MINERAL WATERS OF DUNBLANE. 463^ 



years ago, executed by Messrs Stoddaut and Mitchell of 

 Perth. There are different springs, the waters of which they 

 found to be somewhat different in strength. The nature of 

 the impregnation is in all of them, however, the same. — Select- 

 ing the strongest it contains, according to their analysis, the 

 following ingredients in an English pint : 



Atmospheric air. 

 Carbonic acid gas, 

 Muriate of soda, 



— lime. 



Sulphate of lime. 

 Carbonate of lime. 



The composition of this water, according to this analysis, is 

 very similar to that of the Dunblane water. No account is gi- 

 ven, however, so far as I have been able to discover, of the 

 manner in which it had been executed, and it is therefore un- 

 certain to what state of dryness the ingredients had been 

 brought to which their proportions are referred. Hence no 

 comparative estimate can be made of it with any other mine- 

 ral water ; and this led me to undertake its analysis, in the 

 same manner as that of the Dunblane water. 



Pitcaithly is situated in the valley of Strathern, and though 

 at rather a greater distance from the front range of the Gram- 

 pians than Dunblane, it is not improbable that the spring may 

 have a similar origin with the Dunblane one, and may rise 

 from the red sandstone which appears to form the first rock 



3N 2 on 



• Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. viii. 



