The Heart of the Alleghenies
Chapter 8- In the Saddle
	IN THE SADDLE Mounting in Asheville -- A Surly Host -- Bat Cave -- Titanic Stone Cliffs -- chimney Rock Hotel -- The Pools -- A Sunset Scene -- The Shaking Bald -- The Spectre Cavalry Fight -- A Twighlight Gallop Through McDowell County -- Pleasant Gardens -- The Catawba Valleys -- On the Linville Range -- Table Rock and Hawk-Bill -- The Canon -- Innocents Abroad -- The Fox and the Pheasant -- Linville Falls -- A Dismal Woodland -- Travelling Families -- Grandfather Mountain -- The Ascent -- A Sunday Ride -- Blowing Rock -- Boone -- Valle Crucis -- Elk River -- The Cranberry Mines -- On the Roan -- Cloud-Land Hotel [Cloudland Hotel] --A Hermit's History -- Above a Thunder Storm -- Bakersville -- Traces of a Prehistoric People --The Sink-Hole and Ray Mica Mines -- Cremation -- Drawing Rein
	page 237	"There is something in a long ride on a horseback that time cannot obliterate."
	page 238	"If the tourist intends traveling for a month or more, the wisest plan is to buy a horse, and then sell at the finish."  Asheville ; Hickory Nut Gap
	page 239	"The road now begins to descend through beautiful sylvan scenes, combining all the gloom...and blue streaks of sky."
	page 240	"I'm a man with a history.  I can give you points about a country that is a country."
	page 241	"The man in brown...filled my ears with a recital of the mysteries of the Bat cave...the wonder of the mountains."  Bat Cave ; Chimney Rock
	page 242	"An air as cold as a winter lake breeze came from the darkness."
	page 243	"From the glimpses caught of it along the shaded river, one might liken it to the bare forehead of some Caesar, with laurel crown, overlooking the distant lands of Rutherford County."  General GW Logan ; Pool creek ; Rutherford ; Chimney Rock
	page 244	"High mountains bound this vale on north and south...like companion sentinels, guarding the western gateway down which the sun was to march..."  Chimney Rock ; Round top
	page 245	"The crack widen every year, and, as it widens, stones are dislodged from the mountain steeps."  Chimney Rock ; Bat cave ; Bald mountain ; earthquakes ; volcanoes ;
	page 246	"A ridge alone through such scenery, and under such influences, tells upon one's strength and spirits."  Mill fork ; Old Fort ; Catawba
	page 247	"it was after one of my easy gallops...I beheld lying before me a valley scene of striking beauty."  Mackey's mountain; Pleasant Gardens
	page 248	"[Farm houses] denote prosperity, happiness and culture in the families inhabiting them."  Catawba ; Pleasant Gardens
	page 249	"Its waters have a peculiar, clear, green hue, and speak of speckled trout in their depths and shaded rapids."  North Fork ; Linville Falls
	page 250	"It appeared like a stone wall rising from the ocean."  Table Rock ; Hawkbill ;
	page 251	"A thin mist lent an indescribable weirdness to the scene, and seemed veiling some mighty mystery in its folds."  Linville river
	page 252	"A scene is sublime, according to its power to awaken the sense of fear ; the more startling, the more sublime."  Linville river ; North Fork
	page 253	"You know the peril of your being abroad nights.  Some one else, less timid, might actually shoot you."
	page 254	"Had they got there first, they would have barred the door against us, and, perhaps, warned us away with a few pistol shots."
	page 255	"The hollow drum-like sound caused by beating their wings against their bodies, is in most instances their death tattoo."  cock pheasant ; blue jay ; Linville falls
	page 256	"If one.. takes the left hand trail...a magnificent downward view will be obtained... increased in velocity by the plunges over smaller falls only a few yards up the gorge."  Jonas' Ridge
	page 257	"It was late in the season for their flowers, still many of them were white and purple with bloom."
	page 258	"A more dismal woodland for a twilight ride could not well be imagined in the possibilities of nature."  Blue Ridge ; Linville river
	page 259	"The pinched features, straggling hair, and sallow, almost beardless face of the man, made his a visage of stolid apathy."
	page 260	"His long gray hair...wrinkled face, and mild blue eyes, had something in all to arouse reverence and pity in the most thoughtless of mankind."  Ocona Lufta  [Oconoluftee] ; Swain ; Richland valley
	page 261	"It merits the name of Grandfather, for its rocks are of the Archaean age, and the oldest out-croppings on the globe."  Grandfather mountain
	page 262	"Not a note from a feathered songster resounded through the forest."
	page 263	"They have all the colors of the ocean, wave beyond wave... then the dream of the sea vanishes."  Watauga
	page 264	"This manner of the mountaineers saluting every one...is a pleasant one, and prevents... feelings of loneliness..."  Blowing Rock ; Fairview
	page 265	[Illustration] WATAUGA FALLS
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	page 267	"The noise of a spinning wheel, coming from the sunlight-flooded porch where a gray-haired matron was visible, blended with the sounds of the fields."  Boone ; Elk river
	page 268	"With this singular apostacy [sic], work at the mission school closed, and the building gradually assumed its present proportions."  Bishop Ives ; Valle Crucis ; Elk River
	page 269	"The serenity of the evening was not disturbed by the farewell whistling of the quails; the rattling of the bells from the cows... the barking of a dog... and the opening cry of the whip-poor-will."  Cranberry Iron and Coal ; North Carolina University ; Elk River
	page 270	"...I learned every crook of the way, and with only the steepness of the ascent to discomfort me, arrived at sunset on the summit of that majestic mountain."  Roan mountain ; Cloudland Hotel
	page 271	"The mountain brooks teem with speckled trout, and a series of beautiful cascades on one wild slope will attract the lover of nature."  Cloudland Hotel ; General J.W.  Bowman ; David Grier ; Silas McDowell
	page 272	"Every flash of lightning was a revelation of glory, disclosing a sea of clouds of immaculate whiteness."  Colonel Vance ; David Grier ; Roan mountain
	page 273	"The reason given is that they fought to liberate the negro from bondage...they wish to be free from all contact with him."  Bakersville ; Cane Creek ; Nollichucky ; Turkey Cove
	page 274	"If you attempt the descent, the daylight will be appreciated on your return."  Clarissa mica mine ; William Sharpe ; John McKnitt ; Sink-hole Mines ; Bakersville
	page 275	"Many other traces have been discovered through the mountain country of a people who inhabited it before the advent of the Cherokees."
	page 276	"The former inmate of the sepulcher was probably buried and then cremated by the race, according to its religious rites."  relic hunters ; Pigeon river
	page 277	"The road was in splendid condition...and enabled me, with a sound horse, to arrive, in good shape, in the county seat of Buncombe..."
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