Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-15
VIRGINIA..
The CapOn SpriRgs-What they Are, and
How they May be Reached.

CAP0N SPRrNGs,sW V, July, lS2
EDITORS APPEAL-Later in the sum-
mer, when the dog-days shall fully come,
and the liquid caloric pours through the
skins Of your people, as II the pores We're
volcanic eraters within when mlgnty
streams of heat were distilling, they viii
yearn for shady places bouadless asthe
vaults of heaven, and bless the plumous
imDlementof ch~irography thatdirects the
wav 10 cool retreats ~andhealthful walks.
/ where the body can rest and the lungs
| inhale the atmosphere from the hills,
where sit had trifed with the rose and
/ stopped to the violet.D
Here is such a plaeel IN Hampshire
county, ffty-6ve miles from Harper's
Ferry, at the western base Of North.
Mountain, a link of the A~ppalachain
chain, that extends from the st. Law
renee river to Central Georgia. Leaving
Memphis by the Louisville and Mem
phis railroad, the traveller viii reach Win
chester, on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
/ road in fOrty-eight hours; thence by four
horse coaches over a smooth mountain
turnpike road, through a charming look
ing country, to CspOn Springs, distant
from the railroad station twenty-five
miles. The road from Harper's Ferry
t. Winchester, thirty-one miles, lies in
| the beautiful valley Of Virginia, or the
shenandoah Valley" as H. Is now
| caIled. This vale, one hundred and
| twenty-five miles IN length, and one
| fourth as wide, is one Ofthe most slightly
| localities in the State, while the historic
events connected with It increase its at
| Effectiveness and interest The Springs
are located about halfway up the noun
tain. one thousand feet above the tide,
on a terrace, surrounded by the 4deep
tangled wild wood and rugged hill
TOPS. The ho1eI-the Mountain
House, four stories high, four hun
bred feet Of frontage, and with a ca
paeity of entertaining comfortably three
hundred persons, is We'll appointed,
having large p0rticOes, parlors, dining
hall and ballroom and well ventilated
sleeping apartments. In front Of the
hotel Is situate an OblOng one story
building, with wide pOrticO and colorado
frontage Of three hundred feet, within
which are the bathing rooms, some
thirty in number, supplied with abund-
ant water from the CapOH Spring.
Around the buildings are grassy plats
and, near aud higher up the mountain,
shady walks, rambles and wild castel-
lated scenery. Still higher, peak towers
above peak, covered with great rocks of
eccentric shape. "When the sun is
shining brightly over a blue sky, and its
rays fall with full effect upon the peaks,
their hue changes from genial gray TO
pure white, so varied and tossing in
shape, that they appear to be snowy
masses Of vapOr, rising over the trees
and relieved against the u heaven"
MI O., E--sl. -, IrrvI--I - ]
fbove the hotel building, pours out from
the base Of a pile of blue rocks, and
lashes down the hill, d~ischarging itself
INTO an immense reservoir which sup
plies the baths. The waters of this
belonging L. the class of aka
oid-carbonates, are Alternative, tonic,
iiuretic and aperient. They occupy a
nigh rank in therapeutic use, and have
DrOven ~effieaeiOUs IN the treatment Of
the diseases Of the kidneys, bladder and
kindred ORGANS, and especially in dys-
with its prOtean train Of distress
ing complications. The popularity of
the water is in the fact of its beings scent
and tasteless, as agreeable a that
from any babbling spring OrcFystal well
In the same vicinity are sulphur. and
shalybeate springs
The climate of this locality is such
hat the thermometer rarely ever indi-
'ates a higher degree Of heat than 75o in
he shade. In the summer mornings
md eventide the merodry often falls to
j09.
1t does not seem to be the place where
shows itself, but, for visitors of
efinement, good breeding, intelligence
md responsibility, it is u~nexcelled by
resort Of the land. r. c. D. f,