98 THE CAROLINA MOUNTAINS 
All through the mountains "faults" in the rock 
occur, usually on a small scale, and landslides in 
some sections are frequent; while at Hot Springs 
the water comes forth ready-heated from some 
internal caldron, as though to keep us in mind that 
the earth we live on is yet in the making, even 
these ancient mountains continually changing their 
shapes. 
Being at Bat Cave, we can continue along the good 
road over the watershed that separates the Broad 
River from Hickorynut Creek, and down the Hick- 
orynut' Creek Valley, on, over the" plateau of the 
Blue Ridge, even as far as to Asheville. For the 
Broad River, which has its sources on the eastern 
slopes of the Blue Ridge, has no connection what- 
ever with the more famous French Broad, which 
runs in the opposite direction. 
But one must not leave Logan's yet, not before 
taking that delightful walk up the creek to the Pools, 
a series of large, round, fabulously deep pot-holes. 
There are three of them, and, according to the 
people, one of them has no bottom, while another is 
one hundred feet deep, and the third, eighty feet 
deep. Aside from their invisible depths, the pools 
are worth a visit because of the visible and charming 
manner in which Pool Creek comes sliding over 
smooth rock faces, finally to leap in a cascade into 
pool after pool, striking with force and whirling 
around the smooth stone wall of the basin. Pool 
Creek has many cascades; and it is shaded by tall 
trees, and bordered by the beautiful growths of the 
