. Summer resorts and points of interest of Virginia, western North Carolina, and north Georgia . bank of the river to theheight of eighty feet. It is a dark brown stone, with lighter streaks traversing itssurface, and so uneven that one may work his way to the summit by stepping fromone offset to another. The mountain behind this singular formation is entirely barefor some distance up its face, and the ridge comes down with a sharp point toseparate the waters of Silver creek from the river. As we double the massive promontory on our left the ridges separate half a milefrom each other, and a be
. Summer resorts and points of interest of Virginia, western North Carolina, and north Georgia . bank of the river to theheight of eighty feet. It is a dark brown stone, with lighter streaks traversing itssurface, and so uneven that one may work his way to the summit by stepping fromone offset to another. The mountain behind this singular formation is entirely barefor some distance up its face, and the ridge comes down with a sharp point toseparate the waters of Silver creek from the river. As we double the massive promontory on our left the ridges separate half a milefrom each other, and a beautiful undulating plain forms the space between them. Inthis valley is situated THE WARM SPRINGS, one of the most fashionable summer resorts in the South. The hotel has capacity sufficient to accommodate one thousand guests, and thereis usually no room to spare during the months of July and August. Splendid privateresidences crown all the hills in the vicinity, which are owned by social and cultivatedpersons, who add many charms to the elegant society which assembles here duringthe 74 SUMMER RESORTS. The tourist is always impatient to descend this deep canon, which makes thegreat highway over the Alleghanies to the Mississippi. There are no lakes in thisregion; the streams have long since worn away the rocks and made themselves abed deep down in the bosom of the mountain, leaving the perpendicular stone wallsto mark the place from which they began their work centuries ago. The descentdown the river is from sixteen to twenty feet per mile, and follows all the curves andbends of the crooked stream. Looking from the car window, we often see the engine of a long train runningalmost at right angles to the rear coach, and drawing it on in graceful curves until itchanges direction, and the projecting ridge on the convex side of the semi-circle con-ceals the motive power from the view ; and one imagines that some invisible force isimpelling us onward among these crags and cur
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