BATH ALUM SPRINGS

n. Bath a’l’u*m spritngz. A place in Bath County, Virginia, where there are springs the waters of which resemble those of the Rock bridge Alum Springs, but containing more iron; used in scrofula, chronic diarrhoea, eczema, and diseases depending on impoverishment of the blood. ‘According to two analyses by A. A. Hayes, a pint of the water contains Sodium chloride.... 0°022 grain. Magnesium sulph at Calcium sulphate 0317 * Iron protoxide 2722 grains. Alumin. …. 08 She Ammonium crena i “ 0-222 grain, Sodium silicate.... « 0894 °* Free sulphuric acid 1726 « 0985 * Carbon dioxide. 1'4 *_1 cubic in. There are also one or two other springs of a different character, but their waters have not been thoroughly investigated. [B, 15.]