A T'housand'Mile Walk 



to take breath and to admire. The road, in 

 many places cut into the rock, goes winding 

 about among the knobs and gorges. Dense 

 growth of asters, liatris,^ and grapevines. 



Reached a house before night, and asked 

 leave to stop. "Well, you're welcome to stop," 

 said the mountaineer, "if you think you can 

 live till morning on what I have to live on all 

 the time." Found the old gentleman very com- 

 municative. Was favored with long "bar" 

 stories, deer hunts, etc., and in the morning 

 was pressed to stay a day or two. 



September i6. "I will take you," said he, 

 "to the highest ridge in the country, where 

 you can see both ways. You will have a view 

 of all the world on one side of the mountains 

 and all creation on the other. Besides, you, 

 who are traveling for curiosity and wonder, 



1 Wood's Botany, edition of 1862, furnishes the following 

 interesting comment on Liatris odoratissima (Willd.), popu- 

 larly known as Vanilla Plant or Deer's Tongue: "The fleshy 

 leaves exhale a rich fragrance even for years after they are 

 dry, and are therefore by the southern planters largely mixed 

 with their cured tobacco, to impart its fragrance to that 

 nauseous weed." 



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