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

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28 WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
justice to Mr. Fry in every shape: we made our
respects to the fried venison, the fried fish, and the
fried chicken; so very poUte had the morning air
made us.
On each plate at table v^as a card, with the visiter's
name—but a beginning of the novelties of this
region to some of us. We were weighed in the
patent scale that stands in the colonnade, which
runs the whole length of the main building here,
somewhat after the fashion of the hotels at Saratoga.
A drawing room and ball-room are on the
same floor with the dining-room.
This place is chiefly celebrated for its delightful
warm bath, and its
chronic diseases.
waters are very efficacious for
The company here is the largest
late in the season, when the visiters are returning
from the other springs.
We went to the bath. Luxury of all luxuries
It is worth a pilgrimage of many miles to bathe in
this delightful stream. The bath, over which is a
wooden building in the form of an octagon, is about
forty feet in diameter, large enough for fifty persons
at a time ; the water rises from the bottom to the
depth of five feet, in a warm state of about 97 degrees
Farenheit; but it has that peculiar temperature
which no other water, by artificial means, can
be made exactly to attain. The sensations while