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notch in the hills half a mile distant, because on 

 one occasion, when the brook was being ditched 

 or dammed, the spring showed great perturbation. 

 Every nymph in it was filled with sudden alarm 

 and kicked up a commotion. 



In some sections of the country, when there is 

 no spring near the house, the farmer, with much 

 labor and pains, brings one from some uplying field 

 or wood. Pine and poplar logs are bored and laid 

 in a trench, and the spring practically moved to the 

 desired spot. The ancient Persians had a law that 

 whoever thus conveyed the water of a spring to a 

 spot not watered before should enjoy many immu- 

 nities under the state, not granted to others. 



Hilly and mountainous countries do not always 

 abound in good springs. When the stratum is ver- 

 tical, or has too great a dip, the water is not col- 

 lected in large veins, but is rather held as it falls, and 

 oozes out slowly at the surface over the top of the 

 rock. On this account one of the most famous grass 

 and dairy sections of New York is poorly supplied 

 with springs. Every creek starts in a bog or marsh, 

 and good water can be had only by excavating. 



What a charm lurks about those springs that are 

 found near the tops of mountains, so small that 

 they get lost amid the rocks and debris and never 

 reach the valley, and so cold that they make the 

 throat ache! Every hunter and mountain-climber 

 can tell .you of such, usually on the last rise before 

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