It is undivided, but my lord stipulated that my portion should lie from the mountains westward.

What good is such an estate to an aging bachelor like me, who can never visit it?
But 'tis a fine inheritance for youth, and I propose to convey it to Dulcinea as a birthday gift.

Some day, I doubt not, 'twill be the Eden of America." At this there was a great crying out and some laughter, which died away when it appeared that the Governor spoke in all seriousness.
"I make one condition," he went on.

"Twenty years back there was an old hunter, called Studd, who penetrated the mountains.

He travelled to the head-waters of the Rapidan, and pierced the hills by a pass which he christened Clearwater Gap.