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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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ts one; and, climbing a slight ascent, he is once more in the face of day,and listening to other sounds than that of the human voice alone. Weyers Cave, says the writer quoted, is, in my judgment, one of the great natu-ral wonders of the New World, and, for its eminence in its own class, deserves to beranked with the Natural Bridge and Niagara, while it is far less known than either.Its dimensions, by the most direct course, are more than sixteen hundred feet, and, bythe more winding paths, twice that length; and its objects are remarkable for theirvariety, formation, and beauty. In both respects, it will, I think, compare without injuryto itself with the celebrated grotto of Antiparos. Within a few hundred yards of Weyers Cave is Madisons Cave, described by Mr.Jefferson ; but it is less interesting than the former. Indeed, it is supposed that theentire mountain is a cavern, and, it is hoped, in time will be fully explored. SCENES ON THE BRANDYWINE. ILLUSTRATIONS BY GRANVILLE PERKINS.
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\ T O minor stream in our country enjoys a wider reputation than the Brandywine. -^ ^ Its identification with our early history renders its queer title familiar to studentsin all parts of the land, while its rare beauties have been delineated by painters, praisedby poets, and described by tourists, until few of us have not some pleasant recollectionor anticipation connected with its wooded shores. It possesses attractions for the loverof the picturesque that are distinctively its own. Other streams are perhaps as beauti-ful as the Brandywine, but no other unites the beauty of wooded heights and tumblingwater-falls with structures of art that give rare charm and even quaintness to the picture.What is there in an old mill by a brook that fascinates so quickly the eye of an artistand the heart of a poet ? Long before Rogers told us of his earnest wish— Mine be a cot beside the hill; A beehives hum shall soothe my ear;A willowy brook that turns a mill, With many a fall, shall linger nea

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