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The springs are numerous, and vary both in the efficacy and nature of their effects. I made the tour of the most celebrated, and drank a tumbler of each. None of them are disagreeable to the taste, and all ate slightly effervescent. The Congress spring is most in repute, and is supplied from a very neat fountain by boys, who dip the drinking-glasses into the well. This water is bottled, and sold all over the Union. Both in taste and appearance it resembles Seltzer.
Among invalids, the prevailing complaint was evidently dyspepsia, of which one hears a great deal more than is quite agreeable in the United States. Even ladies inflict their sufferings without compunction on the auditor. One—I confess she was married, nd not young—assured me she had derived great benefit from employing an apothecary to manipulate her stomach eve'ry morning! At the end of a fortnight she was quite cured; and the practice of the apothecary became so extensive, that he was obliged to employ assistant manipulators.
After breakfast, the favourite place of resort was a lake about three miles distant, where the company drove in carriages to fish.    There was a platform