Excerpt from A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature, and Human Nature, in the Blue Ridge IN a day and a night I had come from early May to middle June from a world of bare boughs to a forest clad in all the ver dure of summer. Such a shine as the big, lusty leaves of the black-jack oaks had put on! I could have raised a shout. In the day when all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, may I be somewhere in the black-jack's neighborhood. Hour after hour we sped along, out of North Carolina into South ...
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Excerpt from A World of Green Hills: Observations of Nature, and Human Nature, in the Blue Ridge IN a day and a night I had come from early May to middle June from a world of bare boughs to a forest clad in all the ver dure of summer. Such a shine as the big, lusty leaves of the black-jack oaks had put on! I could have raised a shout. In the day when all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, may I be somewhere in the black-jack's neighborhood. Hour after hour we sped along, out of North Carolina into South Carolina: now through miles and miles of forest; now past a lonely cabin, with roses before the door, white honey suckle covering the fence, and acres of sunny ploughed land on either side. Here a river ran between close green hills, and there the hills parted and disclosed the revolving hori zon set with blue mountains. Then, at a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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