SPRINGS 



erick Law Olmsted. "The whole river," he says, 

 "gushes up in one sparkling burst from the earth, 

 with all the accessories of smaller springs, moss, 

 pebbles, foliage, seclusion, etc. Its effect is over- 

 powering. It is beyond your possible conception of 

 a spring." 



Of like copiousness and splendor is the Caledonia 

 spring, or springs, in western New York. They 

 give birth to a white-pebbled, transparent stream, 

 several rods wide and two or three feet deep, that 

 flows eighty barrels of water per second, and is alive 

 with trout. The trout are fat and gamy even in 

 winter. 



The largest spring in England, called the Well 

 of St. Winifred, at Holywell, flows less than three 

 barrels per second. I recently went many miles out 

 of my way to see the famous trout spring in Warren 

 County, New Jersey. This spring flows about one 

 thousand gallons of water per minute, which has a 

 uniform temperature of fifty degrees winter and 

 summer. It is near the Musconetcong Creek, which 

 looks as if it were made up of similar springs. On 

 the parched and sultry summer day upon which my 

 visit fell, it was well worth walking many miles 

 just to see such a volume of water issue from the 

 ground. I felt with the boy Petrarch, when he 

 first beheld a famous spring, that "were I master 

 of such a fountain I would prefer it to the finest 

 of cities." A large oak leans down over the spring 

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