WATKINS GLEN, a village of New York, U.S.A., at the south end of Seneca lake, in the heart of the Finger Lake re gion. Resident pop. 1930, 2,956 Federal census. Medicinal springs and the beauty of the "Glen" have made it one of the noted health and pleasure resorts of the country, and 18 brine wells provide raw material for the manufacture of 17o,000 tons of salt annually. The most noted of the mineral springs is one on the property of the Glen springs, a large health resort and hotel established in 1890 to provide the "Nauheim treatment" in America. Its properties are similar to those of the springs at Bad Nauheim, but the mineral content is about five times as great. The famous glen is a narrow winding gorge 2 m. long, with
walls from Ioo to 30o ft. high, through which flows a small stream (with a total descent of 1,200 ft.) in many falls, cascades and pools. It is in a State park of Boo ac., entered from the main street of the village. The first settlement here was made in 1788 by two men from Connecticut. In 1794 came Dr. Samuel Watkins, in whose honour the village was named in 1852, after having been known first as Salubria and incorporated in 1842 as Jefferson.