. Book of the Royal blue . beingthat of the Great Western Railways Cor-nish Express—which, however, runs only insummer—from London to Exeter, 194 miles. CHEAT RIVER UNDER AN AUTUMN SUN. BY \VM. ALL my life I have thought I would likethe change and excitement of fieldsport; and only very recently I haveread, for the fourth or fifth time, a deeplyinteresting volume entitled, Forty-fiveYears of the Life of a Hunter, l)y the latevenerable Meshach Browning of GarrettCounty, which was then a part of Allegany,written by himself; every word of which, Ihave reason to believe, is absolutely co
. Book of the Royal blue . beingthat of the Great Western Railways Cor-nish Express—which, however, runs only insummer—from London to Exeter, 194 miles. CHEAT RIVER UNDER AN AUTUMN SUN. BY \VM. ALL my life I have thought I would likethe change and excitement of fieldsport; and only very recently I haveread, for the fourth or fifth time, a deeplyinteresting volume entitled, Forty-fiveYears of the Life of a Hunter, l)y the latevenerable Meshach Browning of GarrettCounty, which was then a part of Allegany,written by himself; every word of which, Ihave reason to believe, is absolutely correct. with no pillow but the cold earth, no shelter-ing save the branches of some aged monarchof the forest, no vigil except the clingingstars or varying flashes of light from hiscampfire; I could but feel what vast, un-broken and indescribable solitudes; whatmagnificent sunsets bathing in a flood oflight the ragged cliffs of the innumerablechains and spurs of mountains; the gloomygrandeur of the deep shadows creeping. HICAT lilVIU ON & OHIO RAILROAD. As I lingered over his thrilling descrip-tions of the wilder portions of the deep,frightful and illimitable forest throughwhich he hunted; his daring adventuresalong the famous, wild and romantic regionsof Cheat Kiver; his many miraculous es-capes from death, in a hand-to-hand en-counter with bear, wolf, panther, wild-catand stag; his dreary and comfortless nights. down the mountainside, the music of thestreams as they went dashing down thedark and almost impenetrable ravines,gathering force and volume all the way;the mighty roar of the winds, with everystorm howling and hissing through themighty forests, like maddened demons letloose from the habitations of the damned;the low murmurs of the sinking blasts; for CHEAT RIVER UNDER AN AUTUMN SUN. 13
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