pee

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wood,” the chatty and favorite writer, has also made this
her refuge in the heated term, and has built herself a cot-
tage near one of the principal hotels. The springs are
seven in number, and called the “Navajo,” “ Manitou,”
“Camanche,” “Shoshone,” “Arapahoe,” “ Misha Tunga,”
“Pawnee” and “Iron Ute.”

The richest one of these springs is said to contain an
ounce of medicated matter to every four gallons of
water, and the following is, I believe, a correct analysis
of it, with comparative analyses of the Krahuchen
springs at Ems, and the Seltzer of Nassau, in Europe:

KRAHUCHEN. SELTZER. GALEN.

Chloride of Sodium, - 27.25 51.68 36.69
Chloride of Potassium, — — 0.85 10.01
Bi-carb. of Soda, - - 57.03 29.29 24.01
Sulphate of Soda, - - 0.56 — 0.76 4.78
Bi-carb. of Lime, - - 6.65 8.00 15.62
Bi-carb. of Magnesia,- 5.83 7.65 8.89
Bi-carb. of Iron - - 0.67 0.29 ——

Dipping my tumbler full out of the spring, as it
seethed and boiled in its rocky caldron, I had indeed a
delicious draught. The waters of these springs are of
course supposed to cure all diseases, but as I am not in
the least sense of the word an invalid, I was unable to
test the truth of this. I can only bear testimony to the
fact of their making a most elegant, invigorating and
palatable drink.

The “Iron Ute” tastes as if a whole keg of nails had
been emptied into it some time previously. When I
first visited it, there was seated near by, a tall, gaunt,