A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf . ousand-Mile Walk geometrical beds, the whole pretty affair alaborious failure side by side with Divinebeauty. The trees around the mouth of thecave are smooth and tall and bent forwardat the bottom, then straight upwards. Onlya butternut seems, by its angular knottybranches, to sympathize with and belong tothe cave, with a fine growth of Cystopterisand Hypnum. Started for Glasgow Junction. Got belatedin the hill woods. Inquired my way at a farm-house and was invited to stay overnight in arare, hearty, hospitable manner. Engaged infamiliar running talk on poli
A thousand-mile walk to the Gulf . ousand-Mile Walk geometrical beds, the whole pretty affair alaborious failure side by side with Divinebeauty. The trees around the mouth of thecave are smooth and tall and bent forwardat the bottom, then straight upwards. Onlya butternut seems, by its angular knottybranches, to sympathize with and belong tothe cave, with a fine growth of Cystopterisand Hypnum. Started for Glasgow Junction. Got belatedin the hill woods. Inquired my way at a farm-house and was invited to stay overnight in arare, hearty, hospitable manner. Engaged infamiliar running talk on politics, war times, andtheology. The old Kentuckian seemed to takea liking to me and advised me to stay in thesehills until next spring, assuring me that I wouldfind much to interest me in and about the GreatCave; also, that he was one of the school offi-cials and was sure that I could obtain theirschool for the winter term. I sincerely thankedhim for his kind plans, but pursued my own. September 7. Left the hospitable Kentuck-[ 12 1. ENTRANCE TO MAMMOTH CAVE Kentucky Forests and Caves ians with their sincere good wishes and boreaway southward again through the deep greenwoods. In noble forests all day. Saw mistletoefor the first time. Part of the day I traveledwith a Kentuckian from near Burkesville. Hespoke to all the negroes he met with familiarkindly greetings, addressing them always asUncles and Aunts. All travelers one meetson these roads, white and black, male andfemale, travel on horseback. Glasgow is oneof the few Southern towns that shows ordinaryAmerican life. At night with a well-to-dofarmer. September 8. Deep, green, bossy sea of wav-ing, flowing hilltops. Corn and cotton and to-bacco fields scattered here and there. I hadimagined that a cotton field in flower wassomething magnificent. But cotton is a coarse,rough, straggling, unhappy looking plant, nothalf as good-looking as a field of Irish potatoes. Met a great many negroes going to meeting,dressed in their Sunday
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