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The only icinaiuiiii; coiitriisl that I >liall notice will i)e 

 that of the scenery. 



The White ^[oiintaiiis are at one side of the main chain. 



In the distanei' we see on the west the (Jreeii M(»nnlains 

 stretchinii" alonii the Imii/on. 



Immediately an>nn<l aw the sister jx-aks iA' the White 

 Mountain and l"'iancnnia ranues. hut neither on the north, 

 ea.st, ur the south, are any lofty mountains in siuht ; while 

 in all these directions lakes, ponds, rivers. an<l streams <li- 

 versify and heautify the landscaije. 



From Roan, the view is widely different. " Mountains to 

 rioht of us, mountains to left of us," stretching away on 

 every side to the liorizon, mountain monarchs every one, 

 scores over (>,000 feet in height, hardly a level acre in sight, 

 even tlie valleys 2,000 or 3,000 feet above sea level, and in 

 all this wide expanse, only one little glimpse of water, where 

 a tlozen miles away, the Xoleehucky is hurrying on to the 

 'Ft iinessee. 



On the south we look up to the Black >hjuntain range, 

 with Mitchell's High Peak, on which rest the hones of its 

 intrepid explorer, rising more than 3,000 feet above us. 



(.)n the east and southea.st the Blue Ridge is in sight with 

 Grandtather and Grandmother mountains and countless un- 

 named peaks. 



(Jn the north and west, the great plateau of Tennessee, 

 with the (Clinch and other ranges, or rather plateaus, twenty 

 or more in number, stretching away in long parallel lines, 

 as level as .so many railroad emhankment.s, .sometimes for 

 40 or ."iO miles with n(» apparent gap or peak, till in the dim 

 distance the blue line of the Cumberland range outlines the 

 horizon. 



The cloud views are grand beyond description. < )Uen in 

 the early morning the whole country will be covered with 

 a mass of pure white vapor, like the waters of a shoreless 

 sea, with only here and there a monntain top. like an island, 

 emerging from the billows. 



And then as the ravs of tin- rising sun fall ujion tlieni. 



