182 THE MOUNTAIN. 



ing to Dr. Austin, "the springs are situated among pine 

 hills, five miles from the town of Biloxi, and half a mile 

 from the east shore of Biloxi Bay," and said, by its special 

 advocates, to be attractive and beautiful. 



ARKANSAS SPRINGS. 



THE WASHITAW HOT SPRINGS are in Hot Spring County, 

 fifty miles south of Arkansas River, near Washitaw River. 

 The springs are at the foot of a mountain called Hot Moun- 

 tain. The streams of hot water are numerous and of con- 

 siderable volume. They have a temperature, according to 

 " Schoolcraft," of 200 P. The water will vesicate the sur- 

 face, and boil an egg in a few minutes, and is described as 

 pure and clear. 



According to Judge Watts, the springs have a tempera- 

 ture of 145 F. As might be inferred, the waters of these 

 springs have much power as a therapeutic agent, adminis- 

 tered both internally and externally. They are used in 

 vapour, hot and warm baths, by cooling down the tempera- 

 ture, and, from well-known laws of the economy, exert their 

 influence as those classes of baths are known to do. They 

 contain salts of lime and magnesia ; but a minute and criti- 

 cal analysis is wanting. 



The special advocates of these waters as medicinal, re- 

 present them as almost specifics in the cure of " the whole 

 order of chronic diseases," including scrofula, gout, rheuma- 

 tism, also the consequences or sequelae of acute diseases, 

 vicious drugging, and affections of the skin. 



A few miles from Hot Springs there is an Iron Spring of 

 reputed powers, and also some other springs, said to be of 

 the carbonated class; but the springs of real significance 



