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HARRODSBURG SPRINGS are situated in the geographical centre of the State, a few miles S. W. of the Kentucky river, at the village of Harrodsburg, and 30 miles from Frankfort.

The Epsom Spring, which is most used, contains carbonate of magnesia, sulphates of soda, lime, carbonate of lime, and sulphureted hydrogen. The temperature is 60°, and the effects of the water are those of the Seidlitz of Bohemia.

The Chalybeate has a temperature of 650, has the same ingredients as the Epsom, with an addition of iron.

These waters are purgative, diaphoretic, and diuretic, useful in inflammations, arterial action when too great, dysentery, gout, complaints of the chest, and bronchial affections.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars have been laid out in accommodations for visitors. The main hotel is one of the finest and most commodious buildings in the country, and the surrounding cottages are admirably arranged.

PARROQUET SPRINGS, a popular watering-place, are situated near Shepherdsville, in Bullitt County. They contain iron, salt, various muriates, and magnesia. Good accomodations are found here, with rooms sufficient for six hundred guests.

POPLAR MOUNTAIN SPRINGS.-These are on the summit of the mountain, four miles from Albany, in Clinton County, and are chalybeate, and much resorted to by invalids and others. These springs, combined with the purity of the atmosphere, have proved of immense benefit to invalids who have resorted there for their health. No part of Kentucky, probably, exceeds this locality for sublime and picturesque scenery.

LETTONIAN SPRINGS.-These are four miles from Covington, near the Ohio river, and on the Bank Lick Road. They are impregnated with sulphur, and are much resorted to, being a pleasant ride from Covington or Cincinnati.

THE ESCULAPIA SPRINGS are in Lewis Co., occupying a site in a most romantic valley. They are two in numberone a chalybeate, and the other a white sulphur, rivaling its Virginia namesake. There are extensive accommodations for visitors.

THE BLUE LICK is the most celebrated watering-place in the West, and the resort of the best classes of the Kentuckians. They are situated in Nicholas County, on the Northern Bank of the Licking river, two hundred yards from the stream. They contain soda, magnesia, lime, sulphureted hydrogen, carbonic acid, in various combinations, with muriates and sulphates.

The water, which is purgative, diaphoretic, and alterative, is exported to other parts of the country in very large quantities.

The principal hotel is 370 feet in length, and 3 stories high. These springs are easily reached by the Covington and Lexington Railroad, starting from opposite Cincinnati, and connecting with the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad.

THE TAR and SULPHUR SPRINGS, in the vicinity of the "Old Vernon Settlements," on Green River, Daviess County, are deservedly popular. There are also several other medicinal springs in the county which are much frequented.

FOX SPRINGS, and PHILLIPS SPRINGS, situated in Fleming county, are watering places of some celebrity. This vicinity abounds in mineral waters.

THE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, situated within four miles of Litchfield, Grayson county, are strongly impregnated with Sulphur, about one hundred of which are included in a small tract of land not more than half an acre in extent. Some of these Springs are very cold, and some very warm, and it is said that many remarkable cures have been effected by the use of these waters.

THE TAR and BRECKENRIDGE WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, four miles from Cloverport, Breckenridge County, are becoming one of the most fashionable watering-places in the State. They are easily reached, being within a few miles of the Ohio river. In the immediate vicinity extensive deposits of coal are found, of a fine quality, resembling the celebrated cannel coal of Scotland.

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DELAWARE SPRINGS, situated in the southern part of the village of the same name, in Delaware Co., are annually resorted to by a large number of persons for the benefit of their health. "The principal spring is a fine fountain of water, issuing forth into an artificial stone basin, at the rate of 12 or 15 gallons per minute. The spring is of that class termed white sulphur, or cold hydro-sulphurous water. It is said to be similar to that of the celebrated white sulphur springs of Virginia, and equal in their mineral and medicinal qualities."

Prof. H. Michell, in giving his analysis of the waters, says, "Of gaseous products, I find that one wine pint of water, taken immediately from the spring, contains of sulphureted hydrogen gas, 12 cubic inches; of carbonic acid gas, 3 do. One hundred grains of the deposit, which resulted from evaporating several gallons of the water, yielded, on analysis, of muriate of soda, 48 grains; do. of lime, 20 do; sulphate of magnesia, 16 do; do. of lime, 8 do.; carbonate of soda, 5 do; total of the above, 97 grains. The above results show that these waters approach as nearly to the well-known waters of Aix la Chapelle and Harrowgate as those do respectively to each other. They are decidedly deobstruent, and calculated to remove glandular enlargements, as well of the liver as of the other viscera. In cases of slow fever, disturbed state of the functions of digestion, or more confirmed dyspepsia-morbid secretions from the kidneys or bladder, gravel, and chronic eruptions on the skin, I can strongly recommend their use; and, though last, not least, their power of subduing gene

ral constitutional irritation, and quieting and restoring tone to the system, when it has been necessary to have recourse to the frequent and long-continued action of calomel or other mercurial preparations, is, I am persuaded, of the greatest efficacy."

THE WHITE SULPHUR FOUNTAIN, situated 10 miles southwest of Delaware, and 18 miles above Columbus, Ohio, at the rapids of the Scioto, is surrounded by a fine undulating and healthy country. The fountain is a most remarkable curiosity, and rises from the bed of the Scioto through solid rock, having been discovered in 1820, while boring for salt water.

The water, which is pure, is supposed to be driven upward by its own gas; its temperature is 50°, and it deposits on the ground around a very heavy white sediment.

The buildings for the accommodation of visitors are neat and commodious. On the grounds of the establishment is a beautiful chalybeate spring, having a temperature of 470. "This place has every natural advantage that can be desired for making it one of the greatest places of resort for health and recreation west of the mountains. It is easily reached by railroad and stage from Columbus.

FINDLAY CHALYBEATE, situated in the village of Findlay, Hancock Co., is a medicinal spring of excellent qualities, and from which issues inflammable gas. In the eastern part of the same town is another mineral spring, possessing similar qualities.

Other gas wells or springs are located in the vicinity of Findlay, from one of which the gas has been conducted by a pipe into a dwelling, and used for light.

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