America, picturesque and descriptive . it seems always stupidly inthe way. The Indians called the Water Gaj) Pohoqualin,meaning the river between the mountains. TheDelaware flows through it with a width of eight hun-dred feet and at an elevation of about three hundredfeet above tide. It is twenty-nine miles northeast ofthe Lehigh Gap where the Lehigh River passes theBlue Ridge, and there are iive otlier gaps betweenthem, of which the Wind Gap, heretofore referredto, is the chief. For many years this Wind Gapprovided the only route to reach the country northof the Kittatinny. xibout two and a h
America, picturesque and descriptive . it seems always stupidly inthe way. The Indians called the Water Gaj) Pohoqualin,meaning the river between the mountains. TheDelaware flows through it with a width of eight hun-dred feet and at an elevation of about three hundredfeet above tide. It is twenty-nine miles northeast ofthe Lehigh Gap where the Lehigh River passes theBlue Ridge, and there are iive otlier gaps betweenthem, of which the Wind Gap, heretofore referredto, is the chief. For many years this Wind Gapprovided the only route to reach the country northof the Kittatinny. xibout two and a half miles south-west of the Delaware is Tats Gap, named inmemory of Moses Fonda Tatamy, an old time Indianinterpreter in this region, and familiarly called Tats for short. The greatest of all these passes,however, is the Water Gap, where the Blue Ridge,rent asunder, has two noble peaks guarding the por-tals, towering sixteen hundred feet high, and namedin honor <»f the Indians—]\lount ]Minsi in Pemisvlva- Delaware Mater <3ap. THE MINISINK. 249 nia, after tlie tribes of the Minisink, and ]\[onnt Tam-many in New Jersey, for tlie great chief of theLenni Lenapes. Crags, knolls and mounds, in dire confusion hurled,The fragmentary elements of an earlier world. The Water Gap is a popular summer resort, thereLcing numerous hotels and boarding-houses in eligi-ble locations all about it, and the romantic sceneryhas been opened uy> by roads and paths leading to allthe points of view. It is on such a stupendousscale, and exhibits the geological changes wroughtduring countless ages so well, that it always attractsthe greatest interest. To the northward spread thefertile valleys of the Minisink; and the Delaware,which below the Gap flows to the southeast, passingthrough all the ridges, comes from the northeast abovethe Gap, and flows along the base of the Kittatinnyfor miles, as if seeking the outlet which it at lengthlinds in this remarkable pass. THE MINISINK. From the elevated
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