Stage Riding--The Driver’s Story--Waynesville--Court Week--Prescriptions for Spirit. Frument.--Before the Bar--An Out-Door Jury Room--White Sulphur Springs--A Night’s Entertainment--The Haunted Cabin--A Panther Hunt--The Phantom Millers--Light on the Mysteries--Micadale--Recollections--Soco Falls--Webster--An Artist’s Trials--Above the Tuckasege Cataract--Hamburg--A Cordial Invitation--Cashier’s Valley--Whiteside--A Coffee Toper--Horse Cove--Golden Sands--Ravenel’s Magnificent Site--Hints for the Mounted Tourist--The Macon Highlands--A Demon of the Abyss--A Region of Cascades and Cataracts--Through Rabun Gap--Clayton, Georgia--The Falls of Tallulah--An Iron Way.....279 _A ZIGZAG TOUR._ The Mountains as a Summer Resort--On the Western North Carolina Railroad--Sparkling Catawba Springs--Glen Alpine--Marion--Asheville--Romantic Drives--Turnpike--Arden Park--Hendersonville--Flat Rock--The Ante-War Period--Cæsar’s Head--Brevard--A “Moonshine” Expedition--A Narrow Escape--How Illicit Whisky is Sold--Along the French Broad--An Excited Countryman--Marshal--Warm Springs--Shut-in Gap--Paint Rock--A Picture of the Sublime.....333 Tables of Altitude, Population, Area of counties, and Temperature.....371 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE. 1. VALLEY OF THE NOON-DAY SUN Frontispiece. 2. UNAKA KANOOS 13 3. A SOCO LASS 37 4. MOUNT PISGAH 43 5. THE FINAL STRUGGLE 74 6. THE WARRIOR BALD 82 7. A NARROW WATER-WAY 102 8. A GLIMPSE OF THE TOE 119 9. ON THE CATALUCHE 128 10. OCHLAWAHA VALLEY FROM DUN CRAGIN 135 11. ON THE LITTLE TENNESSEE 145 12. SILVER SPRINGS 173 13. THE FRENCH BROAD CANON 182 14. SWANNANOA HOTEL 211 15. SPARKLING CATAWBA SPRINGS 235 16. THE WATAUGA FALLS 266 17. MACON HIGHLANDS 293 18. THE JUNALUSKAS 316 19. THE CULLASAJA FALLS 329 20. UP THE BLUE RIDGE 338 21. BOLD HEADLANDS 354 22. CASCADES OF SPRING CREEK 369