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THE HIGHLANDS. 
5. Genearl account of the Highlands. When standing on one of 
the Highland plateaus, the observer must be struck with the nearly 
uniform elevation reached by all the surrounding uplands. The 
profile of one mass after another rises close to the common stand- 
ard of height and there maintains an even outline with much con- 
stancy. The flat-bottomed valleys sink deep below the general up- 
land surface, but there are no corresponding elevations above it. 
Schooley’s mountain may be taken as a good example of one of 
these Highland plateaus. In the neighborhood of Budd’s lake, its 
surface rises to ten or eleven hundred feet above the sea level and 
maintains this eleyation with moderate inequality over broad stretch- 
es ; on the southeast, the broad German valley is drained by the 
south branch of the Raritan at a height of about six hundred feet ; 
on the northwest the Musconetcong flows in a wide-open valley 
about a hundred feet lower. A walk over the mountain from one 
valley-railroad to another can easily be accomplished in a few hours 
