. 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 . ss. Lake and field and fell, naked crag and toweringpine-clad crest, succeed each other with a savage grandeur similar to, but far greaterthan, that of the wilderness of the Adirondacks. To the south and east are the iron-hills, enfolding in their rocky clasp millions of treasure, that will be brought out by thefuture generations. At present the Indians give much trouble to the aut
. 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 . ss. Lake and field and fell, naked crag and toweringpine-clad crest, succeed each other with a savage grandeur similar to, but far greaterthan, that of the wilderness of the Adirondacks. To the south and east are the iron-hills, enfolding in their rocky clasp millions of treasure, that will be brought out by thefuture generations. At present the Indians give much trouble to the authorities, and arecontinually making combinations with the northern tribes, those of the Modoec andRogue Rivers. Their camps are somewhat picturesque in their general aspect, and whenviewed from a distance; but a nearer look destroys the charm. In front of each hut willbe found a squaw of preternatural ugliness, curing the salmon by splitting it, and drying thepieces in rows upon light scaffoldings of wicker-work. These are subsequently smokedover low fires of fragrant fir. Each squaw is expected to attend to this business,and to perform her maternal duties; and the papoose, stiffened in a mummy-like roll, is. PILOT KNOB, 422 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. slung handily at her back, and slipped round to the breast whenever hungry. Thesebabies never cry, but stare at the stranger with weird, black, beady eyes, and with absurdgravity. From the valley of the Pitt the traveller rises, continually traversing woods coveredwith fair mountain-pines, until, through a notch to the northward, a glimpse can becaught of the huge summit of Shasta, which we illustrate by a steel-plate tents are generally pitched at Sissons, which is surrounded by a cluster of ranchesembowered in vineyards and orchards, that are trebly mviting to the eye after theweary tramp through the wilderness. The ground, where not cultivated, gives only athin sward of grass, with tufts of the bitter-sage. Rising from
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