Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE BATH ALUM SPRINGS. The drizzling rain which fell during the whole of next day didnot prevent our friends from enjoying their comfortable quarters,nor even from making sundry out-door excursions. The improve-ments at the Bath Alum are certainly superior, in point of tasteand elegance, to those at any watering-place in the mountains ofVirginia, At a distance of several hundred yards from the hotel,beneath a slatestone cliff, fifteen feet in height, are found the AlumSprings
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE BATH ALUM SPRINGS. The drizzling rain which fell during the whole of next day didnot prevent our friends from enjoying their comfortable quarters,nor even from making sundry out-door excursions. The improve-ments at the Bath Alum are certainly superior, in point of tasteand elegance, to those at any watering-place in the mountains ofVirginia, At a distance of several hundred yards from the hotel,beneath a slatestone cliff, fifteen feet in height, are found the AlumSprings, which are nothing more than six little reservoirs so ex-cavated as to catch the drippings from the projecting rock. Thesereservoirs contain the alum water in different degrees of strength ;one of them is a strong chalybeate, and one a mixture of chalyb-eate and alum. These waters are but recently known as a re-medial agent, and have suddenly obtained immense celebrity bytheir success in curing diseases hitherto reckoned incurable. Those THE DROVE. 131. DELIGHTFUL I ISNT IT ? er who are desirous of more accurate and extended information onthe subject are commended to Dr. Burkes excellent work on the Virginia Springs, or, what mightbe still more to the purpose, avisit to the Springs for our travelers, having tak-en large doses of broiled pheas-ant that morning, they confinedtheir experiments in alum waterto a cautious sip from the glasshanded by the polite manager, acomical wry face, and a forced com-pliment to its flavor—faugh !In the afternoon the rain increased to a continued heavy show-; notwithstanding w^hich, Crayon, accompanied by his valet,went hunting, and it was near dark before they returned, weary,wet, and hungry, with only three or four unlucky squirrels for theirpains. From this place to the Warm Springs, the distance of five milesis accomplished by the Great Warm Spring Mountain,on an easv, well-constructed road. When our friends set o
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