The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1898-06-30

cry east of the Rockies, Chimney
Rock is revelation. Up the steep
mountain path we climb. now parting
the dewy rhododendrons. now looking
down a sheer hundred feet to the
path which we were treading but a
few moments ago, now plucking the
dainty ferns clustering around a
crystal spring, or gazing at a poplar
twenty-eight feet in circumference
and eighty feet to first limb. Pass
ing Pulpit Rock we reach Chimney
Rock proper. 1t is but four years
since man first stood upon that sum-
NIT. This solid circular monument
OF granite. if cut into paving stone,
would pave a street fifty feet from
curb to curb and three and a quarter
miles long. Up, up, We 60, and at
last we find ourselves at the summit.
The feeling inspired by the massive
rock, standing like Natures sentinel,
guarding the fairyland beyond and all
around it, with these matchless Great
Silver Falls in the foreground-above
the eternal blue of smiling sky,
while below, thousands of feet below,
we gaze in awe-struck wonder at the
glories of a wondrous scene-it is
beyond the power of pen to describe.
The view from the dome is superb.
Words are Intellectual. 1t must be
seen to be comprehended. A gor-
geous panorama is spread before you.
Now and then white cloud floats
listlessly below. Kings Mountain,
the scene of the famous Revolution
ary battle, can be family perceived
sixty miles to the southeast. When
viewing the scenery from this particu-
lar point, those who have read
Burke's lesson on the sublime and
beautiful will be filled with a Just ap-
probation Of what the beautiful is.
But now the view changes. We now
commence the journey of rounding
the great precipice to get the best
view of the Great Silver Falls.
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND CHATTANOOGA
Overlooking historic old Chatta-
noogaf a mile to the south of that
famous and beautiful city. rises, grim
and defiant, the lofty peak whose
name scarce does justice to the i'm
posing grandeur of the spectacle
which the tourist finds spread out
before him on reaching her summit.
Two thousand three hundred feet
high, and commanding view of
country full of interest, Lookout
Mountain offers to the visitor a mag
niticent panorama of Chattanooga
river, the valley, the city, and of the
hills and mountains for miles around.
In and about Chattanooga are to be
found the famous National Military
Park, embracing all the fighting
ground of the Battle of Chattanooga,
and Bragg's headquarters,
and eight miles of boulevard along
the crest Of Missionary Ridge; Chat
tanooga National Cemetery, with A.
900 Union graves; Confederate Gene
terry, thickly populaced; also old
prisons, hospitals, breast
works and valuable and interesting
relics of the war that is gone.
The temperature and altitude of
Lookout Mountain seem especially
adapted to persons with throat and
lung diseases. Along it's crest and
over it's sides are dotted hundreds of
Summer homes, populated during the
heated term by families from all
parts of the South.
Chattanooga is reached via Sea-
board Air Line to Atlanta, thence via
Western and Atlantic railway. From
Chattanooga ride of twenty-five
by incline railroad, will
take you to the summit of Lookout
There are other places reached by
this great line which are full OF at
fractions for the seeker after Summer
comfort. Information in detail about
the many places of interest reached
by the Seaboard Air Line can be had
upon request from its general pas
senger agent, T. j. Anderson, Ports
Va.