The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . Nothing brokerudely in upon the spirit of the scene but here andthere a way-side log-cabin, with its hopeless squalor,hopeless human inmates. If imagination sought re-lief from loneliness, it found it only in conjuring fromthe dust of the road that innumerable caravan of lifefrom barbarism to civilization, from the savage to thesoldier, that has passed hither and thither, leaving thewealth of nature unravished, its solitude unbroken. In the hush of the evening and amid the silenceof eternity, I drew the rein of my tired horse on
The blue-grass region of Kentucky : and other Kentucky articles . Nothing brokerudely in upon the spirit of the scene but here andthere a way-side log-cabin, with its hopeless squalor,hopeless human inmates. If imagination sought re-lief from loneliness, it found it only in conjuring fromthe dust of the road that innumerable caravan of lifefrom barbarism to civilization, from the savage to thesoldier, that has passed hither and thither, leaving thewealth of nature unravished, its solitude unbroken. In the hush of the evening and amid the silenceof eternity, I drew the rein of my tired horse on thesite of the present town. Before me in the mere dis-tance, and outlined against the glory of the sky, theretowered at last the mighty mountain wall, showingthe vast depression of the gap — the portal to thegreatness of the commonwealth. Stretching awayin every direction was a wide plain, broken here andthere by wooded knolls, and uniting itself with grace-ful curves to the gentle slopes of the surroundingmountains. The ineffable beauty, the vast repose,. FORD ON THE CUMBERLAND. MOUNTAIN PASSES OF THE CUMBERLAND 299 the overawing majesty of the historic portal, thememories, the shadows — they are never to be for-gotten. A few weeks ago I reached the same spot as thesun was rising, having come thither from Pinevilleby rail. As I stepped from the train I saw that theshadowy valley of my remembrance had been incred-ibly transformed. Some idea of the plan of the newtown may be understood from the fact that Cumber-land Avenue and Peterborough Avenue, intersectingeach other near the central point of it, are, whencompleted, to be severally three and a half or fourand a half miles long. There are twenty avenuesand thirty streets in all, ranging from a hundred feetto sixty feet wide. So long and broad and level arethe thoroughfares that the plan, as projected, sug-gests comparison with Louisville. The valley siteitself contains some six thousand available acres. It should be unde
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