Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-09
Correspondence Of The Patriot.
Letter from lookout.

! LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, August q, 1883.
presume that you are in Nashville, and
therefore hot-in dangerous proximity to the
devils" quarters. and therefore hottest. Now
after telling you this, it would be adding in
suit to injury, to suggest that you might keep
| cool by reading tame letter from tiresome
! place. | should tremble for the result if you
! were not an editor-one of a class which has
neither friends nor feelings; aud so to you,
tame or terrible. letter is a letter. In all
probability you are a rusty, crusty old bach
| elor. lost to the beautiful dead to all percep-
tons of the sublime; and yet you-even you.
| if torn from your surroundings, and spirited
away to this place. would lose your second
nature and be yourself again. Old dogs can,
in spite of the provcrb-be taught new
tricks. and even all editor might be shamed
into loveliness by contact with the beautiful;
such beauty as may be found within almost
contagious vicinity TO your city sancium. In
sober verify though, Lookout mountain to
the tourist. the invalid. and the pleasure seek
er, is Just two thousand four hundred feet su
perior TO any watering place. 1t does not
want the ford amplifcations of an oriental
style To make it an inviting spot. Good ac-
commodations, good water, good air, good So
ciety, goodness gracious! what more could
you want? Where sleep luxuriates, and ex-
grumbler who could ask for more. As for
that part of us which is not of earth earthly,
here it is surely well provided for. The pen
of even the professed author should be dipped
in the rainbow tints of genius, when pre-
Stunning to portray in words the view from
Lookout Point. Nature must unfold TO actual
sight those of its panoramic visions, which
are too beautiful for language TO delineatc.
Come and see. See the valley stretching out
TO the utmost bounds of vision. part in sun
shine, part in shade--a varied scene suggts-
tive of that "vale'' through which life's pill
grimage is laid, before it terminates ut the
threshold of a "Better Land" Circled by
crrulran blue there is many a scene to Gail
forth its special need OF praise. The sleeping
river, which first describes an beneath, aud
then lake-like l. seen flr-oif where Heaven aud
earth together meet, is the first aud loveliest.
The mammoth foot" delineated by its SER
prntine course is. alas but too suggestive Of
a race which has left but little more than this
Footprint upon the sands OF Time" Its resem-
blance To moccasin is too obvious to be
misapplied. Savage. yet the Iudian was not
brute, land tradition says he w~pt" when
parting with last, long, lingering look from
his home. and his hunting grounds. Like pic
lures miniatnred in some sofl blue eye, are
seen yon cottage houses which efoiiiss the
landscape, here and there, aud seem by dis
lance lessened, like faint, and half remember
ed scenes OF other days Yon pig track
''sweetly Wandering" along the rivers edge,
and terminating In long red ribbon"
stretched across the verdant ii Ids. and upon
which yon Dutchman Is trundling his lazy
wheelbarrow AS he smokes his lazy pipe-hi,
Is he passenger tram entering Chattanooga. How
true il Is that distance loans enchantment to
| the yiewl
Bat evening clouds are journeying towards
the sunset and ''tis sweet 10 see" their shadow:
hurrv'ng Xix phantom sfip- acrs - the main
or silently resting like dark thoughts upon the