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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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it itsworld-wide notoriety is the proximity ofthe wonderful CAVERNS OF LURAY. To go down into a cave is onething ; to descend into the Luray Cav-erns is entirely another thing. GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 21 In the first instance you smother upin an old gum coat (doing similar ser-vice for a generation), crowd your feetinto rubber shoes (warranted to go onany size loot), and then go paddling,splashing along, with eyes full of drippinglime-water and ears lull of mud ; finallyemerging, wet, bedraggled and nasty,you vow never to go again, then you gohome to have the rheumatism and aguefor an indefinite season. Down, Where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow,Nor ever wind blows loudly, is a region peopled with the wierdest,most fantastic shapes; crowded withcolossal statues ; gemmed with delicateimages ; furrowed by abyssmal chasms ;fleeing away between gigantic columnsinto fairy grottoes ; startling with sud-den revelations; charming with exquisitetracery along cloistered walls and fretted
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LAKE LEE—CAVERNS OF LURAY. But you go into Luray Caverns over acemented walk, dry as a brick ; youwear your own clothes, and come outagain under a daffodil sky, freshenough without peeling for tabledhote. Dont go, said a grim old tourist. One cavern is like another : stalactite,stalagmite, impossible-to-be-seen resem-blances ; nothing new—Stay out! With misgivings I went; and live tochronicle the most enjoyable and novelexperience of my tourist life. roofs — a region where nothing is fa-miliar, nothing monotonous. You walkin a new world, along new paths, amidnew scenes; in a realm where the plasticfancies of mad poets brains have beenflung, and congealed in adamant;stand where the Dragon of Lurayrears his grizzled form ; wander along thepalisades upon the Banks of theRhine ; gaze upon the ermine-cloaked Empress Column ; linger reverentlyin the solemn Cathedral while naveand aisle answer to the dulcet mono- 22 VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND tone of the keyless Organ ; shiverbeside the F

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