102 Harrowgate Springs. [Feb., 



HARROWGATE SPRINGS OF MASSENA, St. LAWRENCE 

 COUNTY. 



We gave in the last number of the Journal for 1846, the ana- 

 lysis of a new mineral spring at Saratoga. A spring whose water 

 bottles remarkably well, and which is so perfectly free of iron that 

 it may be drank by all classes of patients. It supplies a desider- 

 atum at Saratoga, inasmuch as it contains a large amount of iodine 

 without the iron which most of the springs contain. 



We now give below the analysis of the Harrowgate or Sulphur 

 Springs of Massena, St. Lawrence Co. They are remarkable 

 waters, and have been eminently servicable in cutaneous diseases 

 and in rheumatism. 



Their temperatures are 52° which is called the warm spring, 

 and 46° which is called the cold spring. 

 Jinalysis. 



Solid matter in one pint, 13.082 12.544 



The water of the warm spring, at the time of analysis, had lost 

 its gaseous contents, as it did not blacken silver; the other retained 

 a portion: both contained organic matter which seemed to be 

 combined in some way with the sulphuretted hydrogen. Without 

 doubt, the gas is produced by the decomposition of the sulphates 

 by the organic matter. Those springs issue from the calciferous 

 sandstone, and are situated upon the north branch of the Racket 

 river, about 3 miles above its junction with the St. Lawrence, and 

 just above the Long Sault. There are three springs within 30 feet 

 of each other, and they possess nearly the same properties. The 

 quantity of sulphuretted hydrogen is considerable. We cannot 

 but regard these springs as medicinally important, and as forming 

 an important addition to our curative means in certain classes of 

 chronic ailments. We hope our exchange papers will give publi- 

 city to this notice. 



