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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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nut mountain now became tedious and painful. Theroad ran zigzag along the edges of banks and rocks, and over our heads hungmammoth embankments, which might have crushed a caravan. But how deli-cious the sunlight on the tree-stems, through the forest glades; how delicate thegreen mosses clothing the trunks of fallen monarchs; how crystal and sweet thewater which we drank from the foamy brooks ! For miles we clambered along this lofty road until night was at hand. Ourcompanion, who paused from time to time to treat himself from the bottle, andto importune us to drink, finally left us at a cross-road, advising us to stay atParson Catons. We could get to stay with the parson—he kept folks; wouldwe have some more moonshine? No? Good luck to us. So we hurried onto Parson Catons. A by-road, leading into a thicket where wild vines grew luxuriantly; steepdescents and lofty knolls, crowned with strong tree-stems; a woodland path ;then a clearing, and we were at the humble cabin of the parson.
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The Judge shows the Artists Sketch-Book. LV. ACROSS THE SMOKY TO WAYNESVILLE — THE MASTER CHAINOF THE ALLEGHANIES. ON our way up the mountain we had passed the church. It was a rudestructure of boards and logs, which we should have mistaken for somedeserted shanty, had not our friend of the moonshine whiskey pointed it out. The parsons cabin stood in an enclosure, guarded by a rough fence, and, aswe approached, a stalwart young fellow opened the little gate, and some houndr,followed him out, making the woods ring with their yelping. A tall matron andtwo of the girls—young women, at least five and a-half feet high, dressedin straight, homespun gowns—peered out at us, and we were presently invitedto remain at the cabin all night, as the parson never refuses nobody. The pigs and the geese had just come home together from their days ramblein the v.^oods, and were quarreling over the trough which ran along the fence.The cows wandered about the clearing, watched by the hounds ; and th

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