HOT SPRINGS, a village of Bath county, Va., U.S.A., near the western boundary of the State, in a lovely valley of the Allegheny mountains, 2,20oft. above sea-level. It is served by the Chesapeake and Ohio railway. The population was about 1,1 oo in 1928. It has long been a health and pleasure resort. The medicinal springs contain magnesia, soda-lithia and alum, and some of them have a temperature as high as To6°F. Other resorts in the vicinity are Warm Sulphur Springs (98°F), 5m. N.; Heal ing Springs (85° F), 2.5m. S.; and Rockbridge and Jordan Alum Springs, a few miles south-east.