Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1911-06-23
Miseellansuus Readins.
AT CAESARS HEAD.
The Scene From a Famous Cliff, as
Described BY a Correspondent.

Standing on the highest point or
Caesars Head, so named because OF
its resemblance to the head Of Caesar
more than 5000 feet above sea level In
the northwestern part Of Greenville
county, South Carolina, one can look
over into historic Tennessee, drinking
| in the beauty of the landscape in that
direction, the most distant mountains
in view reaching many miles into the
Big Bend State"
very waters of the Saluda, vending
toward the Atlantic ocean, passing
near farm houses, through fields
woodlands, orchards and vineyards
driving on their way ponderous
wheels of great factories, which give
employment to thousands Of deserv-
ing and honest sons and daughters OF
toll.
Looking northeast, one has fine
view of the Dark Corner" miles and
miles of dense woodland Of oak, pop
lar, walnut and hickory reaching up
TO the very base. of the mountains,
which encircle this place Of bloody
deeds, the paradise Of the moonsh :ner,
the mountains themselves, for the most
part, being covered with chestnut,
pine, laurel and cedar, with now and
then holly or a dogwood.
Near the base of these mountains
are orchards and vineyards, sun-kiss-
ed fields of golden grain and sweet
scented clover, traversed by brooklets
Of cool, clear, sparkling water, sportive-
ly making their way to larger and
deeper, but less noisy streams, clear
as crystal and teeming with silver
perch and mountain trout.
A few miles west of Caesars Heal
Is Table Rock, the sides Of which rise
on the east perpendicularly over 1000
feet above the waters of the Saluda,
which playfully passes between these
two noted cliffs. A little south and
west of Table Rock can be seen in the
distance a number of tall mountain
famous hunting grounds Of the Chero-
kee Indians, later the native state OF
Alexander H. Stephens, one Of the most
intellectual, bravest and best men OF
the Confederacy. In full view, and on
direct line between Caesars Head
and Greenville city, are located the
pretty little towns Of Travellers Rest
and Marietta on the line Of the Green
vile and Knoxville railroad, which,
when completed, will give new life to
the mountainous country through
which 1t passes, making waste places
blossom as the rose" and christianiz-
ing portions of country where church
going bells" were never heard.
About thirty miles in a southeastern
ly direction can be plainly seen the
beautiful city of Greenville, with its
tall church steeples, its stately man.
sions, its spacious school and college
buildings, It's workshops and its fac
tories, nestled down near the foot OF
Paris mountain, on the Reedy river
About forty miles beyond Greenville
the Pearl Of the Piedmont" looms up
in the distant foot hills Of the Blue
Ridge mountains, near Waterloo, over
looking "Rosemont," the ancestral
home of Miss Pamela Cunningham
whose self sacrifices in the organiZa-
ton and perpetuation Of the Mount
Vernon society have made her name
near and dear TO every true American
Looking north and northeast, one can
see the SUBMITS of some Of the tallest
mountains in North Carolina, appear
ing in the distance like deep blue
clouds.
Here, at Caesars Head, the sunset
is especially beautiful, giving red
dish t!nge to the small floating clouds
that may be passing overhead, its de-
parting rays making great shadows
in the deep ravines lying between the
distant mountains, the tops of which
are still aglow from the reflected sun
The sun once set, the stars, one by
one, come into sight till the whole
heavens are bedecked with 10000 SEN
tlnels of the night, differing in bril-
liancy and in magnitude each keeping
vigil over millions Of the human race
BY and by the rising moon begins
to shed her soft rays over the sleeping
mountains, making the scene like some
enchanted garden with its myriads OF
nymphs, one of exceptional beauty and
grandeur.
Now all is quietude save the occa-
sional hooting of an owl, the music OF
the mocking bird mellowing the soft
balmy air with its varied songs, the
barking of the fox or the echoing notes
of the distant whippoorwil.
Nature at length demands rest and
sleep. Comfortably couched In Cae-
sar's Head hotel, and famed by balmy
breezes. one Is soon in dreamland, un-
dergoing a refrigeration of mind and
body. During the short, restful hours
of the night, Hands of angels hidden
from mortal eyes," are changing the
scenery of the heavens, and when tine
cocks shrill clarion" has echoed the
approach of the dawn, the early riser
can witness, first, the soft tinged heaV-
ems in the east, then deeper ana
deeper tinge till Old Sol again begins
to shed his genial rays over mountain
tops down into meadows, valleys and
fields, awakening from their slumbers
all living creatures, Transforming myr-
lads of tiny dew-drops into spark
ling diamonds, gladdening the tassel-
ing corn, making rejoice the golden
rod the daisy and the buttercup, and
giving a tinge of red to the pale bloom
of the cotton, one of the staple crops
of our own beautiful and glorious
southland, The Land of Dixie the
gem of America.
Far down in the valleys below Cae-
sar's Head often during the afternoons
especially in summer, heavy rain
storms, accompanied by frequent
flashes of lightning and loud peals OF
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