. The Catskill Mountains . he locality, and for thesethis book is mainly written. The modern processes of thepictorial art have indeed made some of the scenery familiarthe world over, and with much pleasing and artistic cannot, however, be said so unreservedly of the vast massof descriptive matter which has appeared in the public pressfrom time to time. Much of this was mere imaginary drivel,misleading and fictitious, betraying the writers unfamiliaritywith his subject. In fact, one of our modern encyclopediaslocates the entire range in Greene county, while it really traver-ses l
. The Catskill Mountains . he locality, and for thesethis book is mainly written. The modern processes of thepictorial art have indeed made some of the scenery familiarthe world over, and with much pleasing and artistic cannot, however, be said so unreservedly of the vast massof descriptive matter which has appeared in the public pressfrom time to time. Much of this was mere imaginary drivel,misleading and fictitious, betraying the writers unfamiliaritywith his subject. In fact, one of our modern encyclopediaslocates the entire range in Greene county, while it really traver-ses large parts of Ulster, Delaware and Schoharie counties aswell, Ulster having perhaps the largest share. Another ency-clopedic writer says the range is drained chiefly by the Cats-kill creek, while the fact is, that stream reaches only the east-ern slope and does not begin to equal in importance the Esopuscreek, which rises forty miles in the interior, not to mentionthe Schoharie creek, or the branches of the Delaware ON THH ROAD NEAR MT. TREMPER. THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS. 19 These mountains are a spur of the great Appalachian sys-tem which extends along the Atlantic coast from Maine toAlabama. They cover a superficial area of some 2,400 squaremiles, and their general trend is from southeast to northwestor at right angles to every other group in this system. Comingup the Hudson, they burst into vision about ninety miles fromthe mouth of that river, and from eight to ten miles from thewestern shore at Kingston. Here they rise abruptly from thebase over 3,000 feet in the air for miles along the eastern face,there being innumerable peaks, in the interior, three of whichare over 4,000 feet in height. These peaks vary materially inphysical structure and plastic form, and are geologically unlikeordinary mountain formations. Instead of the usual folds orfragments of arches, the rock is composed of piled up stratain the original horizontal position. HOW TH EY ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ ^^ what
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