Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE VICTIM. CHAPTER XL ON THE EOAD. Liberty, the county town of Bedford, is a pleasant, and, to allappearance, a thriving little town. The travelers passed the nightat a very comfortable hotel kept by Leftwitch, and were introducedto the daughter of their host, a bright-eyed maiden of thirteenyears, who had lately performed the feat of riding to the top ofthe South Peak on horseback. Of the next days journey from Liberty to Lynchburg, jocosely remarks, we will have
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE VICTIM. CHAPTER XL ON THE EOAD. Liberty, the county town of Bedford, is a pleasant, and, to allappearance, a thriving little town. The travelers passed the nightat a very comfortable hotel kept by Leftwitch, and were introducedto the daughter of their host, a bright-eyed maiden of thirteenyears, who had lately performed the feat of riding to the top ofthe South Peak on horseback. Of the next days journey from Liberty to Lynchburg, jocosely remarks, we will have more to say than we couldhave wished. The weather was delightful. An Indian summerhaze threw a softening veil over the landscape, and the Peaks,still in full view, loomed up grandly against the western THE PEAKS OF OTTER—DISTANT VIEW. PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. Of the road which they traveled that day Mr. C. declines under-taking any descrijDtion ; for, said he, to use an expression ofthe orator Isocrates, if I were to stick to the truth I-couldnt tellthe half, and if I Avere to lie I couldnt exceed the reality of itsunspeakable abominations. In passing through the town of New London, Mr. C. remon-strated with the toll-gatherer, but to no purpose. About fivemiles and a half from Lynchburg our adventurers were descend-ing a hill. The hill was very steep—so steep that the driver wasobliged to zigzag his horses to check the impetus of the road at that point was of good old conservative corduroy—corded with stout saplings of various diameters, a species of rail-road much used in the Old Dominion. They had descendedmany such hills before, and as they neared the bottom. Mice, ac-cording to custom, let his horses out. Down they rattled at fullspeed. The corduroy termi
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