LIFE OF WILSON. 
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till he began to show such symptoms of intellect, as to seem ashamed 
of what he had said. 
“ From Hanover I passed through a thinly inhabited country; 
and crossing the North Mountain, at a pass called Newman’s Gap, 
arrived at Chambersburg, whence I next morning returned to Car- 
lisle, to visit the reverend doctors of the college. * ^ ^ ^ 
“ The towns of Chamljersburg and Shippensburg produced 
me nothing. On Sunday, the lllh, I left the former of these places 
in the stage coach ; and in fifteen miles began to ascend the Alpine 
regions of the Alleghany mountains, where above, around, and be- 
low us, nothing appeared but prodigious declivities, covered with 
woods ; and, the weather being fine, such a profound silence pre- 
vailed among these aerial solitudes, as impressed the soul with awe, 
and a kind of fearful sublimity. Something of this arose from my 
being alone, having left the coach several miles below. These 
high ranges continued for more than one hundred miles to Greens- 
burg, thirty-two miles from Pittsburg ; thence the country is no- 
thing but an assemblage of steep hills, and deep vallies, descending 
rapidly till you reach within seven miles of this place, where I ar- 
rived on the 15 th instant. We were within two miles of Pittsburg, 
when suddenly the road descends a long and very steep hill, where 
the Alleghany river is seen at hand, on the right, stretching along 
a rich bottom, and bounded by a high ridge ot hills on the west. 
After following this road, parallel with the river, and about a quar- 
ter of a mile from it, through a rich low valley, a cloud ot black 
smoke, at its extremity, announced the town of Pittsburg. On ai- 
riving at the town, which stands on a low flat, and looks like a col- 
lection of Blacksmith’s shops, Glasshouses, Breweries, Forges and 
Furnaces, the Monongahela opened to the view, on the left, running 
along the bottom of a range of hills so high that the sun, at this sea- 
son, sets to the town of Pittsburg at a little past four : this range 
continues along the Ohio as far as the view reaches. The ice had 
just begun to give way in the Monongahela, and came down in vast 
