NC Sparks
Mountains to sea in four hundred miles.
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Some of the oldest water in the world runs backwards here
The New, the Cape Fear, and what a river cuts.
It runs north, cuts across the grain of the mountains, and is older than the range it crosses — the river was there first.
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The New River is among the oldest on earth
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It runs north, cuts across the grain of the mountains, and is older than the range it crosses — the river was there first.
A hundred and fifty feet of rock above the Cape Fear
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Raven Rock is a crystalline outcrop the river has been undercutting for a very long time, and the stone below it tells you how long.
MOUNTAINS
THE GORGES
THE COAST
WHAT LIVES HERE
HISTORIES