. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . bingdon and us Girl Graduates.— Bristol and Johnson City. From New River westward is a charming ride among the , the great drawback to the pleasure of traveling amid thesesuperb fastnesses of nature, is the singular one that the eye and brainare sated by the constant succession of noble outlooks which occur aswe progress. Here the titans seem to have vied in their gigantic upbuild-ing of cliff and pinnacle. Here the tempest has its lurkin
. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . bingdon and us Girl Graduates.— Bristol and Johnson City. From New River westward is a charming ride among the , the great drawback to the pleasure of traveling amid thesesuperb fastnesses of nature, is the singular one that the eye and brainare sated by the constant succession of noble outlooks which occur aswe progress. Here the titans seem to have vied in their gigantic upbuild-ing of cliff and pinnacle. Here the tempest has its lurking place, andthe fountain heads of mountain torrents spring forth gladly, and godashing down their rocky beds to the far away alluvial valleys wheremankind shall chain them, and make them turn huge mill wheels, staintheir purity with the outflow of factories, and send them on to lose them-selves in the salt bays that reach up to grasp them from the wide andrestless sea. We look up and about us with awe and reverence, andeven the irrepressible Baily for once is hushed. Dublin, where a fight followed that on Cloyds mountain, having been. THE MAPLE SHADE INN. passed, we skirt the rough declivities of Peak Creek Knob and Drapersmountain, with Little Walkers mountain filling the northern horizon somemiles away. At Martins, in a comfortable little basin among the hills, weenter the mining regions of south-west Virginia—a region whose almostunlimited resources in this direction have hardly begun to be developedyet. Close by are the Bertha zinc works, both the mines and furnacesof which are well worth visiting. Northward a branch railroad, ninemiles long, leads to anthracite coal mines in Pulaski county, while amuch longer railroad nearly completed goes southward along Cripplecreek, in Wythe county, to a larger number of mines and furnaces, pro-ducing iron, lead, zinc, copper and coal. At present the ores and pro- 99 duct of these mines and furnaces (its pig is said to have been sol
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