HOT SPRINGS

hot springs, a hamlet and health-resort in cedar creek district, bath county, virginia, u.s.a., 25 m. by rail (a branch of the chesapeake & ohio railway) n. by e. of covington and near the n.w. border of the state. it lies in a narrow valley, about 2200-2500 ft. above the sea, with rugged mountains on either side. pop. of the district (1900) 1761; (1910) 2472. the mean summer temperature is only 69 deg. f., and the summer nights are always cool. there is a good golf-course. mineral waters (with magnesia, soda-lithia and alum) issue from several springs, some at a temperature as high as 106 deg. f., and are used both for drinking and for bathing. the warm sulphur springs (about 98 deg. f.) are 5 m. n.; healing springs (85 deg. f.) are 2(1/2) m. s. of hot springs; and a few miles to the s.e., in rockbridge county, are rockbridge and jordan alum springs.