
ters over the grafiy verge. We eroded the rivulet; 
then rifmg a Hoping, green, turfy afcent, alighted 
on the borders of a grand foreft of ftately trees, 
which we penetrated on foot a little diftance to a 
horfe-ftamp, where was a large fquadron of thofe 
A a ufeful 
