. Summer resorts and points of interest of Virginia, western North Carolina, and north Georgia . andtwo hotels, and is much resorted to in summer. The climate is cool and delightful,remarkably healthy, and the location convenient to travel from—north and it is the point from which to visit the celebrated Toccoa Falls, only two milesdistant, and easily reached by a good road, either on foot or by hack. Toccoa Fallsare on a creek of the same name, which tumbles perpendicularly over a rock, down aheight of 185 feet, and before reaching the bottom is dispersed in mist, which,visible
. Summer resorts and points of interest of Virginia, western North Carolina, and north Georgia . andtwo hotels, and is much resorted to in summer. The climate is cool and delightful,remarkably healthy, and the location convenient to travel from—north and it is the point from which to visit the celebrated Toccoa Falls, only two milesdistant, and easily reached by a good road, either on foot or by hack. Toccoa Fallsare on a creek of the same name, which tumbles perpendicularly over a rock, down aheight of 185 feet, and before reaching the bottom is dispersed in mist, which,visible to the eye against the background of dark rock, waves to and fro in a weirdmanner at once wonderful and beautiful. The Indian name signifies The Beauti-ful. These Falls have been often delineated by the artist, and, while no pictureequals the reality, many of them are very good representations. HOW TO REACH THEM, 49 MOUNT AIRY is thirteen miles south of Toccoa and eighty miles from Atlanta, Georgia. It iswell named, being i,6io feet above the level of the sea. It is a bright, new, thrifty. TOCCOA FALLS village, and has a good livery stable and one of the cosiest and most comfortablehotels to be found in the State. From the verandah of the Mount Airy Hotel areprobably the most superb views of the mountains on the north, and plains on the 50 SUMMER RESORTS, south, obtainable from a building in Georgia. But from Grand View Peak, twomiles from the hotel, the views surpass those of almost any other point in theState. To the north, the Blue Ridge stands in full view from Walkers Mountaininto North Carolina, at least 150 miles. Stone Mountain, eighty miles west, isclearly defined, although its peak is 800 feet below the observer ; while Yonah, Trayand other mountains, twenty to thirty miles away, show plainly their precipicesand forest robes. Southwest, there is an unbroken woodland to the horizon, sixtyto eighty miles, strikingly like a view on the ocean, but more like the Great Pl
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