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"15 miles me sees the high table land.
He are now rising up on an undulatory land = Cobham hills met
to Quarry (granite quarry here) evidently to go down again into the Humbra valley. He are still rising towards "The Three Topsails" high residuals standing alone in a high partly undulatory granitic and wooded country. Main topsail is 1829 feet high and appears to me stand 600 feet above the general level. Fore topsail while a smaller re-sidual appears the equally high as Main topsail. Brigantopsail is more pointed and apparently the front of the three residuals. As there are no trees here one has a wide views.
Some miles to the north-west apparently in the beginning of the Long Range but me sees more continuous range of granitic mountains. Their sky line is smooth or jagged. All of those are residual on the slope smothering down and to the Exploits.
Northwestward of The Three Topsails the country descents rapidly besides a series of