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Identifier: bookofroyalblue24balt (find matches)
Title: Book of the Royal blue
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio railroad company. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Middle Atlantic States -- Description and travel
Publisher: Baltimore
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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lthere are six boarding-houses in close prox-imity to the springs. ORKNEY SPRINGS, VA. Orkney Springs, Va., situated among thefoothills of the AUeghanies, 2,300 feet abovesea-level, twelve-mile drive from MountJackson, are reached by the Valley branchof the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in con-nection with the Southern Railway. Theunequaled variety of mineral waters foundhere includes the Chalybeate, BlueSulphur, Healing, Arsenic,Alum and the famous Bear Wallowspring. The three hotels and seven cot-tages afford accommodations forseven hundred and fifty guests. FRENCH LICK SPRINGS,IND. French Lick Springs are locatedin Orange County, Ind., onehundred and fifty miles from Cin-cinnati, and are reached by theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad andits connection, the Baltimore &Ohio Southwestern Railroad, viaMitchell, Ind. The springs issue into a valleycrescented by the knobs of theCumberlands, beautifully located,with unsurpassed views, sur-rounded by three hundred acres 18 MINERAL SPRINGS
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FRENCH LICK HOTEL of beautifully shaded lawn. The wateremerges in gushing springs from a tertiarysoil of rocky formation, rich in glauberite,crystals of calcium. It is a clear, colorlesswater of specific gravity 1020, that burstswith unusual boldness, with a uniform tem-perature of 55 degrees Fahrenheit duringthe winter and summer. Pluto, thelargest spring, has an output of eighty gallonsper minute. The water from this springhas a phenomenal record in curing bowel,kidney, stomach and liver affections.Proserpine, another spring, issues waterof medium strength, and is used whereonly mild treatment is desired. BowlesSprings, as compared with Pluto andProserpine, represents the mildest water,and is by far, in virtue of its happy com-binations of the elements, the best diureticknown. It is said to be the strongest chaly-beate spring yet discovered. It has wonder-ful effects in cases of Brights disease. TheBath spring issues heavy alkaline water,rich in sulphur compound. It is bluishblack i

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  • booksubject:Middle_Atlantic_States____Description_and_travel
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