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��MILFORD SPRINGS,

Milford, N.H.

��The Milford Springs are situated in the south-east section of the town of Milford, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, about ten miles north-west of Nashua.

Early in the present century the val- uable medicinal qualities of the waters from the Milford Springs became widely Icnown from the many remarkable cures effected by their use. The original ■discovery has been attributed, by well-

��but, without attempting to prove that they are of supernatural or Divine origin, it is a fact that many discoveries as well as inventions have been made when the dreamer was asleep, — when the mind, freed from bodily pains and mental cares, seemed to have a clearer vision, or operated by a sense unused and valueless in waking-moments.

It is a matter of fact that the value of the waters had to be discovered,

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authenticated tradition, to Ebenezer Sargent, who, in the year 181 8, guided by a dream or vision of his dying son, commenced to dig for the health-giving fountain. At the depth of ten feet a living spring was disclosed, from which, for three quarters of a century, the healing waters have poured in a copious and nev^er-failing stream. In this prosaic age it seems almost necessary to apologize for dreams and visions ;

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and that they were known very widely nearly seventy years ago. It is only of late years, however, that science has lent its aid to analyze the water, and demonstrate its curative properties. The most noticeable feature of the water from these springs is its almost absolute purity. The most careful analysis of the water from the various springs disclose the presence of less than six "-rains of mineral matter to

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