Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of (14761592544)

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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entre of the arch,lies a huge, black bowlder, looking as if especially introduced to complete the artificialregularity of the scene. Ignoring the incidental beauties of sparkling stream and grace-ful foliage, we think the subject would more appropriately adorn a geological museumthan a landscape-gallery, and its aspect in Nature excites no other emotion than thatof pleasing curiosity. Within the next mile or two, we cross the fork a^ain, and come suddenly upon ascene of quite another character. At the butt of a sharp spur rises a towering archi-tectural mass, which any one familiar with the Old World would pronounce a well-preserved feudal ruin, and a purely American imagination would conceive to be the IN WEST VIRGINIA. 383 chimneys of a burnt factory. As the probabilities of finding a feudal castle and a mod-ern factory in this region are about equal, we must deviate a little from the highway toobtain a better view of the startling object. Even upon a closer inspection, it is diffi-
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i^^^«=^.,..^^.^,„, Chimney Rocks. cult to divest ones self of the idea that human hands must have played some part inthe erection of the pile before us. So regular and square cut is the masonry, so shapelythe towers, so artistically true the embattled summits, the supporting buttresses, the jut- 384 PICTURESQUE AMERICA.