The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1879-08-21

| OF the White Sulphur.
So much for the literal facts in reference
to this beautiful and striking piece OF White
Sulphur scenery; and now for the supposed
history, connected with some biography Of
this giant, going to show who he is and
where he came from, in connection with q
remarkable resultant effect produced by his
death and final resting place; resolving, il
would seem, an important question in ply
sizes that has long interested the erudite seek
er after facts.
For time out of mind, it has been common
with learned Savants, as well as with the
mere fanciful imaginors, alike in America
and Europe, to attempt to account for the
origin of different celebrated mineral springs
But hitherto none of them, it seems to us,
have come much nearer to we'll ascertained
truth, then did Charles Dickens in the ''Pick.
wick Papers, in attempting to show that
constant flow of the burning tears of Prince
Buldad. This Prince, he tells us, was sad
ly disappointed in love, through the cruel
opposition of his father. King Lud, and in
despair prayed to one Of the heather deities
having oversight of such matters that he
might die on an untenanted piece of ground,
just where the town of Bath now stands.
The heather deity took Buldad at his word,
and there died and was buried and ever
since his hot tears have flown from the place
of his in.erment in such abundance as to af-
ford an ample supply for bathing and drink
ing purposes to all who visit his shrine.
The various attempts through philosophy
or follyto account for the origia of the White
Sulphur Springs, (and such attempts have
been frequently, have all been failures, we
conceive, unless the NEUROLOGICAL researches
into the history Of the remarkable mount
tains just alluded to, and which will now be
detailed, discovereda new light to illuminate
this dark and intricate subject,
1t would seem from these researches that
this White Sulphur Titan. whose original
name was THyrus, was OF very ancient and
illustrious family, being Of direct descent
from Jupiter and his wife Juno. Els per-
sonnet appears to have been greater than any
Of his family, for we are informed that his
body, when lying, covered nine acres OF
ground. In early life he seems to have been
a favorite at the court of his father yet we
are not told that any particular part Of the
world has been assigned for his government.
He seems to have been little wild in early
life, much devoted to pleasure and withal
somewhat of roue. For offering an insult
to Diana he was disgraced in the imperial
court of his father; and this offence so en-
ragged Apollo that he thrust a dart into his
body, which would have proved fatal but for
the immediate interposition of Esculspius,
the god of physic.-But though his life was
! thereby preserved he was forced to pay the
penalty Of his indiscretion by having his name
changed to TitGn-a name OF reproach in
the Olympian court, and with other giants
OF the same name, to take his place at the
feet of his imperial father.
FESTIVE under this ignominy, and being
DESTROYS to espouse Proserpine. whom he
had decoyed from the embraces of Pluto, he
conspired with Neptune, the lord of the
ocean, and escaped from Olympus. In his
flight he had the good fortune to meet with
his old benefactor, Esculapius, who, in con-
sideration of his misfortunes and his ilustri-
Gus descent, bestowed upon him the noble
power Of healing.
Embittered and embarrassed by the Cir
cumstances that surrounded him in his ma
tive country of the gods, he determined to
embark on the briny sea in search of happi-
ness and home in some unknown land. Ac-
cordingly, accompanied by Proserpine, his
affianced bride, and under the auspices OF
Neptune, he sailed from Crete, just one hun
dred and thirty seven years before Romulus
founded the city Of Rome.
After many days of perilous tossing on the
deep the flying (but loving pair approached
the shore on the Southern coast of what was
afterwards known as North America.
Vending their way westward, sometimes
clinging to the horns of the moon, at Others
hastily propelled forward by the conclusion
OF thunderbolts which Jupiter unloosed fol
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these mighty missiles .f1llv surcharged aoHl
Sulphur by the jealous Pluto, Titan and Pros
erpine, overpo wered, fell in death upon {
portion of lovely valley now known as tht
White Sulphur. In their fall to the eartf
Terra the goddess of the earth, converted
their bodies into an immense mountain which
occupies the portion of the valley in which
they fell. From the base of this mountain
has ever since issued copious stream G
healing water, highly impregnated with Sui
phur. And this, perhaps, is about as YER
liable an account of the origin Of the famous
White Sulphur Springs as has yet been given
or is likely to be arrived at.