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In Yallabusha County, near Grenada, a spring is reported 

 containing chlorine, sulphuric acid, iron, sulphate of alu- 

 mina ; used in diseases of the bowels, etc In Winston and 

 Nashoba counties there are chalybeate and sulphuretted 

 hydrogen springs. In Yazoo County, near Yazoo City, 

 there is said to be an "alkaline spring," and one containing 

 sulphate of iron, carbonic acid, chlorine, alumina, lime, mag- 

 nesia, and soda. In La Fayette, Panola, and Calhoun 

 counties, chalybeates are said to exist. In Clarke County, 

 near Chickasawhay River, and also near "Enterprise," 

 there are springs containing sulphate of iron and sulphu- 

 retted hydrogen. 



" COOPER'S WELL" is twelve miles from Jackson, in Hinds 

 County. " It comes from an Artesian well, in sand rock, 

 one hundred and seven feet deep, and is in a region attrac- 

 tive and salubrious." It is described as a salt iron water, and 

 contains oxygen, nitrogen, and carbonic acid gases, sulphate 

 of lime, magnesia, soda, alumina, and potash, chloride of 

 soda, lime, and magnesia, peroxide of iron, and crenate of 

 lime and silica. Said to be useful as iron water, in abdomi- 

 nal diseases of the chronic type, as chronic diarrhoea, dys- 

 pepsia, renal and hepatic diseases. 



Dr. Bell notices another spring in Mississippi, which has 

 acquired considerable reputation for medicinal qualities. 

 This is 



" OCEAN SPRING," in Lynchburg, Jackson County, which 

 contains carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen gases, 

 chlorides of calcium, sodium, and magnesium, protoxide of 

 iron, iodine, organic matter, chloride of potassium a trace, 

 and alumina a trace. Leading elements, chloride of sodium, 

 sulphuretted hydrogen, and iron. " The iron is united with 

 carbonic acid and sulphuretted hydrogen." The medical 

 properties lean to the values of iron and sulphuretted hy- 

 drogen, and may be useful in chronic derangements in which 

 such elements are indicated ; and, on the authority of Dr. 

 Austin, "they have been successful in the cure of dyspepsia, 

 skin diseases, scrofula, and strumous ophthalmia." Accord- 



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