from the fide of the mountain, about three or four perches from Shover's Run beneath, and about fifteen feet above the level of the run. It is exceedingly limpid, of a mild temperature, (though not quite fo warm as the Berkley waters in Virginia,) and much lighter than common water. It has a peculiar tafte, not unlike an infusion of tartar,-to fome not agreeable, but generally esteemed by those who have drank of it, by no means unpleasant. From the observation of fome men of science, and from a few experiments lately made on the water, it is fuppofed to be more highly impregnated with foreign principles, and with a greater variety of them, than any spring yet discovered in this country. Of the four claffes of mineral waters generally known, it unites the quality of at least three of them, viz. The Saline, the Sulphureous and the Martial-but of the fulphur it is only lightly tinctured.

The water may be drank in great quantities with great ease and fafety, and its usual effects on people in health, are those of an immediate and powerful diuretic, a gentle cathartic, with a confiderable increase of perfpiration. Only a few diseased perfons have as yet made use of the water; but in every instance where used, they have been falutary, and in fome they have effected perfect and rapid cures. In one cafe particularly, a violent and alarming gravel, in a few weeks was totally removed ;---another perfon, affected with a fevere and excruciating rheumatic affection, together with a general debility, was entirely relieved ;--and many others variously afflicted, have been much benefited by only using the water occafionally at their own houses, some miles distant from the fountain.

The Sulphur Spring rifes in the bottom of Shover's Run, about one hundred and fifty yards below the Yellow Spring, and is very strongly impregnated ;---but befides fulphur, there is fome other quality mixed with it, which, at certain times, gives it a beautiful red colour -When in a glass, it appears as if currant juice had been plentifully poured into it: at other times, it is only blue.

The Mofs Spring discharges itself immediately into the Run about one hundred yards above the Yellow Spring,--and is a fingular curiofity.

A large rock, about eight feet in diameter, projects over the Run:--To the under part of the rock is attached a beautiful thick green mofs, from which, throughout the whole breadth of the rock, there falls a continual and rapid fhower of pure limpid water, diftilled from the rock.

When this crystal shower is viewed in the funshine, nothing can be more brilliant.---Whether this water has any medical properties, is not yet known; but it is peculiarly fweet and. pleasant, and may be made a very convenient shower-bath.

Befides these three, there is another spring remarkably cold, iffuing out of the fame bank, a few perches above the Sulphur Spring. It is a fine bold stream, rushing out of a cave, in the margin of Shover's Run, and may be appropriated to valuable purposes.

The oppofite bank affords convenient and pleasant fituations for the buildings and accommodations contemplated. The romantic valley between is about one hundred and fifty yards wide; it, and the adjoining ridges, abound with a great vari ety of game, which, together with the fine trout that may at any time be caught in Shover's Run, will be a continual fource of agreeable exercise and amusement to those who may frequent the waters.'

*The editor requefts gentlemen, who have it in their power, (especially of the medical profeffion, to favour him with accurate accounts of any mineral waters in their neighbourhood, together with their analyfis.-A complete hiftory of this department of medical science is yet a defideratum in the United States.-Accounts of those which at present rank high in the estimation of the public, will be particularly acceptable.-Such as the Saratoga and Ball's Town fprings of New-York.-Those of Schooley's Mountain in New-Jersey.-The York-Town and Yellow Springs of Pennsylvania.-The Bath and Sweet Springs of Virginia. The Catawba of North Carolina, and many others which are not at present known or recollected by the editor.

VOL. I.

2

Dr. De Carro, in a letter to the editors of the Bibliothéque Britannique, dated Vienna, March 27, 1804, giving an account of the fuccefs of vaccination in the East, states, "that it is now practifed every where from Cape Comorin to Delhi."

He adds, that he had succeeded in tranfmitting to Dr. Milne, phyfician to the English factory at Baffora, the vaccine infection on lint; the matter ftill moist, at the end of November, though the packet was defpatched from Vienna in the beginning of Auguft. Tilloch.

The experience of feveral of our physicians has long been in favour of the vaccine fcab. Some have thought they were more fuccessful with it, than with even fresh infection. At all events, its ufe completely overturns the idea of the neceffity of taking the infection at one particular period;---for, if it is efficacious in its laft ftage as a fcab, it follows, that it cannot be lefs fo in any preceding state. If this were merely a curious fact in the history of the disease, it would not be requifite to lay so much stress upon it; but, as it involves in a confiderable degree the poffibility of preferving this invaluable prophylactic, its knowledge cannot be too greatly diffused.---During the month of February last, I fucceeded in exciting the genuine disease with a scab, which had been taken early in May of the preceding year. At the time of employing it, it was two hundred and ninety-five days, or nearly nine months and three weeks old. This is almoft two weeks longer than Dr. Valentin, who fucceeded with infection preferved in the ufual way between glass, of nine months and eight days old. These two facts prove, (especially as no extraordinary care was taken in the prefervation of either the fcab or the infection,) that all that has been written of the fuccefs of different methods of fecuring the infection, is not to be depended on as always fure, and that as in the above inftances, it depended on accident, and perhaps an uncommon fufceptibility at the time to the disease.---The fame remarks will apply to the above-mentioned fact by Dr. De

Dr. De Carro, in a letter to the editors of the Bibliothèque Britannique, dated Vienna, March 27, 1804, giving an account of the fuccefs of vaccination in the Eaft, ftates, "that it is now practifed every where from Cape Comorin to Delhi."

He adds, that he had fucceeded in tranfmitting to Dr. Milne, phyfician to the English factory at Baffora, the vaccine infection on lint; the matter ftill moist, at the end of November, though the packet was despatched from Vienna in the beginning of Auguft. Tilloch.

The experience of several of our physicians has long been in favour of the vaccine fcab. Some have thought they were more fuccessful with it, than with even fresh infection. At all events, its use completely overturns the idea of the neceffity of taking the infection at one particular period ;--for, if it is efficacious in its last stage as a scab, it follows, that it cannot be less fo in any preceding state. If this were merely a curious fact in the history of the disease, it would not be requifite to lay fo much stress upon it; but, as it involves in a confiderable degree the poffibility of preferving this invaluable prophylactic, its knowledge cannot be too greatly diffused.---During the month of February laft, I fucceeded in exciting the genuine disease with a scab, which had been taken early in May of the preceding year. At the time of employing it, it was two hundred and ninety-five days, or nearly nine months and three weeks old. This is almost two weeks longer than Dr. Valentin, who fucceeded with infection preferved in the ufual way between glass, of nine months and eight days old. Thefe two facts prove, (especially as no extraordinary care was taken in the prefervation of either the fcab or the infection,) that all that has been written of the fuccefs of different methods of fecuring the infection, is not to be depended on as always fure, and that as in the above inftances, it depended on accident, and perhaps an uncommon fufceptibility at the time to the disease.---The fame remarks will apply to the above-mentioned fact by Dr. De