WAYNE COUNTY. 
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Mineral and other waters. 
The springs in this county arise chiefly from limestones, or from shales and marls, which 
contain a proportion of lime ; of course they are more or less impregnated with calcareous 
matter. Along the lake, however, the sandstone range furnishes springs of a pure and soft 
water. 
Sulphur Springs. 
Several sulphur springs arise in Brown’s mill pond, about one and a half miles south of 
Newark. The water running from this pond deposits sulphur, and sulphuretted water issues 
from the bank at the road opposite the dam, and forms a whitish deposit. When the water 
in this pond becomes low, the small fishes which it contains are sometimes found dead, floating 
on the surface. No other cause than the properties of the sulphurous springs has been as¬ 
signed for this fact. 
On Salmon creek, near the forge in Sodus, a weak sulphurous spring rises from the red 
sandstone, and forms a reddish deposit. One or two sulphur springs also occur in and near 
Palmyra. At Jenkins’s hill, in the village of Clyde, there is a weak mineral spring, proba¬ 
bly of a sulphurous nature. With the exception of that on Salmon creek, all these springs 
occur in gypseous rocks. About half a mi.’e northeast of Marion Centre, a sulphur spring 
rises from the bituminous limestone. This place is resorted to by residents of the vicinity, 
and occasional visiters. 
Salt Springs. 
The old Galen salt works are situated on lot No. 54 in the town of Savannah, immediately 
on the western edge of the Cayuga marshes. The spring is large, and is indeed quite a 
pond of perhaps twenty feet in diameter. Salt was manufactured about twenty-five years 
since, when the country was new and but thinly settled. 
One or two salt springs formerly appeared in the creek, a short distance below Wolcott fur¬ 
nace ; they are now neglected and filled with fresh water. These springs were worked in 
1815, and furnished a reddish salt. They rise from the red sandstone. Another salt spring 
rises from the red sandstone upon a small creek emptying into Sodus bay, near the point. 
Two miles east of Lockville, near the Erie canal, boring was made for salt. There was 
originally a spring at this spot, and salt was manufactured to a small extent. 
Deep boring for Salt Water at Clyde. 
In 1832, a company bored to the depth of 400 feet in the immediate vicinity of Clyde. 
The spot selected had no indications of a saline or other mineral character, and there was no 
spring ; the boring was commenced in the gypseous rocks. Salt water was obtained in 
small quantity, but quite strong. A square wooden tube now projects several feet r* the spot 
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