Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE BEEKELEY SPRINGS. a smaller swimming-bath for ladies, besides about thirty privateplunges, douche, and shower-baths. The natural temperature ofthe water is 74° Fahrenheit, and the supply is almost twelve hundred gallons per minute flow through the bathsnow in use. The bath-houses are surrounded by a beautiful grove;and a fine hotel, capable of accommodating four hundred persons,adjoins the public grounds. These waters are said to be specific. THE VALETUDiN
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . THE BEEKELEY SPRINGS. a smaller swimming-bath for ladies, besides about thirty privateplunges, douche, and shower-baths. The natural temperature ofthe water is 74° Fahrenheit, and the supply is almost twelve hundred gallons per minute flow through the bathsnow in use. The bath-houses are surrounded by a beautiful grove;and a fine hotel, capable of accommodating four hundred persons,adjoins the public grounds. These waters are said to be specific. THE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS. 271 in cases of chronic rheumatism, and useful in many other mala-dies. They mix kindly with old Monongahela, and the baths aresaid to equal the waters of Lethe in washing away all remem-brance of a spree. In addition to its present celebrity as a summer resort, Bath hasa history intimately connected with the great names and eventsof the early days of the republic. Near this place the ill-fatedarmy of Braddock passed when marching to its doom in Johns Kun, a small stream emptying into the Potomac twoand a half miles from Bath, and which gives its name to the sta-tion on the Baltimore and Ohio Bail-road, was called after SirJohn Sinclair, a captain in the British service, and commander ofBraddocks vanguard. The springs were originally the propertyof Lord Fairfax. He made a gift of them to the Commonwealthof Virginia, which placed them in the hands of trustees to be im-proved and managed for the public benefit. The act incorporatrin
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