. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 276 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. and as such stands unrivalled. It is one of the discovered wonders ofour country, and affords a prolific field for thought and conjecture. Pos-sibly, in the time whereof no man knoweth, this, and like subterraneanglories, may have been palaces for nymphs and their families. Indeed,as one looks over the torch-lit scene, and sees a million eyes glitteringand flashing seemingly upon hi
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . 276 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. and as such stands unrivalled. It is one of the discovered wonders ofour country, and affords a prolific field for thought and conjecture. Pos-sibly, in the time whereof no man knoweth, this, and like subterraneanglories, may have been palaces for nymphs and their families. Indeed,as one looks over the torch-lit scene, and sees a million eyes glitteringand flashing seemingly upon him, it is easy to fancy the wonderingspirits of the place still there and marvelling at the strange ROCKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS, VA. The Passage of North Mountain was less costly than that of theBlue Ridge : it is crossed without a tunnel. At the summit the gradereaches an elevation of 2,074 feet above tide; there are pleasant land-scape views, some of great beauty, some very rugged; and on the righttowers Elliofs Knob, 4,450 feet above the level of the sea, probably thehighest point in the State. At Goshen, thirty-two miles west of Staun-ton, and one hundred sixty-eight from Richmond, the road, after runningnearly parallel to the North Mountain for many miles, turns abruptlywestward, and passes through Panther Gap in the Mill Mountain, knownfarther north as the Shenandoah. The scenery here is wild and interest-ing. At Goshen passengers leave the railroad for Lexington, twenty milesdistant, and Natural Bridge, thirty-five miles; and also for Rock-bridge Alum Springs, nine miles distant; Rockhruhie Baths, nine POPULAK RESOKTS, AND HOW TO IlEACII THEM. 277 miles. These resorts are all rea
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