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rience of my own family ; and any one, who 

 choofes to try it, will find it to be a fad". 



SPRING WATER. 



As all our fprlngs are originally fupplied by 

 rain, or melted fnow, and hail, (trained through 

 the pores and cavities of the earth, their wa- 

 ters will vary according to the different foils, 

 or flrata, through which they pafs. If waters 

 meet with nothing in their fubterraneous paffages, 

 which will unite with them, or diffolve in them, 

 they ilTue out in their greatefl purity. The 

 fprings, which come from gravel, fand, or fome 

 light and porous flones, are generally the purefl, 

 and bed; for the water being filtered through 

 their fmall pores, is cleared from almofr every fo- 

 reign fubflance or impurity, which it had con- 

 tradted in the air^ acquires an agreeable coolnefs, 

 and becomes limpid, bright, and fparkling. 



But, as there are few foils, which do not con- 

 tain fome kinds of fait, or other mineral fub- 

 llances, which are foluble in water, mofl of our 

 fprings are found to partake, in fome meafure, of 



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