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heidimarie at Jan 27, 2020 03:43 AM

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[side note]
[???m?] the Moses Ashley Curtis Papers in the Southern Historical Collection, Library [?]
[University?] of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. FOR REFERENCE ONLY: PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST [BE?]
[REQUESTED?]. WARNING: MOST MANUSCRIPTS ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT.
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Our first meeting was held the afternoon,
[???] body organized & adjourned to Monday morning.
[Bis?]. Gregg & myself then walked to the north point of
Mt., where we had a most exquisite view of the
Country below upon the winding Tennessee. It is far
finer, of its kind, than I have seen elsewhere in the Aleganies,
& was alone worth the journey of 700 miles to see.
I wish I could give a daguerreotype likeness of it. Bp.
Green & his clerical delegate met us near the point by
another road, & I lay down & leaned far over the precipice
to pluck some twigs of Sweet Birch for the [???]
[i???] Gregg will not go near a precipice, & at supper tonight
he took a fit of the shudders when alluding to
my temerity. Just as if I was going to tumble over
merely for a Birch twig!
It is rather cool up here at night, & the guests have
gathered around the parlor fire. I have left there to
have a chat with you, & then to an early bed. I have
some notion of rousing Gregg at 3 o'clock & taking
a moonlight view at the point. However, as I have
not yet quite made up my lee-way in sleep, I may post-pone
it to another night; especially as I have got
to preach at Chattanooga tomorrow. The natives
[may?] [???] well treated [to? Episcopacy?] tomorrow, as [??] [may?]

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