. 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 . Sycamore on New River. SCENES IN VIRGINIA. 341 gigantic mountain-limbs torn off as by seismic violence ; mountains lapped and dove-tailed within mountains, range above and beyond range, in seemingly endless succession,wooing us to stop, and flitting all too quickly past as the train flies on. Debarking at Central Depot, we start thence on horseback for a trip down NewRiver, crossin
. 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 . Sycamore on New River. SCENES IN VIRGINIA. 341 gigantic mountain-limbs torn off as by seismic violence ; mountains lapped and dove-tailed within mountains, range above and beyond range, in seemingly endless succession,wooing us to stop, and flitting all too quickly past as the train flies on. Debarking at Central Depot, we start thence on horseback for a trip down NewRiver, crossing it near the station. The river flows silently here, but with a subtile. Great Falls, New River. sort of force, between banks lined with sycamores, which trail their branches in thewater m many instances. Masses of brown-gray rock lift their heads above the foliagem many places, but the banks soon fall away, and the stream, gliding along the low-lands, divides with its silver breadth the rich alluvium which the plough has upturned toreceive the corn. Expectant crows, doves cooing on the dead branches of the belted 342 PICTURESQUE AMERICA, trees, and the mists lifting from the distant mountains, enliven the solitude. The ferry-man never has any small change, and has to run, or rather walk, to his house to huntit up out of the wads of fractional currency hidden carefully away in some ancientsock or stocking. This proves no hardship to the horsemen, whose eyes are charmedwith the varied landscape, now concealed and anon disclosed by the coquettish pranksof the morning vapors. We take a short cut athwart a bight, or loop, of the river, following a narrow path,
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