344 Description of the High Rock Spring. 
was visited as early as the year 1767, and no appearances to 
justify such an opinion then presented itself, although the wa- 
ter did not reach the top of the rock by several inches 
Loran Tarbel, an aged chief of the St. Regis tribe of In- 
dians, told the present Chancellor Walworth, that oe visit- 
ed this spring, when a boy, and that he was told 
dians, that it once ran over the top, but owing to some of 
their women* bathing init, the water sunk into the rock, 
and ae afterwards § awed itself. 
conspicuous appearance which this rock aes 
must care introduced itself to the notice of the natives at a 
we early period, and, although it was probably ose and 
sited by individu als whose business called them into the 
bo it does not appear to have attracted much attention 
from the white population of the country, until about the year 
1767,when it was visited by SirWm.Johnson,who then resided 
at sohnaiowes about thirty miles to the west of the Springs, 
in the capacit y of Indian Agent. From this period, “ the 
pring,” as the place was then termed, came more rapidly 
into notice, and, for some years, was the o nly one to which 
much consequence was attached. The extravagant stories, 
told by the first settlers, of its astonishing effects in the cure 
of almost every species of disease, are still remembered and 
repeated by their too credulous descendants, which, in con- 
junction with the mysterious character of this rock, continue 
to attach an importance to the character of this water, in the 
eyes of the vulgar, which no other fountain will probably ev- 
er arrive at. 
rom a recent analysis made with a view to the strictest 
accuracy, the details of which will ere long be laid before the 
public, = water is found to contain ihe following ingredi- 
ents in one gallon, or 231 cubic inches 
Muriate ofsoda, — - - - = + 189,18 grains 
Carbonate of soda, - - - - 12.464 
Hydriodate of soda, —- - - - 2.5 
Carbonate of lime - - - - 69.29 
Carbonate of magnesia, BER aS et ee: SESS 
Oxide of iron - . . - - 3.85 
317.709 
* Ky Axa@apoia oyres. 
