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Show TRAVELS TIIROUGH NORTII AMERICA: give way, and carry down with it even the tree hy \\ hich I h lJ. Unacquailltcd alfo with the paths of the 1 wuntain, tlJLrt f~cmcd to me to be no other way of getting down, excepting O\'er the 1:11 et fl:oncs, a way which J contemplated with h !TOr. Nit•ht how-v r was coming on very f,dl; it\ '·l ablolutely JH.:cdEu-y to tluit the Ji tu ation I was in, and fortnnatdy I got the bottom without receiving a 1y further i1jury than two or thr <.: ili(Tht contuJi,)nS on my hips and e bo.vs. T 1c people con3rat . ted me wb..:n I cmH: l acl· on my cfcapc, an 1 in: forn cd me, t 1at the floncs v ry <..ommo.1ly o,lVc way in this manner after heavy f.llls of rain; but 0!1 the diJ1(,]ution f a large body or fnuw, im·· mcnfe rocJ-s, they fitid, would iometime roll down with a cr.tih that 1 1ight be heard for mile . The confl:quences then of :t hrge rock towards the bottom o the mountain being undennined y a flood, and giving way, may ht: very r adily it 1agined: the rock above it, robb...:~i of it~ fL1pport, wonll allo bll; this woult.l hring down with it numbers of oth 'l'S "ith whi ·h it w,15 conneCted, and thus a difi"tl•n tion wou ll be proc uccd from the bail: to the very fummit of the mou1 t;ti n. The pa{hge of the rivers through the ridge at this place is rtain y :1 c J'ious £;em:, ~1nd dderving of attention; b11t I am far from thinl<in[; with 1r. }..:ficdcm, that it is " one of the mo!l .!lupcnJous fccnc:s in na" turc, an l worth a voy- gc acroCs the Atlantic;" nor hac; it bt:t' tl my lot to meet with any pcrlon th tt had bl.!cn a f cebtor of th..; fccnc, af ci." reading his defcription of it, but\ ·hat aHo diffc-red with him very ma.tcrially in pinion . To find numbcrlds fccncs more flu pcndou.;, it would be nccdlcJ~ to go Ltrther than \Nak, . A river, it is true, is not to be m ·t with in that country, equal in iiL>c to th Patowma.c; bllt many arc to be ft:cn th,:re rufhing vcr th ·ir fiony be is \ ·ith much more tmbnlcncc and impctuoii.ty th.m cit] ..:r tlw P. towm:tc or Shcnamba 1: the rock~; , tl.c pn..:ci ices, anLl the mountains of tl e Blue ] iJge at thi~ phce arc dim'nutivc ani unintcrcfling al(o, compared with thoft: which :1boun i in that country. Indeed, from every p<ll't of Mr. Jcf1~rf()n's c {cr iption, it apj c, rs as ir he had bchc.Jd the fcenc, not in its prefe11t il.ttc, but at the very mo· 1ent \\hen th<.: difrnption happened, and whu1 cvc 'Y thint" w'1s in a J1 te of tumult and confulion. After M A R Y L A N D. A Iter crofiill_s t 1c Patown .ac, I pafTclt on to Frederic in f.tryland, which h:1c; :1lrcady be ·n tn.cnti ned, and from thence t R ltimore. The country between Frederic and lbltirnorc is by no means fo rich as that wcfl: of the JJlu' Pi' ~~ c, but it is tol T.tbly w 11 cultivated. Iron and copper arc found l ere in rnany plac ·s. o works ()f :l11y coniCqucnce hav · ns yd hecn cflaiJJi01cd for the manuFac nrc of copp r, but th Te.tr..; ic~vc ra l cxtcnfi vc iron work . T he iron is of a rcmar <ably to 1gh qu:1- li ty ; Jl deed, thron g! nt the fbtes of Maryland, Vir~rinia, and PennfylV< lllia, it is generally Co ; and thc ut ·n[ds made of it, as pot , kettles, &., • though cafl: mu h thinner than ufual in E11ghlnd, \\ill admit of bL"ing pitch d into the c.1rts, and thrown about,' without nny dangcr of bei1,,. broken. ''he forges and J"urnnc...:s arc all wot k<.:d by nc:_"roes, who (u:m to l e particuhrly fuitcd to fuch an occup·1tion, not only n a( count of their 1: bk complexions, but bccaufc they can fufl.1in a much gre.Jt -r ckg1TC of he.tt than white p ·1-fons w1thout any incon\'Cm.: ncr. In the hottdt da)'S in fumm ·r they arc never without fires in their hnts. The Ctrms and 1 hnt:-tlions in l'vfaryl.t11d confifl:, in general, o[ from one hundred to one tho d~tnd acr~· . In th{; upper p. rts of the fLttc , towar ls the mountain s, the L1ml is divid ·cl into {m;dl porticns. Crain is wh1tt i·> principally cultivated, and th ·re arc few ibv ·s. Tn the lower part uf the fbtc, and in this 1art of tl e country hct\ 'C ' It Freebie and Ddt imorc, the pl.tntation :Lr' cxtenfi\·c; Luge t[li,U tit;cs of toba co arc r,1ilc l, and the labour is performed almc fl entirely by ncgro.:s. The pcrfons rdi.d ·ng upon thcfc lar:rc plantat i1 m liv~,.; v TY flmil.tr to the pLlllter in Virginia: all of them have then· il:cward · a11 I v ricers, and they giv t lelllfdve but little troul1k 1h '.l t th ..! nun1gcm..:ntofthe lands. As in Virginia, tbc clothintr for the {l.tvcs1 and mo.!l of the .irnplcn cnts lor hufb. lndry, arc m.u1Uf~tClurcd on c.ll'h dbte. Tbl.! <1narters of the fl.tvcs arc fituatcd in the nci ~· hbourhood o the 'pr in ci p.tl dwdlin'g houfc, which gives the rciidc:ncc of every pl.u ter he appcttat ·co[ a little vill. g<.·, jufl the bm~; as in irgml't . Th~ 1 oulcs arc fc1r the rno!l: part bnilt or wood, and paiJ~tc.; with Spa1d 1 brO\Ill i and in front there i!i gcn ·ra11y a long porch, painted white. Frot |