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Nesquehoning Mountain or Nesquehoning Ridge is a 15–17-mile-long (24–27 km) coal bearing ridge dividing the waters of Lehigh Valley and the Poconos to the north from the Schuylkill River valley and the several near parallel ridgelines of the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians barrier range all of which runs generally WSW-ENE in the greater area along the Southern Anthracite Region north of the escarpment Blue Mountain Pennsylvania.