. Routes and rates for summer towns . rica—wild mountain crags; crystal streams,tumbling and foaming in truant glee; deep, tangled dells,in which the laurel blooms and ferns and ivies tangle theirdark beanty of foliage with the trailing arbutus and thegorgeous scarlet creeper; cataracts and cascades, in whosemist and spray the enmeshed sunbeams die, like aerialdolphins, in a blaze of many-colored light; grand forests,amid whose boughs the wind-harps mnrmur sweet andrestful melodies; and over all, a sky as blue and golden asever bent its sapphirean arch above the Neapolitan bay. ROUTES AND RATE
. Routes and rates for summer towns . rica—wild mountain crags; crystal streams,tumbling and foaming in truant glee; deep, tangled dells,in which the laurel blooms and ferns and ivies tangle theirdark beanty of foliage with the trailing arbutus and thegorgeous scarlet creeper; cataracts and cascades, in whosemist and spray the enmeshed sunbeams die, like aerialdolphins, in a blaze of many-colored light; grand forests,amid whose boughs the wind-harps mnrmur sweet andrestful melodies; and over all, a sky as blue and golden asever bent its sapphirean arch above the Neapolitan bay. ROUTES AND RATES FOR SUMMER TOURS. 295 It is in a region every foot of which is historic very riiilroud stations from Washington to Orkney callup a thousand memories of heroism and exalted ^ers Ferry, Winchester, Strasburg, Cedar Creek, NewMarket, Fishers Hill I AVhat visions of old John Brown, of Stonewall Jackson, off*.-* Ashby and Stuart, Sheri-dan and Custer, rise asthey are called—visionsof gigantic A\ar ended r>. ALONG THE in glorious peace and brotherhood! Orkney Springs is inShenandoah county, Virginia, twelve miles from MountJackson, on the Shenandoah Valley branch of the Balti-more & Ohio Railroad. Mount Jackson is one hundred andthirty-three miles from Washington. Orkney is 2,300 feet above the sea level, giving all theadvantages of a pure and rarified atmosphere. Everybreath of the delicious air is an exhilirating draught ofozonic nectar to the enfeebled lungs. The climate is a 296 BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY realized dream of a summer paradise. The temperature,during the hottest months of the year, ranges from 65° to85°, never going more tlian a degree or two above or belowthese limits. There are no mosquitoes and few flies. Theforests abound with game, and the clear mountain streamsare alive with speckled trout. But, with all its manifold and unsurpassed attractionsof location, scene, climate, and surroundings, the pre-emi-nence of
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