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Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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bluff*far up toward the Highlands, called thePalisades. It often presents a precipi-tous wall, totally inaccessible fiom thewater, except occasionally; and forsome distance it rises about foui hun-dred feet perpendicularly. Mountains.—The Allegany range en-teis this state from New Jersey, andcrosses the Hudson at the pass of theHighlands, celebrated for its scenery,and for some important events in theRevolutionary war, and passes into NewEngland. The Catskill mountains rise at somedistance above the Highlands, about sev-en miles west of the river, and presenta range of rocks, covered with a thincoat of forest-trees, with several peaksrising a little above the general outline,the loftiest of which, the Crows-Nest,is about three thousand five hundred feetabove the ocean. The poverty of thesoil and the roughness and almost inac-cessible nature of the surface, renderthis wild region the retreat of deer andwolves. The abundance of oak-trees issuch, that numerous tanneries are found fe^Si
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t \\ki 10 146 DESCRIPTION OP THE STATE OF NEW YORK. in that region. The village of Hunteris situated halfway up the mountain, atan elevation considerably higher thanany other within the limits of NewYork. The Mountain house, in the up-per parts of this Alpine region, is theresort of numerous travelleis of taste inthe warm seasons ; and, while it affordsevery comfort, and many of the luxuriesof life, it commands one of the most ex-tensive and deliofhtful views to be foundwithin the circuit of the Union, with ea-sy access to the wild valley of the Cau-terskill creek, and its remarkable cas-cades. Oswego River is a very remarkablestream on account of one singular pecu-liarity. It is the drain of almost thewhole cluster of small lakes in the mid-dle of the state of New York. Havingits head in Canandaigua lake, in its eas-terly course, it receives the outlets ofall those which empty northward, andat length, after passing several villages,receives the Oswego canal, and fallsinto Lake Ontari

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