. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . led in the ages past in thewondrous High Rock Spring. About twenty years after Johnsons visit a house waserected here to provide accommodations for its con-stantly increasing number of visitors. In 1789 GideonPutnam built his log house, and in 1803 opened thefirst hotel, patriotically callmg it * The Union. Itwas considered a fine house in those days, althoughdiffering somewhat from the present hotel of thesame name. The water was used only as a medicine in thatearly time but as the village grew and new springswere discovered, it became qui
. Lake George and Lake Champlain : a book of to-day . led in the ages past in thewondrous High Rock Spring. About twenty years after Johnsons visit a house waserected here to provide accommodations for its con-stantly increasing number of visitors. In 1789 GideonPutnam built his log house, and in 1803 opened thefirst hotel, patriotically callmg it * The Union. Itwas considered a fine house in those days, althoughdiffering somewhat from the present hotel of thesame name. The water was used only as a medicine in thatearly time but as the village grew and new springswere discovered, it became quite fashionable to havesomeincipientailment that necessitated a trip to theSprings, and the di inking of their waters, until atlast people who cmld not scare up the ghost of an ex-cuse forgoing, with unbushing effrontery admittedthat they went simply because they wanted to. Andto-day Saratoga stands the gayest and most fash-ionable resort of culture and refinement amongwatering places on this continent, if not indeedin the world. 176 SARATOGA SPRINGS. Higll Rock Spring was the first one known atSaratoga. Sir Wm. Johnson drank of its waters in. 7&7, and almost everybody who has visited Saratogahas taken them since. It isan irregular cone-shapedrock about four feet inheight, built up by depositsof the water in unnumberedyears of the past. Wh-mGeneral Johnson came, anduntil quite recently, thewater did not flow over thetop, although it unquestion-ably had at some previoustime; but a few years since, the owners lifted therock, by a powerful hoisting apparatus, and stoppedthe lateral flow, and now, as of old, the crystal streambubbles up over its miniature crate. Tftc .ockweighs several tons, and is composed pn-icipally ofcarbonate of lime. Beneath it were found four logs,two of which rested on the other two at right angles,and were evidently placed there, with an object, bysome one. Under this was found seven leet ofmixed tuffa and muck, then a layer of the rock forma-tion two feet
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