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count, the difference is very jrreat, the latter raising the 

 mercury to "200^ which is within 12^ of boiling water. 

 These springs are very much resorted to in spite of a 

 total want of accommodation for the sick. Their wa- 

 ters are strongest in the hottest months, which occa- 

 sions their being visited in July and August principally. 



The Sweet springs are in the county of Botetourt, at 

 the eastern foot of the Alleghaney, about 42 miles from 

 the Warm springs. They are still less known. Hav- 

 ing been found to relieve cases in which the others had 

 been ineffe(;tually tried, it is probable their composition 

 is different. They are different also in their tempera- 

 ture, being as cold as common water, which is not 

 mentioned, however, as a proof of a distinct impregna- 

 tion. This is among the first sources of James' river. 



On Patowmac river, in Berkley county, above the 

 North mountain, are medicinJal sjirings, much more fre- 

 quented than those of Augusta. Their powers, how- 

 ever, are less, the waters weakly mineralized, and 

 scarcely warm. They are more visited, because situat- 

 ed in a fertile, plentiful and poj)ulous country, better 

 provided with accommodations, always safe from the 

 Indians, and nearest to the njore populous states. 



In Louisa county, on the head waters of the South 

 Anna branch of York river, are springs of some medi- 

 cinal virtue. They are not much used however. There 

 js a weak chalybeate at Richmond ; and many others 

 in various parts of the country, which are of two little 

 worth, or two little note, to be enuujerated after those 

 before mentioned. 



We are told of a sulphur spring on Howard's creek 

 of Greenbriar, and another at boonsborough on Ken- 

 tucky. 



In the low gro»mds of the Great Kanhaway, seven 

 miles above the mouth of I'Jk river, and (J7 above that 

 of the Kanhaway itself, is a hole in the earth of the ca- 

 pacity of .30 or 40 gallons, from which issues constant- 

 ly a bituminous vapour, in so strong a current, as to 



