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As a teenager I rode the Mount Manitou Incline west of Colorado Springs. The guide assured us that the ride was completely safe, saying that even if something should happen to the cable, "There are two giant springs at the bottom to break our fall: Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs." Actually, the springs for which the town of Manitou Springs is named are quite modest in size and quite mineral in content, and the springs for which Colorado Springs is named are, well, non-existent. But southern Missouri has some very large springs, indeed, such as the one pictured here: Round Spring, which flows at a rate of 25,000,000 gallons a day. And that's not the big one.