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Dr. Tenney's Account of Several Medicinal Sjmngs. 



in the next place, some experini,ents which I made on their 



waters, with such observations as naturally occurred to me 



• in consequence of them — and then relate their effects, in such 



observing, with some 



cases as I had an opportunity of 

 cral remarks respecting their medicinal propert 

 The .springs are 



g 



about 



in numb 



of which th 



y 



tromes may be half a mile apart. They are situated about 

 fourteen miles northwesterly- of General Schuyler's seat, at 

 Saratoga, in a kind of bog meadow, a few rods w^ide,- 

 through which runs a pleasant brook of sweet water. 



land on each side of the meadow, 



above it ; on the side nex 

 tivation; on the opposit 



sweet water. The 

 fifteen or twenty feet 



springs, stony, but fit for cul 



side 



bank adj 



andy and barren 



The 



and bound with a broken ledg 

 crusted with flint, to the thick 



some of the principal springs is very steep 



of lime rocks, generally 



of near an inch 



very 



which 

 appea 



This 



IS 



qua! and 



ed, gives them a 



than fifteen or twenty 



This ledge does not extend 



more 



From the plafce where it ter- 



mmates, to the upper spring, th 



easy declivity from 



the level land above, to the margin of the meadow. For 

 some distance in this extent, the brook, which Hke most 



others, winds through the mead 



a 



runs 



the bank 



pletely bridged over, for several 



This part is, in some pi 



pentine course. 



of about a foot thick 



rods, with large tables of 



which were 



off the declivity, and shot over the bed of the stream 



ntly shaken 



o 



bank, thou 



earth, appears 



The 



covered with a considerable stratum of 



principally of a solid 



of rock, 

 'hence 



