140 THE MOUNTAIN. 



HOPKINTON SPRINGS show, from Dr. Gorham's analysis, 

 carbonates of lime, magnesia, and iron ; and another spring 

 gives the presence of sulphur in its waters. 



Notwithstanding the suggestions of Professor Mather, that 

 geological investigations would reveal in certain lines of dis- 

 turbances and fracturing, or upheaval of strata, northeast of 

 New York, mineral springs similar to those in that State, 

 there have, as yet, however, been made no discoveries of 

 such springs, either in Yermont, New Hampshire, or Massa- 

 chusetts. This is all the more astonishing, bearing in mind 

 the present received doctrines of geologists on continuity of 

 original formations. 



