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GREAT NATURAL CURIosITY.-A late number of the Dayton (Ohio) Transcript mentions discov. cry of most singular and extraordinary character which is to be seen in Delawart County, in Ohio, about seventeen miles north of Columbus. the seat oi government. he Transcript remarks that although 1t is of the vel and curlus things in natu rai history yet il has been made public or been known 10 the scientific world. IL has heretofore en- tirely escaped the n'tice of scientific from the fact of its being obscure place, and no account Di IL having ever been gwen in the public prnts The Transcript says:

 "SometIme about he year 1878. two men by the names of Davis and Richards sait boIers y profes sion, commenced boring for salt in the bed of the Scioto river near the place mentioned. After having bored about fifty feet through solid rock they came upon stream of white sulphur water ol the strongest kind The auger with which they were boring suddenly sunk something like two feet. which IS probably the depth of the stieam-but such the pressure of line water that the aIger was forced up again, and large weights had he attach ed 10 il in order to keep il lis place and enable them to bore further. They continued 10 bore nu however until they got about four hundred feet be- lw the sulphur stream, when they struck upon sa h water. The size of the auger about tw0-and a- half inches in diameter. W hen they took il out, the at of sulphur water rose up to the heIght of twenty feet above the surface of the river.

 In orr CT 10 obta access the salt water beneath they procured strong copper pipe and attempted io force it down to the place where it 10 be found.

 

 such was it's fnrce and pressure, thai the pipe was co nplft'y fl tt ned, 70 eni ely Is prevent the usage fwaterthrough il. A. ubse luenl atemp;s 10 nset pipe proved abortive, and after prosecut- jag the work at intervals for several years, the pro- ject was entirely abandoned. Af;er enlarging the orifce made by the auger al the top, wooden stock 20 feet m height was inserted-yet even al the top of this, such the force of the slream that it re- qnired the strength of two three men tu put plug ia 1t From lhIs stock pipe conveys the water to a spring house on of the bluff banks of the river The stream has been running for iwenty-six years, yet its strength and fprce are unabated Those who have recently examined il, say that it IS capable of throwing up a stream ten inches in diameter from eighty 10 ninety feet high-and that water can be thus obtained to turn a Urge mill

 The whole matter lay in obscurity until short time since, when our fellow-cifizen, Mr. N. Hart, accidentally heard of the circumstance and bought the land upon which it k situated. IL was from hm that we learned the foregoing facts. The stream furnishes as good white sulphur as IS now known. IL is strongly pregnatsd with gas and possesses val nable medical properties. The place in which il is situated is in a fine healthy region, and the country round about is beautiful and rolling and admirably adapted to fishing and hunting