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large enough to turn an overshot mill, and emits 

 sulphureous steams which can be smelled to the dis* 

 tance of two miles. The water issues from the 

 ground in different branches, a/id, adjoining the 

 main fountain, are two bogs of sulphur, into which 

 a stick may be thrust more than six feet deep.* 



A bituminous oil is found on the waters of the 

 Seneka lake, in New York, and also in a creek, 

 called oil creek, which empties into the river Al- 

 leghany, about one hundred miles from its mouth, 

 which is singularly beneficial in chronic rheum- 

 atisms, bruises, old ulcers, and rigid limbs. Springs 

 affording a similar oil, are found in Kentucky. 



Coal,.,, The United States abound with various 

 kinds of excellent coal {lithanthrax^. There ar^ 

 inexhaustible mines of it on both banks of the river, 

 at Pittsburg, and for many miles down the Ohio; 

 also in Bedford county, on the Laurel Mountain, and 

 the mountains west of it; and so near the surface, 

 that it is discoverable in the gullies of the road; and 

 among the roots of trees that have been overthrown 

 by the wind. 



It is also found in every part of the state of Ohio, 

 and in the township of Marlbrough, west of Pough- 

 keepsie, on the banks of the Hudson. Inexhausti- 

 ble quantities of it are also found upon James river, 

 in Virginia. The exportation of this coal to the 

 other parts of the union, forms a considerable branch 

 of commerce. Of this last kind, however, it is under- 

 derstood, that all the quarries are not equally good. 

 Coal has also been discovered upon the river Ra- 



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