Smyrna times., 1876-04-12

- iii'S' HilCteilI spring is shallow; 1T ha
no deep root and is like an inconstan
iriend' But perennial spring, one who's
ways are appointed, whose foundation
established, what profound and beautiful
symbol. In fact there is no more large ant
universal symbol in nature than the spring
Ii there Is any other capable of such wild
and various applications.
In the landscape the spring is the poin
to start from or to stop at. Ii is a rendez
vous for hunters and explorers and plea
sure-seekers, and for the beasts of the felc
ana the birds of the air. What prepara
ton seems to have been made for if in the
conformation of the ground, even in the
deep underlying geological stratoI Vaet
rocks and ledges are piled for it. or cleft
asunder that it may find way. Sometimes
1t is trlckling thread of silver down tbo
SIDES OF scanned and Scared precinico
Ihen again the stratified rock is like n inst
liited lid, from beneath which the water
issues Or 1t slips noiselessly out of a deem
almPle IN the fields. Occasionally it bub.
oies up in the valley as if forced ont bv tbe
pressure OF the surrounding hills. MANY
springs no doubt, find and outlet in tho
beds OF the large rivers and lakes. and are
unknown to all but the fishes. They
probably find them out and make mncb Of
them. The trout certainly do. Find q
place IN the creek where a spring issues or
where it flows into it from near bo,1,
and you have found a most likely place for
trout. They deposit there spawn their in
the fall, warm their noses there in win+o.
and cool themselves there in summer
have seen the patriarchs of the tribe of an
old and much-fshed stream, seven or eight
enormous fellows, congregated in such
place The boys found it out and went
with bag and bagged them all. In another
place trio of large trout, that kneW and
despised all the arts of the fishermen. tool
up their abode in a deep, dark hole in the
cage OF the wood, that had a spring flowing
INTO shallow part of it. In midsummer
theywere wont to come out from their safe
retreat and bask i'll the spring their i'm
mense bodies but few inches under water.
youth who had many times vainly sounded
their dark hidingplace with the hook.
happening to come along with his rifle one
day, shot the three, one after another
killing them by conclusion of the bullet on
the water immediately over them.
In the vicinity of the continents many
springs are no doubt borne directly into the |
ocean, having no earthly history or career
at all, Ike child that dies on the dav of
It's birth. OF the coast of Florida many of
these submarine springs have been dis.
covered.
1t is pleasant conception, that of the
unsclentifio folk, that the springs are fed
directly by the sea, or that the earth is full
OF veins and arteries that connect with the
atreservoir of waters. But when science
turns the conception over and makes the
connection in the air-disclosing the great
Waterman in the clouds, and that the
mighty engine of the hydraulic system of
nature Is the sun. the fact becomes even
more poetieal, does it not? This is one Of
the many cases where science. instead of
curtailing the immigration, makes new and
large demands upon it.
The hills are great sponges that do not
and cannot hold the water that is precin;. !
tated upon them, but that let If filter
through at the bottom. This is the wov
the sea has robbed the earth of its salts its
its lime, and MANY other
elements. 1t is found that the
oldest upheavals, those sections of the
country that have been longest exposed to
the leeching and washing of the rains. are
poorest in those substances that 90 to the
making of the osseous framework of man
and the animals. Wheat does not grow we'll l
there, and the men born and reared there !
are apt to have brittle bones and defective l
teeth. An important part of these men
vent down stream ages before they were :
BORN. The water of such sections is now
ioft and very pure, free from mineral sub
stances, but not more wholesome on that
recount.
Ours is eminently country of big springs. T
What are inland lakes but so MANY vast r
prings? What mighty springs are Lake ;
superior and Lake Michigan The chain :
# lakes in Western and Middle New York !.
-Cayuga, Seneca, Oneida; Otsego-with n
Vater only little more opaque than the i
ir; Lakes George and Champlain; the ;,
axes in the Adirondacks that feed the !;
hudson and the ss*Lawrence; the wild = !
noose-haunted and loon-AeclSed lakes of >,
Northern Maine-all these are not only !
but in most cases are vast springs 7,
S well, seooped out of the plains or the val :,
ays. The small sky-blue lakes, too, on the 7,
fountain ranges, as if some god had smote n
he rock and turned it into water are Il
prings, ice-cold some of them. Such is 6,
AXE Mohunk in the Shawangunk range in a,
outhern New York. The mountain stops =
hort, leaving perpendicular face of rock =,
We or six hundred feet high, and there :
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