. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . e pre-serve of the pheasant, thestalk of the deer and theturkey. Here are Small faint tracks, too quickly lost,That need sure foot, and eye, its fullest light;And crags to leap, and torrents to be crossed. Warm Springs, with itssplendid hotel accomoda-tions, greet us at our jour-neys end. This noted resort is beingyearly improved and increas-ed in capacity and comfort,to meet the deman
. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . e pre-serve of the pheasant, thestalk of the deer and theturkey. Here are Small faint tracks, too quickly lost,That need sure foot, and eye, its fullest light;And crags to leap, and torrents to be crossed. Warm Springs, with itssplendid hotel accomoda-tions, greet us at our jour-neys end. This noted resort is beingyearly improved and increas-ed in capacity and comfort,to meet the demands of tour-ists and health-seekers thatpay tribute to its restorativewaters and delightful recite in detail the manycharms of mountain peak, forest dell,and rippling stream, that create here aperfect Summer home,, would be a need-less task. Its fame is co-equal with ourcountry, and while rich beyond ordinaryexpression in mountain homes andhealth-giving resorts, Western NorthCarolina offers to her admirers nothingsuperior tc this famous place. Idling their holiday hours away amongthe leafy nooks, the rippling streams andcloud-capped peaks of this delightfulspot, in quickened steps and healthful. CASCADES NEAR WARM SPRINGS, glow, our tourist friends bore witness tothe truth of all that had been claimedfor this health-laden land. Climbing with nimble feet the wood-crowned heights, and like the Persianmagi in acts of adoration, turning theirfaces eastward with reverential awe thewonderous beauties of this Land ofthe Sky entranced their startled eyes. Amid an august conclave of moun-tain kings, supreme in their titanicmajesty and rule over earth and air andsky, Mount Mitchell, Black Mountain, 62 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND Pisgah, Grandfather, Bald, and a mightyhost of uncounted potentates of lesserfame, lifted their sun-crowned crestsinto ethereal space ; and nestling amidthe smiling valleys of their easternslopes busy towns and thriving villagesgive pleasing variety to the
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