. Virginia in black and white . BATTLE BETWEEN MONITOR AND MERRIMAC, MARCH 9, yards from C. 8c O, Pier, Newport News. In addition to the Hygeia, the Sherwood Hotel, a new building conve-niently located, offers first-class accommodations for 200 guests. -The Cham-berlain Hotel is also in process of building. Hampton, Va., where Captain John Smith and his hardy followers landed300 years ago, with its quaint old church, is suggestive of Colonial is situated the National Soldiers Home, sheltering upwards of 3,000veterans, and the Normal School for the education of the colored a
. Virginia in black and white . BATTLE BETWEEN MONITOR AND MERRIMAC, MARCH 9, yards from C. 8c O, Pier, Newport News. In addition to the Hygeia, the Sherwood Hotel, a new building conve-niently located, offers first-class accommodations for 200 guests. -The Cham-berlain Hotel is also in process of building. Hampton, Va., where Captain John Smith and his hardy followers landed300 years ago, with its quaint old church, is suggestive of Colonial is situated the National Soldiers Home, sheltering upwards of 3,000veterans, and the Normal School for the education of the colored and Indianyouths. The Princess Anne.— At Virginia Beach, fifteen miles from Norfolk, andwith nothing but the Atlantic Ocean in front of it, is the Princess AnneHotel. The surf bathing is splendid and invigorating, and the hotel itself isa handsome modern building admirably conducted. 38 WARM SPRINGS ery HE valley containing the Hot, Warm, and Healing SpringsVirginia, is located in the heart of the great AppalachianMountains. Some two miles in width, it extends formore than a dozen miles parallel with the main Alle-ghany divide, between towering mountains, from thecrest of which, 4,000 feet above the sea, the interveningstretches of country present a beautiful views from Flag Rock, on the eastern mountainimit, are grand beyond description. The eye sweeps indirection over a sea of mountain ranges. Far off inLim distance are Elliotts Knob, the highest point inVirginia; House Mountain, near Lexington, and thecelebrated Peaks of Otter. Miles of new drives, smooth boulevards, mountain roads, and romanticwalks, forests and meadows, cliffs and caverns, cascades and brooks, ruggedmountains and pleasing pastures, a beautiful flora, abundant game in greatvariety, and rivers and rivulets are all at hand to gratify every whim ofthe pleasure seeker. The altitude of the valley (2,5
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