The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . The Wilderness Road coming down Poor Valley into Cumberland Gap Village(Colwyn St.). Just before the Gap comes into view Cumberland Gap itself is a magnificent mountain pass, worthyof its importance and its history. On the north side. PinnacleMountain rises about 900 feet above the Gap; the first GOO or700 feet at an angle of about 60 degrees; the last 200 or 300feet a vertical cliff of white limestone. The mountain rising on thesouth side of the Gap is neither so high nor so forbidding, but is stillimposing. The vertical white lime

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The Wilderness road to Kentucky : its location and features . The Wilderness Road coming down Poor Valley into Cumberland Gap Village(Colwyn St.). Just before the Gap comes into view Cumberland Gap itself is a magnificent mountain pass, worthyof its importance and its history. On the north side. PinnacleMountain rises about 900 feet above the Gap; the first GOO or700 feet at an angle of about 60 degrees; the last 200 or 300feet a vertical cliff of white limestone. The mountain rising on thesouth side of the Gap is neither so high nor so forbidding, but is stillimposing. The vertical white limestone cliff several hundred feetin height, which makes the upper third of Pinnacle Mountain at theGap, is exposed for many miles along the crest of Cumberland Moun-tain north of the Gap. It is this cliff, which one sees as he comes. The Old Wilderness Trail atCumberland Gap I

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