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forces is a little stronger than any four horses," and is 

 bountifully brought out by the highly critical, scientific, and 

 veracious author of Robinson Crusoe, endorsed by three 

 Mud Angels. It is bottled, and can be had in places for sale, 

 Said to contain chlorides of sodium, magnesium, calcium, 

 protochloride of iron, sulphate of lime, carbonate of lime 

 and magnesia, bromide and iodide of magnesia, silica and 

 alumina; solid contents in 16 ounces of water, 10 J ounces 

 of salts : chloride of calcium being present. For medical 

 properties, see Paracelsus, on the virtue of chicken fat, and 

 Bulgarius, on the final cause of the creation of soft soap. 



Seventeen miles from Montreal, on the St. Lawrence, are 

 the VERENNES SPRINGS. " There are two springs, saline and 

 gas, near together, both containing chloride, iodide, and bro- 

 mide of soda, carbonates of soda, baryta, strontia, lime, mag- 

 nesia, andiron." The Gas Spring evolves carburetted hy- 

 hydrogen, with temperature of the water, 46 to 47 Fahr. 



CAXTON SPRING is in Caxton Township, on the Yanna- 

 chicke River, near the same named village. It is a saline 

 chalybeate water, with large quantities of carburetted hydro- 

 gen gas escaping. 



ST. LEON SPRING is a salt iron spring also, with large quan- 

 tities of carburetted hydrogen gas escaping from the water. 



