. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . elvesare the very personification of artistic imagination,—of all that is grand,wild and tremendous in granite upheavals. The best of descriptivewriters,—those whose play of imagination enables them to find words foralmost every novel or striking object,and whose acquaintance with the dic-tionary and with synonyms affords theman unlimited fluency of expression,—have confessed in the past, as theymust do in the future, their inabilityto do the Alleghanies absolute literary ability of the Fairy, ifindeed possessed qualifications wo
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . elvesare the very personification of artistic imagination,—of all that is grand,wild and tremendous in granite upheavals. The best of descriptivewriters,—those whose play of imagination enables them to find words foralmost every novel or striking object,and whose acquaintance with the dic-tionary and with synonyms affords theman unlimited fluency of expression,—have confessed in the past, as theymust do in the future, their inabilityto do the Alleghanies absolute literary ability of the Fairy, ifindeed possessed qualifications worthyof being thus designated, had morethan once upon the trip been taxed tothe utmost to find fitting language inwhich to express what to the eye isquickly appreciated, but which to con-vey to paper is entirely another would have been an easier task haithe trip been made from west to eastinstead of vice versa, for then the in-spiration of the ride over the Allegha-nies might have found vent in termsand similes which were fresh and at. 136 .1 Long ami n Stro,,;/ Pull. command. Now, however, after the glowing descriptions already writ-ten, to expect him to record accurately the journey from the head of thePotomac to the Ohio was asking more than was in him. Not that hisenthusiasm had subsided, or that appreciation had failed to kindle inhim an all-controlling desire to proclaim to the world the glories of thescenery, which follow one upon the other so rapidly as to be almost over-powering in their matchless and impressive sublimity. Those whose hap-piness it has been to cross the Alleghanies on the B. and O. by daylightneed not be told that there is no line of railroad in this country, ifindeed in the world, that can be compared to it for variety of moun-tain scenery. The fact that it is known far and wide as the PicturesqueLine of America is but a proof of the distinction which is unques-tionably its due. Those who are strangers to the comforts, conveniencesand en
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