by E. Cornelius. 223 
ia Scenery. 
And here I cannot forbear pausing a moment to call your at- 
tention to the grand and picturesque scenery which opens to the 
view of the admiring spectator. The country is still possessed 
by the aborigines, and the hand of civilization has done but little 
tosoften the wild aspect of nature. The Tennessee River, hav- 
ing concentrated into one mass, the numerous streams it 
ceived in its course of three or four hundred miles, glides through 
am extended valley with a rapid and overwhelming current, half 
‘mile in width. At this place,a group of mountains stand 
to dispute its progress. First, the “ Look-Out,” an independent 
range, commencing thirty miles below, presents, opposite to the 
River’s course, its bold and rocky termination of two thousand 
feet. Around its brow isa pallisade of naked rocks, from seven- 
'y to oné hundred feet high. ‘The River flows upon its base, and 
instantly turns to the right. Passing on for six miles farther it 
turns again, and is met by the side of the Rackoon mountain.— 
Collecting its strength into a channel of seventy yards, it severs 
the mountain, and rushes tumultuously through the rocky defile, 
wafting the trembling navigator at the rate of a mile in two or 
three minutes, ‘This passage is called “ The Suck.” © The sum- 
nit of the Look-Ont mountain overlooks the whole country.— 
And to those who can be delighted with the view of an intermi- 
table forest, penetrated by the windings of a bold river, inter- 
‘persed with hundreds of verdant prairies, and broken by many 
Tidges and mountains, furnishes in the month of May, a landscape, 
Which yields to few others in extent, variety or beauty. Even 
. ‘aborigines have not been insensible to its charms; for in the 
‘ame which they have given to the Look-Out mountain we have 
a aconic, but very striking description of the scenery. This 
— in the Cherokee language, without the aspirated sounds, is 
& Néé-ton-tanna-ta-kunn4-éé ;” literally, “¢ mountains looking 
at each other.” : 
, bs ie already remarked that the limestone - this — 
'es in horizontal strata ; one mile east from its base it is 
