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high Tuscarora mountains rise. The river is navigable from this 
place to Waynesburg; we saw keel-boats in it. We did not reach 
Thomsonstown till ten o’clock at night; we had seen but little of 
the surrounding country, though I heard it was very handsome. 
May 26th, we arose at two o’clock, A. M., and rode to Lan¬ 
caster, distant seventy-one miles, through Millerstown, Coxtown, 
Harrisburg, High Spire, Middletown, Rockstown, Franklin, Eli¬ 
zabethtown and Mountjoy. At first the road went through a 
hilly country along the left side of the Juniata; then we crossed 
in a boat at Beelen’s Ferry. The water was low, so that the 
rocky bottom of the river could be seen. A canal, which is al¬ 
ready marked out, is intended to obviate the difficulties of the 
navigation, arising from the low state of the water. The road 
which we now passed, and which was not a turnpike, led us over 
three hills, Limestone-ridge, Mahony-ridge and Dick’s hill to 
Clark’s Ferry, on the Susquehanna, a little below the place where 
the Juniata empties into the Susquehanna, which is here about a 
mile wide, and rushes between two high ridges over a very rocky 
bed, in which at several places dams have been raised with pas¬ 
sages in order to facilitate the navigation. On the left side a canal 
had already been laid out. At Clark’s Ferry, we had an extreme¬ 
ly handsome view of the Susquehanna, which is here surrounded 
by such high mountains, that it resembles a lake, and calls to 
mind Lake George, in New York. On the left its junction with 
the Juniata takes place, and on the right it forces itself through a 
gap in a high ridge, which on the right side is called Mount Pe¬ 
ter, and on the left, Cave mountain. Through this opening an¬ 
other valley is^seen bounded by the Blue mountains. The broad 
Susquehanna is seen in front, and the high Mount Peter on the 
other shore. 
At Clark’s Ferry we crossed the Susquehanna in a ferry¬ 
boat. The water was so clear, that the rocky bottom could be 
distinctly seen. Cove/hiountain forms an arch on the right 
shore, and touches the Susquehanna with its two extremities, 
not far from Clark’s Ferry, and again eight miles below ; at this 
place a rocky mountain nine hundred feet high on the left shore 
corresponds with it, and forms a part of a ridge called Second 
mountain. In a space of eight miles, four ridges of mountains 
run parallel to each other, first Mount Peter, then Third moun¬ 
tain, afterwards Second mountain, and last the Blue mountains. 
This country is said to abound in good stone-coal. The road 
which we travelled is a turnpike, and runs between the Susque¬ 
hanna and this mountain, out of which it is partly cut. The 
Blue mountains, through which the Susquehanna forces its way 
at right angles, forms the last chain of mountains on our route. 
I had first seen this chain of mountains at Nazareth, then at Har~ 
