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ed them for a beacon, to conduct their routes in the 

 northern and southern wars. On approaching it, a 

 grand display of nature's workmanship, in a rude 

 dress, is exhibited. From its broad base the moun- 

 tain rises in easy ascent, like a pyramid, near a mile 

 high, to where it is not more than the area of an 

 acre broad ; when, on a sudden, a vast stupendous 

 rock, having the appearance of a large castle with 

 its battlements, erects its perpendicular height to 

 vipwards of three hundred feet, and terminates in a 

 flat, which is generally as level as a floor. To as* 

 cend this precipice there is only one way, which, 

 through cavities and Assures of the rock, is with some 

 difficulty and danger effected. When on tlie sum- 

 mit, the eye is entertained with a vast delightful 

 prospect of the Apalachian mountains, on the north, 

 and a wide extended level country below, on the south; 

 while the streams of the Yadkin and Dan, on the right 

 and left hand, are discovered at several distant places, 

 v^inding through the fertile low grounds, their way 

 towards the ocean.* 



* Morse. A rock of granite similar to the above is at the Cape of 

 Good Hope : it is 400 feet high;, and half a mile in circumference ; 

 it is called the Pearl Diasnond, See Parkinson's Organic tonainsw 



