206 An Analysis of two Mineral 
quor, 20 grains of sulphat of lime were precipitated. 
I concluded, therefore, that this must have proceed- 
ed from the decomposition of muriat of lime: in 
truth, this sulphat was dissolved in the two ounce- 
measures of water, and was separated by the decom- 
position of the oxygenated salt. 
ON THE WATER OF THE OLD 
BATHS. 
The spring which supplies these baths was dis- 
covered in the year 1786, in which year two baths, 
a'cold and a warm bath, were made. Upon sink- 
ing the well, a rock was found at the depth of eight- 
teen feet; and the water rises from about the depth 
of three feet within the rock. 
XV. THE GASEOUS FLUIDS, 
I could obtain very little gas from this water, not 
more than three cubic inches from a gallon. This 
gas was azotic. An hepatic smell is perceptible, 
when the water is fresh. To the hepatic gas, doubt- 
less, it is owing, that no oxygen is found in this 
water or in that of the other spring. Dr. Garnett 
has so well explained the cause of this circumstance, 
that it is needless for me to enter into it.* 
* Garnett on the Mineral Waters of Harrogate, p. 74, &c. 
