Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-11-18
INTERESTING LETTER
FROM A French TRAVELLER IN AMERICA.
IIranalpfnn Gur Iha Ennnirer


WHITE SULPHUR SraINas July 10th 1850
My Dear Brothers Ono day here Ia worth trip from Pa.
ris the Atlantic Ocean, with all The labots have
passed through From Lexington, where my last letter
written TO you TO this place. the very store house of
seems TO have been ransackcd dvcsy sdorn and deco
rate the EARTH Mountain scenery in thousand new and
oewtchns "rm' Is enamored by an atmosphere that ia It,
sell Inc essence OF the OF nature; gorgeous sky
varied atmosphere eapng brooks peay waters refreshing
beezes The wild notes OF birds which music without
mixture; sum- the brightest the human eve ever saw
moon, The socst that ever sa upon The lmess
u.s. stars that twinkle in shapes and with malchess serenI
~ cover in This whole region; SOIL that responds 10 the
hands oil the hnsbandman and the miner countless re-
Of heahfu Injuries. There arc many pojnts m tho
side where the eye universe of fields and woods
and villas and streams aud herds and ocks unduiaug in
all The 'ateNes oil ndenalions From tho point of the
mountain which ovcrhongs u watering place called The
Warm from their temperature which IL Injury H.
se Tue universe Is visible al tangent designed by the
creator Tor contemplation md instruction. No descrjnon
can give you an idea Of il. The mountain scenes of nil
switzerland do not furnish any would exchange
or H. me nearest approach to it Is ,hs If you could
make the Mediterranean at The base Of Mount Mount dban
an ocean with waves rising half s height and rbeo com
vert the scene into EARTH with all of ls foliage froh nd
wish u describe 10 you ''
was at the Warm Springs day al the Hot Spring, the
same length oil time as They called because of Inc bea,
oil The waters, which vary from 20 OF Fsrhenhe To i'm
Alter reaching this point visited the Sweet Springs which
are Used 40 baths for almost every disease The waters of
tese springs and also of the Hot and Warm Springs
Ole somewhat those OF AK La Cha pee and of Weeshaden
except mai IN these waters the qualities the Wee,baLen
and AK La Chapee con,bined as there 10 IN
these sulphur aud masncsia whereas Wcesbaden hae
out to sulphur and at the Ak La ChapelIe bahs there
out iiltls n1gnesa also IL The Red SpInhur RI
Salt Sulphur and the Blue Sulphur SPRING. An Of ,ha @
ters ore different The Rod Sulphur water has ltIo
stimulant IN IT. The Salt Sulphur has little sails with m.
sulphur; and inc Blue Sulphur is exactly delicate In ire
mixtures as 10 render tho supurb beverage
oeste Tic De lhsty 10 hot day. il IL az COLI u loo
and clearer than crystal But the waors of the While Sal
phar oPhs are beyond all comparison the most powerful
ana 'e situation so e1qulsisey lovely sick man tools
q an hut
OF soe remarkable curcs effected by Alum SnrIno
Whrh present most singular spectacle AT the fo, o5
oaren mn, there Ia small pool from which the wssr 10
ahen and grams or oareed ind shipped all parts of Tho
country But This 10 The point now of all tho Mac.
OF resort and, without meaning TO excite your wonaa
must Tell you that IL surpasses all watering places or h
nave any sort OF knowledge. There s one crcnms,an
o Two when VIII contribute much delay the poppIarv NJ
these waters however. The property here ia 10 ha hsnd
OF single proprietor and by consequence he carps hn ,,i
H 70 now ne manages anohers mat you compelled 10
roc on horseoack or by coaches for quite hundred %
English, before you can hee hear IL said ,hst ,h
government OF Virginia intends make rail rad - iii
point and thence 10 the Ohio river 90 as TO enahIs
70 gel here more conveniently Ifhis spring was In
o EUROPE ten thousand persons would be about from Ms
I'LL October ench year. ~ 'iay
have been across The mountains 10 The rivera that m -
me West, and those which! 60 The East went 90 stwI
Is lar down the James River town called Ivnchhnr
0lowing the course Of the river as near az conId A.
JOINT OF me mountain Gust below the little village which 10
irs reached after you have dcsceaded the mounf,in
CUE ne ioeEs entirely Into Two pieces and there The
wo sides stand about zone hundred meea' an,r,s.nh
,avlng the same face and every line and ndenaon 10 s
ne ohef never the thing 20 exaclIy and me-
uScY existng before anywhere, and eunuired 10 lear,
whether there had not been recent volcanic ernnon
no. 10 my s~ssse, learned there never had been any