The falls of Spring creek, not far distant up that stream, are cascades of marvelous beauty. A number of the surrounding mountain summits command magnificent prospects. Deer can be started in neighboring fastnesses and driven to the river. As a bridge spans the stream directly before the hotel, the picturesque spots on the opposite bank can be reached. The famous Paint Rock is six miles below. The spot is well worth visiting. It is an immense wall of granite arranged in horizontal layers projecting over each other in irregular order and towering in weird proportions above the road, which lies close at its base between it and the river. The rocks present dark red faces, and it is from the natural coloring that the name is taken. On some of the smooth-faced layers black-lettered names can be deciphered; some left by Federal soldiers who, during the war, swept around this bend and up the river. Near here Paint creek comes dashing down between bold cliffs to empty into the French Broad. A toll-gate on its banks bars the way, and over-head looms Paint mountain, whose summit, bearing the Tennessee boundary line, is wound round by the road towards Greenville, the old home of Andrew Johnson. From the railroad between Warm Springs and Wolf creek, in Tennessee, glimpses of some of the wildest scenery of the French Broad can be obtained. Cliffs three hundred feet or more in height lean dizzily over the river. The most noteworthy of these rocky ramparts are termed the Chimneys. They are lofty, piled-up, chimney-like masses of stone standing out before bare walls of the same rocky exterior. At the first bridge below the Springs, Nature has wrought a terrific picture of the sublime. The river runs white-capped and sparkling below; the wild tremendous fronts of rocky mountains, seared with ravines frowning with precipices and ragged with pines, close around. Bending in sharp curves, the railroad penetrates the picture, leaps the long iron bridge and disappears. TABLE OF ALTITUDES. SMOKY MOUNTAINS. Mount Buckley 6,599 Clingman’s Dome 6,660 Mount Love 6,443 Mount Collins 6,188 Road Gap into Tenn. 5,271 Mt. Guyot (Bull-head Group) 6,636 Roan, High Knob 6,306 Beech Mountain 5,541 Elk Knob 5,574 BALSAM MOUNTAINS. Soco Gap 4,341 Amos Plott (Junaluskas) 6,278 Lickstone 5,707 Deep Pigeon Gap 4,907 Great Divide 6,425 Old Bald 5,786 Devil’s Court-House 6,049 Shining Rock 5,988 Cold Mountain 6,063 Pisgah 5,757 BLACK MOUNTAINS.