The state chronicle., 1893-06-27

length, and four hundred feet IN
height. Appalachian, or more
properly Hickorynut Falls, the
grsndest cascade in the east, hav-
ing a total fsll of 900 feet, makes a
leap of four hundred feet visible to
the eye until it becomes lost amid
the grand forest of poplara, oaks
and chestnuts that dsrken the |
northern slope Of Chimney Rock |
mountain. The eye finally rests
upon a cliff of massive gran
ite two thousand feet in
width and having perpendicular
descent of 900 feet. This mass,
designated the Blue Rock, has clus
tered around it innumerable le-
gends of beautiful fabrication, and
some with real element Of truth.
Here it was that two wsrring tribes
Of Cherokee indians met and fought
to determination, the last warrior IN
endeavoring TO cast his adversary
over the precipice, meeting the fate
destined for his rival. Here also
the red skin chief Wahnooske loved
beautiful Oroneechenaw, maiden
daughter Of the fierce chief Pomo-
tin. This suit was looked upon
with an unfavorable eye by the
father of the maiden, who finally
forbade Wahnooske to visit his love
One evening the wary eye of Pomo-
tin caught the loving couple stroll
ing in sweet converse upon the ledge
surmounting the precipitous Blue
Rock; noiselessly he crept after, the
demon shining from his eyes-a
touch, a cry of mortal anguish and
the maiden stood alone upon the
ledge, while her lover lay q mangled
corpse six hundred feet below. In
ths same spot, and at the same time,
evening after evening until many
years had rolled by, the solitary
Oroneechenaw appeared upon the
rock and dropped pebbles down the
steep incline, building up silent
monument to the lover she had lost.
To the rear of the Inn the spurs
Of Bald Mountain extend eastward
as fer as the eye can reach in an
unbroken line Of green, only re-
lieyed here and there by there by
the glistening of some cascade or
the face Of some unsurmountable
cliff. Old Badly itself with its
crown CT enduring stone rises alb
ruptly on the eastern extremity OF
this range. In the fall of 1876 this
immense mass of matter was rocked
to and fro by an earthquake and
splitting at the top disclosed an i'm
mensa cavern within, whose limits
have not as ye: been fully ex-
plored.
Our morning stroll consisted il q
visit to Tuscarora and Siivsr fallg-
up the steep mountain path We
clambered, now parting the dewey
Rhododendrona, now looking down 6
sheer hundred feet a. the path
which We were treaaing only few
moments ago, now plucking the
dainty foras clustering around a
clear crystal spring, now gazing in
wonder sS poplar % feet in cir
cumference and eighty feet to the
first limb. Passing Pulpit Rock
where one member Of the party
with marvellous display Of his i'm
aginative faculties, told us DR.
Talmage preached sermon in theil
native tongue to $4,000 Indians, We
reach Silver falls, where a gushing
mountain stream dashes down tive
hundred feet into spray ere i
reaches its rocsy b.sin, A path
way leads behind the falls and ther,
in that delicious ccolnsss we res
before returning to the Inn and t;
breakfast, for which the party ha.
, so idea thera will hardly be a sufh
cisncy, SO great is our desire t.
taste the mountain dishes that viii
be set before us
| Parties from Asheville and Ruth
erfordton met US st the Inn wit
\ pleasant invitations to visit then
, for hospitality is the keynote to a
: this region, Eleven o'clock find
t the party at the foot Of Gimme
: Rock after pleasant climb of abou
an hour. This point, although
r thousand feet above the Inn can b
:. easily reached on horseback. Fcu
\ hundred yards from the base Of th
Q dome in little retired nook gushe
f forth two mountain springs of wor
< derful clearness and GOODNESS, Th
y twin springs, for such are the
t names, 0: all crystal springs, are tt
e most to be admired, side by sic
n they issue forth and what is mo
b peculiar is the difference in tempe
Q ature, one being at 48 and the se
q ond at so degrees. Chimney Roc
l. is solid monument Of granite, ci
, cular in form, having circumfe
d ence Of 18O feet, and an attitude
d 800 feet from base to dome. II th
;" massive rock we're cut into pawn
y stones twelve inches in thickness,
s, would pave street fifty feet fro
v curb to curb distance
Is 1000 feet or about three and on
IS fourth miles. The top of the don
a. is reached by & staircase, now clin
SO ing to the side Of the mounta
g. from which Chimney Rock is eep
f. rated, now crossing chasm of fif
n feet in width. Always clambesil
at upward we finally found ourselv
~ at our long desired destination O