Darlington Library Texts

Author:	Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke, 1786-1842.
Title:	Letters descriptive of the Virginia springs : the roads leading thereto, and the doings thereat /
Print source:	Letters descriptive of the Virginia springs : the roads leading thereto, and the doings thereat / collected, corrected, annotated, and edited by Peregrine Prolix. Nicklin, Philip Houlbrooke, 1786-1842. Philadelphia: H. S. Tanner, 1837.
Publication Info:	Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library 2007-12-04
Availability:	These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically.
Subject terms:	Springs--Virginia. Health resorts--Virginia. Virginia--Description and travel.
URL:	http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=31735054779602;view=toc;c=darltext

Contents

A New Map of Virginia With Its Canals, Roads and [...]

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Letter I. Route from Philadelphia to Charlottesville -- Steam boat -- Extract [...]

Letter II. Stage Coach Civility -- Mountain Roads -- Blue Ridge -- Rock [...]

Letter III. Amusements -- Route to the White Sulphur -- Shumate's -- Callaghan's -- [...]

Letter IV. Excursions -- Lewisburgh -- Sweet Springs -- Dinner Party at Confectioner's [...]

Letter V. Organ Cave -- Pine Torch -- Brownface -- Journey in Cave -- [...]

Letter VI. Brownface, a nascent schoolmaster -- Salt Sulphur -- Contents and [...]

Letter VII. Red Sulphur -- Mysterious Red Substance -- Water Cool and [...]

Letter VIII. An accident, almost -- Driver's ingenuity -- Humphrey Clinker -- English [...]

Letter IX. Hot Springs -- Buildings -- Scenery -- The Spout Bath -- The [...]

Letter X. Departure -- Warm Springs -- Monsieur Lange -- Route from Frazier's [...]

Letter XI. Road to Harper's Ferry -- Mr. Jefferson's description -- Kirauea -- [...]

Letter XII. The Ancients -- Idleness -- Pliny -- Dogberry -- Spa-hunters -- Canal [...]

Addendum By the Editor -- Northern Neck -- Route to Bath -- Magnesia -- [...]

Letter XIII. Departure -- Trans-shipment -- Chesapeake Bay -- North Point and Bodkin -- [...]

Letter XIV. State Library -- Vicinity to Capitol -- Destiny of Richmond -- [...]

Letter XV. Doubtful Distance -- A melanthrope -- Road inconceivably bad -- Purgatory -- [...]

Letter XVI. Ford Jackson's River -- Covington -- Callahan's -- White Sulphur -- Borrow [...]

Letter XVII. Trip to Lewisburg -- Army, Navy and Bar in [...]

Letter XVIII. Black Sulphur Spring -- Lymnea -- Bad Weather -- Departure -- Callahan's -- [...]

Letter XIX. Return to our Sheep -- Parlour pleasures of anticipation [...]

Letter XX. Road from White to Salt -- Salt Sulphur Springs -- [...]

Appendix. Boiling Springs -- Abraham Pacha -- His new Baths in Palestine -- [...]