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elemental strife being evinced in the decapitated tree tops & shattered trunks. Many twisted & turned from their unclear: wonted? straitness 'ere they had acquired strength to resist the violence of the storm-- Added to this was the mystical effect of the moonlight The indistinct distinctness of moonlight has always something peculiarly mysterious and solemn in it but when this is exhibited in such a theatre as the mountains of Alleghany present, the grand & massive mountain range, the skeleton trees shattered by the storm, interspersed with hardy pines of apalling height. The rocks & twisted roots casting fantastic & suggestive shadows, shadows "of things unseen" more