. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. acterize the top of this table-land everywhere except in thoseplaces where the abundant underbrush has choked out the grass. In trav- 128 eling over the grassy undulations of the top of this natural division of theState in the spring of the year one is able to realize the description of thepastoral countries of the Orient with cattle upon a thousand hills. Hun-dreds of streams with thousands of contributing rivulets furnish thepurest of water, while the park-like landscapes with their beautiful arbo-real growth of pine. oak. chestnut, gum and oth
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. acterize the top of this table-land everywhere except in thoseplaces where the abundant underbrush has choked out the grass. In trav- 128 eling over the grassy undulations of the top of this natural division of theState in the spring of the year one is able to realize the description of thepastoral countries of the Orient with cattle upon a thousand hills. Hun-dreds of streams with thousands of contributing rivulets furnish thepurest of water, while the park-like landscapes with their beautiful arbo-real growth of pine. oak. chestnut, gum and other trees supply gratefulshade to the stock during the heat of the day. The sun shines upon thoseairy heights with a splendor unknown elsewhere in the State, and breezessweep over the mountain during the fervor of the day, tempering the airand making one of the most delightful summer climates to be found inAmerica. The purity and elasticity of the air make this whole region oneof greatest healthfulness to man and beast. When passing through the. PaniciiDi la/i/oliiit silent forests of the mountain the earth covered with untrodden grassesand emblazoned with myriads of wild flowers—born to blush unseen—it requires no great stretch of the imagination to suppose the landscape tobe now as it was before the discovery of America by Columbus, when itexisted in all its primeval beauty. There are no natural pasture lands inAmerica that surpass the pastures of the Cumberland table-land when thehealthfulness of the region, its freedom from blizzards, its ample suppliesof shade and water and its beautiful situation are taken into grasses spring up in April, grow until late in November, and often-times supply some grazing throughout the winter months. The area ofthis division of the state is over 3,200,000 acres of which not less than2,300,000 acres are given up to natural pastures. Lying west of the Cumberland table-land is the region about 900 feetabove the sea known a
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