The scenic attractions and summer resorts along the railways of the Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia Air Line- the Shenandoah Velley RR., the Norfolk and Western RR., and the East Tennessee, Virginia (14738109896)

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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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rdto the higher upper end of the greattrough, and to the tops of the highmountains on either side. When nightcomes it is reversed. The cool aircomes down through the valley, andfrom the summits of the mountains, GEORGIA SUMMER RESORTS. 55 equalizing the temperature, cooling thevalley, and producing wind currents tothe southwest. These cease usuallyabout three oclock a. m. , which pro-duces a calm before daylight. This cur-rent operates from beyond Bristol intoAlabama, but has its greatest force andaction about Knoxville. It makes itimpossible for more than three or fourexcessively hot or cold days to exist in a night temperature, as higfh as seventy-five degrees was only reached once, andthat on the 12th of September of last sea-son, when the observer reported seventy-six and four-tenths degrees. It is universally conceded that mal-aria cannot thrive unless the continuoustemperature, day and night, for weeks,exceeds eighty, or at least seventy-fivedegrees. The usual temperature of up-

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THE SHORES OF THE TENNESSEE RIVER. succession. The malarious atoms fromthe extreme South are met and purifiedby the rare air from the mountains, andmakes the existence of malaria in thisregion impossible — even the lightestforms of malaria, chills and fever, beingalmost unknown, and exist only tem-porarily when brought from other re-gions. It is worthy of note, that, al-though for many years the United StatesSignal Service Observer has recorded thetemperature of Knoxville day and night, per East Tennessee, at night, rarely ex-ceeds sixty degrees, and usually goes be-low it. This cool air at night, togetherwith the constant moving of heated airthrough the day, creates a Summerclimate, unsurpassed for health and com-fort in the world. Its Geological Formation.The mountains on the Carolina borderare metamorphic slates. Next to them isa series of ranges, which are composed 5^ VIRGINIA, TENNESSEE AND of a peculiar character of slates and con-glomerate rocks. Next the Chilhoweerange, with

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