. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . ed amid strikingly bold and grand sce-nery, Chattanooga is anything but a lovely town. On theeast, but a few miles distant, is Missionary Ridge,^ a range offorest-covered mountains rising from the river and sweepingaway southward into Georgia. On the southwest is LookoutMountain, with rugged, precipitous front overlooking the riverand the town. Between this
. The South : a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country - its agriculture - railroads -business and . ed amid strikingly bold and grand sce-nery, Chattanooga is anything but a lovely town. On theeast, but a few miles distant, is Missionary Ridge,^ a range offorest-covered mountains rising from the river and sweepingaway southward into Georgia. On the southwest is LookoutMountain, with rugged, precipitous front overlooking the riverand the town. Between this mountain and Missionary Ridgelies Chattanooga Valley. Rising steeply fi-om the edge of thetown, within the curve of the river which encloses it on thenorth and west, is Cameron Hill, a sort of miniature copy ofLookout. A miniature only by comparison; for it is a littlemountain by itself: a peaked bluff, its summit flanked byforts, and crowned by a battery of a single huge gun. If you visit Chattanooga, climb, as I did, this hill the firstfair morning after your arrival. Away on the south are themountains of Georgia; on the north, those of Tennessee. I Or Mission Bidge; named from an Indian mission formerly located In this 250 IN AND ABOUT CHATTANOOGA. Dividing these peaks and ranges with its shining cimetar,curves the river, overhung by precipitous crags. Far beneathyou, as you look from the northern brow of the hill, ply thesteamboats, breaking the surface into streaks of foam, and puflF-ing white wreaths up into the clear, still air. Opposite, acrossthe river, are clusters of high, wooded hills, with signal-sta-tions on their peaks. In the valley at the foot of Cameron, is Chattanooga, withits multitude of long, low, whitewashed wooden buildings,government store-houses, barracks, shops, rows of huts, andcorrals, such as make haste always to spring up around anarmys base of supplies. Surrounding the town are red earth-works, and hills of red earth with devious roads
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