118. Prof. E. D. Smith, on the Warm Springs 
one mi mile. They are generally so near to the bank, that in 
‘moderate freshets the river comes into them, and it was as- 
andi in iota very. spr The last spring wavs hia been 
opened, is perhaps twenty na further from the river than 
the. former ones, but its temperature is not quite so. age 
‘The pply of water in all of them is very abundant 
The original proprietor of these springs, a respectable 
Sede iwaligent old gentleman by the name of Nelson, in- 
formed me that he supposed: the first discovery of them to 
have been made about forty years since, at which time this 
part of the country was alto ether uninhabited, and the per- 
sons who resorted to the w ers, had;to. encamp.in their. vi- 
shment for bathing soar a which is opposite to 
_his residence. Mr. Nelson further states that he has known 
sundry erat mgr rheumatism, cutaneous affections, &c. 
ee by the internal and external use of the 
~The large establishment, and the one that is now 
7 esoipally ~~ is seated about ‘half a mile higher up the 
river, and has t the present time two-large baths, whose 
Mm the boils of the: ‘Springs is. ‘104° see 
but at the sur he old 
very near saalitiiags isl 100°, while that of ecuioehich 
is higher up the bank, is but 94°. I was informed that this 
temperature was much increased, when there was a consid- 
erable swell in- ttre — but T had on of wit- 
—— the fact. 
maller stream of minter; vebsith is ‘usually Srnec and 
cate comes into the French Broad on its southern : 
and separates the first si 2, establishment from that which 
is now used. The stream affords the conveniences: 
saw, and grist mill, iriehine a very short distance of the estab- 
t, and without the necessity of a mill-pond. » The 
whole are situated in a beautiful and romantic spot upon 
# large flat, contiguous to the » water, and embosomed in _ 
* mountains, among which the-river winds, while the 
valley i im this spot appears not to exceed a mile in width, and 
