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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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essential directions by a transportation service, nowrendered cohesive and harmonious by common interests and commonmanagement, the Railways of THE VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA AIRLINE and their connections, departing from the banks of the Susquehanna,the Potomac *and Chesapeake Bay in the Northeast ; the waters ofthe Gulf of Mexico and the orange groves of Florida on the Southand Southwest ; the cotton fields of the Mississippi on the West ;the blue waves of the Atlantic on the Southeast, and the busy.scenes of Norfolk and Hampton Roads on the East, ascend rapidly tothat vast plateau pierced and encircled by the Appalachian MountainRanges, and finding the shortest routes of union between the great citiesof the North and South and Southwest, furnish highways of luxurious andspeedy travel, amid surroundings of natural beauty and personal comfortunexcelled throughout the land. To briefly recite these attractions, as a guide for health and pleasure-seekers, is the object of this book.
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SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY AND LOCATIONS. PHOUGH time and change — the waste of storms and friction of revolvingJ- ages — have plowed deep turrows in that beauty which gave the new-born earthits pristine grace, still Nature from her wondrous wealth impartially bestows unendingfavors on her worshippers ; and oer earths wide expanse — divided oft by tracklessdesert, boundless sea and unromantic plain — are favored spots where iconoclastictime has trodden, not heavily, but rather put off his shoes, as if on holy ground. These reminders of a sinless age are not exclusive properties of any section,nor do they owe allegiance to any one nation. Do not Chamouni, Como, Tempe,Val de Rhine, Yellowstone, and the grand plateau of the Appalachian Mountainsbelong to the world ? Are not these — * * * Neutral ground, Where battle flags are furled, And peace, her olive branch Spreads oer all the world ? Yet happy is that nation, blessed that section, where sharp-toothed decay hasleft upon the face o

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