Identifier: picturesqueameri01brya (find matches)
Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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he continued his way in the samecautious manner, followed by the eyes of his pale and terrified friends; when, disappearingin a cleft, he reappeared no more. A cry rose from beneath ; he was lost, it seemed—must have fallen into one of the huge fissures and been dashed to pieces. His friendshad given him up, and agony had succeeded the long suspense, when suddenly, frombehind a clump of evergreens, extending like a screen across the narrow opening betweentwo towering rocks, appeared the young student — safe, sound, and smiling, after hisperilous feat, during which he had stood face to face with the most terrible of deaths. The Natural Bridge is in the southeastern corner of Rockbridge County, in themidst of the wild scenery of the Blue-Ridge region, and almost under its shadow uponits western side. It is reached from Lexington, fourteen miles distant, by stage, and fromLynchburg, by canal-boat, thirty-six miles. » i THE DELAWARE WATER-GAP. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANVILLE PERKINS.
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I HE Indians called the Kitta--^ tinny the Endless fountain;and, disregarding all the discussionsof modern science, we may still saythat the great range stretching fromMaine to Georgia was the strongbackbone of the thirteen colonies, that made them stand erect among the nations. In such union, indeed, there is strength;and grandeur and beauty invest the whole—whether, as the Green Mountains, giving itseuphonic name to Vermont, or when the snow-capped peaks become the White Moun-tains of New Hampshire; whether Dutched into Kaatskill, or when, in Pennsylvaniaand the more Southern States, the even tinting of the forest-clad sides renames them, as,melting softly into the atmosphere, they are as blue as the circumambient air. 92 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. In Pennsylvania the range is peculiarly symmetrical, and the richly-wooded sides andregular outline well entitle it to the name of Blue Ridge, given to it, in popular par-lance, by the early settlers. The uniformity of character is still furt

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