148 Notices of the Sulphur, Siveet, 



XXIV. Notices of the Sulphur, Svjeet, and other Mine- 

 ral Springs, in the western parts of Virginia. 

 From the MS. Journal of the Reverend Dr. Ash- 

 bel Green, of Philadelphia. 1800*. 



I. THE SULPHUR SPRINGS. 



THESE are distant from the Hot- Springs 

 about thirty-two miles, and the road is extremely bad 

 between them. They are situated in Green-Briar- 

 County, on the west side of the Alleghaney. 



These waters have a very strong impregnation of 

 sulphur, so that fleaks of it are easily gathered up 

 from the sides of the rills that run from the Spring. 

 The water is extremely cold, being 63 degrees of 

 Fahrenheit's thermometer. 



No other quality than sulphur is perceptible in this 

 water, though it is probable that some other must 

 exist, as it is not possible, by art, to give to common 

 water the power of holding in solution as much sul- 

 phur as this evidently contains. 



It is, I think, probable, that the original source of 

 this Spring is limestone, and that the water is first 

 impregnated by this, and thus qualified for taking up 

 a larger portion of sulphur afterwards, in its passage 

 pver this mineral : as it is known that lime will cna- 



* Sec Part First. Section First. Article VII. 



