Virginian Eloquence — 543
Mr. Wise, of Virginia, in a late speech, is reported to have said respecting that State, “She has an iron chain of mountains running through her centre, which God has placed there to milk the clouds, and be the source of her silver rivers.” The Rochester American remarks—“The figure is borrowed from the New York milkmen, who milk the clouds as much as they do their cows, and draw from the former the most palatable and healthful portion of the compound fluid.”