WALKER COUNTY. 591 



" Having reached the extreme end of this spacious dome, we 

 found that to proceed farther, we had to ascend stupendous and 

 almost inaccessible heights, over craggy precipices and yawn- 

 ing gulfs, to the height of some fifty or sixty feet, when, by the 

 dim light of our tapers, we discovered through a small open- 

 ing another room less spacious, but far more beautiful and 

 picturesque ; — for there appeared to the astonished beholder 

 not only the representation of a part of the animal creation, 

 but a true delineation of a great number of inanimate objects, 

 such as cones, altars, pyramids, tables, candle-stands, with a fac 

 simile of some of nature's choicest productions ; and it really 

 appeared as if she, in her wild and playful moments, had in- 

 tended to mock the curiosities of art. While gazing in dumb 

 astonishment upon this delightful scenery, I was roused from 

 my agreeable re very by a hollow and reverberating sound, 

 produced by one of the company, who being of a bold and 

 adventurous spirit, had gone unobserved into a remote part of 

 the room, and beat with a stick, or something else which he 

 held in his hand, several tabular spars, which echoed through 

 this solitary mansion with almost deafening reverberations, 

 which, by the association of ideas, reminded me in some de- 

 gree of the masticating clangour of the supper bell." 



Mountains. — Walker is a region of mountains which ge- 

 nerally run from northeast to southwest. Their names are 

 Taylor's Ridge, John's, Pigeon, Lookout, and White Oak 

 mountains. 



Valleys. — Dogwood valley is between John's mountain 

 and Taylor's ridge. Armucha valley is between John's moun- 

 tain and two ridges of Taylor's mountain. Middle Chica- 

 mauga is between Pea Vine ridge and Taylor's ridge. West 

 Chicamauga is between Lookout and Pigeon mountain. Cray- 

 fish valley is between Pigeon mountain and Crayfish ridge. 



Markers. — Planters send their produce to Augusta and 

 Macon. 



Manufactures, Mills. — Although the water power of 

 this county is excellent, the citizens have not yet turned their 

 attention to cotton factories. Twelve months since there were 

 in the county 12 saw-mills and 12 grist-mills ; and the pro- 

 bability is great, that the number has been augmented since 



