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Early Explorers in the Great Smokies

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  • 62 East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications road through the Big Smokies mountain it must go through this gap". But then we find the courses marked out and marked "wrong" all the way back to the twenty-fifth mile, where he takes a new start in a different direction. The inference drawn from this is that at the "Jump-off" on Mount Kephart, Davenport missed his way, and instead of following the true divide, turned off along "the Boulevard" toward Le Conte. His gap for a road was in the low. saddle just under Myrtle Point, and he only discovered his mistake when he reached its heights. Then as now, Smoky spread pitfalls for the travellers' feet. When Charles Lanman made his tour of the southern states in 1848 he become very much interested in the Cherokee Indians, spending some weeks in the neighborhood of Quallah Town, the present Cherokee, as the guest of Colonel W. H. Thomas, the beloved Wil-usdi of the Indians.26 While here he was led to make several excursions deep into the hills. To him the whole Smoky range appeared as one vast mountain, and to it he pays his respects, in part, thus :27 This mountain is the loftiest of a large brotherhood which lie crowded together between North Carolina and Tennessee. Its height cannot be! less than five thousand feet above the level of the sea, for the road leading from its base to its summit is seven and a half miles long. The general character of the mountain is similar to that already given of other southern mountains, and all that I can say of its panorama is that I can conceive of nothing more grand and imposing. It gives birth to a pair of glorious streams, the Pigeon River of Tennessee and the Ocona- lufty of North Carolina, and derives its name from the circumstance that its summit is always enveloped, on account of its height, in a blue or smoky atmosphere. During his stay Lanman visited Alum Cave, calling it "the chief attraction of Smoky Mountains", reached by a "pedestrian pilgrimage of about six miles up and down, very far up and ever so far down, and over everything in the way of rocks and ruined vegetation which Nature could possibly devise".28 He describes the sharp, steep ridges nearby and the depths of Huggins Hell beneath in a closing paragraph: 26 Chas. Lanman, op. cit., 85. 27 Ibid., 85. 28 Ibid., 86. 20 Ibid., 87.
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