"Before 12 o'clock we entered the smiling valley of the Sweet Springs. Whoever comes to the mountains, should make a visit to the Sweet Springs, if but for one day. Much of the scenery in the neighbourhood is of the most beautiful and refreshing kind, and the whole place is redolent of life and animation, particularly at a time when thronging with company." The accommodations at this place are sufficient for about 400 persons. RED SPRINGS. One mile nearer the White Sulphur are the Red Springs, or Sweet Chalybeate. This place has of late years been acquiring considerable notoriety. About 200 persons can be comfortably accommodated here. "The waters are said to be good in neuralgia, and in rheumatic complaints. There are two springs here, the one near the hotel, essentially the same with the Sweet Springs, the other containing a larger quantity of iron, which being deposited about the spring in the form of red precipitate, has given the name of Red Spring. Professor Rogers' analysis of this water gives:-- "1st. Solid matter procured by evaporation from 100 cubic inches, weighed, after being greatly dried at 112°, 40.76. "A portion of this is combined water. "2d. Quantity of each solid ingredient estimated as perfectly free from water:-- In 100 cubic inches. Sulphate of lime, 14.233 Sulphate of magnesia, 3.107 Sulphate of soda, 1.400 Carbonate of lime, 1.166 Chloride of sodium, 0.037 Chloride of magnesium, 0.680 Chloride of calcium, 0.010 Sesquioxide of iron, 0.320 Organic matter in small quantities. Iodine, a mere trace. "The iron is no doubt dissolved in the water as a carbonate. "3d. Volume of each of the gases contained in a free state, in 100 cubic inches of water:-- Carbonic acid, 46.10 cubic inches. Nitrogen, 2.57 " " Oxygen, .20 " " Sulphuretted hydrogen, a trace, too small to be mentioned. "4th. Composition of 100 inches of the mixed gases rising in bubbles in the Spring:-- Nitrogen, 62.5 Carbonic acid, 37.5 "The temperature of the Red Spring is from 77° to 80° Fahrenheit." SALT SULPHUR SPRINGS. In the County of Monroe, twenty-six miles southwest from the White Sulphur, are the Salt Sulphur Springs; they are two miles from Union, the county seat. From a pamphlet written by Dr. Mütter of Philadelphia, we copy the following account of these Springs: