Harper's nuova rivista mensile Volume 21 giugno a novembre 1860 . ect dalla sua fronte. La salita iseasy, e la vista dalla apex repaysthe ampiamente la fatica di arrampicata. Come Holyoke, è aprominent sperone di una gamma, ed offre un esteso spaziose e paesaggio in ogni direzione. Onone lato la valle del fiume Rockaway ex-tende per miglia e miglia di distanza fino a quando esso è chiuso da otherranges di colline e di blu-montagna sormontata, theriver e il canal intreccio come argento ribbonsthrough tutta la sua lunghezza; wliile Powerville conla Mills, e Boonton con i suoi forni belchingforth fiamme e fumo, laici quasi

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Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ect from its brow. The ascent iseasy, and the view from the apex amply repaysthe exertion of climbing. Like Holyoke, it is aprominent spur of a range, and affords a wideand extended landscape in every direction. Onone side the valley of the Rockaway River ex-tends for miles away until it is shut in by otherranges of hills and blue-topped mountains, theriver and the canal interlacing like silver ribbonsthrough its whole length; wliile Powerville withits mills, and Boonton with its furnaces belchingforth flames and smoke, lay almost at the feet ofthe observer. The horizon on the right extendsalmost to the confines of the State. The village of Boonton is beautifully situated—so far as a charming prospect is concerned—upon the—almost precipitous—face of a bluff, which forms one of the sides of a deep ravinethrough which the Rockaway River empties itswaters into the plain below. It takes its namefrom a hamlet in the plain about a mile distant(now called Old Boonton), where was situ-. TUE PLANE AT KOCKAWAY. ated, at the period of the Revolution, a forge andfurnace for the manufacture of the ore from theIlibernia, Mount Hope, and Dickerson minesinto blooms or square blocks of iron, whichwere afterward rolled into bars aod sheets. Theprincipal part of the town lies on the easternface of the bluff, the houses rising one above an-other in successive terraces, thus affording toeach a most delightful view over the valley andthe distant hills for many miles. The oppositeside of the ravine is bold and rocky, and at theupper end the river falls over the rocks a distanceof about 30 feet in a beautiful cascade, which atsome seasons assumes the appearance of a mount-ain torrent. After circling and eddying over itsrocky bed, now stopping to disport in some quietpool, now darting around some huge boulderwhich in vain strives to impede its progress, andanon rushing impetuously over a miniature cas-cade, ever hymning

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