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region, and beset with wild flowers, in their season. 
So, even were its pools of commonplace depths, one 
would look back with pleasure to a walk up the en- 
chanting stream. 
The Chimney Rock region is quite noted for its 
waterfalls, most of the streams that come from that 
part of the mountains making their escape to the 
levels below by long leaps down the walls. And the 
Broad River Valley might be called the "Valley of 
Many Waters," with its long cascades and its rush- 
ing streams. 
Chimney Rock itself, an uphill walk of an hour or 
more from Logan's, and from which the place is 
named, is a great pillar of solid rock, separated from 
the main wall of the near mountain and rounded by 
the elements. To its right is by far a nobler stone 
battlement, but the distinction of Chimney Rock is 
in its total separation from the main mass of the 
mountain, which here rises in sheer, bare walls, a 
characteristic of the mountains of this region, 
many of which are wooded on top and at the base, 
with a broad girdle of bare cliffs between. For a long 
time Chimney Rock was inaccessible, but now any- 
body can get on the top of it, simply by climbing a 
stairway and crossing a timber bridge that has 
brazenly connected the lonely summit with the 
common world. 
On the rocky top three or four dwarfed and twisted 
pine trees have managed to grow. At the base 
of the rock and of the mountain, the small pink 
rhododendron was everywhere in bloom, and, as we 
