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Show A FRESH WATER SWUNG AT SEA. Mil, W, A. TJooTii, the const pilot ol the revenue cutter Harriet Laue, reports i the discovery of a boiling fresh water spring at sen, off- tho coast of .Florida 1 He says the spring Is situated twelve' miles, north by enst, from St. Atignstiiiey Fla., nml eight mile off shore". It boils! up with groat force, nod caa be descried ' at a, distatice of two miles. When first seen it has tho nppenrunco of a brcakcr i and U generally avoided; but there is no i danger in the vicinity, ns there is five fa 'r thorns of wujcr between it mid thfe sliore. j Ten fathoms of 'water nro fonml to tho' seaward, but no bottom can lie readied Willi the deep sea lead and thirty fathoms of line at the spring itself. Tho stater1 in itho spring is fresh, nnd is by uo means mi-1 palutable. One jicculiarity about this! ! iihcnoirtetton is, that when lb! St. John' ' river is high it boil up from six to eight . i feet above the level of the sen, nnd prrV ents rather a forbidding appearance. I j Tbfcr rpriug has doubtless deceived, hmi-' Idreds, who have hastily put tilidut ftoai, ! i as they thought, immmen't danger, mid I reported seeing n "rock vvitti Water breaking break-ing over it." Tire Harriet Lnuo tins pns-Ued pns-Ued iliWjjijh UtT.eraL,ltncs and witter Jtias been (ivivwit from it by a bucket : throwu over the side, nnd when tlrnnk tn i uii)leusuut jastc or smell has been fimud. j Its' position nud harmless character have tbcCu long iiiil.iioii, but now the supposed danger has become, as it were, "it well of water Iu it Ijitrreu fund." |