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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • SCENES LIKE THIS GREET THE EYE FROM HUNDREDS OF POINTS WITHIN THE PARK The "Perfect" Mountain View READING a paper before the Academy of Science, G. R. Mayfield, of Vanderbilt University, said in part, referring to a trip to the top of LeConte: "Up through deep cool valleys and past thick growths of undergrowth and of evergreen thickets we found our way to the top about two o'clock on an early September afternoon. The panorama lying at our feet and stretching to the distant horizon in all directions was grander than any sight I have ever seen. All my life I have been looking for an ideal mountain view— the kind that you see in your dreams and fondly believe is to be found on every mountain top. The Rockies, the Alps, the Lake Country of England, the Scotch Highlands, the Apennines in Italy, and even Mt. Mitchell in the Black Mountain range—there had always been a doubt, a reservation as to the perfection of the view. But that day, like Archimedes of old, I felt like rushing down LeConte and shouting to the world 'Eureka, Eureka'." CHIMNEY TOPS, IN THE CENTER OF THE PARK AREA
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