Warren County IN Archives History - Books .....The Landscape 1883 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/in/infiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com March 9, 2007, 3:55 pm Book Title: Counties Of Warren, Benton, Jasper And Newton, Indiana THE LANDSCAPE. Warren County has many natural scenes to delight the eye. Several bluffs along the Wabash, towering up like huge domes far above the water, command a view of over twenty miles along the valley and reveal the sinuous curves of the historical old river and the beautiful natural scenery along its banks. One may look down the river from above Independence and see five or six natural horizons of forestry until the view is terminated by a long belt of heavy timber over twenty miles away. But the most beautiful and picturesque views are along Big and Little Pine Creeks. Perpendicular embankments of sandstone, from which cascades as airy and bewitching as a bride's vail, leap from forty to eighty feet to the rocks below, and rise in mimic clouds of spray like a miniature Niagara, kindle in the beholder the highest emotion of grandeur. Natural groups of white pine, that most commanding of all tree3 seen at a distance, occur at intervals along the bluffs which skirt the valleys and stand like faithful sentinels over the vale below, through which the brook runs- laughing aloud on its way to deeper bays and swifter currents. Even the prairies in early years, with their islands of groves, were the grandest sights to those whose view from infancy had been hemmed in by heavy bodies of timber. The eye greeted the boundless vista of green velvet until sky and prairie met in the far distance as it did the immensity of the starry spaces or the sublime expanse of the ocean. All this and much more is in Warren County. Many people in other counties and States would travel miles to enjoy the beauties which too many of the citizens of Warren do not appreciate. Warren has three or four great natural pleasure resorts. Additional Comments: Extracted from: PART II. HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY. Geology and Settlement ======================== COUNTIES OF Warren, Benton, Jasper and Newton, INDIANA HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL ILLUSTRATED. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1883. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/in/warren/history/1883/counties/landscap486gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/infiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb