The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-08-22
A Visit TO Buffalo Cove.


lctly why they call it Cove" is not
clear to any one. The earliest settlers
found the name here and adoptedit.
Visitors soon learn that it is the
simple change Of a vowel and that
il is y cave they're going to see.
On Thursday Aug. 18th, " party
Of u dozen ladies and gentlemen,
mostly visitors at the Newbury
llouss and at Mrs. Ridlell'S, went
ON a picnic to the cave, eighteen
miles west from Rugby. They talked
ABOUT five o'clock start and Of
course got off about seven. 1t was q
hne, fair morning with q prospect
Of rain.
AIr. Marland and Ernest rode in
their buggy; Miss Carrie Booth of
pittSburg, and Mr.. 4. Waugh, Miss
Lottie MARYLAND, Miss Clara Braght
II Williamstown, Ky, Miss Dent,
}tr. Il. Blackjack, Mr.. Peters, and
,eyeral more, went in the hack; and
Mr. Bracht and Mrs. Haddou were
Ii horseback.
Being of the Rugby estate the
road WAS abomilable. At various
.lills all the gentlemen must walk,
else the horses could not pull or the
mack would turn over. They got on
rory we'll, however, and III due course
Of time they arrived at the cave.
Here q great surprise awaited nil
# us who had not yisssed this SPOT
1etore. 1t was not precisely Whist
sc had expected hut it was some
hing gracder. We stood at the edge
# II cliff about four hundred feet
n height, and looked down, aud
yer, upon as beautiful Il little val,
ley as this continent can well afford
robahly four Or I've miles in width
nd stretching away in yerdant and
lndul;,tlng beauty for twice. or
thrice, that distance. With The tree.
trowned height on either side to
tabd for Ossa and pelon, though,
one who perhaps glancedtl.rougl.
Ovid, and with no winding stream,
II the centre, it realized his dreams
II the Vale Of mpe. One had but
to get down in the midst of; it as il
-eemed, to discover Jupiter, Mars,
Apollo, and the heavenly maids, dis
porting themselves after the most
'pproyed mythoIogical fashion.
-Ano her who had Travelled, you know
>ald it put him i'll mind Of the Va
icy OF Chamounee. All agreed it WAS
! rs lovely a hit Of scenery as any eve
could wish to rest upon.
. Nov where's the cave 2" said We
: to our guide. Fright down across
. there, about mile an a half" said
the sulie, pointing into the valley
DO We have to go down this cliff 2
Yes, come on, and III single file we
followed our leader down the steer,
decline, at about IN angle Of forty
tive degrees, for maybe half !. mil,
over Il rugged, marrow and ston,
path that might have ntimidated q
mountain goat. Mr.. 1larland VII.
the first one to fall but without any
4 very serious results. Then Miss Clara
., Insisted upon rolling Il short dis
!, lance down but WAS up again and OF
: before her escort could give her any
assistance. With these two slicl,
n accidents we all got safely down t,
Il something more like level country
We struggled through soA,e corr
fields; had a dozen or two fences t
~ climb; then more woods and rock
aud bushes; and losing the path hv
!, or SIX times, We finally reached th
!, cave.
1t was in the side Of hill an,
. the entrance SO small we all had t
scramble down feet foremost. On
curious thing we found there was
wooden cistern just half petrife,
and full of the deliciouSly COZ
water from the spring near by. WI
" put IL there, or when, or for wha
~ purpose, no one can tell. Also tn
Ne Wondering remnants of what on