Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ed chiefly with sulphateof lime, sulphate of magnesia, and sul-phate of soda. Within two hundred yards of thespring, in the centre of the valley, whichhere spreads out nearly to a plane sui-tace, and at the lower end of a lawn ofsome eight or ten acres, stands the diningj hall, near two hundred feet long, withi tables to seat six hundred guests. Fromj one hundred and fifty to two hundred1 cabins and cottages are ranged along atj considerable elevation above the spring,in curvilinear form, adapted to the sinu-j osities of the mountain base that skirtsI the valley, and other irregularities of! the site; but still making nearly an ob-long square, and occupying a line of! perhaps nearly a mile in its entire length,enclosing an area of ten or twelve acres,well set in blue grass, intersected withdry walks fi)r exercise, and ornamentedwith that variety of trees which seemscharacteristic of this region. Here the■ native oak in all its grandeur; there theI symmetrical sugar-maple; next again
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348 DESCRUTION OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. I the hickory (that of the old stock), andhard by the locust. Those btNUitiful fovost-troes have beenso judiciously lott and pruned, as not toconceal or smother what they were in-tended to sliadi^ and Ixiantify ; and make,wilii the cottages, especially wlieii theseare lighted up at night, altogether a finej)anoraina. Lord l\ror()eth and other distinguishedforeigners have, in their admiration, pro-nounced llu> bath at the Warm and theWhite Sulphur springs—for arrange-ment and extent of accommodations,scenery, and health-giving qualities ofthe water—far superior to any similarr^^sorts in I;);nalelY railed in for each.Many of them display handsome andchaste sjiocimens of architectuxe. Travellers leaving Baltimore in themorning, by the railroad, reach Win-chester the same evening ; thence travelby post-coach, along a Macadamizedturnpike,

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