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Bedford is a village, situate on the great Western Turnpike road from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, a few miles east of the chief elevation of the Alleghany mountains. The" Springs" are about a mile and a half from the village. They are saline and sulphureous. The most celebrated-the "Mineral Spring" or "Anderson's Spring"-contains carbonic acid, sulphate of magnesia, chlorides of sodium and calcium, and carbonate of iron, but none of these articles in great quantity; hence, the main action of the waters is diuretic. At some distance from the Springs, there is a chalybeate water; and about 10 miles S.W. of Bedford, at Milliken's Cove, a strong sulphureous spring. The climate of Bedford Springs is agreeable. During the heat of summer, the nights are generally cool. In the morning of July 14, 1853, the author marked the thermometer, at five o'clock, A.M., at 45. Three days before, however, it was at 70 at the same hour.