A 'Thousand- 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 , 1 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 16. “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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