Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . lly. It comes of exercise, fresh air, and good appetites; for, be-sides, you are getting as fat as partridges. It is no such thing, said Minnie, indignantly. Porte, yourea horrid bear! Come, girls, let us retire and leave him. And as freckled as turkey eggs, continued Crayon. It is positively insulting. He has no consideration for ourfeelings. Porte shouted after them as they flounced out of the room, in-sisting that he had not intended to oifend, but had really supposedhe wa
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . lly. It comes of exercise, fresh air, and good appetites; for, be-sides, you are getting as fat as partridges. It is no such thing, said Minnie, indignantly. Porte, yourea horrid bear! Come, girls, let us retire and leave him. And as freckled as turkey eggs, continued Crayon. It is positively insulting. He has no consideration for ourfeelings. Porte shouted after them as they flounced out of the room, in-sisting that he had not intended to oifend, but had really supposedhe was complimenting them. After enjoying his sofa for a while, it occurred to him to com-mend his pheasants to the cook, as they might probably be oppor-tune at breakfast. Nor did he omit to assure himself of the well-being of the horses; and, not long after, our hero found himself I 130 PORTE CRAYON AND HIS COUSINS. mentally comparing the merits of a hair mattress with those ofthe hemlock couch of the Canaan. As no conclusion has everbeen reported, it is supposed he fell asleep before finally disposingof the 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
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