tiKJSTUUES OF (J RE AT ION. 



a find the brink of this higher wall 



b composed of beetling escarpments 



1 of the Coal conglomerate. I mount 



1 one of the overhanging cliifs at Bon 



&quot;wi Air an old but now ruined water- 



9 ing-place and summer resort and 



m &quot; look down hundreds of feet upon 



^ the green tree-tops, from whose sun- 



1 I nv summits ascends the chorus of a 



g o3 * 



g | myriad warblers. Far away to the 



I west stretches the landscape over 



g H which I have traveled, and its far- 



&quot;c -I a ther verge blends with the azure 



| f g which overarches all. Far toward 



? 1 1 the north and south spreads out the 



2 !~| basin of Tennessee; and over all 

 o hangs the purple haze with which 

 1 1|- Nature half conceals, and thereby 

 ^ I heightens her charms. Southward 

 ~ -| s rise sheer from the plain some iso- 



2 a bo 



^ J lated knobs and ridges, which mark 



&amp;gt; the commencement of the region 



. whose general structure embraces 



|| Lookout Mountain, Missionary 



| Ridge, and similar precipitous ele- 



g 1 vations along the southern border 



P of the state. 



From the dizzy brink on which I 



1 stand stretches eastward a cool and 



* salubrious table-land, known as the 



| Cumberland Table-land, marked by 



| a soil, and forest-growth, and cli- 



I mate as distinct from those of the 



O 



^ basin below as Wisconsin from the 



