. The New England magazine . Steps lead abruptly down to the arbor-vitse trees which overhang the stream. mountains; and reaching Lynchburg,you are fairly in the rough itself is set upon seven hills,of a most unnecessary steepness. Hereare mills and foundries, built upon thefine natural water power; the river isspanned by bridges ; it is the culminusof four railroads; it is a great tobacco coal, slate, manganese and marbles. Thetime is coming and is not far distant,when Virginia will throw off the drag-ging weight of debt and discouragement,and return to her old place of
. The New England magazine . Steps lead abruptly down to the arbor-vitse trees which overhang the stream. mountains; and reaching Lynchburg,you are fairly in the rough itself is set upon seven hills,of a most unnecessary steepness. Hereare mills and foundries, built upon thefine natural water power; the river isspanned by bridges ; it is the culminusof four railroads; it is a great tobacco coal, slate, manganese and marbles. Thetime is coming and is not far distant,when Virginia will throw off the drag-ging weight of debt and discouragement,and return to her old place of importanceand honor. And it is not traditions ofpast glory, not the pursuit of old customs,which will win her this rightful place ; but 594 THE NATURAL BRIDGE 01 ut warning, the Bridge is in Sight honest endeavor and unabashed toil, —and the wealth in the mountains. Thirty miles from Lynchburg are Bal-cony Falls, Glasgow, — Where from Rockbridge, Bath and Highland,Many swollen rivers meet. We are now some seven hundred feetabove the sea. Here is a triangle oflifted valley land, between the confluenceof the James and North Rivers, and flanked by those valuable hills, some ofwhich rise sheerly, to an altitude of twothousand to three thousand feet abovethe sea, and at whose bases run threerailroads. On this lifted plateau is sit-uated the new town of Glasgow; andten miles up is Buena Vista, a town twoyears old and numbering about threethousand souls. A year ago, the site ofGlasgow was merely meadow and corn-field,— a large and well-tilled for seven or eight square miles, it THE NATURAL BRIDGE OF VIRGINIA. 595 is parcelled out in town lots ; it hasgraded and titled streets, a handsomeMoorish hotel, stores, furnaces underconstruction
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