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56 CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER II. 



SOIL. 



Character ; composition ; origin of the mineral elements of the 



same 



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CHAPTER III. 



WATERS OF THE MOUNTAIN. 



General hydrography of Appalachian axes or water-sheds ; spe- 

 cial hydrography of the Alleghany Mountain, its springs and 

 streams; how distributed as to shedding surfaces; hydrology; 

 character of waters mineral, thermal, and pure ; classification 

 of waters ; special details of waters ; mineral springs of Penn- 

 sylvania; hydrography of the same, or geographic distribu- 

 tion ; classification ; analysis ; origin of mineralization ; asso- 

 ciation of mineral springs with geological formations; medici- 

 nal virtues of waters, whence derived ; individual springs of 

 Pennsylvania; Bedford; Frankfort; Fayette; Blossburg; 

 Bath ; York ; Perry County Springs ; Doubling Gap ; Yellow; 

 Ephrata; Caledonia; Alleghany Mountain Springs; individual 

 springs of this group; analysis ; characters of the same, their 

 healing virtues ; Brady wine Springs. 



Catalogue of mineral springs of the United States and Terri- 

 tories, Canada and New Mexico ; Dissertation on mineral and 

 pure waters; prophylactic and therapeutic virtues, medical 

 agents in the great chapter of uses; significance to mankind... 109 



CHAPTER IV. 



FLORA OF THE MOUNTAIN. 



Vegetable cell; the plant, its significance, and where in the Di- 

 vine economy; laws; distribution; the tree, what is it? sig- 

 nificance ; symbolical ; substantive ; the woods : man ; love ; 

 worship; Tropical Flora; Arctic Flora; Flora of Temperate 

 Zones ; Flora of Alleghany Mountain ; trees and forests ; spe- 

 cial portraiture of trees ; style of growth of the forests of the 

 Alleghanies ; style of forests peculiar to each species of tree ; 

 character of mixed forests ; description, special, general, of 

 the cone-bearing trees or great pine family; amentaceous or 

 cat-kin bearing trees ; mixed woods ; laws of distribution ; 

 soil, air, water, necessities of; succession of forests; vernal 

 expression, sights and sounds ; Summer expression, sights and 

 sounds; Autumnal enchantments; change of leaf; death of 

 leaf-world; Fall; Winter; shrub or heath growth of moun- 

 tain; plants forming the underwood; "heath," or bush, de- 

 scription of the same ; beauty of flowering species ; peculiari- 

 ties of the bush of the mountain ; herbaceous plants ; flowers 

 of the mountain; crops of different seasons; extreme beauty 

 of the same; cryptogamic plants; ferns; mosses, special home 

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