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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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has considerable. They are found in Buck Creek, nearCarsons; and in Pigeon and Nantihala Rivers, and manyother streams, they are found in abundance. The Nantihala(spelled by the Indians Nantihaitla, and meaning maidensbosom), is especially famous for its trout. The fish itself isone of the loveliest creatures the eye ever beheld. It has noscales, and is covered with a thin, clear skin, of a brownishblack on top, with yellow underneath, interspersed with spotsof blue, purple, and crimson. It will keep, without the leasttaint, for several days. Fishing for them is fine sport, as onedoes not have to wait forever for a bite; but, if there is a fishin the waters, it bites as soon as the hook is thrown in. CHAPTER XV. 103 And now, closing our last chapter with that purest of livingcreatures, which derives its more than earthly beauty fromnear the skies, we trust that many of our readers may visit theMountains, and, in the fresh air and pleasant rambles, findmuch pleasure, or renewed health.
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APPENDIX. THE PILOT 3I0UNTAIN AND THE PIEDMONT SPRINGS, OP STOKES. There is, in the more eastern portion of North Carolina,some curiosities of nature, and some health-giving waters,which deserve a passing notice. We allude to that strangephenomena of nature,—the Pilot Mountain, and the PiedmontSprings, of Stokes; and we may not be out of place in allud-ing to Kittrells Springs, in Granville, and the long-knownShocco Springs. The Pilot Mountain is situated in the eastern end of Surry,near the line of that county and Stokes. It rises, an isolatedpile, in the midst of a plain. No other mountain, or evenconsiderable hills, being within many miles of it. It wouldseem as if the mountains, having concentrated all their strength,make in it a last desperate effort and die away. There is ahotel kept at the foot of the mountain, where many travellersresort in the hot season. The ascent of the mountain to the spring, an agreeablespot of refreshment, more than half way to the top, is sogradual t

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