St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1869-08-27
A Glance at ,SUrUfO00.


weary, and strciken-can find 80 good a
IN diclne, so sweet rest, and so sooth-
ing balm, as here. Nature has been
most lavish and munificcnt in her yifts
to this place. More than a thousand
years ago she gave the poor Indians the
High Rock Spring, and when the white
man came, revealed TO him the Congress,
Spring and rs time passed she added
other springs, then recently added still
another that is becoming the pet and Iar-
ling of the visitors. No two of these
twenty-five springs are precisely alike in
their mineral qualities not one but has
valuable curative properties and all will
he needed and used in the future. Part
of these waters are cathartic-a few
tumblersful Will cleanse the digestive ap-
paratus in an hour without pain, increase
the appetite and impart strength and
vigOr to the system. Part are tonic.
and give blood and color to the pale,
white face, and strength 10 the weak
body and the weary digestive organs ex-
polling blue devils and restoring sleep.
The Red Spring cures and heals ulcers
that have long defied the best medical
skill. The White Sulphur Spring, just
opened for public Use, is claimed to be
an unfailing panacea for salt rheum and
all its kindred. Then over and pervad-
ing all is very pure and sweet air, per-
tumed with the odor of the pine
Fifty thousand people visit these
springs annually, seven thousand are
here now, better dressed and more civil
and quie: than any other seven thousand
together on this continent. 1t is very
pretty place, extending over mile and
a halt square, embowered in forest and
shade trees with many fine private res
licences spacious and elegant churches,
and some of the largest and most splen-
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ting from five TO fifteen hundred guests.
The colonnades over the springs and the
ample parks embclliShcd.w with gravelcd
walks and gra~Sy lawns and statuarv.
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