. Virginia in black and white . irections from the hotel,or ramble through the forests to Lovers Leap and other romantic dinner join in the tread-mill, the term applied to the tireless strollback and forth on the immense piazza, that very nearly surrounds thehotel building. This walk is indulged in during the season by the 2,000guests, and is one of the distinctive features of The White. The afternoon,like the morning, may be pleasantly passed in the open air, and the eveningdevoted to the ball-room, either as a participant in the dance or as anonlooker. Third Day.—Leave White Sul
. Virginia in black and white . irections from the hotel,or ramble through the forests to Lovers Leap and other romantic dinner join in the tread-mill, the term applied to the tireless strollback and forth on the immense piazza, that very nearly surrounds thehotel building. This walk is indulged in during the season by the 2,000guests, and is one of the distinctive features of The White. The afternoon,like the morning, may be pleasantly passed in the open air, and the eveningdevoted to the ball-room, either as a participant in the dance or as anonlooker. Third Day.—Leave White Sulphur after breakfast for the famous HotSprings, the route being over the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio to 15 Covington, Virginia, and thence over the Warm Springs Valley Branch,which is laid upon the banks of Jackson River, a wild mountain stream,abounding in interesting scenery. Fourth Day.—Leave Hot Springs in the morning for Natural Bridge,reached in about three hours. The course of the Jackson River is followed. New riVer valley. to Clifton Forge, where the famous water gap, formed by the head waters ofthe James, is passed through, and thence the route is upon the banks of thathistoric stream. After viewing the wonders of Natural Bridge, and visiting i6 Salt-Petre Cave, the Lost River, Lace Falls and Jeffersons Mountain, takethe Norfolk & Western Railway for the celebrated caverns of Luray. Fifth Day.—Explore the caverns, and leave in the afternoon for Rich-mond. This days journey affords some of the most charming mountainviews in the United States, including Elliotts Knob, North Mountain,Buffalo Gap, and the passage of the Blue Ridge Mountains, as welt* as a 50-mile stretch of the renowned Shenandoah Valley, over many a hard-foughtbattlefield. There are glimpses of the University of Virginia ; Monticello,the home of Jefferson, on the summit overlooking Charlottesville ; the ruinsof Jeffersons mill at Shadwell, his birthplace ; the old court-house at Han-over, wh
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