Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1876-09-09
SHEPERDSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. SATURDAY, SEPT

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| spent the balance Of the day, under
his handsome bower, aud eat, drank and
made merry, on his hospitality. lie
stated that l was the first person he
met that he knew, since he came to
Texas. l remember going with him as
far as Columbus, Ohio, when he started
for Texas, in 1865. | was glad to hear
from him, that lie had finished sowing
his wild oats, and had reaped Of them
sufficient to induce him to settle down
IN life and live like man. a nephew
Of his, aud son Of DR.. Miller formerly
of Sharpsburg is practicing medicine at
Llano. When there, | heard him
spoken OF, but did not suppose | could
know anything of him and did not seek
him out. The people through all this
vast country, are as Kind aud hospitable
as can be found anywhere, and out OF
eleven nights spent with different ones,
there was but one out Of tire number
who would take any pay, and strange
to say, he was the only man OF all, that
| stopped with, who asked a blessing
at his table. 1t could but strike me as
a strange coincidence, TO say the best.
\ traveller can ride all over that coun-
try as secure from danger as in Virgin
ia or MARYLAND. | carried no weapon
larger than my pen knife, and my IN
evitable cane, and never at any time dld
| feel as though | wished for one, al
though | met numbers of men, travellers,
COW boys, and all sorts Of people, but
none appeared dangerous, but pleasant
and communicative.
The roads are the finest ever trav-
eled over, could not be made better by
all the art that might be applied. For
miles ahead it can be seen where 1t
winds around some emminence: a white
outIine, of a solid bed OF lime and sand,
perfectly firm yet not hard. The whole
county is but changing panorama OF
beautiful unduating plains, and anon a
lofty range Of mountains on whose
craggy peaks can be seen'the deer and
antelope trisking III their fearless and
native sports. The cascade formed by
fall Greek in flush times spreads over 4
perpendicular cleft, one hundred and
twenty feet to the base. AT the pres
ent time the native shoot is onIy y about
six feet wide, aud flows over one side,
where there is kind of trough, similar
to the shoot of a mill race, and the
water tails into basin below, striking
about twenty feet from the base OF the
rock, spreading its spray far and wide.
The fall is circumscribed by an amphl-
theatre OF high towering rocks forming
a scmicircIe, from one angle to the
other of about three hundred yards, and
either side of the fall. which seemed TO
be cleft from the solid rock, the ledge
rises above the level Of the top OF the
creek bed some fifty feet. This amphi-
theatre seems to be a huge cayernoas
mass OF granite, at many places project
ing from the main bank from twenty to
Thirty feet. The space Of the falls aside
where the water now flows is perpen-
dicuiar, and is covered with deposit
OF carbonate Of lime, forming staactites
Of all imaginable forms. The most at
tractive Of these formations is a well
defined female form, with head crown
ed with Il turban and thrown gently
back, with one arm raised alott in the
attitude Of heavenly supplication. On
the breast is double heart, as well
formed as though drawn by an artist,
aud on either side are small columns,
beautifully turned and ScrolIed. and
caSSed with other adornments OF the
boudoir OF the "Naiad Queen of the
falls.
This panoramic view is Frightened
by the reflections of the sun upon the
water as it falls aud breaks in the basiu
below, forming Kaleidoscope OF the
riitcd rocks and hanging precipice
The basin in which the water falls oc-
cupics about an acre, ana the water is
as clear as crystal, in which can be
seen hsh of various kinds and immense
size. Here i'll this glen, among those
rocks whose rugged trown blackcns the
mirror OF the deep, behind which the
ferns and ivy roseate wells the weather
beaten crags, grouped in darkcned hues,
beneath the pillars Of ChIlmanar :;
athwart the skyward cliffs on which the
ash and warrior oaks cast anchor III the
riited rocks; and still higher hangs the
shattered trunk of the lightning riyen
cedar, upon the peaks that seem to
meet on high; here the wanderers eye
can barely view the scenery Of near
fairy's dream. Here oft the Indian
herdsman, stunning heat, took shelter
in 4 piIared shade, high over arched,
as broad as the Amazonian targic
when the gentle gales tanning their
oderiterous wings, dispense the native
perfumes, not unlike the Sabean odUrs
from the spicy shores Of Araby among
the outrageous grots and caves Of cool
recess, where the mur:Ruriug waters
fall from the abrupt hill, dispensed in
spray, or in the lake, whose bank is
crowned with myrtle fringe, to hold
the crystal mirror; here in this Nysse-
ian isle, like the lovely grave OF Daphuc,
near GRANTEES, girt around like Mount
Amara; the .4ssg rion garden where the
lovely Prosupine might disport with
the Ocean Nymphs, and pluck the
great Narcissus with no fear Of Pluto
gathering her as the fairer flower Of the
two.
''Thc western waves of etbing day
Rolled o'er the glen their level way;
Each purple peak, each hinty spirr,
Was bathed i'm floods Of LIVING FIRE.
But not = setting beam could glow
Within the dark rayines below,