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world, affording room and depth enough for steam- 

 boats to move and turn in them. Green Cove Spring 

 is said to be like a waterfall reversed ; a cataract 

 rushing upward through a transparent liquid in- 

 stead of leaping downward through the air. There 

 are one or two of these enormous springs also in 

 northern Mississippi, springs so large that it 

 seems as if the whole continent must nurse them. 



The Valley of the Shenandoah is remarkable for 

 its large springs. The town of Winchester, a town 

 of several thousand inhabitants, is abundantly sup- 

 plied with water from a single spring that issues on 

 higher ground near by. Several other springs in 

 the vicinity afford rare mill-power. At Harrison- 

 burg, a county town farther up the valley, I was 

 attracted by a low ornamental dome resting upon a 

 circle of columns, on the edge of the square that 

 contained the court-house, and was surprised to find 

 that it gave shelter to an immense spring. This 

 spring was also capable of watering the town or 

 several towns ; stone steps led down to it at the 

 bottom of a large stone basin. There was a pretty 

 constant string of pails to and from it. Aristotle 

 called certain springs of his country "cements of 

 society," because the young people so frequently 

 met there and sang and conversed ; and I have 

 little doubt this spring is of like social importance. 



There is a famous spring at San Antonio, Texas, 

 which is described by that excellent traveler, Fred- 

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