same purposes. As is shown by the table of analyses, it contains 871 grains of solid contents, and a larger portion of sulphate of soda than the preceding well.

No. 5. This spring, though only known to the public within the last five years, has already oba tained great notoriety, and has occasioned more altercation and expense, not in physic, but in law, than all the other mineral waters at Harrogate since their discovery. Its medicinal powers yet remain to be tried. From the accurate analysis made in the winter of 1835, Table III, page 48, it differs in no respect from the three preceding wells, unless in not containing any sulphate of soda. The solid contents in an imperial gallon are 833 grains. It is situate in a house the property of the late Mr. Thackwray, in nearly a direct line with the old well No. 1, and distant from it 82 feet. The distance from No. 5, and 4, is 54 feet. I cannot with propriety in this section attempt to introduce the shortest possible sketch of the voluminous proceedings which led to a decision, in His late Majesty's Court of King's Bench, respecting this well.

It is now only necessary to compare the con tents of these springs with those of other places, to shew their superiority over every water of the

same class in Great Britain. For this purpose I subjoin the following account, taken from the most recent analyses which are at present in my posses→ sion. The results are calculated from an imperial gallon of the respective waters. The Harrogate Old Sulphur Well contains 34 cubic inches of the gases, and 1016 grains of alkaline and earthy salts. In the water of Moffat, Dr. Thompson states* the gases at 21 inches, the salts at 210 grains. In the same paper this eminent chemist likewise gives the analysis of Strathpeffer water, which contains 14 inches of the gases, and 138 grains of salts. In a pamphlet, of no small preten sions, published by Dr. Peacock, on the Dinsdale Spring, in 1829, Dr. A. Fyfe, who furnished the analysis, found 16 inches of gaseous contents, and of saline matter 192 grains. The water of Askern, as analysed by T. La Gay Brewerton, Esq., in 1818, who published an able treatise on this subject, is stated to contain of gases 16 inches, salts 139 grains. Dr. W. Reid Clanny, of Sunderland, published, in 1816, an interesting account of Gilsland, in Cumberland, and its sulphuretted spring, which contains nearly 28 inches of gaseous contents, and 34 grains of solid residuum.

Glasgow Medical Journal, Vol 1., No 2, 1828,

From these it will be observed that besides these sulphurous springs in the north of England, there are two of considerable notoriety in Scotland; Moffat, in Dumfrieshire, and Strathpeffer, in Rossshire, situated almost at the two extremities of that part of the kingdom. The former has long been considered the Harrogate of the north, while the latter has of late years been much resorted to by the native population beyond the Grampians.

A laudable desire of increasing the number of sulphuretted springs, has for some years actuated the inhabitants of Harrogate, principally in referénce to obtaining a more ample supply for the baths. Their labours have in several instances been crowned with success; and it is satisfactory to know that at no former period was the supply for this purpose so ample, although the demand has of late very greatly increased.

SALINE CHALYBEATE

SPRINGS.

CLASS II.

These are WILLIAMS' (late ODDY'S) SALINE CHALYBEATE or CHELTENHAM SPRING; and were discovered some years ago in the garden of the Crown Hotel near the baths, which is now conveyed into the punip-room of the Sulphuretted Spring. This Saline Chalybeate has not hitherto been mentioned, and from the unavoidable omission of the analysis in the proper place, an account of its contents and properties will be found in the Appendix.

The Royal Promenade and Cheltenham Pump Room, into which the water of the former, as already stated, has been conveyed, is situated in the grounds of the Lodge at Low Harrogate. It has a north-east aspect, and from the Room is obtained a pleasant view of the Lodge and adjoin

ing grounds, which are now tastefully laid out, and ornamented with a fine sheet of water, gravelled walks, and clumps of trees.

This, together with the Chalybeate Spring immediately adjoining, was discovered in the autumn of 1818, when boring in search of sulphur water to supply the increased demand for the baths. Water was found at the depth of eight yards in the lowest part of the narrow valley, and at a few yards from the fence adjoining the road. The alluvial earth being removed, a layer of clay was found, beneath which was a bed of sand covering a dark bluish stratum of shale, from under which the water issued. A cistern was afterwards prepared for its reception, and when the value of the water became known, a neat Pump Room, now removed, was built, and other suitable improvements effected.

The water, when taken from the spring, is transparent, and has a sparkling appearance when poured from one glass into another; its taste is distinctly chalybeate, and also considerably, yet not unpleasantly saline.

It was the discovery of this spring which first attracted my particular attention to the waters at Harrogate, and in the summer of 1819, I published an account of this and the Chalybeate Well.