. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . hatcovers them can the eye of man detect a break, so (lose is the growth. Picturesque B. and 0. 147 The train passes along the ledges, relinquishing one only to climb an-other of greater elevation than before, the river meanwhile becoming likea silver thread. Up in the dizzy heights the line of the road pursues itscourse, and the traveler can look dovrn on one side into nearly impene-trable depths, and on the other side the bleak rocks tower grim and for-bidding. The awful crevices made in some of them by the tireless actionof time have caus
. Picturesque B. and O. Historical and descriptive . hatcovers them can the eye of man detect a break, so (lose is the growth. Picturesque B. and 0. 147 The train passes along the ledges, relinquishing one only to climb an-other of greater elevation than before, the river meanwhile becoming likea silver thread. Up in the dizzy heights the line of the road pursues itscourse, and the traveler can look dovrn on one side into nearly impene-trable depths, and on the other side the bleak rocks tower grim and for-bidding. The awful crevices made in some of them by the tireless actionof time have caused large, overhanging crags to form almost an archwaybeneath which the engine runs. Many of these are almost startling inshape,— some of them resembling gigantic heads surmounted by sparselyclothed spruce-trees, with tiieir naked arms stretched out beseechingly, asit were for mercy. -^^ N succnr can ^Mgb, reach them, for no foot can ap- TO . proach their ffBo Sfei habitation : there they ^^f^ • - ^ --<» imst .stand while i ^^ ^ -f fiS5 8 on. until the angry heavens destroy them with its bolt{^Z w * ■ liquid fire, or through the unrelenting bitterness of ^^mP /w ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ robbed of their existence; then they^^jP ( y totter and fall, always clear of the track, to the foot of^■H^ the gorge below, where they are ruthlessly battered about by the furious waters or perchance some portion ofthem is thrown up on a barren spot to rot. The mighty buttresses ofrock continue to fall into line, as it were, like giant soldiers to repel theadvance of man; but the while they rear their repellent heads the trainglides in and about their feet with impunity. From shelf to shelf, from crag to crag, from brink to brink, move theswift-revolving wheels, the eye, forced to follow the declivities of th<-inclosing walls, endeavoring to find rest upon the boiling waters of thepent-up river. 148 The Very Heart. Like a flash comes the transformation, and for a moment one canscarcely bel
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