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mountains are never to be met with at both 
sides of the same part of the river, except it be 
at places where the river takes a very sudden 
bend; but wherever you perceive a range of 
mountains on one side, you are sure to find an 
extensive plain on the opposite one; scarcely in 
any part do the mountains extend for more 
than one mile together on the same side of the 
river, and in many instances, during the course 
of one mile, you will perceive more than a 
dozen different changes of the mountains from 
one side to the other. It may readily be 
imagined, from this description of the eastern 
branch of the Susquehannah, that the scenery 
along it must be very fine; and, indeed, I think 
there is no river in America that abounds with 
such a variety and number of picturesque views* 
At every bend the prospect varies, and there 
is scarcely a spot between Lochartzburg and 
Wilkesbarre where the painter would not find 
a subject well worthy of his pencil. The 
mountains, covered with bold rocks and 
woods, afford the finest foreground imagin¬ 
able ; the plains, adorned with cultivated 
fields and patches of wood, and watered by 
the noble river, of which you catch a glimpse 
here and there, fill up the middle part of the 
landscape; and the blue hills, peeping up at a 
distance, terminate the view in the most pleas¬ 
ing manner. 
