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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 282 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BALLSTON See also:

SPA

SPA , a See also:

VILLAGE

village and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

SARATOGA, BATTLES OF

Saratoga county, New See also:

York, U.S.A., about 7 M. S. of Saratoga Springs. Pop. (189o) 3527; (1900) 3923; (1910 U. S. See also:

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

Census) 4138. It is served by the See also:

DELAWARE

Delaware & See also:

Hudson railway, and is connected with Saratoga Springs, See also:

Albany, and See also:

SCHENECTADY

Schenectady by electric lines. There are several manufacturing establishments, among which are one of the largest manufactories of See also:

paper-bags in the See also:

UNITED

United States and a large tannery. It is, however, as a popular summer resort that Ballston Spa is best known. Many See also:

FINE

fine chalybeate and other springs rising through solid See also:

rock from a See also:

DEPTH

depth of about 650 ft. furnish a highly effervescent See also:

WATER

water of considerable medicinal and commercial value; The village has the Ballston Spa public library, the Saratoga county See also:

law library and the Saratoga county See also:

court See also:

house. Ballston Spa, which was named in See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of the Rev. Eliphalet See also:

Ball, an See also:

early settler, was settled about 1787 by the grandfather of See also:

See also:

Douglas, and was incorporated in 1855. See E. F. See also:

PROSE

Prose, Centennial Hist. of Ballston Spa, 1908.

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