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autumn for health. A similar one breaks out froirt* 



a whitish clay, or chalky hill, in Richland district^ 

 near Rice creek, which is efficacious in curing ring^ 

 worms, cutaneous disorders, and rheumatisms. This- 

 last spring has been but lately known ; it was, how- 

 ever, resorted to in the year 18Q1, by upwards of 

 on^ hundred persons, who drank of, and bathed in 

 its waters with success. 



Another spring of some notoriety has been found 

 within a few years past, boiling up from the base o£ 

 the ridge of high land in the Orangeburgh district,. 

 %vhich overlooks a branch of the little Saltcatcher 

 Swamp, Many of these medicinal springs extend soma: 

 hundred yards along the edge of the swamp, and5 

 their virtues were not known until about the year 

 1796, when they were first discovered by an hunts-* 

 man, who was in pursuit of game. Fatigued witk^ 

 exercise, he arrived at the large spring ; and was^ 

 naturally induced to taste its waters. In doing so^ 

 he washed his hands, which were affected with ring-* 

 worms, and in a few days found they were much 

 better. He renewed the visit, and in a short time 

 was perfectly cured. Hence a reputation arose, in- 

 ducing the neighbourhood to bathe in these waters 

 for sores, lameness, and pains in the body ; which 

 sometimes proving successful, their virtues were 

 magnified, and in the course of that year, tliey were 

 visited by two hundred persons. 



The residents of Springtown, formed a settlement 

 near it, and find it so little <lifFerent, either in taste or 

 effect, from drinking water, that they constantly use 

 it as such, without the smallest inconvenience.* 

 * Drayton's View of South Carolina, 



