llustration: THE NARROWS OR PENNSYLVANIA PALISADES]

Mary gathered a bouquet of wild carrot, or "Queen Anne's Lace," with
its exquisitely fine, lace-like flowers with pale green-tinted
centres. Mary's Uncle could not agree with her in praise of the dainty
wild blossoms. He said: "Mary, I consider it the most detested weed
with which I am obliged to contend on the farm."

[Illustration: TOP ROCK]

After quite a long, tiresome walk in the hot sun, they discovered the
lonely grave, covered with a slab of granite surrounded by a small
iron railing and read the almost illegible date--"Seventeen Hundred
and Forty." Ralph said, "If he ever sighed for a home in some vast
wilderness, his wish is granted." It certainly was a lonely grave in
the deep woods, and gave all the members of the party a sad and eerie
feeling as they wended their way out into the sunlight again, to the
waiting carriages, and were soon driving swiftly along the Narrows,
as they have been called from time immemorial by the inhabitants,
although I prefer the name of Pennsylvania Palisades, as they are
sometimes called.

Said Professor Schmidt: "Numerous tourists visit the Narrows every
year. The Narrows are said to resemble somewhat the Palisades on the
Hudson. I have seen, the latter and think these greatly resemble them
and are quite as interesting and picturesque."

"The name Narrows is derived from the fact that at this place the
Delaware River has forced itself through the rocky barrier," continued
the Professor, "hedged in on one side by cliffs of perpendicular rock,
three hundred feet high, extending some distance along the river,
leaving scarcely room at some places for the river and the canal. Some
quite rare plants grow here, said to be found in few other localities
in the United States. You see the highest flat rock along the Narrows?
It is called 'Top Rock' and rises to a height of more than three
hundred feet. We shall drive around within a short distance of it;
then, after passing a small house, we are obliged to walk across a
field of ploughed ground; follow the well-beaten path between trees
and undergrowth, and 'Top Rock' is before us. Stepping upon the high
ledge of rock projecting out over the road beneath, we discover it may
also be reached by following a precipitous path and clinging to bushes
and trees, but none of the party venture. Recently the body of a man
who had been searching for rare birds' eggs on the side of this
self-sa