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walls; and gradually inclining, terminates at the distance of 

 eight or ten feet from it. This stony concrete is soft and 

 friable; and when broken off where it is wet, smells like a 

 fresh oyster shell. 



A few rods from this is another spring of the. same kind, 

 which discharges a still smaller quantity of water, and has 

 bnt little stony matter about it. From appearances, I can- 

 not but conjecture, that this must be of much later date 

 than the former. There is one circumstance which renders 

 it more than probable: the former was, 'till within a few 

 years, surrounded with^ several others (some say ten or 

 twelve) within, the extent of the surrounding concretion. 

 The orifices of these, several of which are still visible, are 

 become impervious. The water therefore, formerly dis- 

 charged by them, must have found vent by some other course ; 

 as it is hardly probable that it could find admittance into 

 the main well, through its solid sides, it is natural to suppose 

 that it might go off in a lateral direction, where it found 

 the least resistance, and force a passage in this place. 



The next spring of any importance, is at about the same 

 distance from the bank as the first; and differs from it, in 

 discharging a less quantity of water, and in being a kind of 

 pool, instead of a well. The area is an irregular parallelo- 

 gram, of about eight feet by five, and near two feet deep. 

 It is surrounded by an equal quantity of the same stony 

 substance as the first, with which, as I have been informed, it 

 was formerly nearly covered. But the stone being soft and 

 friable, part of it was broken away soon after its discovery, 

 to render it commodious for bathing : the remainder has 



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