. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . faces eastward with reverential awe thewonderous beauties of this Land ofthe Sky entranced their startled eyes. Amid an august conclave of moun-tain kings, supreme in their titanicmajesty and rule over earth and air andsky, Mount Mitchell, Black Mountain, 62 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND Pisgah, Grandfather, Bald, and a mightyhost of uncounted potentates of lesserfame, lifted their sun-crown
. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . faces eastward with reverential awe thewonderous beauties of this Land ofthe Sky entranced their startled eyes. Amid an august conclave of moun-tain kings, supreme in their titanicmajesty and rule over earth and air andsky, Mount Mitchell, Black Mountain, 62 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND Pisgah, Grandfather, Bald, and a mightyhost of uncounted potentates of lesserfame, lifted their sun-crowned crestsinto ethereal space ; and nestling amidthe smiling valleys of their easternslopes busy towns and thriving villagesgive pleasing variety to the scene. Asheville, a gem of beauty in thisland of scenic wealth, looks lovinglyupon us, and stretching far away, east- Tamer than the chaos of grandeur fromwhich we had just emerged, yet variedand enchanting enough to soothe intopleasing fancy, and not to snap by sud-den revulsion the tensioned chords ofthe imagination. It is like coming, said the dom-inie, from some grand cathedral,where a hundred strong voices are sing-ing the Te Deum, to the dear little. THE FRENCH BROAD, NEAR ASHEVILLE. ward and southward in every valley andfrom every plain, sweet Carolina homeswoo and welcome pilgrims faint fromheat of Southern Summer suns. Back from over the border to Morris-town, we were again on the main line ofthe E. Tenn., Va. & Ga. R. R., andsweeping along toward Bristol, throughscenery that would kindle the enthu-siasm of any man who had not justdropped down from the clouds. church, where surpliced choristers aresinging sweet Easter anthems. It surely is not like going outthrough the vestry-room into the backalley, said the lawyer. AT ROGERSVILE JUNCTION is a branch road going out to Rogers-ville, the county seat of Hawkins little town hemmed in by greenhills, with a broad valley stretching away GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 63
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