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Another stream vanishes and re-appears tvv^ice, south of the above, and 
a line of sink-holes indicates the course of the subterranean stream. One 
of them sunk a few years since, carrying a cow and a tree. The tree 
still lives, but its limbs and top only can be seen at a little distance. 
The cow, being unable to climb out of the sunken ground, starved to 
death. 
On Becraft's mountain, a small stream disappears in a sink-hole, and 
re-appears as a spring, at the base of the cliff, on the east side of the 
mountain. 
Cold Spring, southwest of Stessing mountain, flows from the base of 
a limestone ridge. A brook flows from it large enough to carry a mill. 
It is generally reputed to be the subterranean outlet of a small lake at 
the base of Mount Stessing, and which has no visible outlet. 
The Clove Spring, as it is called, in Verbank, is supposed to discharge 
from twenty to thirty barrels of water per minute. The water is very 
limpid. 
Gaseous Springs. 
The New-Lebanon spring is well known; it delivers 16 barrels of 
water per minute of the temperature of about 12° or 73°. It rises from 
near the junction of the talcose slate with the limestone, and there are 
some traces of a fault in the vicinity. 
A gas spring rises in the bed of a small stream a quarter of a 
mile from Ameniaville, on the road to Poughkeepsie. 
Another is stated by Judge Bockee to exist on Isaac Smith's farm, 
one mile S. E. of his house in North-East. 
Two others were observed in New-Lebanon, by Prof. Briggs, one on 
the road to Stephentown from Lebanon Springs, and the other on Mr. 
McNaughton's farm, between the Shakers' Village and Lebanon Springs. 
The temperature of these waters was not taken, but it is said they do 
not freeze in winter. 
Chalybeate Sptings. 
Near Upton's pond, in Stanford, Mr. Merrick observed a small chaly- 
beate spring, from which an unusual quantity of iron ore is deposited. 
Near the village of the Brick Yard Shakers, in New-Lebanon, Prof. 
Briggs observed the water of a spring highly charged with iron, and ore 
