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Very diflant profpedt of the Jore village in a beau- 
tiful lawn, lifted up many thoufand feet higher than 
our prefent filiation, befides a view of many other 
villages and fettlements on the fides of the moun- 
tains, at various diftantes and elevations; the filver 
rivulets gliding by them, and fnow white catarafts 
glimmering on the Tides of the lofty hills ; the 
bold promontories of the Jore mountain ftepping 
into the Tanafe river, whilft his foaming waters 
ruihed between therm 
After viewing this very entertaining fcene, w6 
began to dcfcend 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, amidll the 
towering hills, over which we rode a long time, 
through magnificent high forefls, extenfive green 
fields, meadows and lawns. Here had formerly 
been a very flourifhing fetdement • but the Indians 
deferted it in fearch of frefh planting land. Which 
they foon found in a rich vale but a few miles dif- 
tance over a ridge of hills. Soon after entering oil 
thefe charming, fequeftered, prolific fields, we came 
to a fine little river, which eroding, and riding over 
fruitful ftrawberry beds and green laWns, on the 
Tides 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 flrawberries which hung in heavy red tluf- 
ters over the graffy verge, We croffed the rivulet * 
then rifing a doping, green, turfy afcent, alighted 
on the borders of a grand foreft of flately trees, 
which we penetrated on foot a little diflance to a 
korfe-flamp, where was a large fquadron of thofe 
