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:ar€ deemed specific in difficulty of digestion, and 

 relieve the stone and gravel, and hypochondriacal 

 affections; he adds, that when first used they some- 

 times disagree with persons, creating uneasiness in 

 the glands of the throat, until they begin to pass off 

 freely by the kidneys; then they become agreeable. 

 It is remarked that those who drink the water, 

 lose much of their relish for wine and spirits. 



Bristol S/irings,, »ln the town of Bristol, 20 miles 

 •-north of Philadelphia, are chalybeate springs of a 

 very powerful nature ; and were formerly resorted 

 to by the people of the middle states. They are 

 particularly serviceable in complaints of the urinary 

 passage, loss of appetite, and general debility of 

 constituticMi, or in any disease unaccompanied by an 

 inflammatory constitution. But the particular cases 

 in which they have rendered as marked benefit, as 

 - jR any other, are old affections of the liver. Some 

 very remarkable cures have been effected in suck 

 complaints. It is much to be regretted that they 

 •cannot be brought again into general use. 



In Virginia, there are several justly celebrated 

 springs. 



1. The warm and hot springs in the county of 

 Bath (formerly part of Augusta county), near the 

 first sources of James river, where it is called Jack- 

 son's river. They rise near the foot of the ridg« 

 of mountains, generally called the Warm Sprang 

 mountains, but in the maps, Jackson's mountain^ 

 The warm spring issues with a very bold stream, 

 sufficient to turn a grist mill, and to keep th^e waters 

 of its bason, which is 30 feet in diameter, at the 



