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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Goshen Pass. lated and unprotected wagon-train laden with Swopes Family Flour. A nearer in-spection shows that the inner side of the pile is really attached to the hill-side. Thecolors are varied in horizontal bands, and, from the seams which appear at almost equalintervals in their height, the Towers are apparently the result of successive depositions. SCENES IN VIRGINIA. ;53 Bidding farewell to the Towers, we proceed westward along the Chesapeake and OhioRailroad to Goshen Pass. A stage hurries us through at night, for we are to sleep at theRockbridge Baths, visit the Jump Mountain, and return to the Pass. We see the over-hanging crags, the high, naked summits, the black masses of foliage, and hear themelancholy winds soughing in unison with the invisible river rushing far below—that is
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Clifton Forge. all. It is simply grand, but we rattle on to the Baths, where we have things all toourselves, the season not having commenced. Early next morning we mount the buggy and are off for Jump Mountain. Thun-der-showers drag over the top of the Jump as we follow the road, prospecting for agood point of view, and the mountain appears to decide not to allow his portrait to be 45 354 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. taken that day. Dismounting, we rummaged an Indian mound, a very mass of bones,once quite distinct, but nearly effaced now by freshet and by the plough. The legendgoes that, in far-off days, ere the white intruder came, there was a great battle herebetween the Shawnees and Cherokees. A red maiden watched from yonder mountain-height the varying tide of combat, and, when her lover fell, jtimped from the beetlingcHff—hence the name. The lorgnette which even Loves piercing eyes must have usedto detect certain death at such a distance has not been preserved in any museum;nor did we

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