. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . CROZIER IRON WORKS. fame), Troutville and Cloverdale. Seventy thousand apple trees wereplanted in Cloverdale alone during 1883; and— Cut it short! Baily calls out with that disrespect for his elderswhich will be the death of him some day. Heres our guide-booktelling us all about it. Listen to this: We enter the Roanoke valley amid scenes of surpassing setting sun purples the tops of the mountains and throws its slantingrays over the rich field
. To the Shenandoah and beyond: the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching their scenery . CROZIER IRON WORKS. fame), Troutville and Cloverdale. Seventy thousand apple trees wereplanted in Cloverdale alone during 1883; and— Cut it short! Baily calls out with that disrespect for his elderswhich will be the death of him some day. Heres our guide-booktelling us all about it. Listen to this: We enter the Roanoke valley amid scenes of surpassing setting sun purples the tops of the mountains and throws its slantingrays over the rich field and pasture lands; the twilight steals out of theforest and dims the blue thread of mist along the James; the cattle lowin the shaded lanes, the sheep-bells tinkle on the hills; ^olian wmdsring among the dusky trees, Night draws her mantle and pins it with a star ! The city of Roanoke blazes up ahead like an illumination; red-mouthed furnace-chimneys lift like giant torches above the plain; the roarof machinery, the whistle of engines, the ceaseless hum of labor and of 60. A MOUNTAIN RIFT NEAR ROANOKE. 61 life in the very heart of a quiet, mountain-locked valley ! We roll intothe finest depot in the state, and are escorted to a hotel that would docredit to the proudest city. We tourists go to bed dumbfounded ! Thats the way to do it ! cries Baily, closing his book in tri-umph. And thats just the way we did. The nucleus of this city of Roanoke was a small village known asthe Lick, where a salt lick, or saline impregnation of a piece ofmarshy land, originally attracted the wild animals of the vicinity, and,with the advance of settlement, the domestic animals of the was on a post-road, and had a tavern, store and post-office, but is nowsimply a suburb tenanted wholly by negroes. The country round aboutwas exceptionally rich in agricultural land and forest growth, and soonattracted settlement and cultivation. On the opening of the Virginia andTennessee Railway, in No
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