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Show lVI I N ERA L S P R I N G S. 159 all the other fprinos nrc lil ·cwi(e furroundc I with petrifaCl.ions o[ the fame kind. ' he W:ttcr in the principal fpring, except at the beginnin tr of the fummcr, when it regularly ()Vcrflows, n:rnains about eight in ch··s below the rim of tbl! cr.1tcr, :md bubbles up as if boil"ng. The crat<'r i nine inches in diameter. The various proJ ·rtics of the water have not been yet alcertained with any great accu r,1cy; but it is f;1id to be imprcgn. ted with a foHilc acid and fame ttl inc 1ubfi:mce; there is alfo a great portion of fixed air in i t. An opportunity i here afforded lor making lome curiou xperim ·nts. If animals be put down i 1to the cr:lter, they will be immediately [uftocatcd; but if not kept there too long they r ·cover again upon b ·ing broug1 t inJo the op n n ir. ]~a lighted ca11dle be put down, the flame will b extinguiG1cd in an . infl:ant, and not even the fmalldl frJ.uk left in the wick. If the water immediately takt.:n 'J'Oln the fprin r be }lit i 1t0 a oottJe, clofcly corked, and then fhaken, either tht: cork will be forced out with an e. plofion, or the bot de will be broken ; but if left in an open vcffd it becomes vapid in lc:fs than h:1lf an hour. The water is very pungent to the ta!le, and acts as a cathartic on fame people, as an emetic on. others. Of the works thrown up at Saratoga by the J3riti{h and American annie during the war, there ar now [cJrcely any remains. The country round about is well cultivated, and the trcnche" h;~ ve been mo£Uy levelled by the plough. W t- he1 e croifc l th II t dfon River, and proceeded along its eafl:ern i110re as far as F rt Edward, vhcre it is lof1: to the view, for the road fiill run on to·.vads the nonh, wh-1£1 the river take a fuddcn bend to the weD:. Fort Edward was difmant1ed prior to tile late Am ricnn war; but the oppofite armies} dLuing that unhappy contcfl, were both in the neighbourhood. Many of the people, hom' · tound living here, had 1ervcd as foldicrs in the army, and told us a Illl •.ncr of intc relling particulars relative to feve ral events which happened i,1 this quar cr. The land onl of the tavern where we !lopped, for one, r latcd all the circum!bnccs att nding Mifs .lYl' Crea's death, and pointed out on a hill, not Etr from the |