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Identifier: bookofsummerres00swee (find matches)
Title: Book of summer resorts, explaining where to find them, how to find them, and their especial advantages, with details of time tables and prices ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Sweetser, Charles H. (Charles Humphreys), 1841-1871
Subjects: Summer resorts Summer resorts
Publisher: New York, "Evening mail" office
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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lid contents 479.191 Carbonic Acid. 320.777 Atmospheric Air 1.461 Gaseous contents 322.233 Temperature 48® The mineral waters, as will be seen, contam large por-tions of chloride of sodium, carbonate of soda, carbonate oflime, carbonate of magnesia, carbonate of iron, iodide ofsoda, and traces of silex, alumina, and bydrobromate ofpotasb. These solid contents passing over the ground, areprecipitated, and form a rock, as is most wonderfullyshown in the High Rock. The waters contain greatquantities of carbonic acid gas, giving them the power ofdissolving minerals, forcing them up, and agitating thetop of the springs with bubbles by its continual escape.The waters may be used in making bread instead of yeast.The gas may be procured by preparing a bladder, securingto its mouth a stop-cock, fitting to this the small apertureof a large glass funnel, inverting the funnel over thespring, emptying the bladder of air, and allowing it tofill with gas. Press some of this gas into a tumbler, and,
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0^ sm ^ SPEINGS A)S^D FALLS. 17 of course, a liglited candle will go out in it, and a mousewill die in it in less than a minute. The water is quitecold, and remains at the same temperature winter andsummer. It becomes quite pleasant to the taste after ashort time, and the inhabitants drink it to quench thirst. The water of some of the springs, and especially of theExcelsior, is put up and sent away in barrels, to be sold ondraught, but it has been found very difficult to preservethe water in the condition in which it is drawn from thespring. In many of the drug-stores, where it is sold ondraught; it is necessary to charge it artificially with thecarbonic acid gas which it has lost in transportation. Thehigh price of mineral waters away from Saratoga is owingchiefly to the cost of the bottles and of transportation. The Congress and Empire Spring Company being una-ble to procure all the bottles which they needed, have es-tablished manufactories of their own at a village nearSaratoga, wh

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