. 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 . whole line, was too weak to reenforceBurnside. Thus both sides rested at nightfall. Lee then retreated by the ShepherdstownFord into Virginia. Harpers Ferry, long before the war brought it conspicuously to the attention of theworld, had derived an extensive fame from Jeffersons description of it. This descriptionthe visitor of to-day is apt to believe exaggerated. But Jeffersons ac
. 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 . whole line, was too weak to reenforceBurnside. Thus both sides rested at nightfall. Lee then retreated by the ShepherdstownFord into Virginia. Harpers Ferry, long before the war brought it conspicuously to the attention of theworld, had derived an extensive fame from Jeffersons description of it. This descriptionthe visitor of to-day is apt to believe exaggerated. But Jeffersons account was writtenbefore we were familiar with all the natural wonders of our land, and hence, while itsbeauties are very great, it is scarcely one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature;nor are we apt to believe a view of it worth a voyage across the Atlantic. It mustrank among the numerous striking natural beauties of our land, inferior in magnitude tomany of the far Western canons, but acquiring an interest from its historical associations,which more than compensate for its secondary place in our gallery of scenic wonders. SCENES IN VIRGINIA. WITH I L L U S T R A T I O N S BY WILLIAM L . S H E P P A R Interlur of Natural TunncL T)ICTURESQUE America may be said to find almost an epitome of itself in the•^ State of Viro;inia. Her scenery—infinitely varied, beautiful exceedingly, and some-times truly grand—repeats in her own boundaries features which would have to besought in places widely separated. Here, indeed, are no Alps, no Matterhorn to temptWhymper or Tyndall, and no glaciers to study ; nor do those works of Nature find aparallel on this side of the Mississippi. But from Harpers Ferry to the farthest south-west corner of the State there is literally a world of scenic beauties, ravishing to theartist, and inviting to even the dullest traveller or sight-seer. Let us glance at a fewof the more striking of these mountain-pictures. The marvels of the Natural Bridg
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