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 1794, and is governed by two burgesses, a constable, a town clerk and three assistants.

{51} The 31st day of January at 4 in the morning, I left

of the second it is lightly tinctured. Its usual effects on people in health, are those of an immediate and powerful diuretick, a gentle cathartick, with a considerable increase of perspiration, and sometimes a slight emetick, this last happening but very seldom. The water may be drank in great quantities with safety, from two to thirty half pints, being the usual quantity in the course of an hour before breakfast. Some indeed drink fifty half pints, while others are considerably incommoded by drinking a gill, which was the case with Mrs. Snyder, wife of governor Snyder, whose death was lately announced. She was at the spring, August 1809, but her case, which was of the consumptive kind, was too far gone to admit of recovery. Not being able to take the water, she tarried but a few days, and returned to Lancaster with her companion, Miss
 * [Footnote: qualities of at least three of them, viz. The saline, the sulphurous, and the martial—but

The following Latin poem written by James Ross, teacher of the languages in the Philadelphia academy, formerly of Chambersburgh, and author of an excellent grammar, with its translation in prose by the Rev. Mr. Willson, teacher of the languages in Bedford, descriptive of this spring, and the quality of its waters, &c. will be read with pleasure.

J. ANDERSON, M. D. Hos versiculos symbolum amicitiæ inscribit, ''JA. ROSS'', .

Monte decurrens, velut amnis, alto, Fons, loquax nunquam, tacitus recedis, Abditus terris, catebrasque celans Fluminis unda.

Non alis campos virides vel agros; Non greges pascis, vitulosque vaccas; Non tuæ ripæ generant leones Dente furentes.

Sed tuas undas celebrant Puellæ, Femulæ et Matres, Puerique Sponsi, Has Senes undas adamant Anusque Ore bibentes.

Hisque gaudentes Homines levabunt Pectoris morbos, capitis dolores; Aurium sensus, laterumque pœnas Sæpe lavando.

Has bibant isti quibus est podagra; Has quibus tussis mala, nec fuganda Artibus, cura aut Medici periti; Namque levabunt. ]*