Huntington advertiser. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1874-1921, 1874-10-29

lDgton procuItu Iof NE tne uttI
neatly furnished room usually fount
| at the rear end of sleeping cars, ant
there, in q luxurious easy chair, sa
for hours gazing in rapt surprise and
wonder at the magnificent but con
stant,v changing panorams. Nov
don't stop here md laugh, and say
this is the old Doctors extrava
llgauce,' . but try it.
Between the Alleghanies and th,
next range. called North Mountain
YOU pass White Sulphur and Other
noted springs Of Virginia, and Other
points and places of interest. some Of
nature and Others ofart. / stopped
off over night at Coving;cn, Ia noun
tain town on Jackson River, a branch
Of the james IN order 70 have day
light for the remainder Of the trip.
the scenery of which is scarcely less
TO be admired than that before men,
toned. Just before reaching Gov
ington. you pass over probably the
largest "till' in the world, one hun.
dred and ninety feet high and little
more than q mile in length. ut
took mountain 10 make the fill, so
the contractor said-though evident
" not the biggest mountain in that
region. North Mountain, the next
passed, is a ridge running parallel
with the Blue Ridge, and not less
distinctly defined, and. like the lat
ter, extends through Virginia and
North Carolina. The valley between.
the far-famed "Valley of Virginia,
more than met my expectations Of
beauty and fertility. Its charming
rural scenery is in entire and sudden
contrast with the wild and bold as
poets of that OF the mountains. You
squeeze through Panther Gap and
Buffalo Gap, and other gaps. You
pass under Elliott Knob, the highest
point in Virginia, and come shortly
to the old town of Staunton, (now
growing new, half way across the
valley, which is perhaps about 20
miles vide, on the average. You
plunge directly into another tunnel
nearly 4 mile in length, and emerge
upon as fine a rural view off to the
south and east as the eye-at least my
eye-ever rested upon. The sudden
surprise which the contrast gives is
most charming. Now you are in
real Old Virginia, and soon reach
Charlottesville. and pass there the
University Of Virginia, Monticello
in full view, and the ruined walls OF
the old mill which the father of
Democracy built on the river at the
foot of his favorite mountain, and
other objects of historical interest.
Now we are in the broad and quiet
fields of the Old Dominion. which l
shall leave in their undisturbed beau
" and glory. At Gordonsville the
word was "Change cars for Washing
ton" Now we turn north, and pass
Orange c. H., Culpepper g. H,
Manassas, Bull Run, Gall along here
look out for old forts, and earthworks,
and battle-felds.) and so on by Fair
fax and Alexandria, to Washington.
The Chesapeake q Ohio is a most
wonderful work. Notwithstanding
it passes, much Oft way, through so
wild and mountainous a country, il
!. as smooth and free from difficult
grades IS any road this side Of the
land of prairrs, and more solld and
permanent than most Of them. The
conductors are unusually courteous
and afable. never travelled with
plaassnter gentlemen. | can not help
mentioning Mr.-Hubbard, who took
the train from Huntington tn Hin
ton, which is the Western Division
f B.
WAsHIyGToy CRY, Oct. 1. 1874.