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well. The well water, when seen in bulk in these two swim- 

 ming baths at their refilling was of good appearance, being very 

 clear and of a prevailing blue tint. The water at the Mont- 

 pellier Baths, however, being derived in a more central part of 

 the town, contained more solid matter, chloride, nitrate, etc. 

 The origin of this water may be in part the clean sand that 

 stretches from the gravel bed up towards Charlton Kings and 

 the district of the Old Bath Road, and which conveys a pure 

 and well-filtered water from localities comparatively bare of 

 houses. From a river-side, you also expect to draw water 

 derived from the river-bed, and where an area of gravel or 

 sand outlies the river this may be expected to be full of water 

 nearly to the level of water in the river. Wells sunk into such 

 river-side gravel usually yield a purer water than the river 

 itself, so far as organic constituents are concerned. 



At the Cambray Spa there is a genuine chalybeate water, 

 containing, like all such waters, iron in the form of carbonate 

 held in solution by excess of carbonic acid. This water is said 

 to be derived from a streak of ferruginous peaty earth which 

 crosses the Bath Road in the neighbourhood of the Spa. 



The tables of analyses appended give an idea of the quality 

 of the mineral waters at present available, and the quality of 

 the fresh waters above mentioned. 



MINERAL WATERS 



, I. — Types of Mineral Waters owned and supplied by the Cheltenham 

 Corporation 



Grains per Gallon 



