AMONG THE MOUNTLÄINS AND MINES. 
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2. At first the road leads through a most beautiful 
country; and the pretty houses, and bright flowers, and 
smooth green fields, and lovely groves, seem like some 
pleasant park, rather than like the borders of a great 
city. By and by we find our way lying through rough 
hills. "The road winds among them, finding break alter 
break in the ridges, through which we cross from one 
valley to another. 
3. At length we enter a broad valley, on each side of 
which is a great wall of very high land. Along the tops 
of these walls are notches, so that some parts are much 
lower than others; but even the lowest parts are much 
higher than any hill which we have yet seen. What 
can be the name of such land as this? You have heard 
of mountains, perhaps. Each of these great solid walls 
of high land is a mountain range. "The higher parts are 
called. mountains, or peaks; the lower, passes, that is, 
crossing places. 
4. The mountains are much steeper, as well as higher, 
than the hills. They are also covered with great for- 
csts. Wherever we look, we see only trees, from the 
bottom to the top. What can be the reason the moun- 
tains are covered with forests, while on the plain and 
hills, and in the valleys, there is only here and there & 
little grove? "There were once forests all over those 
regions, as well as upon the mountains; but they have 
been eut down to make room for the farms that now 
cover the land. We shall try, by and by, to learn why 
the forests have been left upon the mountains. 
5. After a time we find a fine river, named the Sus- 
quehanna, flowing directly across the valley. It makes 
its way to the sea through breaks in the mountain