lookout-tree

Updated: July 31, 2026

I climbed a lookout-tree by means of cross-strips nailed to the trunk, and beheld from the summit a long succession of hazy hills, valleys, and forests, with the Blue Ridge Mountains bounding the distance, like some mighty monster, enclosing the world in its coils.

George Alfred Townsend - Campaigns of a Non-Combatant,: and His Romaunt Abroad During the War