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three or four days from the fpring, and 

 was contained in bottles well corked and 

 waxed j it was taken up on the 26th of 

 Auguft, after a very rainy feafon. 



1. It "was quite clear and pellucid. 



2. It had a fharp, aluminous, ftrong 

 chalybeate, and ftyptic tafte. 



3. It cruddles with foap. 



4. Its fpecific gravity to that of An- 

 nan river water (which is eileemed the 

 beft water they have hereabout) is, as four 

 ounces five grains, to four ounces eleven 

 grains. 



5. By fhaking it in a vial, or mixing ic 

 with tartifli wine and fugar, it gives no 

 figns of its containing a fpirit more than 

 river-water. 



6. When boiled with an equal quan- 

 tity of new or fweet milk, ic docs not 

 cruddle the milk. . 



7. With fyrup of violets, it gives a 

 faint green. 



8. With powder of galls, it prefently 

 became blue, and turned gradually dark- 

 er, till it became of a deep purple, and 

 then of an ink colour : Ic does the like 



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