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lake. The water is cold and clear, but the quantity is not very abun- 
dant. The specific gravity is 1.00193 at 60° F. and it contains mi- 
nute portions of the carbonate of lime, sulphate of lime and sulphate 
of soda. 
Another spring of a similar kind occurs near the sandstone quarries 
at Laona, a mile south of Fredonia, and others are also found in the 
town of Sheridan, a mile and a half from Lake Erie. 
Springs of the Southwestern counties. — We have accounts of nume- 
rous sulphuretted springs in the other counties bordering on the State of 
Pennsylvania. - In Steuben county, Campbelltown, a village in the 
northwestern part of the town of Campbell, has a spring of this kind 
near it, which is said to be remarkably pure, and to emit a stream of 
air which may be inflamed when confined. Ami similar springs occur 
in the towns of Jasper and Urbana, in the same county.* 
Tompkins county has a sulphur spring, in the town of Dry den, ten 
miles east of Ithaca, which has acquired some celebrity, and another on 
Six Mile creek, a mile or two south-east of Ithaca.f 
In the town of Tioga, in the county of the same name, is a sulphu- 
retted spring, and a similar one occurs in the southwest corner of Bar- 
ton, on the east bank of the Chemung river; the waters of neither have 
been analyzed 4 
Finally, in Cortland county, such springs are said to have been dis- 
covered; and in the county of Chenango, near the south line of the 
town of McDonough, is Spec's Spa, a sulphur spring much frequented, 
and at which is a large house for the accommodation of visiters. Ano- 
ther, also much resorted to, is situated two miles from the village of 
Norwich; and there is still another in the town of Pharsalia in the same 
county. 
It was my intention to have added to this general view of the sul- 
phuretted springs of our State, some remarks concerning the origin of 
the sulphuretted hydrogen gas thus largely and extensively evolved: 
but I have only space to repeat, what has been already suggested, that 
the cause ordinarily assigned, viz. the decomposition of the sulphuret 
of iron, seems to me to be wholly inadequate, and that we must refer 
it to some agency far more general and effective. 
* Gordon's (lazetteer. 
t Medical Topographical Report of Tompkins county, in the Transactions of the New-York 
State Medical Society, III. 25. 
X Medicai Topography of the county of Tioga, in the Transactions of the New- York State 
Medical Society, III. 151. 
