different cha- rafter. It is a true contraft to the fore- ground. It is as placid and delightful, as that is wild and tremendous. For the mountain being cloven afunder, fhe pre- fents to your eye, through the cleft, a fmall catch of fmoothe blue horizon, at an infinite diftance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tuniuh roaring around, to pafs through the breach and participate of the cahii be- low. Here the eye ultimately compofes itfelf; and that way too the road happens actually to lead. You crofs the Patowmac above the juftion, pafs along its fide through the bafe of the mountain for three miles, its terrible precipices hanging in fragments over you, and within about 20 miles reach Fredricktown, and the fine country round that. This fcene is worth a voyage acrofs the Atlantic.
Yet here, as in the neighbourhood of the Natural Bridge, are people who have paffed their lives within half a dozen miles, and have never been to furvey thefe mo- numents of a war between rivers and mountains, which mufl have fhaken the earth itfelf to its centre. (B.)
The height of our mountains has not yet