Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travelA full and reliable guide ..to ..the United States and the British provincesWith careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists . ress Hall and the Pa-vilion, and afterwards the Adelphi,Washington Hall, the Columbian, theRailroad House, and the Prospect andHighland Halls. There are also numer-ous private boarding-houses. Board atthe principal hotels is, as at all the cityhouses and at all watering-places in theUnited States, from two to three dol-lars p
Appletons' illustrated hand-book of American travelA full and reliable guide ..to ..the United States and the British provincesWith careful maps of all parts of the country, and pictures of famous places and scenes, from original drawings by the author and other artists . ress Hall and the Pa-vilion, and afterwards the Adelphi,Washington Hall, the Columbian, theRailroad House, and the Prospect andHighland Halls. There are also numer-ous private boarding-houses. Board atthe principal hotels is, as at all the cityhouses and at all watering-places in theUnited States, from two to three dol-lars per day. The health-giving Springs of whichthe fame of Saratoga has been born,however much Fashion may have sincenursed it, are all in or very near thevillage. There are twelve distinctwaters in present use, but the mostsought after of all are those of the Con-gress Spring, of which Dr. Chilton givesus an analysis thus:—One gallon, of231 cubic inches—chloride of sodium, grains; carbonate of soda,$.200; carbonate of lime, 86,143 ; car-bonate of magnesia, ; carbonateof iron, .841; sulphate of soda, .651;iodine of sodium and bromide of potas-sium, ; silica, .472; alumina,.321, total, grains. Carbonic 150 NEW YOKK. Saratoga Springs— Congress, Spring, Saratoga. acid, ; atmospheric air, :making inches of gaseous con-tents. This Spring was discovered in 1792,though it was long before known toand esteemed by the Indians. After the Congress waters, whichare bottled and sent all over the world,as every body knows, the Springs mostin favor and use at Saratoga are theIodine, the High Rock, the Monroe,Putnams Congress, the Flat Rock, theHamilton, the Columbian, and theWashington. The Alpha and the Omegaof the daily Saratoga programme, is todrink and to dance—the one in theearliest possible morning, and the otherat the latest conceivable night. Among the outside diversions of theSaratoga folk is a jaunt to SaratogaLake, a pleasant wate
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