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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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who penetrate to their fastnesses. A worthy clergyman from thelower counties was journeying peacefully on a religious errand to the neighboring 520 RABUN GAP CLAYTON. State, through the passes of Rabun, shortly before our visit, wlien he suddenly,one day, saw thirteen guns pointed at him by as many men, and had to dis-mount and prove, at the rifles muzzles, that he was not a revenue officer. From Whiteside, in North Carolira, to Rabun Gap, it is only forty-five orfifty miles on an air line, but the detours through the ravines make it fartherto the traveler. When one arrives at Clayton he feels much as if he had left theworld behind him. The quaint hamlet lies in a valley encircled with mountains.As you enter, you have that feeling of being imprisoned and of desire to escape,^ __ so common to the wanderer among the Alleghanies and onthe Blue Ridge. There seems nopossible outlet; the town appearsto have been conveyed there byenchantment, yet a little carefulobservation will show you the
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Let us address de Almighty wid prar. (Page 521.) roads piercing the passes in the valleys. Not far from Clayton are the falls ofthe Estatoia, or, as the mountaineers call them, Rabun Falls, where a succes-sion of brilHant cascades plunge down the chasm in a mountain-side. Clam-bering to the top of this natural stairway in the rocks, one may obtain anoutlook over the valley of the Tennessee, miles beyond Clayton, and may notethe mountain billows rolling away, apparently innumerable, until the eye tiresof the immensity! I have had occasion to describe the mountain hack to you — a red wagonmounted on super-fragile springs, and graced with seats, which, at every startmade by the horses, bid fair to leave the vehicle. In such a conveyance, behindtwo splendid horses, did we depart from one of the forest towns on the Air Line A NEGRO MEETING. railway one morning in mid-October, and climb the red hills of NorthernGeorgia. Mile after mile we journeyed through lands which might be madevery va

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