The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . rata in the interior,and their expulsion at the surface. Adopting the language used by the eminently philo-sophic Phillips, when referring to arguments urged infavor of the hypothesis of local volcanic action, as thecause of thermal springs in general, I would say,These arguments, when taken in connection, appearto us to prove that the heat of the springs is derivedfrom the depths of the channels in which they flowbelow the surface, and it seems unnecessary to ap-peal to local volcanic
The White Sulphur springs; the traditions, history, and social life of the Greenbriar White Sulphur Springs . rata in the interior,and their expulsion at the surface. Adopting the language used by the eminently philo-sophic Phillips, when referring to arguments urged infavor of the hypothesis of local volcanic action, as thecause of thermal springs in general, I would say,These arguments, when taken in connection, appearto us to prove that the heat of the springs is derivedfrom the depths of the channels in which they flowbelow the surface, and it seems unnecessary to ap-peal to local volcanic excitement for an effect whichspreads, both in time and area, far beyond the tracesof purely volcanic phenomena. Such being the in-ferences of one of the ablest of geologists, from acomparison of the chemical and geological relationsof the thermals of the old world, with what augmented 394 The White Sulphur Springs force may they not be reiterated, after the precedingdevelopment of these relations in a region which, likeour Appalachian chain, is almost destitute of even atrace of proper volcanic action!. XV THE WHITE SULPHUR AND THE SOUTH IT is difficult for one not a part of the oldSouth to understand the relation that theWhite Sulphur held to the people on thelower side of Mason and Dixons line. TheSouthern people did not live in great cities, as didthe people of the North, but were a country peo-ple who generally inherited ancestral homes. Thelife of the Southerner in the majority of instanceswas modeled after that of the English the conditions surrounding them and theinstitution of slavery about them, a great meeting-place became almost a necessity to their life. Fromthe social system of the South, then, irrespectiveof the great healing and curative properties of thewaters of the White Sulphur, grew largely thecharacter and life of this place. Apart from the question of slavery, the Southdiffered from the North in several essential par-ticulars. The member
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