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come to the free use of the water, is attended with very serious 

 inconveniences, sucli as the impossibility of excluding improper 

 persons, and the occasional occurrence of accidental or mis- 

 chievous impurities. To guard against these, as well as to 

 secure a more ample supply, various attempts have been made 

 to obtain a water of the same description, in other spots in the 

 neighbourhood ; none of these have been perfectly successful, 

 until lately, when a well (the fourth dug there), has been dis- 

 covered in the grounds of Joseph Thaciiwray, at the Crown 

 Inn; this furnishes a water more highly impregnated, but which 

 is said to sit more easily on the stomach. 



To analyze this water was the object of my journey to Harro- 

 gate. I was induced, for the sake of comparison, to examine 

 again the water of the Old Well. 



Analysis of Water from the Neio Well at Harrogate. 



The water, when fresh pumped up, is perfectly transparent, 

 and very sparkling; the temperature was 43.5°., that of 

 standing water, exposed to the air, being 37°. 



The smell is powerfully sulphureous, the taste sulphuretted, 

 and strongly saline — a mixture of flavours, however, to which 

 the palate soon becomes accustomed, and which even appear 

 to reconcile each other. On standing it becomes turbid and 

 opalescent. 



When boiled in an earthen vessel it loses its smell almost en- 

 tirely, and the surface is covered with small crystals. It dis- 

 colours and corrodes metallic vessels. 



The specific gravity of the water is 1.01216 at 49°. equiva- 

 lent to 1.0128 at 60°. This would indicate, by Kirwan's for- 

 mula, 198.5 of solid matter in each quart. 



The quantity obtained by evaporation from a quart was, in 

 three trials, 21 1 grains. 



The water restored the colour of litmus paper slightly reddened. 



With nitrate of silver it produced an abundant dense preci- 

 pitate, of a deep brown colour, and a highly iridescent pellicle. 



With sulphate of silver, an olive brown precipitate. 



With muriate, nitrate, and acetate of bary tes, no change takes 

 place; the water remains perfectly bright. 



