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as yet provided. But analogy iiilly warrants us to suppose 

 it nearly as powerful as sea water, and applicable to the 

 same useful purposes. In cutaneous foulnesses, in scro- 

 phula, in chronic rheumatism, paralytic affections, and, 

 above all, in the cachexies of young females, attended with 

 uterine obstructions, we have every reason to expect the 

 greatest advantages from its applications as a warm or tepid 

 bath. 



This being by no means intended as a medical commu- 

 nication, I ha%'e given merely a faint sketch of the virtues 

 ta be expected from the Sutton water. The outline may be 

 readily filled up hereafter, whenever the improved state of 

 the Spa shall require a more accurate description of its best 

 modes of exhibition, and the diseases to which it is appli- 

 cable. 



Though its value has been long felt and acknowledged 

 by the immediate neighbourhood, the spring still rcm.ains 

 in a very rude and neglected state j an iron spout attached 

 to a piece of wood stretched across the opening, forming 

 the only channel for the water's exit. Entangled in its 

 passage to the brook below, it has produced an artificial 

 inorass^ its surface being abundantly covered with ochery 

 scum, from the deposition of iron oxide. Some time since, 

 it was held in contemplation by the noble proprietor to erect 

 baths, &;c. for the accommodation of invalids 3 but the mi- 

 litary avocations of the day postponed the truly benevolent 

 institution. With the return of the blessings of peace, it 

 will, I trusti, be resumed, and an inestimable benefit thereby 

 conferred on an extensive and populous district. The mo- 

 rass might easily be drained by channels communicating 

 with the brook ; and baths erected on this site would have 

 both a constant supply from the well, and a regular dis- 

 charge of the refuse water. 



While almost every fishing village on the coast is pre- 

 paring conveniences for sea bathing, how desirable would 

 It be to extend similar advantages to the interior parts of 

 the island, where poverty or infirmity renders it impossible 

 to visit the distant sea ! In this county, abounding in mi- 

 nerals, whose subterraneous wealth is beyond all calcula- 

 tion, there is probably scarce a parish that would not supply 

 a mineral water for the benefit of the neighbouring poor, 

 were the springs properly examined. 



The air of Sutton, as might be expected from its open 

 elevated situation, is dry and wholesome. The site com- 

 mands a rich and highly variegated prospect ; bounded 

 on one side bv the maenificeat group of Frevddin and 

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