Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of (14577497888)

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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill



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Perrys Lookout, Gibraltar Island. THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ERIE. 541
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Perrys Cave, Put-in-Bay Island. Put-in-Bay is a lovely sheet of water, with Little Gibraltar islet nestled in its cres-cent. Put-in-Bay Island has two large summer hotels standing among its vineyards,Roses bloom in its gardens in December. Some of the islands are still wild and uninhabited, and several have only a singlefamily. They abound in caves and rocky formations, to which, in many instances. Perrysname is attached. Little Gibraltar is crowned with the towers of a picturesque villa; ithas also its Sphinx Head, which may be called a fresh-water imitation of the Egyp-tian queen. The Rattlesnake Island and its rattles alone preserve the memory of thereal aboriginal inhabitants of the group, who, according to the geographies of the lastcentury, lay in acres upon the lily-leaves basking in the sun, and hissing out a breathwhich struck death to the incautious mariner who ventured near these isles of terror. Along the Sandusky peninsula and over the islands stretch the vineyards, whose