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gen gas is continually evolved from them. According to Prof. Charles U. Shepard, the water 
of the Seneca spring is strongly sulphureous, but is free from uncombined carbonic acid, and 
contains notable quantities of the carbonates of lime, magnesia and soda, together with the 
sulphate of lime.* 
Southwestern Counties. We have accounts of numerous sulphur springs in the south¬ 
western range of counties. 
In Chenango County, there are several sulphur springs in the town of Pitcher. At some 
of these, houses were erected for the accommodation of visiters, but they are now seldom 
resorted to. 
In Broome County, the Nanticoke Sulphur Spring was formerly in considerable repute. 
Similar springs also occur at Bellona in this county. 
Sulphur springs are said to exist in Cortland County. 
In Tompkins County, there is a spring of this kind in the town of Dryden, ten miles east 
of Ithaca, which has acquired some celebrity; and another on Six-mile creek, a mile or two 
southeast of the same village.! 
In Tioga County, in the town of the same name, is a sulphur spring; and a similar one 
occurs in the southwest corner of Barton, on the east bank of Chemung river.! 
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 ; and similar springs occur in the towns 
of Jasper and Urbana, in the same county. 
Sulphur springs are occasionally found in the County of Cattaraugus. One upon the 
land of Judge Leavenworth, near Randolph, is pretty strongly charged. Several have been 
noticed issuing from the Cashaqua shales, at the base of the cliffs upon the Cattaraugus creek, 
and the south branch. 
Chautauque County. Sulphur springs are here of frequent occurrence, and apparently 
have some connexion with the issues of carburetted hydrogen gas, for which this county has 
become so celebrated. In the village of Fredonia, many springs of this kind have been dis¬ 
covered ; but they are said to lose their sulphureous character in a short time. This, how¬ 
ever, is not the case with those found elsewhere. On the shore of Lake Erie, about a mile 
east of Van Buren Harbour, a spring, highly charged with sulphuretted hydrogen, issues out 
of the slate rock, nearly on a level with the lake. The water is cold and clear, but the quan¬ 
tity is not very abundant. The specific gravity is 1.00193 at 60° F.; and it contains minute 
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. 
* American Journal of Science, XX. 157. 
t Medical Topographical Report of Tompkins County, in the Transactions of the New-York State Medical Society, III. 25. 
t Medical Topography of the County of Tioga, in the Transactions of the Neiu-York State Medical Society, III. 151. 
