MEDICINAL SPRINGS. 219 
In the western part of the county are several 
medicinal springs, whereto numbers of people 
resort towards the latter end of summer,, as 
much for the sake of escaping the heat in the 
low country, as for drinking the waters. Those 
most frequented are called the Sweet Springs* 
and are situated at the foot of the Alleghany 
Mountains. During the last season upwards 
of two hundred persons resorted to them with 
servants and horses. The accommodations at 
the springs are most wretched at present; but a 
set of gentlemen from South Carolina have, I 
understand, since I was there, purchased the 
... 
place, and are going to erect several commo¬ 
dious dwellings in the neighbourhood, for the 
reception of company. Besides these springs 
there are others in Jackson’s Mountains, a ridge 
which runs between the Blue Mountains and 
the Alleghany. One of the springs here is 
warm, and another quite hot; a few paces from 
the latter, a spring of common water issues > 
from the earth, but which, from the contrast, 
is generally thought to be as remarkable for 
its coldness as the water of the adjoining one 
is for its heat: there is afso a sulphur spring 
near these; leaves of trees falling into it be¬ 
come thickly incrusted with sulphur in a very 
frhort time, and silver is turned black almost 
immediately. At a future period, the mediei- 
