THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS 247 
the Smokies ; nevertheless we feel that we know the 
mountains, lacking only the supreme pleasure of 
traversing those balsam groves that cover the peaks. 
A new Smoky Mountain, strong and glorious, pro- 
jects itself into the imagination alongside the wraith- 
like shapes of those other Smoky Mountains one has 
so long known and loved. And over these splendid 
slopes, one sees in imagination the protecting arm of 
the new national park reach out, as it soon will, to 
save them forever from the power of the destroyer. 
