The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1858-08-25
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENTS.
NEAR UNION e.. II. Aug. l6, 1858.

Ny last letter, if ! mistake cot, was da-
ted August 9th Mt Chicks Springs and al
though j. was my intention to write regu-
lar. ] have suffered more than week to
elapse, either from want of opportunity, Of
inclination, from being otherwise engaged
or perhaps all three together. ] have, how
ever, taken notes by the way and will write
out n hasty account Of our last ten DAYS nd.
ventures, proposing to be brief; and may
with better reason be so from the fact that
Long Grabs" is corresponding reg uarly
with the Ledger and has either passed over
or will pass over the same ground through,
| which We have been passing for the las,
week. found at GreenyiIlc the Ledger OF
the 4ih inst, containing some of his letters
! heard of before seeing them rs was graft.
| fled TO know that they are appreciated ~
hr1o.I - -. i'o..',, Hau been the
author, il could not have afforded me more
real pleasure than it did to hear reading
gentlemen refer 10 them in terms Of high
Communications
We left Chicks Springs on Saturday 7,h
inst, for Caesars Head, distant some twen.
ty-tive or thirty miles. Caesar s Head is Il
delightful mountain retreat; it is located
about twenty. eight miles North of TIE town
of Greenvlle, which place can be seen dis
tInctIy from the summit of the rock il does
not form n link in the regular chain Of the
Blue Ridge, but Is higher than any point of
tho Blue Ridge that is contiguous to it, is
accessible by any Of the ordinary means Of
conveyance, yet climbing ii is an under taxi
ing that Il man does not care to repeat very
frequently. II is five miles from the foot
Of the mountain to the top and we were
which we Were afterwards told was in very
good time. Much Of the fatigue of the
journey is relieved oD the way ty the mag
niiicent scenery that now and then bursts
upon the view of the enraptured wayfarer
who sees it for the first time This, how.
ever, is but triile compared with the grand
and imposing prospect that awaits him when
the top of the mountain is reached. Trav.
eIers have taxed their descriptive powers in
the effort to do justice to the scenery about
Caesars Head, but language can convey
but feint conception Of it; one must see
1t to approach TO an idea of its boldness
and grandeur. Below is the yawning cI,asm
INTO which the mountain threatens TO fall
every moment; far to the South rs the eve
can reach, embracing n view Of from fifty to
seventy miies, is stretched apparently vast
plain, studded with far".s that to the naked
eye are as mere specks upon the surface /;
to the West, to the North and to the East,
mountain after mountain rises in succession
until the eye is weary of gazing upon them
and they are lost in the blue distance. We
take In this view from the summit of the
projecting cliff with n feeling of intense awe,
Of wonder and Of admiration. The perpen
dcular height from the valley below 10
twenty.eight hundred feet and few ther G
are who can look down from this height for
more than moment at time and without
II shudder. The correct height Of the noun.
tain from the level Of the sea, the usual wav
OF computation, we did not ascertain. Th.
mountain is called Caesars Head from n
fancied resemblance which the summit of
the rock fronting the precipice has to a 70.
man profile. The rock has every appear-
ance of being only the half of what it once
was and it has been suggest ed that Table
Rock. distant about five miles OF an air. line