The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1883-10-10
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Correspondence Of the NEwsl
Easton, w. Va, Aug 60, So.
Dear News Tired out by the
labors Of the farm we left the quiet
shades of "Forest Home" and
stepped aboard the train on the c.
w. & B. road, and sixteen hours ride
brought us amid the green hills of
West Virginia, But how different
from the plains Of the Buckeye State
We can in some degree comprehend
how the plains we're formed. The
long stretching billows of the vast
prairies look as though they might
have once been old Oceans heaving
billows, stopped in their giant course.
and the water changed to solid earth.
The mountains seem a mighty chain,
binding old earth together The
Rockies, the Sierras, the Cordilleras,
and the Andes of the West, and the
Appalachian chain on the east Of
America, and the Himalayas and
their long chains in the old world,
are but continuation of the giant
ridge. The beautiful mounds rising
out Of the western prairies evince
their origin by the volcanic rocks
scattered over their sides and sum-
mits. But West Virginia is one end
less succession Of hills, as though
formed by the hand of Omnipotence
and dropped down in endless pro-
fusion, leaving scarcely more than a
narrow dell, and oftener a deep
ravine at their base. In vain you
ascend one after another expecting
to find plateau on top. From the
western border they rise in wonder
full variety until they eliminate in
the beautiful range known as Cheat
mountain, through which Cheat river
rushes almost Ike a cataract, in
many places with a velocity of a
mile in five minutes, for seven or
/ eight miles at stretch. Some
/ twenty-five miles north Of where the
fB. & o. r. r. crosses Che mountains
| Cheat river breaks through the last
Iof the rocky barriers, to join the
/ Monongahela.
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