SPRINGS 



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In the coonty of Cape May, New Jersey, is a 

 spring of fresh water which boils up from the bottom 

 of a salt water creek, which runs nearly dry at low 

 tide ; but at flood tide, is covered with water directly 

 from the ocean, to the depth of three or four feet,; 

 yet in this situation, by letting down a bottle well 

 corked, through the salt water into the spring, and 

 immediately drawing the cork with a string pre- 

 pared for that purpose, it may be drawn up full of 

 line, untainted, fresh water. There are springs of 

 this kind in other parts of the states.^ / 



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