And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Could be a power line, but I doubt it. Could also be support for something like a chair lift in more recent times, or maybe a way to move timber down the mountain, eh?
From the background structures it looks like a high tension power-line run.
ReplyDeleteI agree, power line.
ReplyDeleteAnd yet they all stop to look at the camera.... What a hoot!
ReplyDeleteCould be a power line, but I doubt it. Could also be support for something like a chair lift in more recent times, or maybe a way to move timber down the mountain, eh?
ReplyDeleteGiven the time period how about a telegraph line?
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