SPRINGS 



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is even carried to the settlements on the Ohio.* It 

 is shipped on board flat bottom boats, and brought up 

 the lakes Ontario and Erie, then overland ten miles 

 to the town of Erie ; thence to VVaterford by a por- 

 tage of fifteen miles to the navigation of French, 

 creek, which opens a cheap and safe conveyance to 

 the towns on the Ohio. 



3d. The Sulphureous and Bituminous S/irings 

 are perhaps somewhat indistinctly represented by 

 the hunters, who frequent them most, and our ac- 

 counts of the burning springs are perhaps in some de- 

 gree confounded with both kinds. One of this de- 

 scription exists at or near the mouth of Elk river, in 

 Kanhawa county, and one upcn Coal river, in the 

 same county. 



4th. Of Mum Springs^ there is one said to be 

 very remarkable in the neighbourhood of Falmouth, 

 on the Rappahannock, which is said to emit lumps 

 of pure alum ; a further description cannot now be 

 given, and it is only thought proper now to mention 

 it as an index for men of science, who may have lei- 

 sure and inclination to examine the curiosity. 



In the counties of Saffield and Tolland, Connec- 

 ticut, there are some mineral springs which have 

 acquired very considerable celebrity. But all the 

 watering places of the northern states are eclipsed by 

 the fashionable springs of Saratoga county, New 

 York ; which have been analysed by Dr. Mitchell 

 and Dr. Seamen* The experiments of the last 



* In the sjjring of 1806, salt to the amount of 80>000 dollars, was 

 brought to the countries bor(Jejring on the Alleghany and Ohio rivers/ 

 iuid consumed there.. 



