Prof. E. D. Smithy on the Warm Springs, fyc. 117 



surfaces in his coils into four alternating, constituting two 

 galvanic pairs in one recipient. Iron wire was then easily 

 burned and platina fused by it. These facts, together with 

 the incapacity of the calorific fluid extricated by the calori- 

 motor to permeate charcoal, next to metals the best electri- 

 cal conductor, must sanction the position I assigned to it as 

 being in the opposite extreme from the columns of De Luc 

 and Zamboni. For as in these, the phenomena are such 

 as are characteristic of pure electricity, so in one very large 

 galvanic pair, they almost exclusively demonstrate the agen- 

 cy of pure caloric. 



Art. XIX. — An account of the Warm Springs, in Bun- 

 come County, state of JVorth- Carolina ; by the late Ed- 

 ward D. Smith, M. D. and Professor of Chemistry and 

 Mineralogy in the South- Carolina College. 



(Communicated to the editor, by the lamented author, just befor% 

 his death,) 



Presuming that contributions to the natural history of 

 the United States will not be unacceptable, I now offer 

 some details respecting the situation and nature of the Min- 

 eral Springs of Buncome County, North-Carohna, wdiich 

 have, for some years past, been much visited by the inhab- 

 itants of the southern states. In the years 1816 and 1817 

 I had the opportunity of analyzing some of the water, 

 which had been carefully bottled on the spot and conveyed 

 in safety to me ; and the results of this process were pub- 

 lished in a newspaper of the day. Desirous however to 

 examine these celebrated waters at their fountain head, I 

 made an excursion, in July last, for this express purpose : 

 and the information obtained by that journey, is now re- 

 spectfully presented to the view of the public. 



These mineral waters are found upon the margin of a 

 river called the French Broad, about thirty two miles fi'om 

 Ashville, the county town of Buncome, and five and a half 

 miles from the Tennessee line. Several springs have al- 

 ready been discovered, at various distances from each oth- 

 er, and the whole extent of ground, in which they rise, al- 

 though not accurately ascertained, h supposed to be at least 



