WILDWOOD WAYS 



Yet they well up freely among the lesser 

 spurs that lie between Great Blue and 

 Hancock, and their moisture, drawn from 

 cool depths to little ponds where the 

 southern sun shines in and the north and 

 west winds are held back by granite 

 ridges, make rallying places for all kinds 

 of wood and pasture people that have 

 yearned for mountain heights, but could 

 not stand the rigors of the summits. 

 There are three of these little ponds on 

 the heights of the range almost within a 

 stone's throw of one another. It may be 

 that the seepage from surrounding ledges 

 accounts for their flow of water, but I 

 am more inclined to think that cracks in 

 the backbone of the hills let the water 

 flow up from subterranean depths. The 

 margins of two of them are the happy 

 home of greenbrier which grows in trop- 

 ical luxuriance all about, so binding the 

 TOO 



