. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . emountains. Starting one day, he will find when hewakes the next morning that the sun is rising over theGreat Smokies, while around him are the rich rollingfields that border the Tennessee river. If the traveler wishes to see the land and learn whatmen have done in a hundred years, he will leave thetrain at Knoxville. A carriage or an electric car willcarry him between blocks of fine buildings to a modernhotel, where he will find food and bed and places to read,write, rest, or do business, as he likes. Around him is abusy city stretching up an
. From trail to railway through the Appalachians . emountains. Starting one day, he will find when hewakes the next morning that the sun is rising over theGreat Smokies, while around him are the rich rollingfields that border the Tennessee river. If the traveler wishes to see the land and learn whatmen have done in a hundred years, he will leave thetrain at Knoxville. A carriage or an electric car willcarry him between blocks of fine buildings to a modernhotel, where he will find food and bed and places to read,write, rest, or do business, as he likes. Around him is abusy city stretching up and down its many hills. Beforelong he will wander down to the banks of the Tennesseeriver and see the boats tied at the wharf, or he willcross the great bridge to the hills beyond and look backover the city. 167 168 FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY On those hilltops are pits dug in the woods, andsome veteran of the Union or the Confederate army willtell him that these are ammunition pits. The old soldierwill point across to where Fort Sanders stood, and will. Fig. 66. Street in Knoxville describe those days in 1863 when Longstreet came upand laid siege to the town, which was garrisoned byBurnside and his army. Our traveler need do little more than cross the greatbridge at Knoxville to find quarries of marble ; and if he CITIES OF THE SOUTHERN MOUNTAINS 169 goes up and down for a few miles, he will see rich de-posits of this stone. It is prized because it shows manycolors, — cream, yellow, brown, red, pink, and l:)lue. Thecolors often run into each other in curious and fantasticways, and the slabs and blocks when polished are beau-tiful indeed. These marbles have been used to adorn
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