The Land of the sky, and beyond . find in any are here and there, , stupen-dous precipices, as for instance on old White-side and Caesars Head, the former presentinga solid, almost perpendicular wall of rock1,800 in heigiit. Hut these instances arerare, the general contour being one of graceand beauty. The noble chain, which, takingits beginning in the Highlands of Canada,traces its rugged course down across NewHampshire and Vermont, Eastern New York,Pennsylvania and Virginia, is known accord-ing to the locality as the Green, White, Adi-rondack, Alleghany or Blue Ridge Moun-
The Land of the sky, and beyond . find in any are here and there, , stupen-dous precipices, as for instance on old White-side and Caesars Head, the former presentinga solid, almost perpendicular wall of rock1,800 in heigiit. Hut these instances arerare, the general contour being one of graceand beauty. The noble chain, which, takingits beginning in the Highlands of Canada,traces its rugged course down across NewHampshire and Vermont, Eastern New York,Pennsylvania and Virginia, is known accord-ing to the locality as the Green, White, Adi-rondack, Alleghany or Blue Ridge Moun-tains : but it grows in majesty as it stretchessouthward, attaining in Western NorthCarolina and East-ern Tennessee byfar its greatest alti-tude and massive-ness. Here, too,it has spread intoa myriad of lateralranges like thebursting of a rock-et, sending its off-shoots into SouthCarolina, Georgia,and Alabama,where they mergeinto the lowlandsa n d a r e lost toview. It is in the veryleart of thesemountainous re-gions, at an aver-landofskybeyond00pres. 7
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