Account of Schooley’s Mountain. 211 
tions and depressions. The remaining six hundred feet 
are ascended in less than two of the remaining miles, be- 
tween Dutch-valley and the summit. The principal part 
of the remainder is a descent to the Spring on the oppo- 
site declivity. 
An able horse will carry a chair hither from New-York 
in a summer’s day, or return thence between the rising 
and setting of the sun. From the top of the mountain 
one finished turnpike is continued northward, to Sussex, 
another westward, to Eastown, and a third eastward, to 
New-York. It is in contemplation to open a fourth from 
the same point, to proceed in a course southwardly direct 
to Trenton. 
The Mineral Spring which has been mentioned has given 
much celebrity to the neighbouring region. It is said to 
have been known to the native [udians, and to have been 
employed by them as a remedy. _ The white people have 
resorted to it almost ever since the settlement of the country. 
Remarkable cures are ascribed to it: and some persons 
have been in the habit of visiting it season after season, for 
the purpose of being benefited by its wholesome properties, 
It is situated in the town of Washington, in the county 
of Morris. It is, in strictness, a rill which issues from a 
fissure in the perpendicular side of one of the above-de- 
scribed rocks, on its eastern exposure. The place of dis- 
charge is, perhaps, between forty and fifty feet above the 
level of a brook which gurgles over the stones, and foams 
adown the rocks in its channel beneath. The extremity of 
a wooden leader is so adapted to the crack in the rock as 
to receive the water, and convey it to the platform where 
the drinkers assemble, and to the recesses whither the 
bathers retire. 
Its temperature is rather more than six degrees warmer: 
than that of the spring water near the summit. The mi- 
neral water, as it pours from the spout, possesses a heat 
somewhat warmer than fifty-six degrees. This is about 
the same which the slower springs and the shallower wells 
around New-York possess. 
The quantity of water which it affords can easily be mea- 
sured. By experiment, it appeared to discharge a gallon in 
about two minutes and ahalf. At this rate, the amount 
would be twenty-four gallons per hour. But allowance is 
to be made for leakage and waste, inasmuch as the con- 
duit does not collect the whole. Suppose this to be six 
gallons more, Then the quantity running out will amount 
10 thirty gallons per hour, Some trials are reported to have 
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