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to be peopled, in the course of time, to the very tops of the highest peaks. 
Everywhere the soil is good, and the climate delightful. 
A common figure of speech, framed originally, perhaps, with reference to lati- 
tudes, is calculated to impress the unreflecting with very erroneous ideas in 
regard to the south. We allude to the phrases, “down south,” “down in Vir- 
ginia, or the Carolinas.” The facts stated above will show at once the absurd- 
-ity of such expressions, when taken literally. The denizen of Boston or New 
York who complacently talks of going down to North Carolina is in reality as 
absurd as if he should say down to the Catskill, or down to the White moun- 
tains. The mountains of North Carolina are the highest east of the Rocky 
range which divides the Mississippi valley from the Pacific slope; and the 
average level of the State, for the same reason, is higher than that of any State 
east of the Mississippi river. This fact has much to do in tempering the climate, 
and should ever be kept prominently in view by the friends of the State. 
