. The Virginia springs, and springs of the South and West. ROCKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS. 265 then out of the great Spring circle, and withalinconvenient to approach, prevented for several yearsany large visitation to the place. But the reputationof the water, resulting from actual experience in itsuse, continued to increase and extend, until thepublic demand for accommodation forced an enter-prise into the economy of the establishment that hasresulted in the erection of appropriate buildingssufficient for the accommodation of six or eighthundred visitors, and in greatly improving andbeautifying the
. The Virginia springs, and springs of the South and West. ROCKBRIDGE ALUM SPRINGS. 265 then out of the great Spring circle, and withalinconvenient to approach, prevented for several yearsany large visitation to the place. But the reputationof the water, resulting from actual experience in itsuse, continued to increase and extend, until thepublic demand for accommodation forced an enter-prise into the economy of the establishment that hasresulted in the erection of appropriate buildingssufficient for the accommodation of six or eighthundred visitors, and in greatly improving andbeautifying the grounds adjacent to the the increasing reputation of the waters, and aconsequent increasing patronage, so urgently demandfurther accommodations that the proprietors are nowactively engaged in the erection of new buildings tobe finished by the next season, and which will stillfurther increase their capacity to accommodate. The property is now owned by Messrs. Frazier &Randolph, whose industry and enterprise give ampleguarantee that the
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