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 (190o) 1761; (1910) 2472 . The mean summer temperature is only 69° 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 rob° F., and are used both for drinking and for bathing . The Warm Sulphur Springs (about 98° F.) are 5 M . N.; Healing Springs (85° F.) are 22 m . S. of Hot Springs; and a few miles to the S.E., in Rockbridge county, are Rockbridge and Jordan Alum Springs .