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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age in winter—the stage being of that ponderous variety known as the Concord. Apleasanter way than either is to go on horseback; and the mustangs, which, thoughsmall in size, are excellent, can be purchased for a moderate sum. The roads are notvery good, it must be confessed; and there are bad bits, especially where the trackwinds round the base of a mountain. But they are good enough to the contentedmind, and stage communication has never been interrupted. The tourist will find littlescenery of sufficient grandeur to interest him until he approaches Cape Mendocino.Here the mountains, which previously were low down upon the line of the horizon, comeright up to the sea. After crossing the Eel River, a stream of considerable magnitude,the road winds along the skirts of Mount Pierce, a huge mountain, which terminates along range of high hills, running parallel to and not far from the sea-coast. The sidesof Mount Pierce are positively covered with the famous red-wood; and the eye ranges
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ON THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA. 553 over miles and miles of this magnificent tree without detecting any other kind. Someof these are no less than three hundred feet high and twelve feet in diameter, and themagnificence of these mountain-forests can well be imagined. In the early morning, asthe mud-wagon painfully climbs up the foot-hills, the eye delightedly watches the mistslowly departing from the tall tops of these giants. A thick veil lies upon the cliflfsand the sea, also unillumined by the sun. To the left, however, slanting arrows of redlight come up beside the crags and fall upon the columnar trunks of the red-woods.The deep-green leaves seem gilded at the edges, and the bark of cinnamon-color glowsunder the red rays. Above, half-way up the trees, there is a point where the early sun-light and the mist are at strife. At this place the mist wreathes and circles about underthe influence of the sun, and this movement communicates itself slowly, very slowly,to the deep bank of mist ab

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