The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-05


new discoveries, and that they ought
to have him around to make discoveries
for them. I encouraged him to go IN
and wia. I could see the sheep very
plainly, and saw it about the same time
that he did, and called his attention to
its ears, one Of them, the left one
seemed to be leaning forward, in a lis
tening attitude. The sheep is lying
down directly in front Of the old man,
man, and near. his feet, and forms q
good picture. It appears that the old
man is stopping forward to the sheep,
and the sheep seems to be listening to
him. AS this picture in the rocks has
no name that have heard of I gave it
the uame Of 1.-THE good Shepherd and
the Lamb" It was not long before
my friend the Israelite made another
discovery. This time it was woman
with an abundance of skirts, and an
old la6y's cap on her head. She seemed
to be pushed up into crews or corner,
as if she was not distinct enough
character, and had been showed back
out of the way. T named this "Mother
Hubbard in the Cubbard." We also
discovered the profile of a mans face,
just above che Shepherd and the Lamb
"a little to the right. For want Of q
better name, I called this John the
Baptist's head, as nothing but the head
was in sight.
The eagle is directly in the centre Of
the arch overhead, and from tip to tip
Of wings it appears to be about % feet,
and from head to tail about 25 feet.
The Good Shepherd and the Lamb are
about rs or 100 feet up the wall under
the bridge on the left hand side. There
are two black obieeting stones which
answer for the Shepherds feet. The
sheep is close to the man, about seven
feet away. Mother Hubbard is further
up on the right, about l75 feet from the
bottom. She with her skirts is about
Is or 20 feet long. Can't see her
feet.
The arch of the bridge is about 80 or
so feet wide, and about 80 feet thick.
A wagon road runs over it, and one
might ride over it and never notice it
for the trees. The walls on the left side
entering under the bridge are almost
perpendicular without break,and solid
rock, mostly black rock. 1t is said that
George Washington wrote his initials
on that wall, about Is or 20 feet up. !
examined very closely for it, but was
unable to discover it even with the as
sistance of the Israelite. It looks like
matter of impossibllity to scale that
wall feet, much less Is. On the right
side the wall has some very small and
shallow ledges that go up 40 or so feet.
They are called some ones stairway, I
have forgotten his name. He made the
perilous climb up these rocks 50 feet
and came safely down, and they were
given his name. It is impossible to
climb these rocks, but the great trouble
would be in getting down. And it
would take more nerve than the aver
age man possesses to try it. climbed
up about Is feet to see how it went. I
got along all right, and picked up a
shell in momento of the trip, Is feet up
the wall. But when I started down it
was quite different from going up, and
I felt that I would not have been so
feet up for all the bridge is worth.
There is always water triekling
down the wall, and causes it to be very
dangerous to climb. There is branch
running under the bridge, which forms
q small pool under the centre Of bridge;
it falls down the mountain into this
deep ravine. About t Of mile above
the bridge this stream falls over
the rocks in a broad thin stream, 50
thin that the rocks can be seen through
it. This in called the bridal veil. We
made no discoveries on the right hand
side of the walls, except the stairway.
The space between the walls at the
bottom under the bridge is about 80 feet,
at ends of the arch about 125 feet apart,
arch and walls solid rock. The stream
has dozen or so large boulders in it
between the walls, which have fallen
in the past, no one knows how many
years ago. The last one fell in 1890. II
is boulder that is feet high 4or more
feet Thick in sight, don't know how
much of it is buried. It will weigh
many tons. Some Of them are larger
than this one. It is easy to see where
they have fallen from at different
times. The places look fresh, as if they
had broken through and fallen in the
lost year or so.
Seams can be distinguished in differ.
ent places. And it looks like the
bridge will eventually fall away piece
by piece, until the whole thing tum-
bles in. I noticed on the left hand
wall, very large, tall piece or column
of fstone, that resembled an obelisk in
shape. This column is apparently al.
most detached from the wall, except
right at the bottom of it. It seems to
be at least 80 feet high, and about Is o,
20 feet across, by four or five thick. II
looks like it may fall at any moment.
It seems that it would certainly fall il
water gets behind it and freezes in the
winter time. If it ever does fall, it
will efectually put stop to people
going under the bridge from that side
at least, unless it be cleared away. 1t
looks like nature is preparing to close
up the entrance. There are other large
boulders on the top Of the walls on the
other side of the bridge, that look as il
they could be pushed off. Adeep rsvine
leads to the bridge from either side, and