The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1866-06-30

perior advantages.i it affords for health, indi-
vidual and social happiness gAs we have
called attention to the Hotel, we will say,a
word or two in regard to it,, 1t is perhaps a
quarter of mile from the old site. right on
the Sound, at the foot of high bills, which
will shelter visitors from the south-easterly
winds; is built on posts we'll settled in the
ground, is about four and half feet above
high tide, two hundred feet long, twenty-four
wide. sixteen feet pitch, double piazza all
round, with between forty and fifty rooms for
the accommodation of visitors, two parlors,
large dining room, office, baggage room, and
indeed every thing essential to convenience
and comfort. ysfilrs -
1t is said by tLoss who ought to know,
that the building is very great improve
ment on the plan and finish of the old one,
and, though not entirely flushed at present,
gives one an idea of whit it will be. West
from the hotel, there stretches out the noble
Albemarle- beautiful a sheet of water as
the eye ever rested upon, with the high bluffs
of Roanoke Isanu lifting their broad heads
in the distance; and just 10 the right, IN DIM,
lindistinct outline, can be Uncovered upon the
horizon an irregular belt OF, trees, marking
the eastern boundary of Tyrell county 10
the east, and above and below, runs the lr-
regular strip of land between the ocean and
the sound, commonly called. the oeach--w1th
its graceful slopes, its numerous and most
sngularly formed hills-sorne of them swell
ing into the, magnitude of mountains, and
many of them crowned with spreading trees,
whose refreshing shade invites the footsteps
of the weary traveller. From many of these
hills, most commanding and enrapturing
a. H. x-I
The accessibility of the place is one of its
most admirable features. 1t can be reached
from Norfolk by water in less than day, by
the Albenarle and its tributaries. The ex-
pense of transportation to and from a dis
tant watering place would nearly pay the
expenses of a family at Nags Head for the
season There is plan on foot to put q
steamboat on the line from Norfolk, touching
at Elizabeth City, Edenton, Plymouth, and
Mays Head, which will certainly be great
accommodation to tie public, The superior
quality and almost endless variety Of fish, the
full supply Of crabs, hard and soft, the clans
and terrapins, the comfortable ascommodre
tons, pure, bracing, anti bilious atmosphere,
the congenial, harmonious society, the hrill-
ing bath in the ocean-and it is thrilling
together with the generally diseased and de-
blitated condition Of the people, especially in
Eastern North Carolina and Virginia, make
Mays Head most inyiting-even charming
place of summer resort.
What you would pay in spending few
weeks there, perhaps you would pay little
more to the doctor, besides the suffering and
probably the death of some members of your
family. The Hotel will be ready for visitors
by the sixth Of July, and as the rooms are
being rapidly taken, perhaps two-thirds al
ready having been engaged, wegwould advise
those who want comfortable quarters at .
a comfortable summer resort to address Mr..
JACOBS without delay. May the future of
Nays Head be as the past, only much more
glorious. - Aeooa
Elizabeth CITY. June 9th, 1866.