Ha! ha! ha!"
And now my friend's boast was indeed fulfilled; for when we had driven a
few miles farther, the country became undulating, with many and bright
streams of water; the hill sides clothed with luxuriant woodlands, now
in their many-colored garb of autumn beauty; the meadow-land rich in
unchanged fresh greenery--for the summer had been mild and rainy--with
here and there a buckwheat stubble showing its ruddy face, replete with
promise of quail in the present, and of hot cakes in future; and the
bold chain of mountains, which, under many names, but always beautiful
and wild, sweeps from the Highlands of the Hudson, west and southwardly,
quite through New Jersey, forming a link between the White and Green
Mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont, and the more famous Alleghenies
of the South.
A few miles farther yet, the road wheeled round the base of the Tourne
Mountain, a magnificent bold hill, with a bare craggy head, its sides
and skirts thick set with cedars and hickory--entering a defile through
which the Ramapo, one of the loveliest streams eye ever looked upon,
comes rippling with its crystal waters over bright pebbles, on its way
to join the two kindred rivulets which form the fair Passaic.
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