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streams of this fairyland, since slandered by 

 dreadful American names that conjure up no 

 thought of romance, by such soft words as I Sunday ga 



Tuckaseegee, Judykulla. For the birds he had such 

 music as Zetilla (the crane), Walseet (the oriole), or 

 Klonteska (the grouse) ; the fawn was to him 



Wahneota ; even a rat might smell sweeter as 



Torwillah \ Those who boast the beauty of English 

 cannot have known one word of Cherokee. For 

 many of the peaks that rise round Toxoway the 

 Indians had equally pleasing names. A hundred 

 or more of these summits can in the clearest 

 weather be descried from the lodge, towering above 

 the lowlands of Carolina and Tennessee. The lodge 

 itself is 4780 feet above the Atlantic, and around it 

 are grouped Nagestonah (alias Chingman's Dome, 

 6600), Aconalucta (alias Le Conte, 6612), Salula 

 (alias Slooly, 4490), Isundayga (alias Whitesides, 

 4931), Tahlona (alias Yellow Mount, 5132), 



r lausoona (alias Big Terrapin, 4509), Sunneehaw 

 [alias Enos Plott, 6200), and many others, dying 

 away to the far horizon. A curious tramp of 

 literary leanings, known in the neighbourhood as 

 * Chucky Joe," loves nothing better than to perch 

 itop the lodge and mark down his intimates as the 

 shifting light favours them in turn. 



It is chiefly to the fisherman that the " Land of 

 the Sky" appeals for consideration on a lazy 

 loliday. Three thousand acres of still water and a 

 lundred miles of babbling brook and roaring river 



e, even in that land of big things, no mean 

 ittraction for those who throw the fly or swim the 

 rorm. Those who would have respite from the 

 irtificial round of city life may here enjoy some of 



