A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e things he much l)oasted ofA rude unchiselled mass of white rock,found by him on a distant part of hisestate many years before his death, andused by him at the door of one of hishouses as a washstand, marks the headof the grave. A huge mass of brownstone, also selected by him and used asa stepstone to mount his horse, marksthe foot of the grave. These rocks wereprocured and kept for the purpose towhich they are now appropriated, andparticular directions were given to Johnon the subject. I can never forget my emotion whilestanding over
A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States . e things he much l)oasted ofA rude unchiselled mass of white rock,found by him on a distant part of hisestate many years before his death, andused by him at the door of one of hishouses as a washstand, marks the headof the grave. A huge mass of brownstone, also selected by him and used asa stepstone to mount his horse, marksthe foot of the grave. These rocks wereprocured and kept for the purpose towhich they are now appropriated, andparticular directions were given to Johnon the subject. I can never forget my emotion whilestanding over the unoinamented graveof the gifted and eccentric tall, unbroken forest by which Iwas surrounded—the silence and gloomthat reigned uiidisturbed amid the de-serted place—the thought of the brilliantmind that once animated the remainsthen mouldering beneath the sod uponwhich I was standing—the vanity ofearths promises, hopes, and distinctions,impressed my heart and mind with adegree of solemnity and interest I wasunwilling to Like the other southern Atlanticstates, the coast of North Carolina isuniformly flat, low, and sandy, but lit-tle elevated above the waters level,and generally covered with pine for-ests. It extends 320 miles; and thelow, sandy region referred to reachesfrom SO to 100 miles westward, tothe hillv reo^ions, formina: an area of23,000 square miles. All this, withscarcely an exception, is a dead level,with but few spots of good soil, andshowing but little cultivation, althoughthe live oak grows readily in someparts, and figs and some other fruitsare easily cultivated in the most favored positions. One of the principal occupa-tions of the inhabitants has ever been the collection of tui-pentine, pitch, rosin,and tar, the first of which is a spontaneous effusion of the yellow pine whenwounded, and the others the same substance in dilforetit degrees of itispissation,effected by the heat of fire applied to the trees when cut in pieces,
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