. 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 . villages, and bounded in the distance POPULAK KESOKTS, AND UOW TO KEACH TIIKM 275 by rugged mountains, a panorama tlie eye never tires iu gazing upon,and which is by common consent one of the grandest views on the line,and surpassed nowhere. The road descends from the tunnel for three miles to thewesternbase, acrossthe SouthBranch ofthe Shenan-doah, andcrosses withu n d u latinggrades theValley ofVirginia tothe NorthMo untain
. 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 . villages, and bounded in the distance POPULAK KESOKTS, AND UOW TO KEACH TIIKM 275 by rugged mountains, a panorama tlie eye never tires iu gazing upon,and which is by common consent one of the grandest views on the line,and surpassed nowhere. The road descends from the tunnel for three miles to thewesternbase, acrossthe SouthBranch ofthe Shenan-doah, andcrosses withu n d u latinggrades theValley ofVirginia tothe NorthMo untain,its westernboundary. At Staun-ton, a hun-dred andthirty-sixmiles fromRichmond, aconnection ismade withthe ValleyRailroad ex-tending toHarpersFerry. This neigh-borhood isnoted for thep i cturesque-ness of itsTUNNEL. scenery, and ample hotel accommodations are furnished visitors at the Virginia or Stribling Springs are only twelve miles away by aromantic road reached by stage. This is also the point from which tovisit Weyers Cave, seventeen miles distant, one of Virginias greatestcuriosities. This cave is among the fantastic eccentricities of 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 intrusion.
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