Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-09-26
LETTER FROM HIGHLANDS.
Satula and Whiteside as Seen by Our
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[From the Aiken Journal and Reyiew,]
Agreeably to promise I send you a
few lines from our present mountain
resort, and although they may not
be very interesting to your general
reader, it is 70 be hoped that they
may not prove embarrassing to your
prospective mountain tourist.
To one who wishes to appreciate
impressiyely the grandeur, the sub
Unity and the wild and rugged i'm
mensities Of the mountain panorama,
he must keep himself constantly to
the foreground of his picture, other
wise the vanishing lines Of his per-
spective will be lost in irregular and
broken lines and dots upon the dis
tant horizon, and his landscape will
soon become tame and monotonous.
Let,us give you briefly some of
the salient points of our mountain
picture.
Highlands, our mountain resort, is
situated in small basin, or rather
in beautiful and undulating valley,
closed in by an amphitheatre of
mountains. The links in this chain
which encompasses us are SO closely
and firmly welded together that there
are apparently no outlets to the
world beyond lis. Yet there are
three outlets by roads, one leading
to Walhalla, one to Seneca City and
the other to Whitesidc Cove. TO
reach these it Is necessary to make a
descent from our village Of nearly
1000 feet. A road also leads to
Franklin, the county seat, distant
about 80 miles.
Within convenient distance of
our village, and easily accessible on
foot, are some very beautiful and at
tractive cascades and water falls.
Among these the most noted are
Glenn's Falls, Highland Falls and
Calascja Falls. Comfortable walks
and inviting pathways lead to these
places of resort, and here the lover
of solitude may pleasantly while
away few hours among the gigan-
tic fern and the glossy green leaves
of the royal rhododendron, viewing
the seething and foaming masses of
water as they plunge over huge
lodges of rock hundreds Of feet high
and leaping from crag to crag break
into fleecy sprays until finally they
are buried in the thickets and jun
giles of the forest below. These
are inviting spots and should not
be neglected by the mountain tou-
rist. III
The most prominent feature of our
panorama, however, is Satula Noun
tain which towers some 1000 feet
above us. We commence it's ascent
a few yards from our doorway and
by active climbing for about an hour
reach its highest pinnacle. From
this point we look out over into the
confines Of four States.
Far to the West our vision passes
over ridges of dark green noun
tains, intercepted occasionally by
tho passing hithcr and thither of
cloud shadows, still darkening the
already deep green of our landscape
until all is lost in the dim vista of
the great Smoky Mountain, eighty
miles distant.
These huge mountains being them
selves capped by large masses of
snowy white cumulus. Far to the
Southwest, thirty miles distant, we
can discern the faint outlines of
Walhalla, Westminster and Seneca
City. Distinctly visible in the
Northwest arc the towering peaks of
Bears Pen and Yellow Mountain.
10 the Northeast Whitesidc Noun
tain, said to be 5000 feet high, looms
up like huge monster with its Ar
gus eyes constantly fixed upon us