. 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 . Cathedral Rock. note the details, and comprehend the general effect of the mass, we are troubled with astrange sense of incredulity, a distrust of our senses, even a certain flushing of resent-ment, as if some imposition were practised upon us. All that we have heretoforeseen and wondered at has not quite prepared us to accept this literally. Can this bereality, or is it only a sto
. 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 . Cathedral Rock. note the details, and comprehend the general effect of the mass, we are troubled with astrange sense of incredulity, a distrust of our senses, even a certain flushing of resent-ment, as if some imposition were practised upon us. All that we have heretoforeseen and wondered at has not quite prepared us to accept this literally. Can this bereality, or is it only a stony nightmare superinduced by a surfeit of rocks ? Yet, thereit stands, in motionless and silent majesty, a vast minster of the Gothic ages, growingmore and more marvellous as we scrutinize its carven details, and estimate its sublime IN WEST VIRGINIA. 389. Cathedral Rock—Side-view. proportions. There is the grand portal, with its pointed arch, from whose shadowy re-cesses we may presently expect to hear the organ pealing, and the anthem of chantingpriests. There is the heaven-piercing spire, with its pinnacles, finials, turrets, traceries, andall the requisite architectural enrichments, from which anon will ring out the sweet andsolemn chimes, calling the world to prayer. There too, sharply traced by sunlight andshadow, are the Gothic oriels and double-arched windows, suggestive of stained-glasspictures, only visible from the interior. 390 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. Below, the foundations are laid in square-cut blocks, and the sides ribbed with in-clining buttresses, to give assurance of eternal stability; and, stranger than all, the short,unfinished tower has not been omitted—the begging tower, for whose completion quest-ing monks will be collecting money for the next thousand years, perhaps. By this time doubts have vanished, for Salvat
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