342 Description of the High Rock Spring. 
of Naples, while this fountain, in its place, would have been 
deservedly celebrated in story, and spread upon canvas, to 
the admiration of the world, as one of its greatest curiosities. 
e valley, in which all the mineral springs at this place 
are situated, is terminated, on both sides, by steep banks 
which rise from twenty to forty feet above the level of the 
little stream, which passes between them. On the eastern 
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in it in so great abundance as in its associate limestone.— 
The whole of this formation seems to terminate here, and 
nearly in a perpendicular direction, as none of it is discover- 
able on the opposite side of the valley. All the rock forma- 
tion found in that direction belongs to the transition class.— 
he mineral springs occupy stations which warrant the 
belief that they have their origin, or pass up from a greater 
depth, at, or near the junction of these two formations, trans- 
