182 Miscellanies. 



to relinquish, 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 work 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 in- 

 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, ^c. 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, in 

 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. 

 There is no reasonable ground to doubt, that the composition of 

 the springs is substantially what Dr. Steel has indicated, and the 

 quantity of mineral ingredients is remarkably great, compared with 

 those of other celebrated mineral waters. 



The Congress water appears by Dr. Steel's analysis, to contain 

 in one gallon, or two hundred and thirty one cubic inches : 

 Marine Salt (chloride of sodium) - - 385.0 

 Hydriodate of soda, _ _ _ 3.5 



Bi-carbonate of soda, _ - - - 8.982 



Bi-carbonate of magnesia, - - 95.788 



Carbonate of lime, . _ - - 98.098 



Carbonate of iron, 5.075 



Silica, ------ 1.5 



