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

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of the Red Sulphur at a sudden turn of the road before
you reach the springs.
The buildings consist of two large and commodious
hotels, and several rows of neat cabins ; the
walks are well planned which intersect the
lawns,
and abound with large trees, of the sugar maple ; a
beautiful
green hill in the vicinity forms a fine promenade
in the evening. The accommodations are
excellent for invahds and others, and the place is
much resorted to of late years, by persons suffering
with pulmonary complaints, and it is thought when
the water here, fails to effect a cure, there is no remedy
beyond.
The spring takes its name from the red precipitate
at the bottom: the water is sedative in its
effects, and reduces irritation and the pulse. It is
mostly taken before going to bed at night, and before
breakfast. Its principal ingredients are sulphate of
soda, lime and magnesia, carbonate oflime, and muriate
of soda.
There is more quietude here than at the other
springs, and the
sound of some lone flute in the valley,
will carry back the listener to the history of the
Pantheon and the Sylvan deities.
They dance here, as at all the springs, and the
colored race of Virginia being born fiddlers, a musician
is never out of the way.