Popular resorts, and how to reach them . of the late war has been, to change very much of all this * When the author commenced to write and re-arrange the present volume, it waswith bright anticipations and hopes tliat the Southern States would be weU and fully illus-trated, as he had assistance promised from the officials of ten different Southern rail-roads. But, alas for human expectations! nine of them, for just and good reasonsundoubtedly, went back on him; but fortunately one (the Chesapeake and Ohio)remained, enough to prove his assertion that the pleasure resorts and pleasure routesof
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . of the late war has been, to change very much of all this * When the author commenced to write and re-arrange the present volume, it waswith bright anticipations and hopes tliat the Southern States would be weU and fully illus-trated, as he had assistance promised from the officials of ten different Southern rail-roads. But, alas for human expectations! nine of them, for just and good reasonsundoubtedly, went back on him; but fortunately one (the Chesapeake and Ohio)remained, enough to prove his assertion that the pleasure resorts and pleasure routesof the South only need development to compare favorably with any in the land. POPULAB BESOKTS, AND HOW TO KEACH THKM. 269 ignorance and indifference. Virginia is fast rising, as a star of the firstmagnitude, in the horizon of summer resorts. Few States, in fact,equal her in the diversity, surprising character, and interest she affordsto the lovers of the marvellous and the picturesque ; and fewer still canexcel her claims in this UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA. Sharp eyes watched the wonderful resources developed by the Southin the emergencies of the late struggle. The realities of their lines ofcommunication, and their undeveloped possibilities, were then seen andpondered. The result is, that abundant capital has made Virginia a newbattle-,ground since peace came among us ; and the struggle for victoryis now upon the fields of keen competition for the carrying trade of ourmighty granaries in the West, and even of the Orient. Necessarily, theattractions to be found along the routes, and contiguous to them, nowspringing into a more vigorous life, become a part of the incentives totravel, — the sources of business and profit. Hence, among othernewthings, the old neglected deHghts of mountain and forest, river and glen,are becoming fresh to the knowledge of our people. And this, as yet, isbut an entering wedge to greater things for proud Old Virginia. 270 POPULAR PvESOKTS, AND HO
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