The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1866-05-26


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range Of mountains, This ridge, or
mngc, u very high, ~ high, of near.
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yet, standing In three miles Of H.
base, you see, over H. top, sisty-fyc
miles N, The top Of the magnificent
Orilaba towcring IN lofty pride above
clouds and rearing his snowy caps,
apparently, almost 10 Heaven. II Is
the most stirring prospect ! ever saw.
But more anon. The National road
from the coast 10 the city of Mexico
here passes from the low lands into
the mountains. The pass, although
a deep dip itself, IL very high, and
when You ascend II the scencp present
cd to view is surprisingly grand.
The mountains rise mp like walls on
either side, bathing their SUBMITS in
the clouds. The flat lands are spread
out nj your feet like mn endless car
pet toward the sen, whilst the range
OF mountains, rising in successive
view, and stretching away to the
toward the coast, and cle-
waiting their heads one above another,
seem to sport with the blue heavens,
and laugh TO scorn the puny arm OF
man. The whole scene bcgets a feel
ing of our own weakness and little
ness, combined with the thought OF
Omnipotence, thepowcrand grandeur
Of the great Johovah-peculiar in
and different from any |
experienced before. A deep
here breaks through the
mountains, along which runs a beau
tiful river, thus aiI6rding an opening,
the bluffs of which, n bench
can be cut for a railway. From four
TO six miles takes YOU through this
range into one wing of the celebrated
Cordova Valley. Here are the rich
est lands, the most healthy and de-
lightfnl climate, and the most pro-
ductivc soil | have ever c G or read
Of, except its fellow valley, the Oriz-
aba, OF which ! will speak presently.
The valley is about fifteen or sixteen
miles wide, and ranging from North
west 10 Southeast. | suppose II is
forty or fifty miles in length. The
sun is never hotter than with Us, aud
in the shade YOU are always comfort
able, aud can sleep with comfort un-
der a blanket at night. II YOU stay
out until wet with dew, YOU expert
cnoc no Inconvenience from il. The
principal crops are corn, cotton, to-
bacco, sugar-canc, aud coffee. Oh
corn, You can raise three crops in a
year. brought home with me a
sample Of cotton, which has been
pronounced by good iudgcsto be finer,
stronger, and OF longer staple than
they had ever c in this country.
Tohacco is planted once every four
or five years, aud Is never destroyed
by the worm. They gather the
leaves for that length Of time, when
the stock gets old, and the leaf not
so good. A new plant Is then sub
stitutcd, aud the same round of gath
ering pursued. The sugar-canc is
said To be superior to the cane of
Louisiana, and is never touched by
hence, they eau run the mill,
and make sugar in every
month in the year. The coffee plant
grows from ivc to ten feet in hight.
aud will last from fifty to one hun
drcd years. They plant the rows
nine feet apart and the trees five feet
in the drill. This gives about six
hundred tines TO the acre, and from
these tecs they never fail to gather
two pounds tn the trcc-say twelve
hundrcd pounds 10 the acre. This Is
worth from II TO % CENTS per pound.
All the garden vegetables that We
have are found there in greater per-
lection, besides a great many others
OF which / never before heard.
Every day in the year you can have
all the tropical fruits fresh from the
stalk. lou may " TO the market
every day and End all the vcscia-
blcs and fruits just gathered aud
brought 10 ircsh. Standing ON the
plaza IN the morning and locking
slightly northwest when the sun frst
rises and casts bis beams upon the
snowy cap Of Orizaba, that huge nile
looks like a solid rainbow-prcsent-
ing all the colors Of thai BEAUTIFUL
pllenomenon. As this illusion passe.
away the whole assumes a look of
pure and g%listening white. and there
v stands in solitary heautv and Gran.