tJNITED STATES* 



the bath is used in the evening, perhaps^ it is always 

 best to go directly to bed. But as a most profuse 

 perspiration, and of considerable duration, is the 

 certain consequence of this, it ought not to be done 

 more than a few times by any except those who have 

 a fixed rheumatism, or goiat* They, indeed, should 

 do it daily ; but as it weakens the system very much, 

 it is certainly to be avoided where circumstances do 

 not render it indispenslble. On the whole, one bath- 

 ing in the morning, without going to bed after it, is 

 sufficient in most cases. And in all Cases^ to avoid 

 a check of perspiration is to be the subject of con- 

 stant attention. After coming from a warm room, 

 exercise in the open air should be used for some 

 time.'* 



Hot spring.. nKhovX six miles from the preceding 

 ispring, on following the road between the two high 

 ridges, we come to the end of a valley, where thq 

 •water, or brook, has cut its way through the petro^ 

 silex^ down to Jackson's river. This bottom is co«^ 

 vei'ed by various materials of the destroyed moun- 

 tains on each side, and offers all kinds of stones, as, 

 freestone of different colours, the red kind especially, 

 -which is sonorous. There is plenty of the blue mar- 

 ble crossed by a white vein of calcareous mephites : 

 all the surrounding substances are bottoms of old 

 cavities filled up by fragments of all kinds of mate- 

 rials. The uppermost of the mountains is cut in 

 different cones all round, which are mostly sterile, 

 or at least vegetation is very poor all round about 

 them, and in general there is little of water in pro- 

 portion to the mountains* 



The springs are upt^n a hillocky and come out 



