£9 Analysis of the lately discovered 



Experiment V. — Sulphate, acetate <ii\d nitrate of harytes 

 occasioned a milky precipitate both in tlie fresh and in the 

 boiled water. 



Experiment Vr. — A crystal of muriate of larytes, or ni- 

 trate of stroiitia, rendered the water cloudy. The admix- 

 ture of muriatic acid had no effect. 



Experiment VII. — Acetate and nitrate of lead produced a 

 cloudiness. 



Experiment Vlil, — Sulphate, nitrate and acetate of silver 

 effected a white precipitate. The same eflect ensued, al- 

 though a few drops of sulphuric, nitric, or acetic acid had 

 been added. 



Ii^xperiment IX. — Phosphate of soda assisted by carbonate 

 of ammonia when added to a portion of the water highly 

 concentrated, did not occasion a precipitate. 



Experiment X. — 231 cubic inches of the water of the 

 Weak Chalybeate Saline Well boiled down to five cubic 

 inches after being mingled with muriatic acid, yielded a 

 brown flocculent precipitate when poured into liquid ammonia. 



Experiment XI. — Solution of soap in water becomes de- 

 composed by this water. 



Experiment XII. — Oxalate of ammonia audfluateof soda 

 occasioned an abundant precipitate. ' ' •'^' "' 



Reasoning on these preliminary experiments, which were 

 undertaken at the four.tain head, we are led to believe that 

 this medicinal water contains carbonate of iron, salts with 

 earthy bases and with muriatic and sulphuric acids. 



The gaseous contents of the water of this spring col- 

 lected and separated in the usual manner, amounted in one 

 gallon to 



7-2- cubic inches carbonic acid gas, and 

 4-i- atmospheric air. 



ANALYSIS. 

 Experiment T. — One thousand eight hundred and forty- 

 eight cubic inches of the water of the Chalybeate Weak Sa- 

 line Well evaporated to one half were suffered to cool, 

 filtered, and the insoluble part collected. 



Experiment 



