34 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



decked with plumes. But it must be observed that in 

 the love of display the fair of the southern provinces 

 go far beyond those of the northern, and that similar 

 phenomena in similar circumstances are not to be 

 looked-for in Pensylvania ; as also, that the carelessness 

 of the men in their dress is quite as striking as the 

 vanity of the women. 



Beyond Moore's Tavern and the Red House, (30 

 miles from Goose Creek), there again came in sight a 

 rather high range of hills, which lay now to our right 

 and kept a southwesterly direction. These were the 

 BulUrun-Mountains ; between them and the South 

 Mountain there is limestone; but to the east of them, 

 none. This circumstance makes it probable that the 

 Bull-run-Mountains may be perhaps the continuation 

 of the low range which about Goose Creek only seemed 

 to disappear. In these mountains there are still many 

 deer. One which had been shot a few days before 

 weighed about 190 pounds, and this was regarded as a 

 very unusual weight for these animals. In one of the 

 taverns where we shared the remains of a wild turkey- 

 cock, it was told us that without feathers and entrails 

 it had weighed 28 pounds, which is here quite as un- 

 common, but more to the south they weigh as much as 

 40 pounds at times. The woods, so far as could be 

 determined in their leafless condition, were made up of 

 the same varieties of trees as in the more northern re- 

 gions, in greatest measure at least. Our road getting 

 continually more to the east, hills were less to be seen, 

 and by degrees we drew nearer the tobacco country 

 proper. To be sure, tobacco of no bad quality is pro- 

 duced towards the west among the mountains ; but the 

 profit from it is greatly diminished, because it must be 



