A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . fwater impregnated chiefly with sulphateof lime, sulphate of magnesia, and sul-phate of soda. Within two hundred yards of thespiing, in the centre of the valley, whichhere spreads out nearly to a plane sui-tace, and at the lower end of a lawn ofsome eight or ten acres, stands the dininghall, near two hundred feet long, withtables to seat six hundred guests. Fromone hundred and fifty to two hundredcabins and cottages are ranged along atconsiderable elevation above
A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . fwater impregnated chiefly with sulphateof lime, sulphate of magnesia, and sul-phate of soda. Within two hundred yards of thespiing, in the centre of the valley, whichhere spreads out nearly to a plane sui-tace, and at the lower end of a lawn ofsome eight or ten acres, stands the dininghall, near two hundred feet long, withtables to seat six hundred guests. Fromone hundred and fifty to two hundredcabins and cottages are ranged along atconsiderable elevation above the spring,in curvilinear form, adapted to the sinu-osities of the mountain base that skirts jthe valley, and other irregularities of Ithe site ; but still making nearly an ob- {long squai-e, and occupying a line ofperhaps nearly a mile in its entire length,enclosing an area of ten or twelve acres,well set in blue grass, intersected withdry walks for exercise, and ornamentedwith tliat variety of trees which seemscharacteristic of this region. Here thenative oak in all its grandeur; there thesymmetrical sugar-maple; next again. 348 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. the hickory (that of the old stock), andhard by the locust. These beautiful forest-trees have beenso judiciously left and pruned, as not toconceal or smother what they were in-tended to shade and beautify ; and make,with the cottages, especially when theseare lighted up at night, altogether a finepanorama. Lord Morpeth and other distinguishedforeigners have, in their admiration, pro-nounced the bath at the Warm and theWhite Sulphur spiings—for arrange-ment and extent of accommodations,scenery, and health-giving qualities ofthe water—far superior to any similarresorts in Europe. The cabins are all of brick, or neatlyframed, finished, and painted, with anice piazza separately railed in for of them display handsome andchaste specimens of architecture. Travellers leaving Baltimore in themorning, by the r
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