The Virginia springs: comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia : with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each / by John J. Moorman.

  • Moorman, J. J. (John Jennings), 1802-1885.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The Virginia springs: comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia : with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each / by John J. Moorman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    at its upper end. When first known, it was the resort of vast numbers of elk, buffalo, deer, and other wild ani- mals, for drink. It was also a place at which the pio- neers of the country salted their cattle in the mountain ranges; and hence its name of Salt Pond. It has no taste of salt, and is inhabited by fine trout and other fish. In enumerating the natural curiosities of the State, we have confined ourselves to those that may be conveniently reached by visiters to our springs; nevertheless, the enu- meration embraces all the most celebrated objects of the kind. Every watering place, and almost every neigh- borhood in ©ur mountain regions, boast of their local curiosities, or their wild, beautiful, and picturesque scenery. Of these merely local objects of interest, every pilgrim to our mountains, either in his travels or his so- journings, will not fail to hear, and to learn, not only their locality, but the peculiar interest that attaches to each. OLD POIXT COMFORT. Although not strictly a natural curiosity, Old Point Comfort is now so distinguished, not only for its fine sea bathing, and as a place of fashionable and healthful re- sort by persons from every portion of our country, but also for its extensive fortifications guarding the entrance from the ocean into the interior of the country, that we