The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-07-24
DIBRELL'S COR DAGGER'S) WHITE SUI
PHUR SPRINGS,

PhUR SIRlN6ot
TN the county of Botetourt, Virginia, on the Turn
i pike leading from Lynchburg to the White Sui
phur and other Virginia Springs and nearly equi
distant between Lynchburg and Lewisburg, are agar
ready for the reception of company They are nea',
and extensively improved and afford excellent &C
commodations for 200 persons Those who visit then
will find good table, well trained and attentive ser
wants first music, oblgng host with active ant
competent assistants, and moderate charges. The IN
creasing reputation Of the water, and the facility viii
which the place may be reached, have, for the las
three years trebled the number of visters-Fifteer
hundred persons visited these springs last season FOL
the benefit of the water
Members of Congress and others from the West
and Southwest, who have never seen this place, are
respectfully recommended to take This route on then
return home To the people OF Eastern Virginia. and
all from the North and elsewhere, who pass through
Richmond on their way TO the Virginia watering
places or the distant West L beg leave to re-
commend the beautiful Packet Boats of Messrs, Boyd
Edmund g. Co, as furnishing the safest and most
agreeable mode OF conveyance TO Lynchburg from
which place the travelling is performed IN excellent
Coaches, over good turnpike, afiordng successive
and highly interesting views of James River and the
Blue Ridge Canal along the Balcony Falls and pass
ing directly the Natural Bridge, and by Dibrel
TO the White Sulphur-And be il remembered, that
on this route there is no might trareHtng IN the
Stages - They leave Lynchburg at 4 o'clock in the
morning breakfast at Eagles Eyre, dine at the Natu
raj Bridge and arrive at Dibre's Springs by sun
set-lcaye Dlhrels Springs next morning after
breakfast dine at Callaghans, and arrive at Lewis
burg before dark dropping at the White Sulphur
before sunset, all who may desire to stop there
Two lines of Stages Cone of them daily line) pass
the Natural Bridge ard Dibres Spring, and those
who wish to stop at the latter place, do SO with
certainty of resumng their journey at any hour
they may desire
The following analysis of the water of Dibrell's
Springs by Professor Rogers of the University OF
Virginia, will show their valuable properties:
SOLID INGREDIENTS
Carbonate of Soda, Chloride of Potassium
Sulphate of Soda, Carbonate of Lime,
Chloride of Sodium, Organic Matter contain
Carbonate of Magnesia, ing Nitrogen,
Per Oxide of Iron, Carbonate of Ammonia.
Silica dissolved,
GASEOUS INGREDIENTS.
Supplemented Hydrogen Nitrogen.
For the information of those at distance the tes
moniaIs of distinguished medical gentlemen have
heretofore been published. and letter from DIR Bar
ton, a highly intelligent physician, is annexed
'ln reply to your inquiries relative to my personal
experience of the medicinal virtues, of the waters o
Dbrells Springs, 1t gives me pleasure to state, that
have invariably received decided benefit from their
in my own case, Dyspepsia connected with a torpid
state OF the liver and both from experience and oh
servation should feel great confidence in recommend
ing themin all similar aflectons-lndeed in all those
cases denominated bilious but which in fact arise
most generally from INDECENT state of the liver and
defective secretion of bile and which often united
with defective action of the whole ChylopGtcvisce-
ra should feel the utmost confidence IN recommend
inc them In many instances, after drinking TINS
water few days have powerful influence on
the Bowels the Kidneys and the Skin In con
nexion, however with the medicinal properties OF the
water and the purity of your atmosphere, 1t would be
doing injustice to your table, not say that on II every
thing NAV be found which a Physician would be dis.
posed TO recommend to vaetudinarian"
The undersigned respectfully invites his old friends
and others to call and him, believing as he con
scientously does, tha' there is no watering place N
Virginia presenting greater Inducements 10 'hose ~
pursuit of health or pleasure
CHS l.. DlBRELL