Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1913 — Famous Moccasin Bend of Tennessee River at Chattanooga. National Encampment G. A. R. to be held here September 15-20,1913. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Famous Moccasin Bend of Tennessee River at Chattanooga. National Encampment G. A. R. to be held here September 15-20,1913.

What pen can portray the matchless beauties that are unfolded from these mountain heights? At every spot upon the brow, a bewildering panorama of landscape stretches forth. There are loftier mountains, more sublime stretches of precipice and beetling cliffs, taller peaks and deeper gorges, but there is no spot on this western world where beauty is so charmingly united to sublimity, or where one’s soul is so thrilled without being awed by appalling surroundings; where the limpid lyrics of nature are so interwoven with her epics, where the melting hazes of purpling landscape dissolve into majestic stretches of towering peaks; where nature frowns and smiles, and wooes the enchanted beholder, thrilled by the glories and majesty of God’s handiwork.