58 SPRINGS. 



fisherman's spring is by the river. The miner finds hia 

 spring in the bowels of the mountain. The soldier's 

 spring is wherever he can fill his canteen. The spring 

 where school-boys go to fill the pail is a long way up 

 or down a hill, and has just been roiled by a frog or 

 musk-rat, and the boys have to wait till it settles. 

 There is yet the milkman's spring that never dries, 

 the water of which is milky and opaque. Sometimes 

 it flows out of a chalk cliff. This latter is a hard 

 spring : all the others are soft. 



There is another side to this subject, the marvel- 

 ous, not to say the miraculous ; and if I were to 

 advert to all the curious or infernal springs that 

 are described by travelers or others, the sulphur 

 springs, the mud springs, the sour springs, the soap 

 springs, the soda springs, the blowing springs, the 

 spouting springs, the boiling springs not one mile 

 from Tophet, the springs that rise and fall with the 

 tide, the spring spoken of by Vitruvius, that gave un- 

 wonted loudness to the voice ; the spring that Plu- 

 tarch tells about, that had something of the flavor of 

 wine, because it was supposed that Bacchus had been 

 washed in it immediately after his birth ; the spring 

 that Herodotus describes, wise man and credulous 

 boy that he was, called the " Fountain of the 

 Sun," which was warm at dawn, cold at noon, and 

 hot at midnight ; the springs at San Filippo, Italy, 

 that have built up a calcareous wall over a mile long 

 and several hundred feet thick ; the renowned springs 

 if Cashmere, that are believed by the people to b 



