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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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nce a year possibly, bring down their harvests, and perhaps those of their neighbors, tomarket. We found them, while rustic in manner, polite, affable, and intelligent. Onenotable feature of this busy scene was the apparently friendly manner in which whitesand blacks labored together. There was some little merry chaffing of each other, andthat was all. As each boat included both colors in the composition of its crew, andamong the teamsters was every shade of hue, there was abundant opportunity for thedisplay of class hatreds if they had existed. There would seem to be favorable occasion for the employment of capital and laborin this section of country, Chattanooga is a great railroad centre ; it is on the mainline of travel between the North and the South ; and it must, in the nature of things,develop into an important place. Capital is needed, which, with fresh energy and a morevaried industry, would soon give a marked impulse in the development of a section richin natural resources.
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^ ^l^CJQNt/fiyoj^ THE c^Awro/?D MO UMe/v RICHMOND, SCENIC AND HISTORIC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY FENN. T N one of the drawing-rooms of the Century Club, New York, there may be seen-^ a painting of a quaint old mansion of red brick, architecturally of the reign ofQueen Anne, one wing of which stands only in its charred timbers and blackenedwalls. This mansion is situated on the left bank of the James River, and, a centuryand a half ago, was the stately dwelling of the Hon. WiUiam Byrd, of Westover,Esquire. It was occupied for some time during the late civil war by the Federal troops(when the painting in possession of the Century Club was executed), and the name,Westover, will be freshly recalled in connection with the operations in Virginia duringthat struggle. There were three William Byrds, of Westover, grandfather, father, and son, each oneof whom makes a figure in the colonial history of Virginia, but it was the second ofthe name and title to whom reference is made above—a man

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