MINERAL SPRINGS. 



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4. Sprinfis of the fjktcial htkcn in tlie iiplandv. — Springs rising from the 

 base of the heavy sands of ghicial hikes in the uphmds rest on tlie till, and 

 those from the base of similar sands of the Connecticut Lake rest on the 

 Champlain clays. These are hardly to be called mineral springs. The 

 former furnish the sources of many of our mountain Ijrooks. The latter, 

 lying nearer the villages, are better known. Of these are the slightly 

 chalybeate spring at South Hadley Falls, the fine, strong s})ring which 

 gushes out of the bluff west of Hatfield village, and several issuing- from 

 the bluffs that surround Deerfield. In Springfield the Wesson Spring, 

 which supplies the water of Court Square and a fountain at the corner of 

 Willow and Stockbridge streets; the Wallier Spring, at the corner of Maple 

 and Stockl)ridge streets, and the Ingersoll Grove Spring, a hundred feet 

 south of Dartmouth terrace, the water of which is sold largely in the city, 

 are of this character. The rain waters which have tallen upon the surface 

 of the high terrace on which the higher portion of the city is built sink 

 through these sands to the horizontal and impervioris siirface of the clays 

 beneath and emerge at the edge of the bluff. 



The Ingersoll Grove Spring was reported upon by the State board of 

 health,^ and the result of its analysis is given below (I) in connection with 

 the analysis (II) in the same pamphlet of the I\Iassasoit Spring, described 

 below. The Massasoit Spring is of ideal purity; the other gives plain indi- 

 cation of the presence of the barn, sewer, and streets, which are reported in 

 the immediate vicinity of the spring. 



Analyses of icaters of Ingersoll Grove and Massasoit springs. 

 [Parts in 100,000.] 



' Examination of spring waters offered for sale in Massachusetts : Twenty-tliird Ann. Rept. 

 State board of lie.-ilth, pub. doc 3+, 1891 (al.'?n separate publication), pp. 356, 362, 304. 



