Smyrna times., 1876-04-12

ways beneath the hills. Water CHARGED
with carbonic acid gas has very sharp
tooth and powerful digestion, and no
limestone rock can long resist it. Sber-
mans soldiers tell of monster spring in
Northern Alabama-a river leaping full
grown from the bosom of the earth os
Minerva from the brain of Jupiter; and of
another at the bottom of large, deep pit
IN the rocks, that continues its wav under.
ground.
The Valley of the Shenandoah isremark-
able for its large springs. The town of
winchester, town of several thousand in.
haoitans, is abundantly supplied with water
from single spring that issues on higher
ground near by. Several other springs in
the vicinity afford rare mill power. At
Tiarrlson6urg, county town farther up the
valley, was attracted by low ornamen
tai dome resting upon a circle of columns
on the edge of the square that contained
the courthouse and was surprised to find
that 1t gave shelter to an immense snrir,,
ms spring was also capable of WATERING
the town or several towns stone stems Icd
oown to 1t at the bottom of a large stone
BASIN. There was a pretty constant string
OF pals to and from it. Aristotle called
certain springs of his country " ceman+s of
society, because the young people so fire.
quently met there and sang and conversed .
and have little doubt this spring is of like |
social Importance
There is a famous spring at San Antonio
Texas, which is described by that excellent
traveller, Frederick Law Olmsted. "Tbe
whole river" he says, "gushes up in one
sparkling burst from the earth. with all the
accessories of smaller springs, moss, peb-
6Ies, foliage, seclusion, etc. Its effect is
overpowering. 1t is beyond your possible
conception of a spring.
Of like copiousness and splendor is the
Caledonia spring, or springs, in Western
New York. They give birth to a white
pebbled, transparent stream several rods
WIDE and two or three feet deep, that flows
eighty barrels of water per second, and is
alive with trout The trout are fat and
gamy even in winter.
The largest spring in England, called the
Well OF st. Winifred, at Holywell, flows less
than three barrels per second. recently
went many miles out of my way to see the 5
famous trout springs in Warren county. New /
Jersey. This spring flows about one tbou- a
sand gallons of water per minute, which |
mas a uniform temperature of fifty degrees a
winter and summer. 1t is near the Mus. t
conetcong creek, which looks as if it were |
madeup ofsimilar springs. On the parched f
and sultry summer day upon which my c
visit fell, it was well worth walking manvI b
miles just to see such a volume of water "
issue from the ground. | felt with the bow C
Petrarch, when he first beheld famous n
spring, that were | master of such a foun. h
tain ! would prefer it to thefncst of cities" S
A large oak leans down over the spring fl
and affords an abundance of shade. The Il
water does not bubble up, but comes straight Ii
out with great speed, like a courier with o
news, and as if its course under h
ground had been direct and an easy one W
or long distance. Springs that issue in b
his way have sort of vertebrate ridey al
md spine-like centre that suggests the
yripe and push there is in this element. st
What would he not give for such spring es
n his backyard, or front-yard, or anywhere II
lear his house, or in any of his fields? One al
would be tempted to move his house to it if ri
he spring could not be brought to the 81
louse. Its mere poetic value and sugges-
ION would be worth all the art and orna- I
nent to be had. 1t would irrgate ones &C
ieart and character as well as his acres. re
hen one might have Naiad Queen to do a
lis churning and saw his wood. "Make 10
he gods themselves do your chores" saws tt
.merson. Yes, or the nymphs either. III
| know homestead situated on one of la
he picturesque branch valleys of the is
Iousatonic, that has such a spring flowing in
y the foundation walls of the house. and di
OF little OF the strong, overmasterng te'
zeal attachment that holds the owner FL
lere is born of that-his native spring. an
le could not, if he would break from it. mi
Le says that when he looks down into it sci
has feeling that he is an amphibious tn
nimal that has somehow got stranded. A mi
ing, gentle fight of stone steps leads from of
he back porch down to it under the BRAN all
les of lofty elm. 1t wells up through
le white sand and gravel as through n ma
eve, and fills the broad space that has if
zen arranged for it so gently and imper- inf
,ptibly that one does not suspect its ira
'piousness until he has seen the overflow. tb,
turns no wheel, yet it lends plant hand sp,
many of the affairs of that household. sn,
is a refrigerator in summer and a frost. sp,
fool ehVelope IN WINTER and fountain of spr
eight the year round. Trout come up int
ON the Weebutook river and dwell there bv
nd become domestieated, and take Jumps to
butter from your hands, or rake the ends abe
your fingers if you tempt them. 1t is viii
md Of sparkling and ever washed larder. bee