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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ASCEND THE ALLEGHANIES. 27 LETTER IV. Bedford, Pa, Oct. 24th, 1833. We have commenced ascending the Alleghanies. A cold, difficult ride among the hills has brought us at last to an excellent inn in the little town from which I write. A blazing fire of seasoned oak in a large open stove sputters and Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ASCEND THE ALLEGHANIES. 27 LETTER IV. Bedford, Pa, Oct. 24th, 1833. We have commenced ascending the Alleghanies. A cold, difficult ride among the hills has brought us at last to an excellent inn in the little town from which I write. A blazing fire of seasoned oak in a large open stove sputters and crackles before me; and after having warmed my fingers, and spent some twenty minutes in examining an extensive collection of Indian arms and equipments, arranged around the room with a degree of taste that would not have disgraced the study of Sir Walter Scott, I sit down quietly to give you my first impressions of this mountain region. We entered these highlands yesterday; S, who values himself upon being a great whip, driving his ponies up the ascent, and I, as usual, on horseback. It was about an hour before sunset that we commenced ascending a mountain ridge, whose deep blue outline, visible for many a long mile before we reached the base, might be mistaken in the distance for the loftier rampart of which it is only the out28 MOUNTAIN SCENERY. post. The elevation, which showed afar off like a straight line along the horizon, became broken in appearance as the eye, at a nearer view, measured its ragged eminences; but it was not till we were winding up a broad hollow scooped out of the hill-side, and through which the beams of the declining sun played upon the fields and farm-houses beyond, that the true character of the adjacent region opened upon us. The ridge we were ascending still roselike a huge wall before us; but the peaks, which had seemed to lean against the clear October sky, like loftier summits of the same elevation, now stood apart from the frowning barrier, towering up each from its own base-the bastions of the vast rampart we were scaling. Each Books, History~~General, Winter-in-the-West~~Charles-Fenno-Hoffman, , , , , , , , , , BiblioBazaar<

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: BIBLIOBAZAAR, 346 Seiten, L=178mm, B=254mm, H=21mm, Gew.=816gr, [GR: 15500 - HC/Geschichte], [SW: - History - General History], Gebunden<