White Sulphur papers; or, Life at the springs of Western Virginia

114 WHITE SULPHUR PAPERS.
tunate in their feelings, and attachments ;
and in the
attentions they had received, had left, pleased, and
anticipating future happiness.
September 12.
We have had a letter from the Warm Springs,
the place is thronging
with company, and they all
knowing each other, enjoy themselves exceedingly.
The ball room we hear is very brilliant, and all are
in the finest spirits.
They make excursione there, during the evening,
to the Warm Spring Rock, to the
top of which a
Virginia lady once ascended on horseback ;
where
they the eye feasted, and the soul drink in inspiration
from the glorious beauties of the surrounding
scenery.
Near the Warm Springs also, is a tumbling cataract,
of more than two hundred feet in fall, which
but few have ever visited. We shall certainly go
there on our return.
We are to leave the White Sulphur to-moiTOW
morning after breakfast. We have been round to
take leave of all who are here. We have visited
for the last time, this evening, each spot made dear