182 JMiscellantes. 
to reiinquish, and which must ever be retained,) corresponded with 
the full exhibition of all the cognate meanings of the different parts 
of the same elementary idea, it would have been a happy coincidence, 
9. Southern Agriculturalist for July, 1831.—This useful wiki is 
continued as heretofore. It abounds with that practical informa- 
tion, which, although avowedly local in its principal features, is very 
properly so, because the peculiarities of southern soil, vegetation and 
culture, cause some interests to be prominent, and of paramount im- 
portance in those parts of the continent. Still there is valuable i- 
formation, which is useful to every part of the Union. 
10. Analysis of the mineral water of Saratoga, and Ballston, with 
an account of their medicinal properties, Sc. by John Steel, M. D— 
Dr. Steel has compressed in this little volume, all the information 
that is most interesting to the multitudes: who visit the very remark- 
able waters of which he treats. He has prefixed a history of the 
springs, and a geological description of the county of Saratoga, is 
which they are situated. 
The description of the springs, and the account of the analysis of 
the waters, especially of the Congress fountain, is full and satisfactory: 
here is no reasonable ground to doubt, that the composition 
the springs is substantially what Dr. Steel has indicated, and the 
quantity of mineral ingredients is remarkably great, compared wi 
those of other celebrated mineral waters. 
The Congress water appears by Dr. Steel’s analysis, 10 conta 
in one gallon, or two hundred and thirty one cubic inches: 
Marine Salt (chloride of sae - 5 
Hydriodate of soda, - - 3.5 
Bi-carbonate of soda, -  - - 8.982 
Bi-carbonate of magnesia, Seis 95.788 
Carbonate of lime, “ . - _ 98.098 
Carbonate of iron, 5.075 
Silica, - - “ a > i. 1.5 
iennbemas 
597.943 gIS 
Carbonic acid gas - - 311 
Atmospheric air, - - 7 
Gaseous contents, “ - 318 cubic inches 
