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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s loses sight of its silvery waters altogether; but the appearing andreappearing surface of the stream affords contmual changes to the picture. Between thebluff and the river are narrow strips of arable bottom-land; and these, which sometimesare only narrow ribbons bordering the stream, and at others wide fields, are very rich insoil and carefully cultivated. But the owners, almost without exception, live in rude log-cabins. We saw but two or three houses above this condition. The occupants aresometimes negroes, but the majority are whites, who, however, as a rule, are not of theclass known as poor whites. The cabins are rude, the grounds limited, the meansscanty, but the residents are a proud, intelligent set, who should be classed as huntersand woodsmen rather than as husbandmen. Their delight is the woods and the moun-tains, and they almost live on horseback. Their needs are a gun, a dog, a horse, acottage, a wife, and a cow—and pretty much in the order enumerated. They are semi-
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LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN AND THE TENNESSEE. 6r,

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