. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . LURAY INN. 20 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND Through a panorama of such beauty asis only to be seen along the ShenandoahValley, the tourist train halted at LURAY. Here we debarked before the pret-tiest inn on the continent. Built inQueen Anne style, with spacious groundsand graded walks, it presents, with its The Alps ! The Alps ! I see their icy steep,Where pine trees quake and moan,And dark
. The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR . LURAY INN. 20 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND Through a panorama of such beauty asis only to be seen along the ShenandoahValley, the tourist train halted at LURAY. Here we debarked before the pret-tiest inn on the continent. Built inQueen Anne style, with spacious groundsand graded walks, it presents, with its The Alps ! The Alps ! I see their icy steep,Where pine trees quake and moan,And dark gray shadows creep. Luray has a history as well as a mod-ern fame. Stonewall Jackson led hisarmy through its streets to fight at Stras-burg. General Shields passed throughto the affair at Fremont. General Lee,with the forces from Gettysburg,. THE BALLROOM —CAVERNS OF LURAY. tall chimneys, flat gables and wide ve-randahs, a novel and charming appear-ance. Entering its roomy interior, and look-ing upon its wainscoted walls, its pil-lared ceiling and broad fire places, one isreminded of the lovely Swiss pensions-;and, when he casts his delighted gazeout of the open windows toward themist-crowned Massanutton, he involun-tarily exclaims, bivouacked here. And here came oftenthe gray troopers that rode with MoSby,White, McNeil and Harry Gilmor. But, after all, that which gives it itsworld-wide notoriety is the proximity ofthe wonderful CAVERNS OF LURAY. To go down into a cave is onething ; to descend into the Luray Cav-erns is entirely another thing. GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 21 In the first instance you smother upin an old gum coat (doing similar ser-vice for a generation), crowd your feetinto rubber shoes (warranted to go onany size loot), and then go paddling,splashing along, with eyes full of drippinglime-water and ears lull
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