Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1902-05-30
SeoIt,s fmu!slen
You win find il Just as useful in summer
as in winter. and II you are thriving upon
It don't stop because the weather is warm.
soc. and sr.oo, all druggists,
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, New York.

road is level, no ''sidelng'' or rough
places in it, perfectly secure, but be-
yond the edge it was in places impass-
able and sinister. 1t is no uncommon
thing even now for travellers to meet
bear along this road, and tree is
pointed out where the wolves, having
freed a man, kept him there all night.
When he was rescued by passers in
the morning the tree was seen to have
been gnawed nearly through by the
vOracious beasts. Wolves are rarely
seen here now. They have gone to
Businesses deeper in the mountains of
West Virginia and North Carolina
GLIMPSES OF IMPOSING SCENERY.
Now and again one gets glinpses
up and down this pass which make
most dramatic and imposing pictures
With all its rugged grandeur, there is
still an idyllic quality in this sylvan
ravine. Its ripping water and charm
ing scenery make it more delightful
than any similar spot At Paint Rock,
on the French Broad, there are
glimpses much like this, but Goshen
Pass is narrow and more charming.
Tuckerman' Ravine, in the White
Mountains, is much the same sort of
a narrow rocky gorge, hut it lacks
the vegetation it is rocky and barren |
as a crater, The. rich, variegated |
growth, from silver lichens to velvet |
green moss, laurel big and little, to
poplar, oak, maple and spruce, with
the grey of bare rock, produce an
infinite variety Of color and though |
in August, the scheme, green and
blue, is far from monotonous The
effect Of mist creeping up the noun
tain side and the fine. ragged line of
jutting purple cliff and spruce trees
projected against this, must be seen
to be appreciated. In n narrow gorge
INV iillH, Wv Nll''N 10 ~ lthlfh
that it becomes immensely pictorial
On every hand is laurel, big laurel
and little laurel Us the natives
speak of rhododendron and the true
laurel. These hardy ever
green's, with their tough, woody stems
tortured into every conceivable twist
md turn, cling to every crevice in the
rocky places where little soil has
edged. At a point in the Pass called
laurel Run, where tiny brook
'rosses the road, is n magnificent
hicket of laurel. The brook moistens
he rocks for II wide space and the
'ookS and fallen logs here have be-
come carpeted with silken moss of
great richness. Above this the laurel
busters
WHEN THE LAUREL BLOOMS.
"See Goshen Pass when the laurel
5 in bloom and you will forget every
,ther beautiful bit of nature you ever
oOked at, - said friend of mine. |
made a pencil sketch of Laurel Run,
citing my Imagination picture this
beautiful spot as it might appear
when that tangle Of big and little
aurel was in bloom. | was quite will
ing to believe my friend might be
light Little wonder that Commodore
iaury should be so in love with
his fascinating place. If the spirit !,
ares for what befalls this poor body
f ours after that spirit has taken its 7
nal departure, he must have enjoyed {
eeply the journey his remains made 4
rom Lexington to Richmond, by way 4
Goshen Pass, and in June when |
ne laurel was i'm bloom. One is I
of Rousseau's great love of i
ature expressed in much the same -
ay In his instructions to his atten- !,
ants: "When you think am dying,
irry me out underneath some great
TX tree and I'm sure | shall revive L.
One beautiful effect follows another q
} closely-no two vistas are the same
this great PaSs-that one forgets q
he flight of miles and time. 1t is e
bout five miles through the Pass
roper and about seven miles from
Oshen. At the lower end of the
ass is fine sulphur spring, reached
Y rustic bridge across the stream. --
ere by the roadside in "A fine oak
owe are placed twenty or thirty huts
rude construction in camp-meeting BY
yle. This bit of ground and the &c
ring was left to the citizens of the ca