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mals of the State. The amount of solid matters present in these 

 waters is extremely small. 



Section IX. From the Cacapon Springs to the Little North 

 Mountain. 



Section X. From the Great North to the Little North Moun- 

 tain, through Bon Springs. 



Ill the former of these Sections, we have a view of the folded 

 or inverted form of flexm-e, both in the anticlinal of the Paddy 

 and Great North Momitain, and in the trough between the former 

 and the Little North Mountain. In the narrow anticlinal valley 

 hemmed in by the wild and rugged heights of the Paddy and 

 Great North Mountains, no decidedly thermal springs have yet 

 been discovered, though the structure and topography of the place 

 would seem highly favorable to their production. Perhaps their 

 absence may be explained by the peculiarly shattered condition 

 of the strata occupying the surface of the vaUey, and forming the 

 enclosing mountains, especially that on the northwest, in virtue 

 of which ready channels may be furnished conveying them to 

 other and remote points of discharge. This opinion is, I conceive, 

 supported by the conditions under which the Cacapon Springs 

 occur. These thermals, as indicated on the Section, make their 

 appearance on the northwest side of the Great North Mountain. 

 They are four in number, and situated at different levels, the 

 lowest, which is also the warmest, flov^ing from For. VIT, near 

 its junction with VIII, and the others successively lower in tem- 

 perature and higher in position, issuing from VI and V. They 

 are aU copious and constant, and yield but little gas. In the 

 lower or principal spring, the chief ingredients are carbonates and 

 sulphates of lime and magnesia, and sulphate of soda. 



Section X, parallel to the preceding, and a few miles north- 

 eastward of it, includes, it will be seen, three separate localities 

 of thermal springs, the first or Pearce's Spring, (Table II, No. 

 40,) at the western base of the Great North Mountain, the second 

 or Bon Springs, (Nos. 29, 30, 31,) i-n the Cedar Creek Valley, 

 and the third, an unnamed spring, (No. 51,) rising near the east- 



