Excerpt from The Balsam Groves of the Grandfather Mountain: A Tale of the Western North Carolina Mountains, Together With Information Relating to the Section and Its Hotels, Also a Table Showing the Height of Important Mountains, Etc In the ample field which our little volume discloses, the most luxuriant rambler may range at large, Visiting streams and mountains in end less variety and extent, and, after his boldest excursions, he can only wing his way in imagi nation among the splendid objects that are still before him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.