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[Davis and Wood. 
and can be made within a day, even if one has to start from New 
York by train in the morning and return there in the evening. A 
fine round-trip excursion can be made by taking a morning train 
on the Morris and Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna 
and Western railroad to Waterloo station in the Musconetcong 
valley, walking over the mountain past Budd’s lake, and on the 
Way passing from the glaciated to the non-glaciated area, and de- 
scending in the afternoon to the German valley at Bartley station, 
whence the return to New York is made by an interesting ride on 
the Central railroad of New Jersey. The justice of the following 
description by Professor Cook will then be appreciated. 
“ The Highland mountain range consists of many ridges which 
are in part separated by deep valleys and in part coalesce, forming 
plateaus or table lands of small extent. Some of the included val- 
leys are quite as deep as the red sandstone plain on the south and 
the Kittatinny valley on the north and west A charac- 
teristic feature is the absence of what might be called alpine struct- 
ure or scenery. There are no prominent peaks or cones. The 
ridges are even-topped for long distances and the average eleva- 
tion is uniform over wide areas. Looking at the crests alone and 
imagining the valleys and depressions filled, the surface would ap- 
proximate to a plane gently inclined toward the southeast and tow- 
ard the southwest The new atlas of the state will show 
how remarkably even-topped these ridges of the highlands are and 
enable the reader to construct for himself the plateau indicated 
here by these crest lines The more prominent and larger 
of these high levels are the country south of Dover and east of the 
German valley, Schooley’s mountain range, Scott’s mountain arid 
the country from lake Hopatcong, extending northeast 
They are not to be understood as level, but as diversified by the 
ridges which rise from 100 to 300 feet above the deepest depres- 
sions, the latter being 400 to 600 feet above the adjacent valleys 
and plain country. Once upon them, the so-called mountains dis- 
appear and sink into hills, whereas, when viewed from the valleys, 
the plateau or table-land rises up as a mountain .... Near the 
valley, the apparently lofty ridges are designated as mountains ; in 
the ridges, away from the valleys and outside plain country, names 
are often wanting for even the highest crests, as they are called 
hills 1 
1 Geol. Survey of New Jersey, Annual Report, 1883, 27-29. 
