RED SPRINGS.
One mile nearer the White Sulphur are the Red Springs, or Sweet Chalybeate. This place has of late years been acquiring considerable notoriety.
About 200 persons can be comfortably accommodated here. "The waters are said to be good in neuralgia, and in rheumatic complaints. There are two springs here, the one near the hotel, essentially the same with the Sweet Springs, the other containing a larger quantity of iron, which being deposited about the spring in the form of red precipitate, has given the name of Red Spring. Professor Rogers' analysis of this water gives:—
"1st. Solid matter procured by evaporation from 100 cubic inches, weighed, after being greatly dried at 112°, 40.76.
"A portion of this is combined water.
"2d. Quantity of each solid ingredient estimated as perfectly free from water:—
| In 100 cubic inches. | |
| Sulphate of lime, | 14.233 |
| Sulphate of magnesia, | 3.107 |
| Sulphate of soda, | 1.400 |
| Carbonate of lime, | 1.166 |
| Chloride of sodium, | 0.037 |
| Chloride of magnesium, | 0.680 |
| Chloride of calcium, | 0.010 |
| Sesquioxide of iron, | 0.320 |
| Organic matter in small quantities. | |
| Iodine, a mere trace. |
"The iron is no doubt dissolved in the water as a carbonate.
"3d. Volume of each of the gases contained in a free state, in 100 cubic inches of water:—