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RED SULPHUR SPRINGS are in the southern part of Mon- 

 roe County, south of White Sulphur forty-two miles. This 

 has been a celebrated watering-place for many years. The 

 temperature of the spring is 54 F. Professor Rogers's 

 analysis gives sulphate of soda, lime, and magnesia, carbon- 

 ate of lime, and muriate of soda. It also contains a " pecu- 

 liar organic substance, mingled with sulphur." Gaseous 

 contents are, 



Sulphuretted hydrogen, 4 '54 inches to gallon. 



Carbonic acid, 8 '15 " " " 



Nitrogen, 4 '25 " " " 



This is "the least stimulating of the sulphur waters," and 

 represented as even sedative. It has a ''peculiar and dis- 

 tinguished reputation for diseases of the thoracic viscera, 

 INCLUDING CONFIRMED CONSUMPTION" (!!??) Has undoubted 

 efficacy as a mineral water, but on the subject of its curing 

 confirmed consumption?? see Moormann. 



SWEET SPRINGS, also in Monroe County, are twenty-two 

 miles from Salt Sulphur Springs. These springs attracted 

 attention early (1764) to their waters. They were analyzed 

 by Bishop Madison, in 1714; said to be a tonic, "with just 

 celebrity." Their temperature is 73 F. The analysis of 

 Rowelle " gives saline substances, earthy salts, and iron, 

 sulphate of magnesia, muriate of soda, and lime, with sili- 

 cious earth." Sweet Spring is a popular and fashionable 

 resort. The name is not appropriate, as the water has the 

 usual taste of saline waters. It possesses excess of carbonic 

 acid, and is said to be useful in a number of diseases, used 

 both by bathing and internally. The water is especially 

 lauded for bathing purposes, as a luxury, and for medicinal 

 qualities. 



SWEET CHALYBEATE SPRING is in Alleghany County, 

 west of Sweet Spring. One of the springs here has the 

 same character as the last-named spring, and the other con- 

 tains a larger quantity of iron. Rowelle gives, in one quart 

 of water, 



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