Morey on Mineral Waiters, &c. 99 
charged at the lower end of the tube in bubbles; thereby 
furnishing a carbonic: gas within and without, with an al- 
_ If tin plate tubes will answer, it is but a short day’s work 
to prepare this apparatus, which may afford sixty or one 
hundred and twenty tumblers per hour, with half a dozen 
decanters. By increasing their number or size, any given 
quantity in this way can be constantly or occasionally sup- 
plied. e pound of sulphuric acid, if I mistake not, 
ought to furnish gas enough to saturate sixty or seventy gal- 
lons, or not far from one thousand tumblers of water. Ex- 
periments, I think, justify me in saying, we may expect not 
far from half this ine : practoaly frzetl bie hope, 
and do believe, if owned and properly managed by corpo- 
rations and companies, it may and will do much, very much 
towards annihilating the use of ardent spirits, as well as be 
the means of saving many annually from an untimely death, 
by drinking cold water, to say nothing of its usefulness in 
other respects; Ds ies 5, 
_ When currents of this gas, conveniently situated, are 
found issuing naturally from the earth, they may be turnec 
to account. 
