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18763 Headquarters at Rome^ Georgia 



Ian was later appointed to the Supreme Court of 

 the United States, where it was his function to 

 prepare and read, in 1896, the final decision which 

 saved Stanford University, for which reason all 

 Stanford men and women should think of him with 

 gratitude. 



On the way south through Tennessee we visited Looh 

 Lookout Mountain, a noble plateau with almost Mountain 

 vertical sides, as the hard limestone on top saves Missionary 

 it from rain erosion, and the Tennessee River, mak- ^^'^^^ 

 ing a wide sweep around, has cut away the softer 

 rock and removed the talus which otherwise would 

 naturally gather at its foot. 



Crossing the neighboring Missionary Ridge, a noted 

 battle ground of the Civil War, we came across 

 several little darkies in the persimmon trees and 

 were led by them to a school where the colored 

 teacher was struggling with the exports of Maine 

 as laid down in the geography. After a little while 

 he suddenly turned to me and said: "And now, 

 Boss, won't you say something to 'scourage us?" 



Our working headquarters we established at Rome, 

 Georgia, at the junction of the red waters of the 

 Etowah (locally "High Tower") from the east, and 

 the clear Oostenaula from Missionary Ridge on the 

 north. Here I encountered a custom common in 

 the South, each product of the union of two nearly 

 equal streams receiving a new name. Thus the two 

 rivers at Rome form the Coosa; this, running south- 

 ward, joins the Tallapoosa to form the Alabama, 

 which, in turn, uniting with the Tombigbee, helps 

 to form the Mobile. 



Only eleven years had passed since the Civil 

 War, and many of the inhabitants of the region 



