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to have a bath both pure and invigorating, as the 

 quantity of water is so considerable, as with an 

 adequate fall, to drive an overshot mill wheel.* 



Medicinal Springs in South Carolina,.,, Are si- 

 tuated on the western side of Pacolet river, in the 

 upper country, and are said to be of much virtue 

 in rheumatic, cutaneous, and some other complaints. 

 Their waters are clear, and are supposed to be 

 impregnated with sulphur and iron ; but from pro- 

 cesses taken to analyze them, the issue has not been 

 such as to establish this supposition. By some they 

 are said to taste and smell like the washings of a 

 gun barrel; and by others they are denied having 

 any extraordinary smell or taste. Another spring of 

 the same kind is in the Catabaw lands, near the road 

 ieading from Landsford to Hill and Haynes' iron 

 works : as is also one on a branch of the Waxaw 

 creek, which is said to possess the same virtues as 

 the Catabaw springs in North Carolina, and is 

 therefore supposed to be impregnated with iron and 

 sulphur. 



A spring impregnated with iron and sulphur, pro- 

 ceeds from the eastern side of Paris^s mountain. 

 The water is perfectly clear, but smells strongly, 

 like the washings of a gun barrel: this spring is very 

 powerful in curing ringworms, and other cutaneous 

 disorders ; and for that purpose has been resorted to 

 by the inhabitants. In the forks of Lynch's creek, 

 a beautiful spring bursts and boils up from the earth, 

 in a large stream, whose waters are of so salubrious 

 a nature, that many persons resort to them in the 



* Med, Repos. Hexade 2d, vol. lU 



