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Show TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA= lr pn·n gs, an d at.e f1i tuatcd a, t the foot of the Alleghany Mountain . Dur-ing the iafr fcafon upwards of two hundred pcrfon r for:ed to them wr· t } 1 1r. ervan t s a n d hor·r~.~, s . The •a cconunodation s at the fpnngs are moO: ., etc1 1c d a t pr 1r.t,: ll t ; but a [ct of bo -cnllcmcn from South Carolina • have, I underfland, fincc I wa there, 1 urch<tfcd the place, and arc gowg to ereCt [evcral commodious dwellinos in the nei,.,.hboudwod, for the reception of company. Bcfidcs tht:fe fprings there arc others ~n Jackfon's Mountains, a ridge which runs between the Blue Mountams and t1 c Alleghany. One of the fj1rings here is warm, and anoth:r~ quite hot; a few par s fi-om the latter a fpring of commqn water Ii1ucs from the earth, but which, from the contrait, is g n rally thought to be as remarkable for its cQldncfs as the water of the adjoining one is for its heat: there is alfo a fulphur fpring ncar thefc; leaves of trees falling into it become thickly incru.fl.cd with fulphur in a very fhort time, aud filvet is turned black almofl: immediately. At a future period the medicinal qualities of all thcfc fprings will prot ably be accurately _afccrtai_ned; at preicnt they :1re but very little known. As for the rehef obtamed by thofc pcrfons that fr quent the fwect fprings in particular, it is ftrongly onjcB:ured th:'tt they arc more indebted for it to the change of he 1imatc than to the rare qualities of the water. R 0 C K B R I D G E, 127 LETTER XVII. Dift:ription qf the cdebrotcd Roc!:. Drirlge, and if rm immenfl Covem.-· D £:fl:ription qftbe Sl.li:nandoa/; Va//,y. - lubabitants mojlly Germans.So! l an./ C.'1i11 7te.-Of1i·rvatiowon American Ltmt!Jcapes .-Mode of' cutting down 'l"ret:s.-fligb P oad to 1 ·cntucky, bt:hi11d Blue Mountoiw.-Mucb frequ.:J:f"tl.-U11coutb, ziupt!Jiti·ve People.- L exinrrton.- Staunton.Mi itary 'Titles very common in ./l;nerica.-Cm!fes tbcrcof-11/t~zcbtjler. Winchcllcr, M:ty, AFTER r maining a conG.derable time in Bottetourt County, I again croffcd Fluva na River into the county of Rockbridge, fo called from the remarkable natural bridge of rock that is in it. This brirlge frands about ten mile from Fluvanna River, and nearly the fame difrance from the Blue l idge. It extends acrofs a deep cleft in a mountain, which, by fom great convulfion of nature, has been f.ili.t afunder from top to bottom, and it feems to have been left there purpofely to afford a pafTage from one fide of the chafm to the other. The cleft or chafm is about two miles long, and is in fome places upwards of thrc · hundred feet deep; the depth varies according to the height of the mountaitJ, being deq cfr where the mountain i mofl: lofty. The breadth of the chafm alfo varies in ddfcrcnt pla<:cs; but in every part it is uniformly wider at top than towards the bottom. That the two fide of the cba(in w .. rc once united a1 pears very evident, not only from projeCting rocks on the one: fiue cor11cfp 1 di11g with fuitablc qvities on th~ other, but al(o ftolln nhe dif crenc 1lrala of earth, fand, clay, &c. being exaCtly 11rnilar fi·om top to bot om on both fides; but by what great agent they w ·rc· {cpar t ·d, \-\ hethcr by fin: or by water, remains hidden amongfi thoft> arcatu n.ttur · wl Kh w · vainly endeavour to develope. The atch confifis of a folill ma{s of !lone, or of fcvera t1oncs cemented fo flrou~ly torc,_hu, that thq appear but 3s one. This mafs, it is to be iuppoi~:d, at the time that the hill was rent afunder, was drawn * acrofs |