Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-12-05
SALT LAKE TO NEW YORK.
Noted Backgrounds. = Charming
Scrnery.-The Dismal Swamp.
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Ridge and Lookout Mountain,
hut the trains did not connect
so as to give us this opportunity and
reach Norfolk in time to take the
steamer which was 10 leave the
following Monday evening. How
ever, during the night we passed
over many OF the noted battle
grounds, and at O'Clock the next
morning We passed Missionary
Ridge and ran through a tunnel
under Lookout Mountain.
Passing along We reached Knox
vile for breakfast. This is quite n
beautiful city Of about IS, 900 inhab
itants. After leaving Knoxville
we crossed and re-crossed the Ten
nessee River a number OF times un-
Ill at last Bristol, the dinner station,
and the place where we changed
our Central for eastern time wa
reached. But few minutes af er
leaving Bristol we were over the
State line and in Virginia, the
birthplace and home Of so many Of
our early statesmen and Presidents.
Along this line the scenery Is m ct
grand. We passed over the Blue
Ridge Mountains, and going down
the northeastern slope, never
rode on a train that went with such
I .
beautiful and imposing.
The scenery along the entire route
from Bristol Is charming. 1t was
Sunday and 1t seemed that all the
people for miles had come TO the
railway stations - for these were
crowded with people Of all eolors and
all shapes-some homely and some
handsome.
We were delayed considerably az
ter leaving New River, on account
9th, company's double tracking the
ROAD, but reached Lynchberi at
1880 p IN. On cur entering the
train next morning and much to our
surprise We met six Salt Lake ac-
quaintances who were going over
thesame route as we TO New York
City. They were Charley Cannon,
Ezra Taylor, Fred. Snedaker, En-
mn Elleroeck, Mrs. Gibbs and Mrs.
Bedell. We were now travelling on
the Norfolk & Western Railroad,
which passes through one OF
the Dost, historically speaking,
interesting districts in the |
United States. The historical |
surroundings are closely and promi-
nently interviewer with the history |
Of eur country, in the old Contin-
entail war Of 1872 and also in the
later and more obstinate war Of the |
Union. The Old entertainments OF /
the late war are still visible and /
form conspicuous features in the
surrounding landscape. Many Of
General Grants ami General Lees
earthworks are still intact and ex-
tend from the Appomattox to Fort
Fisher on the South and thence
back to Fort Brass on the Black
River swamp-a continuous line Of
earthworks over twenty-three miles
long. This In the vicinity Of Peters
burg where the siege lasted ten
months ami where so many notable
battles were fought. One Of the
most impressive features Of the
journey was what is known rs High
Bridge which spans the Appomattox
river. This bridge is l16 feet
high and five-eights Of a mile in
length, or about as far
as from the Utah Central dept to
the DgsEREr NEWS corner. From
the bridge, as the train Is crossing.
one can see the mammoth breast
works on either side Of the bridge
and also OF the river beneath-somc
seem TO be fifteen or twenty feet
high. This afternoon, Sept. Goth,
brought US into the noted Dismal
Swamp Of Virginia, which is so
miles running north and south, by
about thirty wide. Its name will
tell you what it looks like. adding
that IL IL most densely covered with
timber OF iDnumerabie species, the
most valuable are cypress and
Juniper, or white cedar, the latter
from its Inaccessible places OF
growth has become very valuable.
An added cause 10 the scarcity OF
this lumber Is that it grows in yeaty
soil, and consequently Is heavily
d with gases and in
matter, and the forest
hires which are - common
In the swamps eat into the
roots and destroy it entirely. ,
About the centre Of the swamp is :
Lake Drummond, the paradise of
The SPORTSMAN. In this immediate
all kinds of wild game is l
lound. There are also several large :
annals running into the swamp, but |
he mos; noted and perhaps the {
argest is Jericho Run by which one q
-nters the swamp from Nansemond
River and runs 10 Lake Drummond. Z
e Is an Old waterway that was ,
originally fifty feet wide, but has /
alien Into disuse till its dimensions d
AVE grown much narrower. There I
Irc thousands Of incidents tina; r
night he enumerated but SPACE will :
lot admit, 50 III be swamped by
aging that this is the region that II
he poet IloDgfellow has made :
7orid-renowned in his poem en- !,
tiled: '-rbe Slave in the Dismal %
'wamp," from which | selccl: Ii
4 dark feus OF the dismal swanp 90
The hunted negro lay: n
e saw the fire of The midnight camp, NJ
nd heard AZ t'mes the horses tramp 81
And bloodhound's distant bay. u
here will o'-the-wisps and glow-worms
shine. !,
in buirushes and in brake. y
here waiting moses STROUD the pine. "a "a
nd the cedar grows and the poisonous =. ~
vine VI
L spotted ike the snake. ~
here hartlya human foot could pass. ~
Or human heart would dare,
/ tn. quakirg turf of the green norass
!, erouehed in the rank and tangled grass
Like wild beast IN his lair. OF
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