Excerpt from A Ride to Niagara in 1809
There are two or three sulphur springs hereabout, but Powel's is the largest and most saturated. He told me that however well corked and secured, the water would not bear transportation. I tried it, by well corking and waxing a vial full, but on Opening it a month afterward, its peculiar smell and taste was gone. I gave for a bot tle of London porter (so called) at Powel's five shillings York money: probably the people, who would otherwise resort here, find the living somewhat too expensive. An assessor here informed me that the lands of that township were rated one with another in the tax books, at twenty-two shillings and six pence, York currency, per acre.
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