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In places they had mussed up the ground as much as a barnyard. We tried to follow the boundary line between the two States, which is exactly upon the top of the Smokies, but often missed it. It took us three and one-half days to go, and two and one-half to return, and we arose with the morning star and worked hard all day.
"No, don't bother him. We'll need him out on the Coast. Don't you know, we are just here in the mountains for a little while." "Don't you like these mountings, ma'am?" asked Tom Osby, sinking back into his seat. "I always did. They always remind me of the Smokies, in Car'lina, back South." "You came from the South?" "Georgy, ma'am." "Georgia!
James H. Ferriss and wife, naturalists from Joliet, Illinois, explored the Smokies to the Lufty Gap northeast of Clingman, collecting rare species of snails and ferns. No doubt Mrs. Ferriss is the only white woman who ever went beyond Clingman or even ascended the Dome itself.
His heart sang within him, that memorable and wondrous night, up there in the hiding-place among the Great Smokies there with Catherine and the other comrades there planning the last great blow to strike away forever the shackles from the bleeding limbs of all the human race!
The Coast and Geodetic Survey gave the height of Mount Mitchell as 6,688 feet; but later figures of the U. S. Geological Survey are 6,711 and 6,712. In 1859 Buckley claimed for Clingman Dome of the Smokies an altitude of 6,941 feet. In recent government reports the Dome appears variously as 6,619 and 6,660. In 1911 I was told by Mr.
And so you, ambitious one, when you go into the Smokies after that long-lost bear, remember these two cardinal points of the Law: Dream that you are fighting some poor old colored woman. Keep your mouth shut about it. There was still no sign of rose-color in the eastern sky when we sallied forth. The ground, to use a mountaineer's expression, was "all spewed up with frost."
One day I was alone, Andy having gone down to Medlin for the mail. It had rained a good deal in fact, there was a shower nearly every day throughout the summer, the only semblance of a dry season in the Smokies being the autumn and early winter. The nights were cold enough for fires and blankets, even in our well-chinked cabin.
The other division was at first divided, one of the two brigades being centrally placed at Knoxville, and the other at Sevierville, thirty miles up the French Broad River, where it covered the principal pass over the Smokies to Asheville, N. C. The rest of his cavalry was at London and Kingston, where it covered the north side of the Tennessee River and communicated with Rosecrans's outposts above Chattanooga.
He started off alone on his exploring expedition, rifle in hand, and a good horse under him. He crossed the ranges that continue northward the Great Smokies, and spent the summer in the beautiful hill country where the springs of the western waters flowed from the ground. He had never seen so lovely a land.
The chance of being bitten by one is about as remote as that of being struck by lightning either accident might happen, of course. The mountaineers have an absurd notion that the little lizard so common in the hills is rank "pizen." Oddly enough, they call it a "scorpion." From those two pests of the North Woods, black-flies and mosquitoes, the Smokies are mercifully exempt.
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