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of Alabama. I dident see any thing of the state line but I saw some large hills with large and small rocks strewn promiscuously over them. The large stones grew in patches like hazel bush some of them protruding a bulk above ground equal to a smoke-house. Towards evening we decended an immense hill and found our selvs in the valey of big bear creeke and here we saw some sublime sceneries such as huge rocks that no Ajax might heave, immense bluffs from which protruded purpendiclar rocks the whole crowned with towering pines and cedar bushes. On that bottom I saw a spring gurgling up from among the stones that exceeded anything I ever saw before in the line of springs. There had been a splendid bridge thrown across bear creeke