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Title: Mountain scenery. The scenery of the mountains of western North Carolina and northwestern South Carolina
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Colton, Henry E
Subjects: Mountains
Publisher: Raleigh, N.C., W.L. Pomeroy Philadelphia, Hayes & Zell
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of no better description of these scenes than fromsome sketches which have been heretofore published. Wefirst quote from Lanmans Alleghany Mountains :— ^ My first expedition, on arriving at Asheville, was to agorge in the Blue Ridge, called the Hickory-Nut Gap. Howit came by that name I cannot imagine, since the forests inthis particular region, so far as I could ascertain, are almostentirely destitute of the hickory tree. It is true that, for fourmiles, the gorge is watered by a brook called after the hickory-nut, but I take it that this name is a borrowed one. Theentire length of the Gap is about nine miles, and the last fivemiles-are wateredby the Rocky Broad River. The upper partof this stream runs between the Blue Ridge proper and a spurof the Blue Ridge; and, at the point where it forces a pas-sage through the spur, its bed is exceedingly rocky; and, oneither hand, until it reaches the middle country of the State,it is protected by a series of mountain bluffs. That portion of
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Zai Fubus^uirj J tulan. HICKORT NUT FALJLSo Kught ofunuztcTTicpteoLfcull 350fe^t heigTvt ofpr&eipueSOOft.Th&streajn. zn.vu foreground. uSroadJUytr. CHAPTER IV. 29 the gorge which might be called the gateway, is at the easternextremity. From any point of view, this particular spot isremarkably imposing; the Gap being not more than half amile wide, though appearing to narrow down to a few hundredyards. The highest bluff is on the south side, and thoughrising to the height of full twenty-live hundred feet (aboutfifteen hundred really: Mr. L. was mistaken), it is nearly per-pendicular ; and midway up its front stands an isolated rock,looming against the sky, which is of a circular form, and re-sembles the principal turret of a stupendous castle. The en-tire mountain is composed of granite, and a large proportion ofthe bluff in question positively hangs over the abyss beneath,and is as smooth as it could possibly be made by the rains ofuncounted centuries. Over one portion of this

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