The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . river when lowest is here at an elevation of ninehundred and sixty feet, and the peaks leap to theheight of twenty-two hundred. Here in the futurewill most probably pass a railroad, and be a popu-lous town, for here is the only opening through PineMountain from the brakes of Sandy to the Ten-nessee line, and tributary to the watercourses thatcentre here are some five, hundred thousand acres oftimber land. The ride from Pineville to the Gap, fourteen milessouthward, is most beautiful. Yellow Creek becomesin local pronunciat
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . river when lowest is here at an elevation of ninehundred and sixty feet, and the peaks leap to theheight of twenty-two hundred. Here in the futurewill most probably pass a railroad, and be a popu-lous town, for here is the only opening through PineMountain from the brakes of Sandy to the Ten-nessee line, and tributary to the watercourses thatcentre here are some five, hundred thousand acres oftimber land. The ride from Pineville to the Gap, fourteen milessouthward, is most beautiful. Yellow Creek becomesin local pronunciation Yaller Crick. One cannotbe long in eastern Kentucky without being struckby the number and character of the names given tothe watercourses, which were the natural avenuesof migratory travel. Few of the mountains havenames. What a history is shut up in these names !Cutshin Creek, where some pioneer, they say, dam-aged those useful members; but more probably wheregrows a low greenbrier which cuts the shins and rid-dles the pantaloons. These pioneers had OLD CORN-MILL AT PINEVILLE. They named one creek Troublesome, for reasonsapparent to him who goes there; another, NoWorse Creek, on equally good grounds ; another, Defeated Creek ; and a great many, Lost one part of the country it is possible for one toenter Hell fur Sartain, and get out at KingdomCome. Near by are Upper Devil and LowerDevil. One day we went to a mountain meetingwhich was held in a school-house and church-house 266 THROUGH CUMBERLAND GAP ON HORSEBACK on Stinking Creek. One might suppose they wouldhave worshipped in a more fragrant locality; butthe stream is very beautiful, and not malodorous. Itreceived its name from its former canebrakes anddeer licks, which made game abundant. Great num-bers were killed for choice bits of venison and there are Ten - mile Creek and Sixteen-mile Creek, meaning to clinch the distance byname; and what is philologically interesting, onefinds numerous Tr
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