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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 Isimdayga, 

 Tuckaseegee, JudyJadla. 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 Toxaway 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 lodae 



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itself is 4780 feet above the Atlantic, and around it 

 are grouped N agestonah {alias Chingman's Dome, 

 6600), Aconalucta {alias Le Conte, 6612), Sahila 

 {alias Slooly, 4490), Isunciayga {alias Whitesides, 

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

 Klausoona {alias Big Terrapin, 4509), Stmneehaiv 

 {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 

 atop 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 

 holiday. Three thousand acres of still water and a 

 hundred miles of babbling brook and roaring river 

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

 attraction for those who throw the fly or swim the 

 worm. Those who would have respite from the 

 artificial round of city life may here enjoy some of 



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