Show STUDENT LIFE 84 bleakness and barrenness so common to the latter The fields of cotton corn and clover lock like squares of velvet on that great checker board This point is remarkable In that on a clear day you can see into seven states This day of which I write was ideal To the north we could see the Cumberland range near the Williamsburg Kentucky to the north-eas- t mountains of Old Virginia more than 200 miles away and in the same direction the entire valley of East Tennessee To the east lie the rugged Unakas in Nortli Carolina to the southeast a few mountain peaks of South Carolina A few minutes walk to the south will bring you to Georgia to the south-wethe timbered slopes of the Raccoon and Great Sand mountains extend well into Alabama while to the north-weyou look over and beyond the Cumberland range into Middle Tennessee Time will not permit us to walk around the west brow of the mountain to the narrow defile up which ITookcr and his brave fellows Foint Ilotel After breakfast I took a car for the old infought their way in that memorable battle cline station This incline rises 1700 feet in above the clouds We can only climb yonder the 4800 of its length and winds in and out short ladder to the top of Pulpit Rock where we can look upon the small flat to the northaround trees boulders and cliffs giving one during the ascent momentary glimpses of this west about half way down where stands the old battle-sca- r red farm house made famous on scene of matchless pastoral beauty The sensation in gliding noiselessly in the little open that 24th of November or glancing through car attached to the end of the cable is very like our field glass we see a few miles to the in the direction of Orchard Knob that of ascending in a balloon You start from north-eas- t what seems to be the scattered trees and green the station at the foot the extent of your a corn field but In a few moments the sward of a well kept park But on closer search beautiful city of Chattanooga unrolls itself like we see the rows of short marble slabs which a scroll at your feet A moment more and you mark the last resting places of some fourteen can overlook Cameron’s Ilill in the bend of the thousand of our nation’s dead Further to the and the well right as we stand facing the north the monuriver Look to the north-eas- t cultivated farms of the Tennessee valley fade ments which mark the places of extraordinary into the distance toward Knoxville Now as carnage along the summit of Missionary Ridge you turn to the north-weyon have scaled the meet our view while to the cast within easy rugged heights of Walden’s ridge and exposed range rise the hills like grim sentinels on either to view the Cumberland range from the border side of Rossvillc Gap The ground here is fairly of Kentucky to northern Alabama A few redolent with deeds of valor and feats of daring more abrupt turns about the rugged cliffs and of both blue and gray and we might spend hou is rehearsing the tales but there Is a limit you have readied the summit at Lookout Point Life (a3 well as to the What words can express what brush can por- to the space in Student 1 reader’s patience) so bid you find your way tray the beauty of the scene! To be sure there down as best you can either as we came by the is not the ruggedness or stupendousness of the incline from the Lookout Inn or the standard Rockies and the Wasatch nor is there the guage switch-bac- k railway of travel over the Cincinnati Southern I was shown to my room The next morning I awakened early and before the breakfast hour made my way to the office and the spacious veranda with Southern exposure to which the office opened stood the mighty There to the south-wesentinel of the valley of the Tennessee old Lookout famous in the legends of the Cherokee and now memorable for the deeds of bravery there enacted dnring our civil strife of 1SG1-- 5 It was not exactly as I had got the idea of “mountain” from the geography teaching of my youth not so high nor so well sharpened at the top as I imagined the great architect Nature would have framed it Yet its two thousand feet of dark green oak and pine covered slopes were impressive Yes even sublime The only break in the restful green was the naked cliff several hundred feet in height at the north end and which is surmounted by the Lookout st view-bein- st g st st |