Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . do thy softer beauties woo toluxury and indolence the samespirits who, amid thy rocks andthundering cataracts, are rousedto energy and active iliiililW ? FALLS OF THE BLACK IORK OF CHEAT 38 THE VIRGINIAN CANAAN. The Black Fork of Clieat/^ where our party stood, was abouttwo hundred feet in width, and poured its amber flood, at an angleof some seven or eight degrees, over a bed of monstrous boulders,and betAveen mountain walls a thousand or twelve hundred feetin heigh
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . do thy softer beauties woo toluxury and indolence the samespirits who, amid thy rocks andthundering cataracts, are rousedto energy and active iliiililW ? FALLS OF THE BLACK IORK OF CHEAT 38 THE VIRGINIAN CANAAN. The Black Fork of Clieat/^ where our party stood, was abouttwo hundred feet in width, and poured its amber flood, at an angleof some seven or eight degrees, over a bed of monstrous boulders,and betAveen mountain walls a thousand or twelve hundred feetin height. It looks to me, said X.,like the bursting of Barclay andPerkinss big beer-tub, you remember, that flooded half London,and drowned so many people. I wish to heaven it was beer, said Jones; I think I coulddrink a barrel of it on the spot. Such was the excitement and exhilaration produced by the dis-covery of these beautiful falls, that fishing became, for the time,a secondary object, and but few trout were caught. Penn andSmith, however, could not long resist the desire of trying their finerods. Having uncased and fitted them up, they made a simulta-neous throw. Smiths foot slipped, and he came down uj^on thepoint of his rod, splintering it to the last joint.
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