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Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers

CHAPTER V
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In the first place, the springs are worthy of notice, in a natural as well as medical point of view.

They contain in their different issues all the different temperatures, from boiling, down to a pleasure bath.

They contain a combining principle, or the quality of petrifying and uniting various substances that may come in contact with them, such as flint, earth, stone, iron, &c.

The bluff from which they flow out is principally of an apparent calcareous substance, formed by the water.

In some of the springs a red, in others a green and yellow, sediment is produced.


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