. 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 . , Loudon, Frederick, Fauquier, and Clarke, in Virginia, and Frederickand Washington Counties, in Maryland; and into three States—Virginia, West Vir-ginia, and Maryland. Through all the scene the eye traces the Potomac, entering atthe north, and flowing southeast ; the white houses of the scattered towns, Martinsburg,Shepherdstown, Knoxville, Berlin, Hagerstown, and, on a clear day,
. 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 . , Loudon, Frederick, Fauquier, and Clarke, in Virginia, and Frederickand Washington Counties, in Maryland; and into three States—Virginia, West Vir-ginia, and Maryland. Through all the scene the eye traces the Potomac, entering atthe north, and flowing southeast ; the white houses of the scattered towns, Martinsburg,Shepherdstown, Knoxville, Berlin, Hagerstown, and, on a clear day, following the roadthat winds over the hills—a yellow, wavy ribbon, now seen, now lost—Charlestown andWinchester. The horizon is bounded, to the north and west, by the Loudon andNorth Mountains, enveloped in a haze of smoky whiteness; and cultivated fields, check-ered with square blocks of forest left for timber, lie as if in the hollow trough of twoimmense billows, whose crests are these swelling undulations of the land. The Potomac,coursing through sunlight or shade, adds beauty, and life, and changeableness. Therewould be a sombreness in the view that would detract much from its attractiveness with-. OLD BRIDGE AND MILL, ROLLING-MILL-BURNSIDE BRIDGE. 334 PICTURESQUE AMERICA. out this beautiful river. Some one has said that a fire is cheerful because it is a livething in a dead room. So a river is alive, ever flowing, and ever changing. It is to alevel landscape what the eye is to the human countenance—it lights it up, and givesit expression. Through all this sweep of vision there are no signs of the ruin that war broughtupon the fair Valley of Virginia. The once fenceless farms are again broken here andthere into fields and pastures. Though General Sheridan boasted that a crow flyingover this region would have to carry its rations in its beak—and the boast came verynear being fulfilled—bounteous harvests and well-stocked barns now testify to t
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