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Title: America, picturesque and descriptive
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Cook, Joel, 1842-1910
Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Canada -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ings rise from aline of fault, which brings the slaty formations ofthe Hudson River against the sandstones and lime-stones that are above. They are generally muriatedsaline springs of about 50° temperature, the Con-gress Spring having about the strength of KissingenRacoczy, but a milder taste, while the HathornSpring, its great rival, contains more chloride ofsodium and iron. Some of the springs are chalyb-eate, others sulphurous or iodinous, and all arehighly charged with carbonic acid gas. The Sara-toga Seltzer resembles the seltzer of Germany, andthe Geyser Spring is so highly charged that whendrawn from a faucet it foams like soda water. Thewaters are both tonic and cathartic. The HighRock Spring bubbles up through an aperture in aconical rock composed of calcareous tufa, which hasbeen formed by the deposits from the waters. Thisrock is four feet high, with a rounded top, in thecentre of which is a circular opening a foot in diam-eter. The depth of the spring from the present top
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TV 1 ASTf AND TTLK» - *,Ticmsp i. SAEATOGA. 223 of the rock is thirty-two feet. The waters used tooverflow occasionally and increase the size of therock by the deposits, but a tree was blown down andcracked the rock, since which the waters will onlyrise to about six inches below the top. A pagodacovers it, beneatli which water is ladled out to thethirsty. The Congress Spring is in a tasteful park,having this and the Columbian Spring under anelaborate pavilion. This Congress Spring was foundby a hunting party who Avent through the valley in1792, and named it in honor of a member of Con-gress who was Avith them. To this park go thecrowds in the morning before breakfast to drink thewaters, which are freely furnished either cold or hot,and music plays while the people drink glass afterglass. Each pint of Congress water contains aboutseventy-five grains of mineral constituents and forty-nine cubic inches of carbonic acid gas. It is catharticand ulcerative. The Columbian Spring has muchmor

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