. Essex county, , illustrated . which the Passaic afforded in the beginning, made it aneasy matter for Newark to outstrip Elizabeth, although thelatter had some years the better of settlement. Then the MorrisCanal came creeping over the hills and mountains, depositingthe wealth of New Jersey and Pennsylvania mines at her topography, then, is such that no lover of the beautiful innature can resist its charms. No stranger can cross the bor-ders of Essex, climb her gentle declivities and sit down on thetable lands of the Orange mountains, without being captivatedby her charms. Like
. Essex county, , illustrated . which the Passaic afforded in the beginning, made it aneasy matter for Newark to outstrip Elizabeth, although thelatter had some years the better of settlement. Then the MorrisCanal came creeping over the hills and mountains, depositingthe wealth of New Jersey and Pennsylvania mines at her topography, then, is such that no lover of the beautiful innature can resist its charms. No stranger can cross the bor-ders of Essex, climb her gentle declivities and sit down on thetable lands of the Orange mountains, without being captivatedby her charms. Like one grand picture which has been un-folded before him, lies the landscape w hich wordy expressionsfail him when description is attempted. That view which isobtained of Essex County and its environments from any ofthe higher points of the Orange mountains, while changed byits beautiful topography and immediate relations, makes a])iclure which would produce a lasting sadness in its effacing,so deep are the lines made in its ^-^^f:;. .il
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