Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1901-07-25
LOVERS LEAP.
Impressions of Visit to That Remarkable
and Romantic Spot


A trip which had long been in
contemplation came off Sunday when
Misses Annie Scott, Lydia Gustafson,
Pauline Milbrandt and Louise Hill
and Messrs Charles Kelly and w.
G. Hill went to that romantic point
on the breezy heights of old Cumber-
land, known as Lovers Leap. A
much larger crowd was to have gone
but various objections arose and at
one time it seemed as though the
trip would have to be postponed.
However larger crowd will go lat
er.
The party left here at 1880 p. m. and
reached the Falls about IL o'clock.
The ascent of the mountain was te.
diOus and frequent stops were
necessary for the benefit of the horses,
but arriving on the top gentle
breeze predominated, pleasant alike
to man and beast. We sklrted the
borders of that rough depth, Saw
Mill Cove, passed several miles of
sandy road and usual mountain seen
cry, flat stretches of cleared land,
some enclosed and some open, the lat
ter covered with a scrubby growth
of pine and black oak, and finally ar
rived at the Big Ridge, an elevation
some two-hundred feet high from
the summit of which we could look
back over our line of route and dis
Germ lnman mountain proudly lifting
its head over the intervening swells,
dark with pine. The atmosphere
was misty and hence the North Car
olina mountains, sometimes visible
from this point, could not be discern
ed. There is nothing tenderer and
more beautiful in color than distant
mountains seen on clear day. Then
they appear at their greatest advan-
tage, clear of outline and of most
ETHEREAL blue.
Various incidents happened er
route to give hilarity to the occasion
For instance when a weary mule
drops down in the hot sand of the
road to take pleasant roll, the
scene may be described variously
1t is decidedly pleasant to the mule
counting out the whacks it gets from
its discounted rider to whom the
situation is not the most enlivenlng
and immensely funny to those of The
party who owing to their remotenes'
from the scene are unable to give
assistance and are obliged to re
main spectators Of the comedy AnC
then, too, it is rather distressing tt
see lady ride up to a bush, driv,
her animal under it and see if sh'
can't uproot it by pushing up tn,
biggest limb she can find. Thi
feat has never been successfully don,
yet and has always resulted disas
trously for the equestrienne. In thi
case the lady was pressed down un
til she assumed a horizontal position
in the saddle something in the styl
of circus rider. Fortunately tn
animal she was riding remained stll
or otherwise she would have beel
dragged off. And then, too, when
wasp gets after horse that is notori
iously inclined to break his bridl
the situation is again lively. Blu
the gravest situation of all is whel
the ladies form an inquiring circl
and prod the sore back of a mul
that could possibly kick the nails ou
of the top board of barn dooI
Horses and mules are usually traine
to drive with tight rem down hill
wearing binders. Let us suppos
that it has been taught to pre-
ceed like a race horse with a tigf
rein, and that you harness it withol
binders into buggy that is destitut
of brake, start down one of tho'
precipitous slopes common in trave
ing in the mountains, when first whe
and then the other is somewher,
between 45 degrees and 80 degree
Y and you guide the animal with
= loose rein, expecting to pitch hea
long every moment, and you admO