Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-06-19
rhe Mineral Springs of virginia.

! for entertaining larger numDer OF guests
| than they could conveniently accommodate
az any former season, and there is every rca-
/ N t. anticipate an immense multitude OF seek.
| ers of both pleasure and health IN our noun
! tains the ensuing summer. The proprieters
or their agents have been engaged here much
of the recent spring 10 procuring supplies,
servants. g., FIR the season. The most am-
| pie provision has been generally made, and
/ the SC burner 10 the mountains, whether SICK
or well, will hardly want for any thing that
will not be at hand for his qualification.
| The old White Sulphur, OF Greenbrer, the
! headquarters Of the springs going legions,
under the new company into whose hands 1t
| has fallen, has already undergone a great
! change. The extensive plan upon which it
is f1aIy to BE improved is but partially car
rci cut az yet. An immense building has
been put up in place of certain old diiapida-
ted nests that formerly numbered the ground
and dcf,rmed the scene. THIS building is
400 by SO feet 1t has three stories besides
the basement. Inc first floor is appropria-
ted TO dining room, parlor, &c, and the two
upper floors to lodging rooms. In the base
ment Is the kitchen, which is admirably ar
ranged aud restaurant and bar, 80 plsn
ned as to preserve a dIstlnctness of depart
ments and prevent any conflict Of convenience
or order in the establishment. The building
is now ready, and the guests Of the famous
Old place will fad their comfort greatly pro-
NOTED this season. There are other improve
meuts, and the grounds look vastly better and
ueater than formerly.
The Old Sweet shows as much enterprise
and taste as any other watering place, aud
. ] III md lar, h,taI
tages aud N agniicent bath, is one Of the
most delightful dc well as beautiful places in
the mountains. The White and the Old
Sweet have taken the lead in expenditure
and extensive arrangements for the public
accommodation; but their example and the
increasing demands of travel occasioned by
the extension eff the railroads into the noun.
tans, have caused them all to brush up; aud
20 where we may We find increased spirit
and energy and increased comforts for the
traveller.
The traveller by the Central Railroad finds
himself among the mineral waters as soon as
he enters the Valley. He may take from
Stauut0n almost any road and be will come
son TO mineral spring. The whole coun-
try abounds with them in manner that is
unparalleled 10 any other land. Beginning
with the Berkeley Sorings and coming up
the Valley we have Orrick's Springs, Capon
Springs, JOrdan's Springs, Burners Springs,
Shannondale Springs, Rawley Springs, aud
the Augusta or St:lbling's Springs. LGaV-
ing Stanton By railroad, he soon falls in
with cluster of spring., viz: the R0ckbridge
Alum, the Rockbriigc Bath on the lett
aod a few miles only distant. A little further
on and at MiliborOugh Depot the traveller
may diyerge by splendid stage line and
passing through picturesque country, in ten
miles reach the Bath Alum. Soon after he
crosses the Warm Springs Mountain from
which there is the most magnificent view,
and reaches the valley in which are located
the nOblest thermal baths in the world-the
Warm and the Hot Springs; baths that are
luxurious beyond all description, and that
exert an Influence upon diseases to which
they are adapted, that is magical. No Visi
tor to the Mountains of Virginia should fail
70 see these wonderful curiosities of nature.
The distance between the Hot and Warn is
only five miles, and only three miles from
the former is the Healing Spring, delight
iul aud romantic place whose waters are
nlghly esteemed The Healing is but thirty
three miles from the White Sulphur, only
two miles further than the Jackson's river
depot of the Central Railroad is from the
White 81 that by this route through the
Warm Springs valley, the traveller has sew
crai Of the most celebrated watering places
aud the opportunity Of frequent rest and re-
pose IA the way to or from the great White
st the White he is fifteen miles from the
O,I and Rcd Sweet, and their invgorating
bsths.-sItuated in one Of the loyeliest val
icys We ever beheld, twenty three from the
Blue Sulphur, and twenty-five from the Salt
Sulphur, in Monroe. Passing by the Salt
tone Ol the most famous and popular OF the
old Springs you reach, IN seventeen miles,
the Red Sulphur Of Monroe, whose waters
are 50 popular for their great efficacy IN pull
in Try, G eSt and throat diseases and dys}ey-
s,a. Tee traveller who finds himself at this
place should never think OF returning with
out taking tue stage route TO Newbern, IN
Pulaski county, a distance OF thirty odd
miles, where he meets the Virginia aud len
nes5ce Railroad. In that stage route his
eyes viii be blessed with scenes and views
on the New River which arc indescribabiy
grand and beautiful.
BY the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad,
we reach Il lumber OF excellent Springs,
! which We may barely Gnumerate, viz: Coy
Hcfs, and the Montgomery bite, lmme-
dtately on tie road-the Allegheny Springs,
five miles from it, and the Yellow Sulphur
not much fAriher,-the GraysOn Sulphur, the
New River, The Pulaski Alum, snd the Chill
howie, &c. with others IN various directions
IL short, IN no route the traveller may take
can he fail to meet with alth.giyiug wa
ters, and what is hardly of secondary impor-
lance in restoring health and strength to the
enteeblet and wearIed body, ever changing
and lovely scenery. No State presents such
attractions Of waters, scenery, and sracing
atmosphere. On this subject, DR.. Tindall, in
his interesting book on the Mineral Waters of
! Virginia, very truly says
40 inyaiiIS, the Mineral Waters Of Yir-
GINA present the most werlul attractions.
Throwing out Of view the advantages to be
derived from the restorative and InyigOrating
effects Of the different waters, all ia short
distance OF each other, aud forming O com
pete group, the lnyshds would frequently
find themselves cheered and animated by nat
urai curiosites, landscapes, and mountain
scenery, surpassed by none in grandeur,
beauty, and sublimity; and, 10 passing on,
the ccstacy Of the Transition would be almost
n!cscrIbable. They would behold coun-
try blessed 10 many places with the richest
soil, the most delicious climate favored By
the gentiest airs and warmed by the most