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the east may be seen Lady's Peak, John's Mountain, Mill 

 Creek Mountain, Cohuttah Mountains, Unicoy on the north, 

 Frog Mountain, and Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. On 

 the north and northwest, Cumberland Mountains, Walden's 

 Ridge, Racoon and Great Lookout Mountain — and on the south- 

 west, the Sand Mountains in Alabama. He who desires to 

 study nature, can here do it to the greatest advantage. Mr. 

 Gordon's establishment bids fair to be among the most fashion- 

 able watering places in Geoi'gia. 



The Red Sulphur Springs, a mile and a half from the 

 Western and Atlantic Railroad, are thus described by a cor- 

 respondent of the Georgia Messenger and Journal, published 

 at Macon : — 



" Imagine lo yourselves an elevated cove, or basin, in the 

 Blue Ridge, surrounded almost entirely by towering eminences. 

 From the eastern slope, a bold, clear brook comes tumbling 

 into the valley, and passes rapidly westward until it escapes 

 between two abrupt mountain peaks, and dashes for half a 

 mile over rocky barriers, into a branch of the Chicamauga. 

 On the borders of this brook, and in the centre of this basin, 

 which 1 shall designate ' The Vale of Springs,' there is a 

 level spot about two acres in extent, within the limits of which 

 I have counted no less than Jifty -two distinct, bold, and well 

 defined springs. It is not unusual to find these springs pos- 

 sessing entirely different mineral qualities, within a few feet of 

 each other. The waters are strongly mineral — so much so as 

 scarcely to require the trouble of an analysis to discover their 

 distinctive characteristics. We have here the red, the white, 

 and the black sulphur, iron, magnesia, and the salts, in all their 

 various combinations. The deposits from the red sulphur are 

 of the most beautiful bright carmine tinge, and those of the 

 other springs are equally distinctive. On the north side of 

 the valley, there is a large, bold, blue limestone spring, and 

 within less than fifty yards of this, a fountain of the purest 

 freestone water gushes forth. It is almost impossible for the 

 mind to conceive a class of disease, or a condition of the hu- 

 man system, to which some of these waters are not adapted. 



" All these springs seem to issue either from the mountain 

 side, upon a bed of hard, black slate, or boil up through the 



