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Title: The Columbian magazine : or, monthly miscellany
Year: 1787 (1780s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia : T. Seddon, W. Spotswood, C. Cist & J. Trenchard
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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moft re-markalle fpring in figure lies north our notice : From thefe may be ga-thered a tolerable idea of all thereft, which are eight or ten in num-ber, apparently alike in their effen-tial qualities. The Main Spring, then, is awell of clear water, contained in aftony cruft, or rock, of a conicfigure, being at the bafe twenty-fixfeet fix inches in circumference ; inheight, on the weft fide, thirty-fe-ven inches, perpendicular ; and onthe eaft fide fifty-eight. On thefummit there is a circular aperture,or bafcn, ten inches in diameter,which dfcovers the water bubblingup within a few inches of the top.This rock, or cruft, is evidently a of the reft, and is known by the petrifadlion, compofed of feveralname of the Main Spring: as fuch, ftrata, which have been formed underI ftiail begin with it, confining my repeated overflowings of the water ;remarks, chiefly, to this and one —but at what times thofe overflow-more, as having a prior claim to ings took place—whether they yet continue
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Chalybeate Springs^ near Saratoga. 3^1 continue at certain periods—or whe-ther they have totally ceafed, andwhen,—are matters of fpeculation^mong the curious. From the pre-vailing opinion of the country, Iwas once inclined to believe that thisiveli had periodical difcharges ; and,as the report of the place pronoun-ced them to happen every full moon(an opinion which few perfons haveventuredtocontradi£L) 1 was prompt-ed to very particular obfervationsandenquiries on this head.—rl vifitedthe Springs in perfon in the monthof July, 1783, when, it may beprefumed, the weather was dry andfultry—and the/!, to the bell of myrecolleftion, I found the water vnth-in three or four inches of the brimof the bafon. It was not then full^oon ; but I enquired of a gentle-man, who had his daughter at thewaters for the cure of the kingsevil, and had paffed his time therethe preceding full moon—if he hadperceived any difcharge from thebafon :—To this he anfwered in thenegative. This information

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