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carboniferous rocks, in which formation salt springs are known to 

 exist in several parts of this and other counties. Nothing however 

 has yet been done in their examination; and the River Philip 

 spring is the only one, so far as I know, that has been turned to 

 any account. 



IV. Wilmot Springs, Annapolis Co. — These, situated about 100 

 miles from Halifax, afford a water which has been much resorted 

 to. Eev. Dr. Robertson, rector of the parish of Wilmot, has 

 obligingly furnished me the following information. " The water of 

 the Wilmot springs is cold, with an abundant flow, and is highly 

 charged with mineral substances, chiefly iron and copper (?) No 

 correct analysis of it, I rather think, has yet been made. It is 

 said to contain a small proportion of iodine. In former times 

 the springs were much frequented, but of late years very few 

 visitors have come to them. The water however is remarkably 

 efficacious in curing cutaneous complaints or eruptions. In my own 

 opinion the Wilmot springs deserve to be better known and more 

 frequented than they are at present. If the proprietors were men 

 of substance and energy, I have not a doubt but that their locality 

 would be one of the best known places in all Nova Scotia." 



V". Thermal f Spring near Chester, Lunenburg Co. — Amos F. 

 Morgan, Esq., has furnished me with the following details of a spring 

 of clear water issuing in the centre of a rising ground or small 

 hillock in the woods in the neighbourhood of Chester. The tem- 

 perature of the atmosphere at the time of finding the spring, in 

 the beginning of March, was below the freezing point ; but of the 

 water, as far as could be judged, about that of new milk, the pool 

 1 g no appearance of having been frozen over the whole 

 winter. The basin filled with the water was considered to be 

 about eight feet square. The mud at the bottom was covered 

 with small holes about the size of a man's finger, and out of these 

 rose continually bubbles of gas. The water tasted slightly bitter, 

 or perhaps was imagined to taste so, but was peculiarly soft, so 

 much so, that it felt more like oil than water in the mouth. It is 

 possible that this water is decidedly thermal ; and it would seem 

 from its described taste and oily character in the mouth, to be 

 highly alkaline. The gas arising appears to be abundant. This 

 water would be well worth investigation. 



VI. Spa Spring Water, Windsor, Hants Co. — This is a 

 water rising in a field in a district iu which gypsum is one of 

 the prevailing rocks, the geological age being Lower Carboniferous. 



