.  But  higher  up  are  the  Titan  hills  ;  and  when  we  get  among
them,  we  will  find  the  difference  between  the  abodes  of  the
giants    and   their   elfin   neighbors."

After  a  hard  day's  march  for  man  and  beast,  they  at
length  reached  Cathey's,  or  Cathoo's,  plantation  —  since
Cathey's  mill,  at  the  mouth  of  Grassy  creek,  a  small
eastern  tributary  of  North  Toe  river ;  and  here  they  rested
for  the  night. f  Some  twenty  miles  were  accomplished  this
day.     Their  parched  corn  meal,   and,  peradventure,  some

':*  C.  H.  Wiley's  North  Carolina  Reader,  68,  77.
tCarapbcirs  diary.  The  MS.  correspondence  of  Thomas  D.  Vance.  W.  A.  McCall,
Hon.  Wm.  B.  Carter,  W  H.  Allis,  G.  W.  Crawford,  Dr.  J.  C.  Newland,  Hon.  J.  C.  Har-
per, Colonel  Samuel  McDowell  Tate,  Hon.  C.  A.  Cilley,  Mrs.  Mary  A.  Chambers,  Dr.  J.
G.  M.  Ramsey,  and  Major  T.  S.  Webb,  has  been  of  essential  importance  in  helping  to  de-
termine and  describe  the  route  and  its  localities  of  the  King's  Mountain  men.
180  KING'S  MOUNTAIN

remaining  beef  rations,  formed  a  refreshing  repast,  with
appetites  sharpened  by  the  rough  exercise  of  so  tedious
a  jaunt  over  hills  and  dales,  and  rocks,  and  mountain
streams.
