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CONGRESS SPRING.

My statician followed with his statistics:—

“Twenty-five years after Sir Wm. Johnson visited High Rock
Spring, Congressman John Taylor Gilman was one of a hunting
party to visit the spring which be named “Congress Spring.”
The spring trickled from a ledge of rocks which coursed from
the Columbian Spring towards where is now Morrissey's gambling
house. Gideon Putnam tubed it though it belonged to the
Livingstone. They afterward sold it to John Clarke, an Englishman,
with the farm around it. Mr. Clarke built the Doric
structure over Congress Spring and the Grecian dome over
Columbian Spring.