Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ty,having an altitude of 5,307 feet above tide, each year increase in popu-larity. The Hawks Nest, Fayette County, with its precipitous face, fall-ing sheer down a thousand feet to the bed of the stream that flows at itsbase ; Weijers Cave, Augusta County, with its wonderful sights ; theNatural Tunnel, Scott County, i^assing hundreds of feet through solidrock, with its high vaulted roof, stupendous precipices, and weird caverns;and thousands of other natural features, — ^jromise for Virginia a popularfuture with the sight-seeing public. Many of these ha
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . ty,having an altitude of 5,307 feet above tide, each year increase in popu-larity. The Hawks Nest, Fayette County, with its precipitous face, fall-ing sheer down a thousand feet to the bed of the stream that flows at itsbase ; Weijers Cave, Augusta County, with its wonderful sights ; theNatural Tunnel, Scott County, i^assing hundreds of feet through solidrock, with its high vaulted roof, stupendous precipices, and weird caverns;and thousands of other natural features, — ^jromise for Virginia a popularfuture with the sight-seeing public. Many of these have been broughtto notice by the opening of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 272 RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. PLEASURE ROUTE No. 23. Washington, Norfolk, and Richmond, to Staunton, theMineral Springs of Virginia, Charleston, Huntington,Cincinnati, and the West. CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILROAD. It should be remembered that Virginia is pierced by two ranges ofmountains, the Alleghanies and the Blue Ridge, and between th^se lies. COMMISSARY DEPARTMENT. a great valley, three hundred and sixty miles long. Such a region, sovast, could only be a great storehouse of Natures curiosities. POPULAR KESOBTS, AND HOW TO BEACH THEM. 273 Commercially studied in connection with the future of Virginia as afamous resort for travellers and summer tourists, it strikes the eye atonce, that the leading artery of communication across the State willmake some port on the Chesapeake its grand depot. In the waters ofthat magnificent bay, Virginia possesses the only complete harbor facili-ties on the entire South Atlantic seaboard. Heretofore, no determinedpurpose to seek commercial power can be said to have animated
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