The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line- the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk and Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia (14758679954)

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Title: The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee & Georgia Air Line: the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk & Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia RR
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line Shenandoah Valley Railroad Norfolk and Western Railroad Company East Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia Railway Company
Subjects: Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, Aldine press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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all of picturesque loveliness.1 the rural mansions, the vine-clad farm houses, and throwing its spray of cloverblossoms into the rushing waters of the Roanoke, is the Roanoke valley. Still ontoward the Tennessee border, where White Top Mountain stands grim andsilent as its Gibraltar, is the valley of the Holston ; all these are continuations of thefamous valley of Virginia, which sweeps between frowning mountain ranges, andholds within its enchanting limits some of the fairest of earthly visions. Still further south are the valleys of the Tennessee and the vistaed fields ofWestern North Carolina, and where the plateau dips toward the balsamic forests ofpine are the gentle slopes and flowery meads of gulf-watched Georgia andAlabama. GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 13 - Upon this noble upland are the health resorts of the States through which itpasses. Diverging spurs shoot out from the parent mountains, forming prettyvalleys each with independent and peculiar attractions. In these, as upon the
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Where the speckled trout finds a home: adjacent ranges, are the mineral springsand summer retreats. Surrounded bymagnificent scenery, lifted up into anair like champagne, each the centreof vast preserves where the deer, pheas-ant and turkey hide and the speckledtrout finds a home, themselves thelaboratories where Nature mixes herhealing medicines ; these springs arethe resorts for thousands who flee fromthe great cities to build up wasted health, or add tonic to the nerves by the invigorating exercise of lungs, muscles and senses. This territory lies in a direct line between the North and the South. Climbingupon its northward edge where it makes obeisance to the States of Pennsylvaniaand Maryland ; upon its western declivity where it stoops toward the great lakesand the Ohio valley ; or upon its southward foothills where it scents the magnolia-laden breezes of the gulf; the tourist or the traveler has before him a highway,along which he may with delight pursue his journey to great mar