. The Southern States. d, dueto its development frommerely a tobacco mart into aconsiderable wholesale pointand an important manufac-turing centre. The diflerencebetween the Lynchburg of1853 and the Lynchburg of1893 is faintly suggestedby contrasting the wood-cutmade from a sketch by PorteCrayon with engravings fromphotographs taken recentlyfor this article. Then, goingup the river, huge coke furn-aces have replaced the littlecharcoal stacks of 1853,there being of these aboveLynchburg no fewer thaneleven now in operation. Of course all the worldknows of the Natural Bridge,nevertheless, its gra
. The Southern States. d, dueto its development frommerely a tobacco mart into aconsiderable wholesale pointand an important manufac-turing centre. The diflerencebetween the Lynchburg of1853 and the Lynchburg of1893 is faintly suggestedby contrasting the wood-cutmade from a sketch by PorteCrayon with engravings fromphotographs taken recentlyfor this article. Then, goingup the river, huge coke furn-aces have replaced the littlecharcoal stacks of 1853,there being of these aboveLynchburg no fewer thaneleven now in operation. Of course all the worldknows of the Natural Bridge,nevertheless, its grandeurentitles it to far more con-sideration at the hands ofpatriotic and nature-lovingAmericans than it is nowreceiving. I can pay it nohigher tribute than to quotethe words of a lady of highculture and one largelyendowed with the artisticinstinct, who had seen agreat many of the so-calledsights of the world. WhenI asked her what she thoughtof the Natural Bridge, herreply was: It is the onlygreat natural curiosity that. PLCTURESO UE VIR GINIA. 233 has not disappointed me. The sketchof it by Porte Crayon, reproduced inthis article from Harpers of August,1855, is ahiiost as true to nature as any- . of the hun- dreds of pho-• tographs ofit which havesince beenmade. Theonly defect inthe sketch isthat it con-tains no hu-man figure bycomparisonwith whichthe immen-sity of this
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