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dies, life plays beneath the surface or " moves upon the 

 face of the waters." Hence the medicine of springs. The 

 Americas have an immeasurable supply of all waters. * 

 Great hint of Nature ; the laws of the physical world point 

 out a fate for man commensurate with the force of water 

 on earth. All that waters (steam, it must not be forgotten, 

 is a union of the two old friends, fire and water) can do, is 

 to be done for humanity on this theatre, and hence the true 

 significance of the great water arrangements of the Americas 

 to mankind. 



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* One might readily think, from observation of his habits, that the 

 Yankee animal had failed to discover the meaning of the water 

 arrangement, amidst which he lives, and had arrived at the conclu- 

 sion that whisky was the greatest element of the world; and that if 

 rum is not the true medium of his existence, his body is the true 

 medium of rum, and hence, that the vast supplies of water prepared 

 for him are an intimation pointing to the conclusion that corre- 

 sponding quantities of rum {fire?} should thereby be quenched, to 

 preserve the delicate state of parboiledness which he has come to re- 

 gard as the proper condition, or true earthly blessedness. 



